Following yesterday's Fall number, a track from a very different origin but with its own brand of shouty catchiness, and a superb piano hook. More a fusion of hip-hop and punk rock than post-punk, this 2003 release from Tim Armstrong (Rancid), Rob Aston (Death March) and co from their first eponymous album (they did two more together). With pleasing elements that remind of the whoops on The Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil, and a rapping style not unlike that of Del The Funky Homosapien on Gorillaz's Clint Eastwood, this song is also hard-hitting and political in subject matter. But oddly, while Fall's track was later used on a Vauxhall Corsa TV ad, even more bizarrely, this track was used on a Garnier Fructis shampoo commercial. It's a strangely wicked world that we live in, certainly …
Bombs going off in Sierra Leone
Taken more shots than Karl Malone
Battle looms, your doom, injustice entombed
Who got the diamonds? Who gonna find them?
Who gonna mine them, when the time comes?
Diamonds and Guns, Diamonds and Guns.
It's a wicked world that we live in
It's cruel and unforgiving
It's a wicked world that we live in
It's cruel and unforgiving …
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