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Post by jsm on Jun 12, 2020 0:07:49 GMT
It was really enlightening to read about The Clash's time in New York when they spurned the suggestion of playing a few large shows in favour of several shows at smaller venues. They kept the ticket prices down and gave all the hip young bands the support slots. Apparently, it won them a lot of fans. As for taking on new influences, well, sure, it's a good thing, but while I do not dislike the song, I would not count it as a favourite. Maybe I need to hear it on a big sound system? But maybe not; I'm not a big fan of the genre
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 12, 2020 6:46:12 GMT
Maybe I need to hear it on a big sound system? But maybe not.... The first time I remember hearing it was in a London club The DJ played Gil Scott Heron's The Bottle which is a wonderful tune and he then hit us with the 12 inch mix of Magnficient SevenNeedless to say, I stayed on the dancefloor Perhaps it's less interesting if you don't like dancing? I always thought this was far more successful than Radio Clash and even the more celebrated Rock The Casbah |
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Post by jsm on Jun 12, 2020 6:49:39 GMT
Dancing for me means jumping up and down and sideways like a maniac. I can also do the waltz
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 12, 2020 6:51:54 GMT
Good on yer jsm. It's all just reacting to music in the way that feels most appropriate
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Post by personunknown on Jun 12, 2020 9:09:29 GMT
Mag 7 is one of Strummer's best lyrics imo. Even though it is about the futility of modern life, its humour counterpoints it, making it more affirming. I remember reading the words on the big lyric fold out of Sandinista and having a small epiphany that the working day was indeed rubbish, so look beyond that.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 12, 2020 9:20:21 GMT
Cheese boiger
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Post by Deleted on Jun 14, 2020 22:27:58 GMT
The Punk March is more than likely the Anti Nazi League Carnival, Victoria Park, 1978. I went with a bus load of punks and lefties from Nottingham. On the bill that day were X Ray Spex, Patrik Fitzgerald, The Clash, TRB and Steel Pulse. Due to traffic jams and the Metropolitan Police being their usual obstructive self, we missed the first three. The sound was dreadful anyway and punk and festivals didn't really mix very well back then, so we drifted off to sight see elsewhere. Footage of the Clash on that day surfaces on the Rude Boy movie, Jimmy Pursey joins them on stage for a rendition of White Riot. Love both sides of the record. The b side was originally called Lonely Mothers Son, with only the chorus surviving. The 101ers version doesn't seem to have made it onto any of the Chiswick compilations, pretty sure I heard it somewhere though. That clip of of Pursey and the Clash is a classic clip but both of them had a really mercenary reason for doing it. However the guy drinking the can of Special Brew who at the end gets shuffled off because he's a pain in the arse...does anyone know who he is/was? By the way, I'm sure the guy who gets rid of him is Mickey Fenn (with long hair) then again it was a long time ago. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2020 9:51:41 GMT
Here's.... The Clash's 40 greatest songs – ranked by The GuardianSurprisingly I think this is a pretty good list and the top 10 is pretty close to my own We did six or maybe 10 of the best on the old TP site I found the original thread and this was Explode's handy aggregate top 13 from everyone who participated... =1. Complete Control & White Man In Hammersmith Palais 3. Janie Jones 4. Safe European Home 5. Straight To Hell 6. White Riot 7. London Calling 8. Rock The Casbah 9. Guns Of Brixton =10. Armagideon Time / City Of The Dead / Spanish Bombs / Tommy Gun Well seen it's the Guardian as Straight to Hell, Rock the Casbah the painfully dreadful Armagideon time should never be in there. No'What's My Name' either? |
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Post by johnnyoi on Jun 15, 2020 12:55:59 GMT
Garageland’s got to be in there for me.Also Jail Guitar Doors bubbling under.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 16, 2020 15:50:32 GMT
I've got no beef with Straight To Hell getting in there. I bloodly love that song
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 16, 2020 15:59:26 GMT
I’ll leave it to somebody else to critique the rest of the band’s output, if they want to I'm still not going to critique the rest of the group's output but, as stated earlier, I'll post the occasional Clash tune that I rate, next up... This is EnglandNot really The Clash without Mick Jones and yet they still managed to produce the half decent... This is EnglandIt's tired, wired, nervy and probably sums up where Strummers head was at and yet somehow it works The group were all washed up, the jig was up, but he could still pull something like this out of the bag - I'd love to hear a version with Mick Jones arrangements and guitar on though |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2020 16:50:55 GMT
Each to your own but what a shockingly bad chorus🤣
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 16, 2020 17:17:24 GMT
And brilliantly sampled of course on this modern classic....
M.I.A. - Paper Planes (Remix)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2020 17:25:17 GMT
Well, they obviously are used to being uninspired.
The Clash are midway in the table of 'worthy but shite' punk bands.
A lot of their stuff just isn't good enough and knowingly people still listen to it.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jun 16, 2020 17:45:50 GMT
It's a crazy world and no mistake
I still like a lot their stuff - and listen to them regularly
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