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The tragic thing is that this was avoidable. Ever since the cd, skipping these songs is very, very easy!Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:02amNobody messes with Nurse Ratchett and stays compos mentis long enough to tell the tale.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 6:28amI've rarely encountered a patient with such a debilitating case of loversrockia. Up the dosage again—better the patient end up a vegetable than a prisoner of this illness.Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 2:45amSo i gave it a listen again last night in my drug induced stupor and noticed some nifty Topper percussion I hadn't copped before, likely cos I'm always fixated on Mick during that song. As a consequence, I'm now contemplating moving it up a place on my LC ranking list to 17. Might up the dosage tonight and see can we push it up further!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 8:35pmSee, all your anxieties are giving way to the bliss of numb nothingness.
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Too easy for the faint hearted. I don't even skip Mensforth Hill when I listen to S! straight through. It's all the way or none of the way. Like climbing 29,000 feet up Mt Everest and getting a piggy back the rest of the way. Moral of the story: you can't summit LC without climbing Lover's Rock!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:34amThe tragic thing is that this was avoidable. Ever since the cd, skipping these songs is very, very easy!Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:02amNobody messes with Nurse Ratchett and stays compos mentis long enough to tell the tale.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 6:28amI've rarely encountered a patient with such a debilitating case of loversrockia. Up the dosage again—better the patient end up a vegetable than a prisoner of this illness.Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 2:45amSo i gave it a listen again last night in my drug induced stupor and noticed some nifty Topper percussion I hadn't copped before, likely cos I'm always fixated on Mick during that song. As a consequence, I'm now contemplating moving it up a place on my LC ranking list to 17. Might up the dosage tonight and see can we push it up further!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 8:35pm
See, all your anxieties are giving way to the bliss of numb nothingness.
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Insane butLow Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:11amToo easy for the faint hearted. I don't even skip Mensforth Hill when I listen to S! straight through. It's all the way or none of the way. Like climbing 29,000 feet up Mt Everest and getting a piggy back the rest of the way. Moral of the story: you can't summit LC without climbing Lover's Rock!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:34amThe tragic thing is that this was avoidable. Ever since the cd, skipping these songs is very, very easy!Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:02amNobody messes with Nurse Ratchett and stays compos mentis long enough to tell the tale.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 6:28amI've rarely encountered a patient with such a debilitating case of loversrockia. Up the dosage again—better the patient end up a vegetable than a prisoner of this illness.Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 2:45am
So i gave it a listen again last night in my drug induced stupor and noticed some nifty Topper percussion I hadn't copped before, likely cos I'm always fixated on Mick during that song. As a consequence, I'm now contemplating moving it up a place on my LC ranking list to 17. Might up the dosage tonight and see can we push it up further!
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Probably merits a few volts through the cranium alright, but seems to me everybody here has their edgy clash opinion, whether it's GEER being the best album or clash 2 being better live or Junco Partner not being utterly brilliant or whatever, really good edgy stuff, so I figured I'd have to come up with one of my own and while I could probably have chosen more wisely, seems I've nailed my colours to the Lover's Rock train and gonna have to roll with it!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:17amInsane butLow Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:11amToo easy for the faint hearted. I don't even skip Mensforth Hill when I listen to S! straight through. It's all the way or none of the way. Like climbing 29,000 feet up Mt Everest and getting a piggy back the rest of the way. Moral of the story: you can't summit LC without climbing Lover's Rock!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:34amThe tragic thing is that this was avoidable. Ever since the cd, skipping these songs is very, very easy!Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:02amNobody messes with Nurse Ratchett and stays compos mentis long enough to tell the tale.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 6:28am
I've rarely encountered a patient with such a debilitating case of loversrockia. Up the dosage again—better the patient end up a vegetable than a prisoner of this illness.
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People die on the strangest Clash hills …Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:25amProbably merits a few volts through the cranium alright, but seems to me everybody here has their edgy clash opinion, whether it's GEER being the best album or clash 2 being better live or Junco Partner not being utterly brilliant or whatever, really good edgy stuff, so I figured I'd have to come up with one of my own and while I could probably have chosen more wisely, seems I've nailed my colours to the Lover's Rock train and gonna have to roll with it!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:17amInsane butLow Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:11amToo easy for the faint hearted. I don't even skip Mensforth Hill when I listen to S! straight through. It's all the way or none of the way. Like climbing 29,000 feet up Mt Everest and getting a piggy back the rest of the way. Moral of the story: you can't summit LC without climbing Lover's Rock!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:34amThe tragic thing is that this was avoidable. Ever since the cd, skipping these songs is very, very easy!Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:02am
Nobody messes with Nurse Ratchett and stays compos mentis long enough to tell the tale.
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Sorry to hear of your current illness mate. Hope you feel better soon.JohnS wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 5:11am(gulp)
I'm with Tom here, or at least I was, when LC was released.
I loved Rope, every track, I played it a lot and found LC just a bit too... I dunno, long and sprawling and ambitious! Yeah, the very things it's now respected for. Many dynamite tracks to be sure (and yes, Four Horsemen was a fave right from the start) but I taped selections from it from friends' copies rather than buy it and settled with that for ages. (I did buy the double album eventually off a mate)
And of course, Sandinista just had the same effect on me, x10!
In time everything the band recorded just gets smeared together into one long audio journey, and now I love everything about every album, and wouldn't alter one thing about them all. But at the time, some of their releases were a bit tough to digest. Whereas Rope, to me, was never a stop-gap / stepping stone album with some patchy filler, it was a bona fide classic LP!
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Yeah, it was either that or the total unalloyed awesomeness of Sandinista! side 6Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:42amPeople die on the strangest Clash hills …Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:25amProbably merits a few volts through the cranium alright, but seems to me everybody here has their edgy clash opinion, whether it's GEER being the best album or clash 2 being better live or Junco Partner not being utterly brilliant or whatever, really good edgy stuff, so I figured I'd have to come up with one of my own and while I could probably have chosen more wisely, seems I've nailed my colours to the Lover's Rock train and gonna have to roll with it!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:17amInsane butLow Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:11amToo easy for the faint hearted. I don't even skip Mensforth Hill when I listen to S! straight through. It's all the way or none of the way. Like climbing 29,000 feet up Mt Everest and getting a piggy back the rest of the way. Moral of the story: you can't summit LC without climbing Lover's Rock!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 7:34am
The tragic thing is that this was avoidable. Ever since the cd, skipping these songs is very, very easy!
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O but such a thick and fetid graveyard marked S! side 6, the glazed eyes beseeching the heavens for a side 7.Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 9:29amYeah, it was either that or the total unalloyed awesomeness of Sandinista! side 6Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:42amPeople die on the strangest Clash hills …Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:25amProbably merits a few volts through the cranium alright, but seems to me everybody here has their edgy clash opinion, whether it's GEER being the best album or clash 2 being better live or Junco Partner not being utterly brilliant or whatever, really good edgy stuff, so I figured I'd have to come up with one of my own and while I could probably have chosen more wisely, seems I've nailed my colours to the Lover's Rock train and gonna have to roll with it!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:17amInsane butLow Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:11am
Too easy for the faint hearted. I don't even skip Mensforth Hill when I listen to S! straight through. It's all the way or none of the way. Like climbing 29,000 feet up Mt Everest and getting a piggy back the rest of the way. Moral of the story: you can't summit LC without climbing Lover's Rock!
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Ha! That is exactly it. Beautifully put, almost Shakespearean!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 9:37amO but such a thick and fetid graveyard marked S! side 6, the glazed eyes beseeching the heavens for a side 7.Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 9:29amYeah, it was either that or the total unalloyed awesomeness of Sandinista! side 6Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:42amPeople die on the strangest Clash hills …Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 8:25amProbably merits a few volts through the cranium alright, but seems to me everybody here has their edgy clash opinion, whether it's GEER being the best album or clash 2 being better live or Junco Partner not being utterly brilliant or whatever, really good edgy stuff, so I figured I'd have to come up with one of my own and while I could probably have chosen more wisely, seems I've nailed my colours to the Lover's Rock train and gonna have to roll with it!
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The outro is cool.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:47pmWe're gonna pump you so full of thorazine that we won't need to straitjacket you. LC's one seriously duff track.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:12pmIf it's insanity to love Lover's Rock, then prepare my straitjacket kind sir.
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I'm thinking you're just trying to score some thorazine from me.Kory wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 6:33pmThe outro is cool.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:47pmWe're gonna pump you so full of thorazine that we won't need to straitjacket you. LC's one seriously duff track.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:12pmIf it's insanity to love Lover's Rock, then prepare my straitjacket kind sir.
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I've listened to GEER a few times 'critically' in the last months to try and work out exactly what I don't like about it. With Rat Patrol now available at an acceptable quality that shows the original vision, and with Cut the Crap not existing in my mind, GEER is the remaining 'compromised' album.
I've come to the conclusion that the songs are all actually good. The problem is that they're needlessly long so there's only 10 of them, and the material between the debut and London Calling has a lot of strong stuff that could have made it a better 14 track album (still single LP).
But the thing that actually ruins it for me is the production. Using Sound System HD (24bit/96khz) and listening to the first 3 albums, it really stands out as incredibly poor production / recording. A few points:
1 - The mix is just bad. Everything is constrained. London Calling sounds amazing in comparison.
2 - The recording is clinical like there were too many takes and the band were a little over it. It sounds a little beaten to death.
3 - There are some specifically poor things that I can easily identify but can't explain because I'm not a recording engineer. The first 5 seconds of Safe European Home sounds like it's clipped or something. It just sounds REALLY bad to me and has in all copies I have heard. I must remember to listen to a clean vinyl I have using headphones to verify it's still there. I think also the guitar tone just isn't to my liking. Maybe that's even the problem I'm hearing in SEH.
It'd be interesting to try to remix it, cut the guitars, increase the bass and Joe's vocals, increase the dynamic range and stereo separation and see if it helps any. Bit of a stab in the dark for me.
A 14 track with LC production, more acoustic guitar bits (like the intro to Capital Radio 2), maybe one ska/reggae track would make it perfect IMO.
I've come to the conclusion that the songs are all actually good. The problem is that they're needlessly long so there's only 10 of them, and the material between the debut and London Calling has a lot of strong stuff that could have made it a better 14 track album (still single LP).
But the thing that actually ruins it for me is the production. Using Sound System HD (24bit/96khz) and listening to the first 3 albums, it really stands out as incredibly poor production / recording. A few points:
1 - The mix is just bad. Everything is constrained. London Calling sounds amazing in comparison.
2 - The recording is clinical like there were too many takes and the band were a little over it. It sounds a little beaten to death.
3 - There are some specifically poor things that I can easily identify but can't explain because I'm not a recording engineer. The first 5 seconds of Safe European Home sounds like it's clipped or something. It just sounds REALLY bad to me and has in all copies I have heard. I must remember to listen to a clean vinyl I have using headphones to verify it's still there. I think also the guitar tone just isn't to my liking. Maybe that's even the problem I'm hearing in SEH.
It'd be interesting to try to remix it, cut the guitars, increase the bass and Joe's vocals, increase the dynamic range and stereo separation and see if it helps any. Bit of a stab in the dark for me.
A 14 track with LC production, more acoustic guitar bits (like the intro to Capital Radio 2), maybe one ska/reggae track would make it perfect IMO.
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I agree with that. The mix on GEER feels claustrophobic. The tracks are too bombastic. Some people love that and feel it's a punk rock sound. But I don't think GEER is punk sounding. The sound is too heavy and it clearly tries to compete with Never Mind The Bollocks. But Steve Jones wall of sound works because Rotten's vocals cut through brilliantly like a razor blade. On GEER Pearlman shamefully disliked Joe's voice so lowered him in the mix. This was rectified on Sound System.Mark^Bastard wrote: ↑29 Jun 2022, 11:59pmI've listened to GEER a few times 'critically' in the last months to try and work out exactly what I don't like about it. With Rat Patrol now available at an acceptable quality that shows the original vision, and with Cut the Crap not existing in my mind, GEER is the remaining 'compromised' album.
I've come to the conclusion that the songs are all actually good. The problem is that they're needlessly long so there's only 10 of them, and the material between the debut and London Calling has a lot of strong stuff that could have made it a better 14 track album (still single LP).
But the thing that actually ruins it for me is the production. Using Sound System HD (24bit/96khz) and listening to the first 3 albums, it really stands out as incredibly poor production / recording. A few points:
1 - The mix is just bad. Everything is constrained. London Calling sounds amazing in comparison.
2 - The recording is clinical like there were too many takes and the band were a little over it. It sounds a little beaten to death.
3 - There are some specifically poor things that I can easily identify but can't explain because I'm not a recording engineer. The first 5 seconds of Safe European Home sounds like it's clipped or something. It just sounds REALLY bad to me and has in all copies I have heard. I must remember to listen to a clean vinyl I have using headphones to verify it's still there. I think also the guitar tone just isn't to my liking. Maybe that's even the problem I'm hearing in SEH.
It'd be interesting to try to remix it, cut the guitars, increase the bass and Joe's vocals, increase the dynamic range and stereo separation and see if it helps any. Bit of a stab in the dark for me.
A 14 track with LC production, more acoustic guitar bits (like the intro to Capital Radio 2), maybe one ska/reggae track would make it perfect IMO.
There are not as many guitar overdubs on GEER as have been previously mentioned. The mix has very little breathing space. The songs are great though. The only track that fails for me is "Cheapskates" and that's because lyrically it's weak.
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No fuchsias for you.
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I like the Clash.
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