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Post by johnnyoi on Dec 18, 2020 16:08:14 GMT
Been listening to Cut the Crap songs live.Got to say most of them are an improvement on the album tracks.Take this one,the original is almost unlistenable.
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Post by stu77 on Jan 19, 2021 12:01:06 GMT
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Post by stu77 on Feb 3, 2021 1:51:26 GMT
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 3, 2021 7:54:38 GMT
Why the Clash’s Triple-Album Mess Is Also Their Masterpiece ^ Not a sentence you read very often  This is more like it... 'Sandinista!' featured many of the Clash's peak moments — as well as loads of stoner rubbish. The Clash - Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
“Up in Heaven” isn’t just the Clash’s most underrated song — it’s the most gorgeous, passionate, urgent music any of them made in their lives.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 3, 2021 8:03:09 GMT
Tymon Dogg's Lose This Skin is flipping great...
The Clash - Lose This Skin
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 11:52:25 GMT
Most of it is embarrassingly rubbish.
One of the worst things they ever did.
The hipsters are all over this dreadful album like a cheap suit these days.
Pretentious too.
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Post by personunknown on Feb 3, 2021 11:54:07 GMT
However critics want to revise their appreciation, it was one disc too many. Side 6 a waste of vinyl and of the other 5 sides, half a dozen songs were b sides. And Up In Heaven their best song? As much as I like it, it is not in my top thirty. The chorus of the song is not even theirs either but lifted from a Phil Ochs folk tune.
Great that they were keeping their artistic integrity and sticking it to CBS but I wanted something to groove to, not bleating sheep and songs played backwards.
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Post by stu77 on Feb 3, 2021 12:03:36 GMT
I don't believe anyone who says they think it's a masterpiece.
It does however have some wonderful moments.
Like this:
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Post by zeopold on Feb 3, 2021 12:13:31 GMT
'Sandinista' would have made an OK single album, at a pinch.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2021 12:40:40 GMT
There was an article in Vive Le Rock a couple of months back gushing over the 'genius' of Sandinista.
It was one of the most embarrassing articles I've ever read which cited Mick Jones being one of the biggest influences on hip hop.
Pure revisionist shite trying to justify which is one of rock music's biggest turkeys.
If you thought the Clash couldn't have gotten worse with the 'London Calling'album they surpassed it with Sandinista which is virtually unlistenable.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 3, 2021 13:30:52 GMT
However critics want to revise their appreciation, it was one disc too many. Agreed Some of it is cringe Much of it was always great Some of it is starting to sound better with each passing year - as the Rolling Stone review points out, each listener would come up with a different collection of their favourites on a playlist as it's so varied |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2021 9:49:06 GMT
London Calling was a huge departure from their previous work, I bought it when it came out and although it's very different I warmed to it immediately. This album followed by the Bankrobber single were the last things I bought by them.
I've tried listening to Sandanista several times over the decades but it just leaves me cold. I do have a soft spot however for the opening track - Magnificent 7. The album could have been a one-sided flexi single as far as I'm concerned...  |
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Post by andyloneshark on Feb 26, 2021 10:23:07 GMT
The evolution/progression of some of the bands that began from the 'Class Of 76' was so fast, i think they often were ahead of a large percentage of their audience.
At the time, i couldn't really get my head around The Clash grappling with 'Funk' (Magnificent 7) ...and the first time i heard Bankrobber and The Call Up, i thought they'd lost the plot, but as i got older and maybe more open minded, i could appreciate how bold and experimental their music was getting, rather than just repeating themselves.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Feb 26, 2021 10:39:37 GMT
The evolution/progression of some of the bands that began from the 'Class Of 76' was so fast, i think they often were ahead of a large percentage of their audience. At the time, i couldn't really get my head around The Clash grappling with 'Funk' (Magnificent 7) ...and the first time i heard Bankrobber and The Call Up, i thought they'd lost the plot, but as i got older and maybe more open minded, i could appreciate how bold and experimental their music was getting, rather than just repeating themselves. 100% this |
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