「ステイ・オア・ゴー」 (Should I Stay or Should I Go) は、ザ・クラッシュのアルバム『コンバット・ロック』からのシングルカット曲。1981年に作られ、ミック・ジョーンズがリード・ボーカルを執った。最初のリリースから10年後にバンド唯一のチャートナンバーワンヒットとなり、2004年10月、「ローリング・ストーンが選ぶ最も偉大な500曲」の228位に選ばれた[1]。
^“The Uncut Crap - Over 56 Things You Never Knew About The Clash”. NME (ロンドン: IPCマガジン) 3. (1991-03-16). ISSN0028-6362. ""Should I Stay Or Should I Go" was written by Mick about American singer Ellen Foley, who sang the backing vocals on Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell LP." 関連記事:
^“Should I Stay or Should I Go? by The Clash”. Songfacts. 2007年11月23日閲覧。 “Mick Jones sings the words in English, and Joe Strummer echoes with Spanish lyrics. Strummer decided to sing the backing vocals in Spanish on the spur of the moment along with Texan country rocker Joe Ely. However he needed someone to do the translation so Eddie Garcia, the sound engineer, called his mother in Brooklyn Heights and got her to translate them over the phone. Eddie's mother is Ecuadorian, so Joe Strummer and Joe Ely ended up singing in Ecuadorian Spanish. (thanks, Edward Pearce - Ashford, Kent, England and Rainyhouse - Spanish Fork , UT)”
^マーガレット・モーザー (2000年5月22日). “Music: Lubbock Calling (Austin Chronicle. 05-22-00)”. オースティン・クロニクル. ウィークリー・ワイアー. 2007年11月22日閲覧。 “"I ran into them accidentally in New York when they were cutting 'Should I Stay or Should I Go' and Strummer said, 'Hey, help me with my Spanish.' So me and Strummer and the Puerto Rican engineer sat down and translated the lyrics into the weirdest Spanish ever. Then we sang it all. "When you listen to 'Should I Stay or Should I Go,' there's a place in the song where Mick says, 'Split.' Me and Strummer had been yelling out the Spanish background lyrics and we had snuck up behind him as he was recording. We were behind a curtain, jumped out at him in the middle of singing, and scared the shit out of him. He looks over and gives us the dirtiest look and says, 'Split!' They kept that in the final version.”