All good. Your intention was a piss take on the Clash, kind of what we show up for here. If an innocent Clash fan caught some stray fire I'm sure I'll survive.caga tio wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 6:00 pmYou're right. I'm old, cranky and I over-stepped. I apologize.losthighway wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:59 pm If it's not impressive to your ears, you're not alone but to tell everyone with some affection for The Clash they have shit taste is arrogant as fuck.
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32losthighway wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 6:28 pmAll good. Your intention was a piss take on the Clash, kind of what we show up for here. If an innocent Clash fan caught some stray fire I'm sure I'll survive.caga tio wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 6:00 pmYou're right. I'm old, cranky and I over-stepped. I apologize.losthighway wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:59 pm If it's not impressive to your ears, you're not alone but to tell everyone with some affection for The Clash they have shit taste is arrogant as fuck.
Any Clash fan around this corner of the web, is used to being told we have shit taste. And you know what? We don't give a fuck. I mean I tell Pavement and Lou Reed fans that their taste in that regard is shit all the time, and 2 of them are my closest friends. BUT, I've been giving this some extra thought.
THE CLASH
1 kinda Glam Rocker
1 kinda folky
1 sorta rude boy mod
1 r&b and swing jazz freak
The music is highly stylized, and at times derivative, in an extremely UK fashion, and jumps all the fuck over the place(in a UK fashion)
Yet, for this fan, there's always a sense of earnestness, and swing, that I adore. If it ain't your thing, cool, wanna shit talk 'em? Go right ahead.
Just gives me more time to bad mouth The Melvins
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33I love every single record BUT Cut the Crap (which gets a massive crap vote from me). Such a versatile band.
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34Pretty much all this. The first record has great songs, but if you ever need an example of what happens to cymbals/drums when recorded out of phase, put that record in mono and check it out!losthighway wrote: Wed Feb 16, 2022 10:40 pm That first record doesn't sound great but the songs are mostly there. That second record sounds huge, but the songs are kind of uneven with some real gems. From there we're dealing with a classic, rock band (the comma is important here). They brewed an appropriated stew of ska, reggae, hip hop, rockabilly, dub, and disco but it always sounded like a Mick thing or a Strummer thing (except maybe a couple songs on Sandinista). They wrote some great songs. Contrary to my younger years, where I'm pretty sure I dismissed Sandinista out of laziness, I think the weirder the better with their stuff like the Ginsberg collaboration on Combat Rock. I also love putting on "Straight to Hell" and hearing young people say it sounds like an MIA rip off.
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35Like 'em plenty. They were good fun live. They were always a lightning rod for bickering amongst comrades. Imperfect, and it took me multiple purchases of Rope before I decided I would keep one, but I find almost everything they released to have some degree of merit -- excepting the last one, which I have never heard.
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36It's not so much that they're crap. They're ok. I listen to the debut album and I'm just unmoved by it. Blocky power chords, competent drumming, growled vocals.
It just doesn't resonate with me. Seems like there should be more there. London Calling sounds like a decent bar band. I don't understand people flipping out about them, calling them the greatest band ever.
/faint praise
It just doesn't resonate with me. Seems like there should be more there. London Calling sounds like a decent bar band. I don't understand people flipping out about them, calling them the greatest band ever.
/faint praise
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37This is what they got going for them:
Strummer could really sell a song like London Calling or White Man in Hammersmith Palais.
Topper is a great drummer.
They got 10-12 songs I really enjoy.
Mick doesn't sing a lot of songs cause everyone he does pretty much suck. Really suck.
Strummer could really sell a song like London Calling or White Man in Hammersmith Palais.
Topper is a great drummer.
They got 10-12 songs I really enjoy.
Mick doesn't sing a lot of songs cause everyone he does pretty much suck. Really suck.
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38I'm sure you could read endless critical theory, but I would argue more than any other band, they bridge the gap between legitimate punk and populist music. For better or worse is up for debate. I like them.InMySoul77 wrote: Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:08 am I don't understand people flipping out about them, calling them the greatest band ever.
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39Mick sang some of the better later songs, i.e., "Somebody Got Murdered" and "Police on my Back". The latter isn't as good as The Equals's original.
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40Train in Vain and Lost in the Supermarket are really good pop songs and I'm always happy to hear them.losthighway wrote: Thu Feb 24, 2022 4:59 pm
Hmmm. Let me put it this way. What someone likes about the band can be put in context. What might I put next to the Clash on a playlist: The Jam, Nick Lowe, Elvis Costello, The Replacements- catchy rock and roll played with a little intensity.
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