US North

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MarkyJacobs wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 4:41am
Needs an edit.
The song or Silent Majority’s review? ;)

I’m in the love it camp, the ten minutes fly by.

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laxman wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 5:11am
MarkyJacobs wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 4:41am
Needs an edit.
The song or Silent Majority’s review?
Anything I write could have 100% excised at no loss.
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Heston wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 5:10am
MarkyJacobs wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 4:41am
Needs an edit.
It's gonna get one.
Not on my watch, soldier.
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It’s ok.
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Silent Majority wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 7:33am
Heston wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 5:10am
MarkyJacobs wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 4:41am
Needs an edit.
It's gonna get one.
Not on my watch, soldier.
I'm doubling the length for you.
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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Heston wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 8:01am
Silent Majority wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 7:33am
Heston wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 5:10am
MarkyJacobs wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 4:41am
Needs an edit.
It's gonna get one.
Not on my watch, soldier.
I'm doubling the length for you.
That's the stuff.
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Is ten times worse than prison


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Silent Majority wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 3:53am
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01 Oct 2018, 5:56pm
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The ten plus minute is an entire film treatment! The 4:25 contemporaneous edit might make a better song...
This clears the brief for the song up. It's an epic Desolation Row - with a tune this time - for the eighties, filled with cartoon gangsters, Alan Lomax bums, bottom of the rung chancers and a romanticised, weaponised melancholic tinge of hope, acceptance and brotherhood.

A shifting narrative told from various points of view, like an epistolary novel, but instead of letters, it's snatches of conversations from the end of bars and the backseats of busted cars. It's up to the listener to decide if the same character is speaking twice or if it is two or more people sharing a point of view. Or even if it's happening in the same time period. I fucking love it.

Too short at ten minutes for me, I wanna keep dancing to it even after it finishes. I even like Schrodinger's Strummer vocal, you're left listening hard, catching what might be glimpses of his voice through the passing telephone poles from the dirty window of the chugging locomotive that is the song. The melody is unstoppable.
love this ^

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Silent Majority wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 7:27am
laxman wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 5:11am
MarkyJacobs wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 4:41am
Needs an edit.
The song or Silent Majority’s review?
Anything I write could have 100% excised at no loss.
;)

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The song. It gets tedious once the chorus stops coming.

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MarkyJacobs wrote:
03 Oct 2018, 12:26pm
The song. It gets tedious once the chorus stops coming.
I agree. They should have had choruses in the second half and split the song in two like Radio Clash.
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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It's a busy world, people don't have time to listen to a 10 minute song, everybody's got things to do

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Now I've listened on headphones I can hear Joe. Yeah, he's there all the way through.
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I think a middle 8/bridge wouldn’t have gone amiss... big who am I to tell Strummer and Jones how to write a song?!
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IMCT: All I want is one more Strummer/Jones composition.

Also IMCT: Waaah, there's too much of it, I can't listen in a few sittings.
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Silent Majority wrote:
05 Oct 2018, 12:02pm
IMCT: All I want is one more Strummer/Jones composition.

Also IMCT: Waaah, there's too much of it, I can't listen in a few sittings.
It's called discerning taste, fanboy! It's what separates us from the rabble.
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