The Clash observations thread.

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JennyB wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:37am
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:24am
JennyB wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:20am
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 6:46am
Let'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.
Buddy Holly with Remote Control. He could do the staccato well.
Nice!
I think his voice would make it fun too.
Marc Bolan with "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." A 12 bar blues with a pop twist.
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Marky Dread wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 1:50pm
JennyB wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:37am
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:24am
JennyB wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:20am
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 6:46am
Let'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.
Buddy Holly with Remote Control. He could do the staccato well.
Nice!
I think his voice would make it fun too.
Marc Bolan with "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." A 12 bar blues with a pop twist.
Love it.
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Silent Majority wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 1:55pm
Marky Dread wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 1:50pm
JennyB wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:37am
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:24am
JennyB wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:20am


Buddy Holly with Remote Control. He could do the staccato well.
Nice!
I think his voice would make it fun too.
Marc Bolan with "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." A 12 bar blues with a pop twist.
Love it.
Aretha Franklin doing White Riot in the vein of "Think."
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JennyB wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 2:49pm
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 1:55pm
Marky Dread wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 1:50pm
JennyB wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:37am
Silent Majority wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 9:24am


Nice!
I think his voice would make it fun too.
Marc Bolan with "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A." A 12 bar blues with a pop twist.
Love it.
Aretha Franklin doing White Riot in the vein of "Think."
Mind blown.
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See I was gonna go with Jerry Lee Lewis for White Riot. :shifty:
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Flex wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 3:07pm
See I was gonna go with Jerry Lee Lewis for White Riot. :shifty:
Who's doing Hate & War and how?
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Silent Majority wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 3:15pm
Flex wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 3:07pm
See I was gonna go with Jerry Lee Lewis for White Riot. :shifty:
Who's doing Hate & War and how?
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Heston wrote:
25 Jun 2019, 8:45pm
Never seen this...

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This looks like Joe’s working draft for the single album Combat Rock. Only one more song to delete.

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TeddyB Not Logged In wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 5:13pm
Heston wrote:
25 Jun 2019, 8:45pm
Never seen this...

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This looks like Joe’s working draft for the single album Combat Rock. Only one more song to delete.
The way the song titles are in a box are very similar to the inner sleeve design for CR.
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TeddyB Not Logged In wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 5:13pm
Heston wrote:
25 Jun 2019, 8:45pm
Never seen this...

Image
This looks like Joe’s working draft for the single album Combat Rock. Only one more song to delete.
What the heck is the last song on the b-sides? Futura Rock the House?
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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matedog wrote:
27 Jun 2019, 1:33pm
TeddyB Not Logged In wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 5:13pm
Heston wrote:
25 Jun 2019, 8:45pm
Never seen this...

Image
This looks like Joe’s working draft for the single album Combat Rock. Only one more song to delete.
What the heck is the last song on the b-sides? Futura Rock the House?
When was The Escapades of Futura recorded?
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1983 in the UK
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matedog wrote:
27 Jun 2019, 1:33pm
TeddyB Not Logged In wrote:
26 Jun 2019, 5:13pm
Heston wrote:
25 Jun 2019, 8:45pm
Never seen this...

Image
This looks like Joe’s working draft for the single album Combat Rock. Only one more song to delete.
What the heck is the last song on the b-sides? Futura Rock the House?
Matedog dont read this thread
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My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty


We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

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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.
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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