This song just came up on my playlist lately and I'm still wondering why people claim it to be the first attempt by a rock band to do rap when Hugh's vocals were far more rap-like in the 70s?
It's still a good funky/disco number but The Stranglers were more "rap" in 1977
The Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
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The Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
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Re: The Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
not one of my favourite Clash songs at all way overated IMO
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Re: The Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
Couldn't stand The Clash from London Calling onwards . Hated this rap south American style stuff . Makes Stranglers jazz stuff seem genius in comparison IMO . It however seems paradoxically to me , the worse The Clash got the more popular they became. Not for me I'm afraid .I don't like rap regardless of who does it .aldinblack wrote: ↑07 Jul 2020, 22:55 not one of my favourite Clash songs at all way overated IMO
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Re: The Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
Not really a "rock" band but weren't Blondie the first band to do it with Fab Five Freddie?
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Re: The Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
Good bass line by Norman!
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Re: The Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
Blondie's Rapture was issued (on Autoamerican) November 1980
The Clash's Magnificent Seven was issued (on Sandinista!) December 1980
The Stranglers' Just Like Nothing On Earth was issued (on Gospel) February 1981
All the above were obviously working on rap songs around the same time, it's just that Blondie were the first to get theirs out. Whether you could say that songs like Peaches were rap, depends on your view of what rap actually is. You could say the Stranglers beat the Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight, but then I could point you towards many Rock Steady records where toasting was prevelant, or the Last Poets, Pigmeat Markham, or even Muhammad Ali's 1963 album - where do you start!
The Clash's Magnificent Seven was issued (on Sandinista!) December 1980
The Stranglers' Just Like Nothing On Earth was issued (on Gospel) February 1981
All the above were obviously working on rap songs around the same time, it's just that Blondie were the first to get theirs out. Whether you could say that songs like Peaches were rap, depends on your view of what rap actually is. You could say the Stranglers beat the Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight, but then I could point you towards many Rock Steady records where toasting was prevelant, or the Last Poets, Pigmeat Markham, or even Muhammad Ali's 1963 album - where do you start!
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Re: The Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
"Peaches" and "(Get a) Grip (On Yourself)" aren't really rap, more a style of speak-singing that Hugh'll have no doubt cribbed from Love's "Seven and Seven Is", Hendrix's "Crosstown Traffic" and Lou Reed.
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Re: The Magnificent Seven (The Clash)
Forgot all about that but it’s obvs now listening to it that Simonon couldn’t play like that, probably still had notes drawn on his Bass guitars fretboard. Good idea actually.
Norman, he’s a seriously underrated bassist.
Great song.