The first time you heard CtC

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The first time you heard CtC

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The first time I heard Cut the Crap i had no backstory on the new members. I had never heard anything quite like it. It provoked emotions of confusion,humor,and sheer terror. Its been my favorite album ever since.
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I don't know if I remember the first time I heard it (I remember narrowly avoiding buying it as my first Clash album). It's just become such an embedded part of my existence (you know, existentially speaking) that I can't imagine a life outside of Its presence.

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I got the 12 inch This is England first and quite liked it. When I got CTC I think I went into shock.

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Safe European Home wrote:It provoked emotions of confusion,humor,and sheer terror. Its been my favorite album ever since.
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I don't really remember the first time, but CTC ended up being the only CD I took with me to camp once. For 3 months. On an island in the Pacific (Vancouver island, but still — it was in the middle of forest).

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I remember it only too well. I walked into a record shop in Tottenham Court Road and saw it for the first time. I had heard This Is England and loved it and the cover of CTC hinted at other gems inside. I ran home to Russel Square, slapped it on the turntable and cranked up the sound and the rest as they say is history or at least should be confined to history. Disappointment only matched by my first hearing of Earthquake Weather. The higher the expectation the deeper the fall :disshame:

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Bought the cassette when it came out. I wasn't a punk fan yet, but I knew the radio-friendly and MTV-friendly songs. I was confused and bored by what I heard and soon sold it. It took years for me to get another copy, by that time having acquired a number of comedy albums to my collection.
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I bought it on vinyl the day it was released. It was the first Clash album released since I'd gotten into them, so I was very excited, especially after hearing the This Is England single. I rushed home on the bus, slightly confused by the wretched sleeve and the sinister inner-sleeve communique.

I distinctly remember the opening bars of Dictator, and thinking there was something wrong with my copy, there seemed to be eight songs going on at once. My eyebrows suddenly raised at the first off-key horn squonk, and I realized this was no London Calling.

In time I grew to like it, though it was really put in the shade by the first BAD album at the time.
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I didn't grow to like and haven't to this day despite owning it on vinyl (and on CD) for over 25 years. Every few years I give it another go thinking that it can't be all that bad but............

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I picked it up long, long after having picked up all the other Clash CDs and the BAD and Havana 3ams that I could track down. I listened to it for a bit, then put it away, then half-listened to it while I was revising a couple of times. I then filed it away and never listened to it until our live blogging.

http://ccontrol.blogspot.com/2010/06/li ... -crap.html

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My story was pretty much like Dr. M's.
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JennyB wrote:My story was pretty much like Dr. M's.
Gen X powers, activate!
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
JennyB wrote:My story was pretty much like Dr. M's.
Gen X powers, activate!
Kill the Millenials!
Got a Rake? Sure!

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JennyB wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
JennyB wrote:My story was pretty much like Dr. M's.
Gen X powers, activate!
Kill the Millenials!
I'm in.
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JennyB wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
JennyB wrote:My story was pretty much like Dr. M's.
Gen X powers, activate!
Kill the Millenials!
Hey, Hoy, I've got a cup of Bruce juice for you. (Get ready, J, take him out at the knees.)
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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