LIFE IS WILD APPRECIATION THREAD!!.

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Has anybody got a cigarette??!.

The song to end THE album (sorry Do It Now) begins with the most competent drum programming on the entire album mostly because it is as simple as possible. Still it drives and Joe comes in right on time. The song is probably the most straight ahead rock song (in CTC form) on the album save for the sonic FREAKOUT at the end. It's a solid end to a batshit album.

Lyrics time -
Has anybody got a cigarette?
Well it's declared a disaster zone
Oh! My car is a total wreck!
And just can't go back home!

My girl she had the dough
To get the mafia on the phone
I still gotta get up and go
Don't start carving on my headstone!

LIFE IS WILD!
LIFE IS FREE!
We know when to stomp on the floor on me

LIFE IS WILD!
LIFE IS FREE!
We know when to stomp on right now BAAAABE!

Here's to all of my Cuban souls
Who got a life but ain't got no style
Well I heard that you stole the nose
Well it got broke down after half a mile

Well that is the way it goes
You better keep a low pro-file
You have to reek one I suppose
It's a door in a Cuban pie

Chorus
Guitar solo/slap bass

Has anybody got a cigarette?
A guitar or a blank cassette?
And last face vector's bar
Gonna chalk to rise a my styyyyyylllleeee!!.

Chorus
FREAKOUT!!.
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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So, somewhere in the fall of 84, Bernie convinces Joe that they should do the album without any of the band, and that exactly what Joe went around saying he didn't want to do with Mick he should do with Bernie. Joe tells the new guys they won't be on the album around the Italy mini-tour. Joe works with Fayne and Watt Roy and then some other idiot in Germany, and by the time the band is called in everyone says the album is basically finished except for lead guitar.

No Jericho/Ammunition, no Glue Zombie, no Pouring Rain, no National Powder, no Galleani, no Sex Mad War.

And then Life is Wild is the final statement of "The Clash."

Joe was insane. Admit it.

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IkarisOne wrote:
Joe was insane. Admit it.
I just wish they stayed together and put out a hair metal record in 1988.
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The worst chorus of the Clash's career. The mix on this one is appalling (even for CtC), I find it mostly unlistenable.
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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IkarisOne wrote: Joe was insane. Admit it.
It's hard to overstate how quickly his personal life turned to shit round that era, though.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison


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BostonBeaneater wrote:
IkarisOne wrote:
Joe was insane. Admit it.
I just wish they stayed together and put out a hair metal record in 1988.
I forgot to mention the grueling six months of touring that the band undertook to prepare for the new album.

Then, enter the Fayne.

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IkarisOne wrote: enter the Fayne.
I would kill to see that movie.
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Wolter wrote:
IkarisOne wrote: enter the Fayne.
I would kill to see that movie.
How about Enter the Fayne II: The Revengeance?
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

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Whoever has the endurance to listen to the full album and still be able to critically process stimuli by the time LIW comes on has the stamina of the world's strongest man. I blacked out on the floor and went into immediate rigor mortis sometime during the North and South keyboard solo.

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Flex wrote:
Wolter wrote:
IkarisOne wrote: enter the Fayne.
I would kill to see that movie.
How about Enter the Fayne II: The Revengeance?
Del Toro's finest work.
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
IkarisOne wrote:
Joe was insane. Admit it.
I just wish they stayed together and put out a hair metal record in 1988.
And an electronica record in '98. And an MTV Unplugged disc in '94. And a reinterpretations/remixes album in 2000. CTC could have been just the tip of the iceberg …
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Dr. Medulla wrote:And a reinterpretations/remixes album in 2000. CTC could have been just the tip of the iceberg …
In all seriousness, I'd love to hear some good artists (that can be a relative term, think of whoever you like) remixing Clash songs.

It'd be better than putting out more Terry shows.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
BostonBeaneater wrote:
IkarisOne wrote:
Joe was insane. Admit it.
I just wish they stayed together and put out a hair metal record in 1988.
And an electronica record in '98. And an MTV Unplugged disc in '94. And a reinterpretations/remixes album in 2000. CTC could have been just the tip of the iceberg …

We were spared. No one survived the 80s intact.

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Flex wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:And a reinterpretations/remixes album in 2000. CTC could have been just the tip of the iceberg …
In all seriousness, I'd love to hear some good (that can be a relative term, think of whoever you like) remixes of Clash songs.
Oh sure, but good (as in novel and interesting) remixes are extremely rare. Most are just adding a generic dance beat, cut up some samples of the track and hit repeat, or mutilating the original into unlistenable sludge.
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No...there would've been a hip-hop album in '89 after Public Enemy opened for them on their 1987 NYC residency, Joe had a religious experience, and the band started wearing clocks on their necks and toy Glocks in their trousers onstage.


I actually would've found an Unplugged performance cool, given that the Busking tour worked pretty well for them.

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