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Stop The World

from Bad Gateway / Stop The World by Usse

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Jud Crandall - vocals, prepared guitar, field recording
Emily Saab - drums, percussion
Erin Muir - bass

Made by Usse Fall 2017.

Written by The Clash and released in November 1980 as the B-Side to their single 'The Call-Up', in support of Immobilise Against The Draft and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Contains elements of 'You Make A Better Door Than A Window', installation and performance, August 2017, as well as The Maytals and Prince Buster's 'Dog War', 1965.

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The panorama of the city is wrong
In fact the city seems to be gone
Burning rubber and smoke in my eyes
There's a flat burning junk-heap
For twenty square miles
They took it in the nuclear mine
Judging by this, they left nothing behind

Down in the bunkers in the crust of the earth
Now crouch the wealthy and the noble of birth

If I could a ride a train around the city
That holds this as our fate
I'd hide from electro-circuit central
To the shock inducer gate
Not forgetting the by-pass
Across the Washington hooks
Through the phones and desks and screens
Of the Kremlin's crook of crooks

There's some panel in a circuit board
A destination of the override
Scanning the wild wind
Blowing through the Berlin corridor
Spotlit in a palace, shielded from dust
Malfunction or not, the fail-safe is the crux
So far away from us
Shaking with the mystery tears
One lonely night, far away
They got it nailed down Swiss-tight

The bank notes of Europe
The emperors and kings
Curl in the autumn as the burning of leaves
And I've cleaned my black guitar

(Words by Joe Strummer)

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from Bad Gateway / Stop The World, released December 6, 2017

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Usse Saint John, New Brunswick

These small plastic puzzles, similar to the gewgaws given away by petroleum and detergent manufacturers, were found over a wide area, as if they had fallen from the sky. Millions had been produced, although their purpose was hard to see. Later it was found that unusual objects could be made from them. ... more

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