Things you learned through the Clash

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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Mar 2018, 9:06pm
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I know where to find Mick.
In his shed, burying things?
Aisle 4 lost Clash tapes.

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Mostly history things. Kind of what's been said with the Sandinistas and all the stuff going on in Latin America during the 70s/80s. It's funny too how many times I'll be researching something, and come across some phrase or person that I recognize instantly because of a Clash song.

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Only recently learned that the line “Africa’s choking on their Coca Cola” in CDS is a reference to a civil rights campaign against the company in the early 80s. One of its slogans was “don’t choke on coke.”

That’s what I love about Joes lyrics. Even after all this time the nuances and hidden meanings are still being revealed. Don’t yet feel I am even half way there yet.

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That Monty Clift was known for his profile
The 100 Years War to the Crimean
Who Dillinger, Leroy Smart and Delroy Wilson were. And what Burton suits are.
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Good thread.

A lot of stuff, but mostly British (souff London) slang, culture, vibe, etc. I'd always been a bit of an Anglophile (thanks mom!), but somehow I could really pick up on the attitudes, jive and stuff from the Clash, more so than, say, the Jam. Dunno why; maybe their US/world centric trip, maybe just Joe & Micks delivery, the context of the songs, dunno. But I can see why the Jam remained massively popular in the UK while the Clash were falling out of favor.

And that's just one aspect I got from Clash. Loads of other things, far more important things - musical, literary, just plain spiritual things, if you will.
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I learned that Joe's dad was a bankrobber. Then I found out he was a fucking liar and so I switched to listening to Foreigner.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Mar 2018, 1:05pm
I learned that Joe's dad was a bankrobber. Then I found out he was a fucking liar and so I switched to listening to Foreigner.
Ironically, their Mick Jones is actually cold blooded.
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JennyB wrote:
06 Mar 2018, 1:19pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
06 Mar 2018, 1:05pm
I learned that Joe's dad was a bankrobber. Then I found out he was a fucking liar and so I switched to listening to Foreigner.
Ironically, their Mick Jones is actually cold blooded.
This is an outrage! I'm switching to Air Supply!
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muppet hi fi wrote:
06 Mar 2018, 11:50am
Good thread.

A lot of stuff, but mostly British (souff London) slang, culture, vibe, etc. I'd always been a bit of an Anglophile (thanks mom!), but somehow I could really pick up on the attitudes, jive and stuff from the Clash, more so than, say, the Jam. Dunno why; maybe their US/world centric trip, maybe just Joe & Micks delivery, the context of the songs, dunno. But I can see why the Jam remained massively popular in the UK while the Clash were falling out of favor.

And that's just one aspect I got from Clash. Loads of other things, far more important things - musical, literary, just plain spiritual things, if you will.
Yeah, Brit slang for me too.

Plus some cool locations about London that I made sure to visit when I was over there for a week or so in 2014.
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Spiff wrote:
06 Mar 2018, 1:47pm
muppet hi fi wrote:
06 Mar 2018, 11:50am
Good thread.

A lot of stuff, but mostly British (souff London) slang, culture, vibe, etc. I'd always been a bit of an Anglophile (thanks mom!), but somehow I could really pick up on the attitudes, jive and stuff from the Clash, more so than, say, the Jam. Dunno why; maybe their US/world centric trip, maybe just Joe & Micks delivery, the context of the songs, dunno. But I can see why the Jam remained massively popular in the UK while the Clash were falling out of favor.

And that's just one aspect I got from Clash. Loads of other things, far more important things - musical, literary, just plain spiritual things, if you will.
Yeah, Brit slang for me too.

Plus some cool locations about London that I made sure to visit when I was over there for a week or so in 2014.
Yep, same for me - locations, locations, locations. I was only in London for about two seconds in '08 to take the tube down to Dover to catch the ferry (and then a night on the return to Gatwick), so I didn't get to move & groove much. But (as I said in my book about the trip) the mostly Jamaican and West Indian peeps I mostly dealt with (ya know, the folk who do all the actual work in that metropolis) were incredible friendly and helpful and I was able to understand everything all of them said, despite thick Brit/Jamaican patois.
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JennyB wrote:
06 Mar 2018, 11:18am
Who Dillinger, Leroy Smart and Delroy Wilson were. And what Burton suits are.
Oh shit, this for sure. Generally speaking, I got into the Clash early enough in my music listening that they turned me onto a TON of new stuff, both from direct lyric references and, obviously, covers.
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JennyB wrote:
06 Mar 2018, 11:18am
That Monty Clift was known for his profile
The 100 Years War to the Crimean
Who Dillinger, Leroy Smart and Delroy Wilson were. And what Burton suits are.
Would only allow photos of his right side, due to disfigurement.

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How many of our american friends now know what a Black Maria is ????

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white man wrote:
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How many of our american friends now know what a Black Maria is ????
I only know her as a villain to Power Man.
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