Marc Bolan with "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." A 12 bar blues with a pop twist.JennyB wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 9:37amI think his voice would make it fun too.Silent Majority wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 9:24amNice!JennyB wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 9:20amBuddy Holly with Remote Control. He could do the staccato well.Silent Majority wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 6:46amLet's try a game.
A musical artist who was recording prior to 1975 now has a Clash song in their catalogue. It can come from any point in their career, you just got to explain how it sounds. It can be fitting or incongruous, whatever you like. We'll go in order of release, just songs that found their way to vinyl in the band's career. Clear as mud? I'll kick off with the first track from the UK eponymous record. Try not to repeat an artist who's already appeared in the game.
Janie Jones - Everly Brothers. Tight harmonies, acoustic guitars elegantly strummed in the Wake Up Little Suzie mould, slower than the original.
Now someone picks up with Remote Control, and someone else gets a Pre-Punk artist for the next track and so on.
The Clash observations thread.
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Love it.Marky Dread wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 1:50pmMarc Bolan with "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." A 12 bar blues with a pop twist.JennyB wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 9:37amI think his voice would make it fun too.Silent Majority wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 9:24amNice!JennyB wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 9:20amBuddy Holly with Remote Control. He could do the staccato well.Silent Majority wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 6:46amLet's try a game.
A musical artist who was recording prior to 1975 now has a Clash song in their catalogue. It can come from any point in their career, you just got to explain how it sounds. It can be fitting or incongruous, whatever you like. We'll go in order of release, just songs that found their way to vinyl in the band's career. Clear as mud? I'll kick off with the first track from the UK eponymous record. Try not to repeat an artist who's already appeared in the game.
Janie Jones - Everly Brothers. Tight harmonies, acoustic guitars elegantly strummed in the Wake Up Little Suzie mould, slower than the original.
Now someone picks up with Remote Control, and someone else gets a Pre-Punk artist for the next track and so on.
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Aretha Franklin doing White Riot in the vein of "Think."Silent Majority wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 1:55pmLove it.Marky Dread wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 1:50pmMarc Bolan with "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." A 12 bar blues with a pop twist.
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Mind blown.JennyB wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 2:49pmAretha Franklin doing White Riot in the vein of "Think."Silent Majority wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 1:55pmLove it.Marky Dread wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 1:50pmMarc Bolan with "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." A 12 bar blues with a pop twist.
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See I was gonna go with Jerry Lee Lewis for White Riot.
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Who's doing Hate & War and how?
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The Equals and it’s a squalling post-mod rave-up with only a hint of carribean influence.
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The way the song titles are in a box are very similar to the inner sleeve design for CR.TeddyB Not Logged In wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 5:13pmThis looks like Joe’s working draft for the single album Combat Rock. Only one more song to delete.
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What the heck is the last song on the b-sides? Futura Rock the House?TeddyB Not Logged In wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 5:13pmThis looks like Joe’s working draft for the single album Combat Rock. Only one more song to delete.
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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When was The Escapades of Futura recorded?matedog wrote: ↑27 Jun 2019, 1:33pmWhat the heck is the last song on the b-sides? Futura Rock the House?TeddyB Not Logged In wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 5:13pmThis looks like Joe’s working draft for the single album Combat Rock. Only one more song to delete.
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1983 in the UK
1982 in the USA
1982 in the USA
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Matedog dont read this threadmatedog wrote: ↑27 Jun 2019, 1:33pmWhat the heck is the last song on the b-sides? Futura Rock the House?TeddyB Not Logged In wrote: ↑26 Jun 2019, 5:13pmThis looks like Joe’s working draft for the single album Combat Rock. Only one more song to delete.
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"
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Posted on the Clash on Parole fb group:
Topper in 1989 with Louis Bertignac and the Visitors. They play IFTL.
Neat because this was a big gap for me in my Topper history. I thought he was driving a cab or something around this time in the throes of his addiction. Sounds great, but doesn't look so clean.
Topper in 1989 with Louis Bertignac and the Visitors. They play IFTL.
Neat because this was a big gap for me in my Topper history. I thought he was driving a cab or something around this time in the throes of his addiction. Sounds great, but doesn't look so clean.
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.