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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matedog wrote:
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Or better example:
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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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matedog wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 4:15pm
JohnS wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 3:51pm
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Wasn't it Chris Farlowe’s costume collection they picked through?
I 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.
And the cover shot for Sandinista - with Mick in the GI helmet - was taken in an alleyway nearby, I recall.
For a band that loved dressing up, they must have thought their Christmases had come early on that video shoot :mrgreen:
Album cover was shot near St Pancras/King's Cross train stations on Camley st. underpass. Here's a streetview of the location:
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Looks a lot bigger on the cover.
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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.

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Inder wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 7:49pm
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.
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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Inder wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 7:49pm
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.
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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Marky Dread wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 5:53pm
I love The Call Up it's a great track. Just needs a different mix.
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.

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Low Down Low wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 8:22pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 5:53pm
I love The Call Up it's a great track. Just needs a different mix.
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.
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.
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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.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 8:40pm
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.
Yep much improved on SS .
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Marky Dread wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 8:32pm
Low Down Low wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 8:22pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 5:53pm
I love The Call Up it's a great track. Just needs a different mix.
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.
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.
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.

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Low Down Low wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 8:43pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 8:32pm
Low Down Low wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 8:22pm
Marky Dread wrote:
21 Nov 2017, 5:53pm
I love The Call Up it's a great track. Just needs a different mix.
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.
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.
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.
Agreed that's a great live take.
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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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