Clash songs you can't stand

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Clash songs you can't stand

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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

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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.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
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Lover's Rock springs to mind.
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I wholeheartedly endorse both Nagilum's and Flex's picks.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 6:08pm
I wholeheartedly endorse both Nagilum's and Flex's picks.
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I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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Inder wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 5:52pm
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
Both those songs are very good.
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Hitsville
Lose This Skin

Both because of the vocals.

Most of Side 6

For obvious reasons.
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I'd say the only Clash song I really can't stand is Junkie Slip.
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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Oh yeah — definitely Hitsville. Just awful.

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Overpowered by Funk.
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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

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Heston wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 8:10pm
Hitsville and Overpowered By Funk are great songs.
Hitsville is a great song marred by terrible production. OBF is just fine by me, except for Futura's bit.
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Kory wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 9:05pm
Heston wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 8:10pm
Hitsville and Overpowered By Funk are great songs.
Hitsville is a great song marred by terrible production. OBF is just fine by me, except for Futura's bit.
Racist.

I kid. But you're under suspicion coming from the Pacific Northwest. :shifty:
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Heston wrote:
14 Feb 2018, 6:43pm
I'd say the only Clash song I really can't stand is Junkie Slip.
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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Lovers Rock, Look Here, Crooked Beat, Shepherds Delight, Death Is A Star. Always enjoyed Hitsville UK

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