Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - "Yalla Yalla"

[sfshinz]

Love this video so much. Only suggestion for improvement: more footage of New York, less of Ant Genn.

[MrFullen]

Muito bom esse vídeo!!!!

[rasputination]

This tune is an unknown classic, thank you Joe for this gift before you checked out! Man this song inspires me and probably lots of others in the ways you probably hoped, and will continue to do so forever. Rest in peace, Joe Strummer.

[balearicsoundwave89]

MR,JOE STRUMMER .

[michaelC505]

John Cusack sent me here :) follow us @johncusack @Team_Killer

[scrutex]

I do miss this bloke!

[srfnwprtbch]

Heros are remembered..But legends never die!!!

Joe was/is nothing short of a LEGEND!

[tsungvarsky]

@srfnwprtbch I remember subs(heroes) I used to get in Boston years ago when I lived there. The shaved eggplant was so good... Like Strummer's music, unique and making you feel glad to be alive. I miss heroes.

[ichboxdichinsgesicht]

we miss you Joe

[MsLawone]

Our sons and daughters are getting older Joe, maybe it wont be in their time either. could do with some of your calm wisdom at the moment and that bit of your brain that always keeps the campfires burning and stopped us from leaving!

[twichyllama]

1:31 techno viking any one see him ?

[EdNortonisMineLol]

I miss Joe so much - watching this actually brought tears to my eyes

[BEARARMZ]

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[micktheMaag]

just as he was coming into a very creative time in our lives.... missing ole Joe...

[apjliny]

Poetic

Timeless

Conscious

Strummer

RIP

[thedarkglobe]

Thank you! this song is awesome, this song is the true and pure Joe , without a commercial bloke called Mick Jones

[613TheEvil]

Fuck. Listening to his voice again brought me tears. Damn.

[apjliny]

@613TheEvil

watching this made me cry!

[TheRosscelt]

What a voice, what a legend. They don't mould them like Joe anymore. RIP Mr Punk

[mickeffinparker]

Had the joy of seeing him in Blackpool not long before the end. Loved it!

[elisaloba]

wonderfull thanks for sharing!!!

[punkrockvertigo]

yalla yalla tis oaraskevis to gala

[plimsoul222]

does anyone know what yallla yalla means?

[calligh]

@plimsoul222 It's Arabic for 'be quick' - Joe spent many years in the Ladbroke Grove area of West London, moving from squat to squat. The district now has a large Arab population.

[KalahariSurf]

@calligh And also remember Joe was born in Turkey and moved around th world a fair bit as a kid

[TheGudZeBadAnDaFozzy]

@plimsoul222 I dunno if Joe had the same intention, but in arabic, yallay yalla is hurry up, or just hurry

[punkisthebest1]

dieses lied rührt mich zu tränen...

ich liebe es!!!

punks not dead !

oi! oi! oi!

[farrantclose]

the Coolest Pop video i have ever seen. I saw it when New, on Steve Wrights 'Top of the Pops 2' at the end of the TV show.....

[mikjonrow]

beautiful joe - I mean - so sweet - I mean - he looks like he really had a moment - a joe strummer and no one else moment - it's in the ......................

[riot86]

one of the most beautiful mescaleros songs... RIP joe; gone but never forgotten

[mju141]

i dont think he would of gone for Obamah, peace prize my ass as he sends yet more troops

AND GOING TO WAR TO PREVENT WAR WAS THE MOST STUPID THING I EVER HEARD - The King Blues (frontman Itch is the modern day Strummer if you ask me)

[shigidyshwev]

@mju141 bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity

[brnspd]

@shigidyshwev  Its awesome??

[eastman180]

i wish i could've seen him

[metalerjungey59]

best music ever

[TwizteDreamZ]

he always played those shows at bam...will regret i never got my ass out there to catch him. deserve your ire qreqt.

[reqreq123]

i seen joe, so many times, but not that many fans turned up? were was you when he played,, class war tour etc,,

[lmaoroflcopter6]

This is not the whole song, its missing a verse

[SoiCowboy2]

Was cut for the single/radio version. Was deemed too long

[ashleighrajala]

That's because John Cusack is a huge Clash fan! Joe's stuff is in a lot of his films. Joe even did the music for Grosse Point Blank!

[StrewnAsunder]

great music, great taste, great actor and great films *sigh* :)

[mycatsnot]

This is nice. I never realized there was a video to this song. This and Tommy Gun are my 2 favorite songs by Joe.

[calligh]

Wonder what Joe would have thought of Obama? Freedom in our time - or more of the same?

[londoncallingpwns]

I really wish that Strummer had lived through the worst of the Bush Administration. I think given the pitiful state that things had come to he would have made some really political music, which The Mescaleros, though awesome, was not. Personally I think he would have supported Obama. Anyone should, after the nightmare of Bush.

[GBVrallyCI]

removing my own conservative views haha, I think Joe wouldn't have found Obama radical enough. Joe didn't strike me as the type to buy into corporate hype which is all Obama is.

[nickname1331]

@calligh probably more of the same... but we must let the ends justify the means... Lets not fool ourselves though... probably more of the same shit... same puppeteers. different times

[justinisha]

@calligh more of the same

[Devildance1234]

@calligh Would have been happy at first-and then after seeing what he's done he'd probably just think more of the same

[stewajf]

@calligh I think I can speak for Joe and tens of millions of others that President Obama is a profound disappointment in every area, especially the continuation of G.W. Bush's "national security" policies, e.g., warrantless wiretaps, war and more war.

[su79nioj]

@calligh

A good question - especially given Joe's support of Boris Johnson for the London Mayoral elections. I think he was of the age where he had realised that political colour was no substiute for ability and enthusiam.

[StillOnFire]

@su79nioj

Sorry, Joe Strummer support of Boris Johnson mayoral election campaign? Sorry where the hell did you hear this from? Joe Strummer died December 2002. Boris Johnson had no intention of standing until July 2007. Joe had been dead for over 4 years. Please don't talk crap. Joe did not and probably would not have supported Boris campaign to be London mayor.

[su79nioj]

@StillOnFire

Boris said it himself in an interview. Boris and Joe had been friends for some time prior to that. I forget what paper the interview was in but there is a small bit on the Guardian website from an interview with Boris (April 2008 - Just google their names).

Joe's politics changed when he moved West and mellowed. He became more of a libertarian.

[STRUMMER772003]

@su79nioj

Boris was a big Clash fan, remember Labour were in government when the clash were starting out til 79

[jawneblaize]

@calligh

more of the same.

[tsungvarsky]

another fucker that checked out too early.

[thegoodlifeonlybettr]

@tsungvarsky go get him back... would ya?

[tsungvarsky]

@thegoodlifeonlybettr He's gone, and I miss the days when my alarm woke me to him singing, and the music playing.

[hairymary1962]

i hope he knew how much we all needed and loved him...a great man in all he did...

[mushroomheadsquish]

what joe left = what is left up to you

[amci1969]

This track is in the movie 'War Inc.' Cool!