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Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 14 Oct 2017, 6:33pm
by muppet hi fi
Marky Dread wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 5:05am
101Walterton wrote:
12 Oct 2017, 10:04pm
I can't remember the order but from memory top 3 were Complete Control, White Man and Capital Radio 2??
The top 3 should always be.

Mensforth
Confusion
a remix of Mensforth/Confusion.
And I assume this will be forthcoming, Mr. Dread? :mrgreen:

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 14 Oct 2017, 7:12pm
by Marky Dread
muppet hi fi wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 6:33pm
Marky Dread wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 5:05am
101Walterton wrote:
12 Oct 2017, 10:04pm
I can't remember the order but from memory top 3 were Complete Control, White Man and Capital Radio 2??
The top 3 should always be.

Mensforth
Confusion
a remix of Mensforth/Confusion.
And I assume this will be forthcoming, Mr. Dread? :mrgreen:
esrever nI.

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 14 Oct 2017, 7:21pm
by muppet hi fi
Marky Dread wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 7:12pm
muppet hi fi wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 6:33pm
Marky Dread wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 5:05am
101Walterton wrote:
12 Oct 2017, 10:04pm
I can't remember the order but from memory top 3 were Complete Control, White Man and Capital Radio 2??
The top 3 should always be.

Mensforth
Confusion
a remix of Mensforth/Confusion.
And I assume this will be forthcoming, Mr. Dread? :mrgreen:
esrever nI.
Hmmm? Is that a confirmation? Just make sure to use the original b-side "Cool Confusion" mix and your own reverse-mix "Mensforth Hill". Then you'll be cooking with gas ;)

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 15 Oct 2017, 4:10am
by Marky Dread
muppet hi fi wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 7:21pm
Marky Dread wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 7:12pm
muppet hi fi wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 6:33pm
Marky Dread wrote:
14 Oct 2017, 5:05am
101Walterton wrote:
12 Oct 2017, 10:04pm
I can't remember the order but from memory top 3 were Complete Control, White Man and Capital Radio 2??
The top 3 should always be.

Mensforth
Confusion
a remix of Mensforth/Confusion.
And I assume this will be forthcoming, Mr. Dread? :mrgreen:
esrever nI.
Hmmm? Is that a confirmation? Just make sure to use the original b-side "Cool Confusion" mix and your own reverse-mix "Mensforth Hill". Then you'll be cooking with gas ;)
I might mix in some young children singing Career Opportunities for good measures.

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 15 Oct 2017, 6:15am
by coffeepotman
Now believe it or not, that is something I could get into, I might give it a crack my self. I already have the forward/backward Mensforth, just need to add confusion, but will have to make it weird

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 15 Oct 2017, 9:23am
by Marky Dread
coffeepotman wrote:
15 Oct 2017, 6:15am
Now believe it or not, that is something I could get into, I might give it a crack my self. I already have the forward/backward Mensforth, just need to add confusion, but will have to make it weird
The weirder the better. :approve:

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 16 Oct 2017, 10:24pm
by muppet hi fi
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Oct 2017, 9:23am
coffeepotman wrote:
15 Oct 2017, 6:15am
Now believe it or not, that is something I could get into, I might give it a crack my self. I already have the forward/backward Mensforth, just need to add confusion, but will have to make it weird
The weirder the better. :approve:
Oh yeah. But it'll still have nothing on CtC :scared:

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 12:36pm
by msza2
I get that it's just opinions and all, but I'm trying to wrap my head around his bashing of the S! production on many of my favorite Clash songs, while describing Hitsville as having "a spectacular, spacious mix, with any number of delightful sonic touches that repay many listenings." :huh:

Anyway:

White Man
Cap Radio II
Washington Bullets

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 1:06pm
by Flex
Other than Hitsville U.K. (quality of the song aside, you should probably fill the top of your list with songs that are played and sung by the band you're doing a list for), the top 10 or so are all pretty defensible, even if I'd quibble a little here and there. the obvious songs are there, and the deep cuts are interesting enough selections that they don't come off as contrarian-for-contrarian's-sake (again, other than Hitsville). The bottom of the list is dumber, mostly due to being fueled by an obvious anti-CtC bias.

Anyways, The Clash had a lot of great songs.

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 2:00pm
by matedog
I'm not a lyrics guy, but isn't Hitsville especially dumb because it's The Clash praising indie labels...while being signed to CBS?

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 2:08pm
by Dr. Medulla
matedog wrote:
19 Oct 2017, 2:00pm
I'm not a lyrics guy, but isn't Hitsville especially dumb because it's The Clash praising indie labels...while being signed to CBS?
I hope you're not stumbling over a contradiction between the band's rhetoric and its lived reality.

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 2:18pm
by matedog
Dr. Medulla wrote:
19 Oct 2017, 2:08pm
matedog wrote:
19 Oct 2017, 2:00pm
I'm not a lyrics guy, but isn't Hitsville especially dumb because it's The Clash praising indie labels...while being signed to CBS?
I hope you're not stumbling over a contradiction between the band's rhetoric and its lived reality.
:shifty:

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 2:24pm
by Marky Dread
matedog wrote:
19 Oct 2017, 2:00pm
I'm not a lyrics guy, but isn't Hitsville especially dumb because it's The Clash praising indie labels...while being signed to CBS?
That is the whole point of the song. The fact that a band who have made it big time on a big label can acknowledge and appreciate smaller bands whose only way in is through the smaler outlets.

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 3:04pm
by matedog
Marky Dread wrote:
19 Oct 2017, 2:24pm
matedog wrote:
19 Oct 2017, 2:00pm
I'm not a lyrics guy, but isn't Hitsville especially dumb because it's The Clash praising indie labels...while being signed to CBS?
That is the whole point of the song. The fact that a band who have made it big time on a big label can acknowledge and appreciate smaller bands whose only way in is through the smaler outlets.
It just comes across hypocritical. Why praise bands that stick with indie labels if you yourself chose not to?

Re: Clash Songs Ranked

Posted: 19 Oct 2017, 3:10pm
by Silent Majority
matedog wrote:
19 Oct 2017, 3:04pm
Marky Dread wrote:
19 Oct 2017, 2:24pm
matedog wrote:
19 Oct 2017, 2:00pm
I'm not a lyrics guy, but isn't Hitsville especially dumb because it's The Clash praising indie labels...while being signed to CBS?
That is the whole point of the song. The fact that a band who have made it big time on a big label can acknowledge and appreciate smaller bands whose only way in is through the smaler outlets.
It just comes across hypocritical. Why praise bands that stick with indie labels if you yourself chose not to?
I think the celebration of the lyrics is tonally right and I think they carry it off. DIY is Strummerpunk ideology at its best, even if Strummer is on a mid-sized label.