Refugee Blues Refugee Blues "Refugee Blues" is a poem by W. H. Auden, written in 1939, one of a number of poems Auden wrote in the mid- to late-1930s in blues and other popular metres, for example the meter he used in his love poem "Calypso", written around the same time. The poem dramatizes the condition of Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany in the years before World War II, especially the indifference and antagonism they faced when seeking asylum in the democracies of the period. In some later editions of Auden's poetry, the poem is not identified by name but is the
Stop the Clocks sold. It did however enter the Japanese Oricon album charts at number one, selling 87,462 copies in its first week. "Stop the Clocks" focuses heavily on the band's first two albums, "Definitely Maybe" and "(What's the Story) Morning Glory?", with each contributing five tracks, plus four B-sides (also included on the band's other compilation album "The Masterplan") from this era. Only two tracks appear from "Don't Believe the Truth", and one track each from "Standing on the Shoulder of Giants" and "Heathen Chemistry", whilst "Be Here Now" is ignored completely. When the release of "Stop the Clocks" was first announced