Medicine Show Appreciation Thread

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What a perfect song.
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Congrats Medicine Show, king of the BAD songs.
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Plus the video gets most of the old gang together, plus even Lydon.
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Well deserved win, a perfect song.

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A classic.
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So.... Medicine Show vs Rudie Can't Fail

I'd have to say MS is the winner.
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MS really is the best BAD song, as I keep thinking on it. A perfect expression of their musical stylings - it works both historically as capturing a cutting edge moment in music while actually being timeless (a tough proposition for much of BAD's other tunes) - and sonically evocative of grandeur, adventure and excitement. There's a feel of social insight without being didactic (usually a disqualifier for a tuneless dirge-lover such as myself) and a really great Mick vocal (so many of my fave BAD songs feature the latter).

Staggering to me that they hit such a grand slam right away.
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Flex wrote:
10 Jun 2019, 11:27am
MS really is the best BAD song, as I keep thinking on it. A perfect expression of their musical stylings - it works both historically as capturing a cutting edge moment in music while actually being timeless (a tough proposition for much of BAD's other tunes) - and sonically evocative of grandeur, adventure and excitement. There's a feel of social insight without being didactic (usually a disqualifier for a tuneless dirge-lover such as myself) and a really great Mick vocal (so many of my fave BAD songs feature the latter).

Staggering to me that they hit such a grand slam right away.
It’s up there with “Waiting Room” and “Radio Free Europe” as “good band knocks it out of the park with the first track.”
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Wolter wrote:
10 Jun 2019, 11:30am
It’s up there with “Waiting Room” and “Radio Free Europe” as “good band knocks it out of the park with the first track.”
What all three songs have in common - besides being cool as hell - is that there's a feeling that they're inventing something new, but already wholly formed. Obviously, real history is more complex but it's that feeling of almost revelation when you're hitting play on the track.
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Flex wrote:
10 Jun 2019, 11:33am
Wolter wrote:
10 Jun 2019, 11:30am
It’s up there with “Waiting Room” and “Radio Free Europe” as “good band knocks it out of the park with the first track.”
What all three songs have in common - besides being cool as hell - is that there's a feeling that they're inventing something new, but already wholly formed. Obviously, real history is more complex but it's that feeling of almost revelation when you're hitting play on the track.
Right. Each of those feels relevatory for the time and still feels timeless on relistening.
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I'll never forget that feeling I had when I put the album on for the first time and heard it. I'd been aching for some Clash-related music since discovering them in 83 (great timing, it was actually round about the time they sacked Mick). So after two years I was frothing at the mouth. I bought CtC the day it came out, and yes, it was disappointing at first, but TIBAD just blew me away and still does. And every time I hear the Medicine Show intro I'm transported back to my bedroom at my parents' house, hearing it for the first time.
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Great memories for me too. At that time I didn't event know that MJ was sacked from Clash, I was really into Combat Rock, and when I first hear The Bottom Line on a french radio I thought it was a Clash song (I lived near the spanish-french border but my french was very poor). Then I bought an imported and very expensive dutch copy of TIBAD and it became my favorite record. And since then, Medicine Show my favorite song.

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ALF wrote:
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Great memories for me too. At that time I didn't event know that MJ was sacked from Clash, I was really into Combat Rock, and when I first hear The Bottom Line on a french radio I thought it was a Clash song (I lived near the spanish-french border but my french was very poor). Then I bought an imported and very expensive dutch copy of TIBAD and it became my favorite record. And since then, Medicine Show my favorite song.
I wonder what people would have thought if TIBAD WAS the sound of the next Clash album.
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Kory wrote:
10 Jun 2019, 2:28pm
ALF wrote:
10 Jun 2019, 1:42pm
Great memories for me too. At that time I didn't event know that MJ was sacked from Clash, I was really into Combat Rock, and when I first hear The Bottom Line on a french radio I thought it was a Clash song (I lived near the spanish-french border but my french was very poor). Then I bought an imported and very expensive dutch copy of TIBAD and it became my favorite record. And since then, Medicine Show my favorite song.
I wonder what people would have thought if TIBAD WAS the sound of the next Clash album.
Well it would have been better received than CtC, that's for sure.
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Heston wrote:
10 Jun 2019, 2:31pm
Kory wrote:
10 Jun 2019, 2:28pm
ALF wrote:
10 Jun 2019, 1:42pm
Great memories for me too. At that time I didn't event know that MJ was sacked from Clash, I was really into Combat Rock, and when I first hear The Bottom Line on a french radio I thought it was a Clash song (I lived near the spanish-french border but my french was very poor). Then I bought an imported and very expensive dutch copy of TIBAD and it became my favorite record. And since then, Medicine Show my favorite song.
I wonder what people would have thought if TIBAD WAS the sound of the next Clash album.
Well it would have been better received than CtC, that's for sure.
In some quarters, yes. But a Clash album that sounded like BAD would have pushed fans like CK right over the edge. CtC feigns something like rock; TIBAD leaves that way behind.
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