The Call Up Promo Video
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Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Brilliant find matedog - thanks. I love that popspots website - they've done some fantastic research on tons of classic album covers but I never knew they'd done Sandinista
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Yeah it was all Farlowes gear. I have a friend who wrote a book about a year or so ago. Mods : The New Religion he interviewed Chris for his book and told me Chris still has a lot of military regalia. Paul Anderson the author of the book interviewed loads of old mod faces from the sixties. Each time he interviewed a new person he got them to sign a card for me. I have all the autographs in my loft somewhere.
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I love The Call Up it's a great track. Just needs a different mix.
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Looks a lot bigger on the cover.matedog wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 4:15pmAlbum cover was shot near St Pancras/King's Cross train stations on Camley st. underpass. Here's a streetview of the location:JohnS wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 3:51pmI thought it was an entire military collection owned by Chris Farlowe - vehicles, uniforms and equipment. If you google him he was trading in medals and stuff back in the 60s even when he was active as a singer.TeddyB Not Logged In wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 3:44pmWasn't it Chris Farlowe’s costume collection they picked through?
And the cover shot for Sandinista - with Mick in the GI helmet - was taken in an alleyway nearby, I recall.
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Inder's Take: The Call Up is fab and the video is great.
Also, I wonder if POMB wasn't a single because it was a cover.
Also, I wonder if POMB wasn't a single because it was a cover.
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That's what I think. I think with IFtL already a cover they probably wanted to release more original material. Plus 2 Tone was still huge in 1980 with The Specials et all. They most likely didn't want to get lumped in with that.
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On the first part, agreed completely. On the second, my guess is that it was too rockish, which wasn't really in vogue at the time for the charts.
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Out of curiosity marky, what would you like to see different about it? Personally I cant think of any other way I'd want to hear it, but maybe that's just because I'm so used to it the way it is.Marky Dread wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 5:53pmI love The Call Up it's a great track. Just needs a different mix.
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That is an easy answer. Just listen to the remix The Cool Out and that shows you just how powerful the track could have sounded . The single sounds flat.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 8:22pmOut of curiosity marky, what would you like to see different about it? Personally I cant think of any other way I'd want to hear it, but maybe that's just because I'm so used to it the way it is.Marky Dread wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 5:53pmI love The Call Up it's a great track. Just needs a different mix.
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Once I heard The Call Up on Sound System I was finally happy.with the mix. I know it was just supposed to be remastered but that song sounds actually remixed.
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Yep much improved on SS .
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Ok I get you. I tend to listen to live versions a lot more than the album anyway, especially the one from Akron which, I think, is ace.Marky Dread wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 8:32pmThat is an easy answer. Just listen to the remix The Cool Out and that shows you just how powerful the track could have sounded . The single sounds flat.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 8:22pmOut of curiosity marky, what would you like to see different about it? Personally I cant think of any other way I'd want to hear it, but maybe that's just because I'm so used to it the way it is.Marky Dread wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 5:53pmI love The Call Up it's a great track. Just needs a different mix.
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Agreed that's a great live take.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 8:43pmOk I get you. I tend to listen to live versions a lot more than the album anyway, especially the one from Akron which, I think, is ace.Marky Dread wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 8:32pmThat is an easy answer. Just listen to the remix The Cool Out and that shows you just how powerful the track could have sounded . The single sounds flat.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 8:22pmOut of curiosity marky, what would you like to see different about it? Personally I cant think of any other way I'd want to hear it, but maybe that's just because I'm so used to it the way it is.Marky Dread wrote: ↑21 Nov 2017, 5:53pmI love The Call Up it's a great track. Just needs a different mix.
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While I'm not keen on the "Hup-2-3-4" lyric—it's a bit too easy in its mocking—there's something very haunting about "Fifty-five minutes past eleven." Is it resignation or warning? Joe's delivery sounds more the former, but this was also a period when the nuclear disarmament movement regained some momentum with Reagan's (impending) election. Either way, there's an immediacy there, that this—the song, the subject—matters. It was, in its own way, a very 1960s kind of song.
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