Rationalising Sandinista!
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Chuck Mangione
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Re: Rationalising Sandinista!
Career Opportunities (kids) "fantastic"? I don't know about that.
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I admire the self-awareness involved in a quote-unquote punk band revisiting an earnest first-wave track and re-recording it with children and bells.
An experiment that went horribly awry in 1985...
An experiment that went horribly awry in 1985...
Re: Rationalising Sandinista!
It struck me as a knock-off of Another Brick ITW pt 2.Inder wrote:I admire the self-awareness involved in a quote-unquote punk band revisiting an earnest first-wave track and re-recording it with children and bells.
An experiment that went horribly awry in 1985...
Re: Rationalising Sandinista!
No way. Career Ops is at least a bit tongue in cheek. Brick is very very serious. Just because both utilize children doesn't mean they are going for the same thing.msza2 wrote:It struck me as a knock-off of Another Brick ITW pt 2.Inder wrote:I admire the self-awareness involved in a quote-unquote punk band revisiting an earnest first-wave track and re-recording it with children and bells.
An experiment that went horribly awry in 1985...
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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Let's not forget they re-recorded Remote Control at the Vanilla sessions. So it would've been cool if they had re-recorded CO as dub-wise stylee workout for S! Instead of the Mickey's kids version. Which is fun at first but hardly something you'd want to hear more than once and not worthy of inclusion on the album.Inder wrote:I admire the self-awareness involved in a quote-unquote punk band revisiting an earnest first-wave track and re-recording it with children and bells.
An experiment that went horribly awry in 1985...
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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1.Mag 7
2.Hitsville UK
3.Junco Partner
4.Something About England
5.Somebody Got Murdered
6.One More Time
7.The Sound Of Sinners
8.Police On My Back
9.Broadway
10.Kingston Advice
11.The Street Parade
... and although not on the album, and everyone on this site hates it, I love it ...
12.Stop The World
2.Hitsville UK
3.Junco Partner
4.Something About England
5.Somebody Got Murdered
6.One More Time
7.The Sound Of Sinners
8.Police On My Back
9.Broadway
10.Kingston Advice
11.The Street Parade
... and although not on the album, and everyone on this site hates it, I love it ...
12.Stop The World
Re: Rationalising Sandinista!
How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.
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I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'IkarisOne wrote:How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.
Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.
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It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.Dirty Harry wrote:I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'IkarisOne wrote:How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.
Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.
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Silent Majority
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Yeah, Sandinista!'s inept sequencing plays a part in that I think.Wolter wrote:It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.Dirty Harry wrote:I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'IkarisOne wrote:How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.
Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.
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Yep killer track.Wolter wrote:It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.Dirty Harry wrote:I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'IkarisOne wrote:How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.
Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
- BR16ADE_R055E
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Yeah, UIH is essential.Marky Dread wrote:Yep killer track.Wolter wrote:It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.Dirty Harry wrote:I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'IkarisOne wrote:How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.
Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.
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Good word. If someone asked me to pick a track that summed up The Clash that would be on my short shortlist. Why isn't on COB or whatever? Maybe some coked-up rich twit from the NME told Mick it was too rockist and told them they should sound more like the Raincoats or 23 Skidoo and it became a thing.BR16ADE_R055E wrote:Yeah, UIH is essential.Marky Dread wrote:Yep killer track.Wolter wrote:It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.Dirty Harry wrote:I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'IkarisOne wrote:How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.
Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.
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Up In Heaven is one of their all-time best "this would change my life if it came on the radio at 2 in the morning" songs, of which they have several.
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The sequencing on Sandinista is truly terrible. Hitsville as track 2? Absurd.Silent Majority wrote:Yeah, Sandinista!'s inept sequencing plays a part in that I think.Wolter wrote:It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.Dirty Harry wrote:I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'IkarisOne wrote:How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.
Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.
(My phone just tried to autocorrect it to Hoysville.)
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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