Combat Rock was written as a tribute to Beat poetry, nothing on it more so than Car Jamming. Basically, they got stuck in a traffic jam in New York City and started writing beat poetry, in a jam session. This song is the result. They even went so far as to get Allen Ginsberg, the most famous beat poet of all, to add some vocals later in the album. I feel somewhat soiled after hearing Ginsberg growl the Heart Katra at the end of Ghetto Defendant. As far as the meaning of the lyrics of Car Jamming, it is about inequality and injustice in the everyday life they saw around them while stuck in the car.
Combat Rock was written as a tribute to Beat poetry, nothing on it more so than Car Jamming. Basically, they got stuck in a traffic jam in New York City and started writing beat poetry, in a jam session. This song is the result. They even went so far as to get Allen Ginsberg, the most famous beat poet of all, to add some vocals later in the album. I feel somewhat soiled after hearing Ginsberg growl the Heart Katra at the end of Ghetto Defendant. As far as the meaning of the lyrics of Car Jamming, it is about inequality and injustice in the everyday life they saw around them while stuck in the car.