Clash

[Halifax Linda]

So anyone like The Clash
Not a massive buy all their albums fan
Bike like a lot of their music
Going to see tribute band London Calling in Bradford tomorrow.

[theraven1979]

So anyone like The Clash
Not a massive buy all their albums fan
Bike like a lot of their music
Going to see tribute band London Calling in Bradford tomorrow.

Their best album ..Cut The Crap


Jim

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[aldinblack]

So anyone like The Clash
Not a massive buy all their albums fan
Bike like a lot of their music
Going to see tribute band London Calling in Bradford tomorrow.

Good tribute band, seen them a number of times and they are good value..

[Halifax Linda]

We’ll
Don’t know why I said tomorrow
It’s next Saturday.
But did See Tubeway Days
Fabulous Numan 79 and 80

[strangledinAuch]

So anyone like The Clash
Not a massive buy all their albums fan
Bike like a lot of their music
Going to see tribute band London Calling in Bradford tomorrow.

Their best album ..Cut The Crap


Jim

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Their first album

The rest was crap

[jetblacksdad]

I like the singles here and there but I never quite got them. Joe always seemed toooooo earnest for me though I never doubt his commitment.
I thought the sound as a bit weak and his delivery sounds like he was eating a bag of nails. And Mick's sloppy, just out of tune "oooh oooh oooh's" on too many tracks made it a bit formulaic for me. Though they did play around with genres which I approve of but just doesn't quite fit. I can't grasp why there is such fervent love from them but each to their own. The world is a better place for the Clash but it doesn't revolve round them!

[aldinblack]

For me London Calling still stands as their best album. A double album without a single weak track IMO, with the possible exception of "Revolution Rock", the closing track (apart from the add on Train in Vain), which just rambles on and on, causing me as the listener to switch off.
Apart from that the album is engaging throughout.

The follow up Sandinista is patchy at best, all through the 3 LPs you get.

Cut the Crap just failed, cause it didn't do that at all.

The second album Give 'em, starts off very strong but tails off a bit.

The first album has good songs but it's a bit "too basic musically" for me. I mean Rattus is streets ahead in that regard.

That's my "Clash review"

[theraven1979]

I have enjoyed the YouTube reviews of Cut The Crap - Americans mainly - some real wtf moments

Jim

[Greatkudu]

I think we have had this discussion before? There importance in music And how many bands and people they inspired cannot be denied,broke America which was a great achievement,Strummer was a Tour De Force.l,and they weren't afraid to move away from the raw Punk sound,so whatever people think they were one of the most important bands this country ever produced IMHO.Lt kudu.

[StanInBlack]

I have enjoyed the YouTube reviews of Cut The Crap - Americans mainly - some real wtf moments

Jim

Did you ever see that Todd in the Shadows one where he cuts from Joe Strummer talking about overproduction (and how he wanted to get away from that) straight into "Dictator"?

[theraven1979]

I have enjoyed the YouTube reviews of Cut The Crap - Americans mainly - some real wtf moments

Jim

Did you ever see that Todd in the Shadows one where he cuts from Joe Strummer talking about overproduction (and how he wanted to get away from that) straight into "Dictator"?

Yeah that's one of the ones I watched. Those interview clips with Strummer from that era are a bit crinch to be fair


Jim

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[Five Minutes]

Complete Control, White Man In Hammersmith Palais and Straight To Hell are for me three of the greatest singles of all time.

How we could do with a band as good as them now.