Jello Biafra

Jan 24, 2016
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I was a huge fan of Dead Kennedys back in High school. I think his political insight was uncanny to have been written before the age of Internet. I came across some more recent stuff he did with a band called The Guantanamo School of Medicine. It's really goodd stuff..He also did some good thrash stuff with a band called Lard. ..check it out if you're a punk fan...he's almost 60 and still rocking out:)
 
Did you ever really listen to rock the casba by the clash... very politically incorrect... also there was band which fake tapes of Reagan and The bitch known as Thacher...
 
Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The Sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a-cruisin' down the ville
The muezzin was a-standing
On the radiator grille

Shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah, rock the Casbah
Shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah, Rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that craazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out the electric camel drum
The local guitar picker got his guitar-picking thumb
As soon as the Shareef had cleared the square
They began to wail

Shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah, rock the Casbah
Shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah, Rock the Casbah

Now, over at the temple
Oh, they really pack 'em in
The in-crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
Then the temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive

Shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah, rock the Casbah
Shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah, Rock the Casbah

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way

As soon as the Shareef was chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to the cockpit radio blare
As soon as the Shareef was outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

Shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah, rock the Casbah
Shareef don't like it
Rock the Casbah, Rock the Casbah

Shareef don't like it, he thinks it's not kosher
Rock the Casbah, rock the Casbah
Shareef don't like it, fundementally can't take it
Rock the Casbah, Rock the Casbah

Shareef don't like it, you know he really hates it
Rock the Casbah, rock the Casbah
Shareef don't like it, really, really hates it
 
Biafra is a punk legend, brilliant frontman and an intelligent guy overall. I may not agree with all his politics, but he's no imbecile, and I love his Dead Kennedys and solo work.
 
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