Clash songs you can't stand
Clash songs you can't stand
We will exclude Cut the Crap for this exercise. There are only two I think of as truly hideous:
Lose This Skin (sorry, Tymon)
Death is a Star
Lose This Skin (sorry, Tymon)
Death is a Star
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Re: Clash songs you can't stand
I don't know if I've ever actually skipped/fast-forwarded/whatever through a Clash song, but these ones suck bigly:
the kiddo versions of Career Opportunities and the guns of brixton
stop the world
cool confusion
first night back in london
Not that every other song was a total winner, but these are the only ones that actively annoy me if I think about them.
the kiddo versions of Career Opportunities and the guns of brixton
stop the world
cool confusion
first night back in london
Not that every other song was a total winner, but these are the only ones that actively annoy me if I think about them.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Re: Clash songs you can't stand
Lover's Rock springs to mind.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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I wholeheartedly endorse both Nagilum's and Flex's picks.
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I am the Face from Space!!!
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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Re: Clash songs you can't stand
Both those songs are very good.
Re: Clash songs you can't stand
Hitsville
Lose This Skin
Both because of the vocals.
Most of Side 6
For obvious reasons.
Lose This Skin
Both because of the vocals.
Most of Side 6
For obvious reasons.
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Re: Clash songs you can't stand
I'd say the only Clash song I really can't stand is Junkie Slip.
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Re: Clash songs you can't stand
Oh yeah — definitely Hitsville. Just awful.
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Overpowered by Funk.
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Re: Clash songs you can't stand
Hitsville and Overpowered By Funk are great songs.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Re: Clash songs you can't stand
Hitsville is a great song marred by terrible production. OBF is just fine by me, except for Futura's bit.
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Racist.
I kid. But you're under suspicion coming from the Pacific Northwest.
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I knew this was coming.
It's one of the funkiest and outside things they ever did. Toppers drums are monolithic - the way he doubles back on the backbeat with the brushes, the sound of his kick, it's all forward motion. Norman's bass is phat. - I think it's an upright. Mick's warped, phased licks are gnarly, the lyric is giddy in it's truthful conveyance of what any addicts day to day life is like. It's Tom Waits a couple years before Tom found his true musical template. I still can't figure out how they came up with it (sure, weed, but still...).
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Re: Clash songs you can't stand
Lovers Rock, Look Here, Crooked Beat, Shepherds Delight, Death Is A Star. Always enjoyed Hitsville UK