| The Clash – Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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The Clash were making a point about how wasteful it is to put people in jail for a non-violent crime like drugs for 15 years or more. Some of the people convicted could be out contributing to society ('coulda been a physicist') but they're loicked up in prison for 'a mighty long time'. To put it mildly, they thought the laws were too harsh and that the government was wasting resources. I'm fairly certain I read that in the liner notes of a compilation CD. I get the sense from lines like 'till the cells were all full' and the 82 business that they were also saying that the government was trying to make itself look effiecient and useful by 'cleaning up' the drug problem whereas a group like the Clash with such a strident political agenda would have thought the government should be working on changing the distribution of wealth, as well as fighting racism, instead. That much is speculation on my part, though. |
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| Café Tacuba – Ingrata Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I agree that this is a fun song- I remember dancing some crazy mix of norteno, banda and ranchera to it with this norteno engineer in grad school at all the Chicano caucus events. I've always thought this song had some deeper meaning behind the actual lyrics. It's so over the top! I mean, the guy kills his ex gf bc era ingrata? It seems a bit much. I've always taken it to be a satire on the forms of music it imitates- showing their inherent violent machismo for what it is through exaggeration. The fact that it was such a huge success seems to compound the irony- everyone liking it, and not gettingth at it was satirizing them. Though I could be entirely wrong. I have nothing from the band's own mouth on this. It could just be an expression of how homicidal an ex can make you feel. |
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