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We Are The Clash is a bit too slow and synth-y to sound too much like Sham 69. And the backing vocals... they're almost out of some science fiction film where a dictator gathers his entire nation into one gigantic auditorium, and they scream out in anguish before he presses the button to have them destroyed by his killer robots.

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Silent Majority wrote:It's that elegant guitar sound that follows through to Boston Oi! that I especiallly like in the few modern day punk bands that do anything for me.
I hope you don't like the Pist. Nobody should like the Pist.


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Chuck Mangione wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:It's that elegant guitar sound that follows through to Boston Oi! that I especiallly like in the few modern day punk bands that do anything for me.
I hope you don't like the Pist. Nobody should like the Pist.
I do like the Pist!
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Well to each his own then.

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Chuck Mangione wrote:I hope you don't like the Pist.
Yo.

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Flex wrote:
Chuck Mangione wrote:I hope you don't like the Pist.
Yo.

I'm delighted to have found an unexpected ally on the streetpunk front in Maj.
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Silent Majority wrote:Let's ride off into the sunset listening to Evil Conduct.
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The Clash II sound like Sham 69.

Cheap lousy NME reviews are not truth. They sound fuck all alike oh so "We Are The Clash" has a shouty chorus they sound like Sham 69 ....

Ironically Sham 69 used a drum machine when they reformed later on. Oh they sound like Clash II.

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Marky Dread wrote:The Clash II sound like Sham 69.

Cheap lousy NME reviews are not truth. They sound fuck all alike oh so "We Are The Clash" has a shouty chorus they sound like Sham 69 ....

Ironically Sham 69 used a drum machine when they reformed later on. Oh they sound like Clash II.

Street punk meets Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
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For me it is not the 'songs' that sound the same it is the 'yobbishness' of the vocals.

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101Walterton wrote:
Marky Dread wrote:The Clash II sound like Sham 69.

Cheap lousy NME reviews are not truth. They sound fuck all alike oh so "We Are The Clash" has a shouty chorus they sound like Sham 69 ....

Ironically Sham 69 used a drum machine when they reformed later on. Oh they sound like Clash II.

Street punk meets Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
[youtube][/youtube]
For me it is not the 'songs' that sound the same it is the 'yobbishness' of the vocals.
The backing vocals you mean on the chorus. And they don't feature on the whole album."Are You Ready For War" "This Is England" "North and South" "Fingerpoppin'" does not sound like Sham does it.

Maybe "Do It Now" and "We Are The Cash" .....but why the Sham comparison why not "Angelic Upstarts" or "Cockney Rejects"?
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Excellent points, Marky.
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Marky Dread wrote:
101Walterton wrote:
Marky Dread wrote:The Clash II sound like Sham 69.

Cheap lousy NME reviews are not truth. They sound fuck all alike oh so "We Are The Clash" has a shouty chorus they sound like Sham 69 ....

Ironically Sham 69 used a drum machine when they reformed later on. Oh they sound like Clash II.

Street punk meets Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
[youtube][/youtube]
For me it is not the 'songs' that sound the same it is the 'yobbishness' of the vocals.
The backing vocals you mean on the chorus. And they don't feature on the whole album."Are You Ready For War" "This Is England" "North and South" "Fingerpoppin'" does not sound like Sham does it.

Maybe "Do It Now" and "We Are The Cash" .....but why the Sham comparison why not "Angelic Upstarts" or "Cockney Rejects"?
I've only ever mentioned We Are The Clash.

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101Walterton wrote:
Marky Dread wrote:
101Walterton wrote:
Marky Dread wrote:The Clash II sound like Sham 69.

Cheap lousy NME reviews are not truth. They sound fuck all alike oh so "We Are The Clash" has a shouty chorus they sound like Sham 69 ....

Ironically Sham 69 used a drum machine when they reformed later on. Oh they sound like Clash II.

Street punk meets Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
[youtube][/youtube]
For me it is not the 'songs' that sound the same it is the 'yobbishness' of the vocals.
The backing vocals you mean on the chorus. And they don't feature on the whole album."Are You Ready For War" "This Is England" "North and South" "Fingerpoppin'" does not sound like Sham does it.

Maybe "Do It Now" and "We Are The Cash" .....but why the Sham comparison why not "Angelic Upstarts" or "Cockney Rejects"?
I've only ever mentioned We Are The Clash.
Yes this is true now go and stand in front of the blackbord with you back to the rest of the class for the whole lesson.
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Heston wrote:What about Sham 69 doing "everything?"
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Yeah let's blame Sham 69 for everything!
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Flex wrote:
Silent Majority wrote:I'm surprised that Heston likes Cock Sparrer, but not Sham 69. They're filed away into the same place in my head.
Now there are two bands which are reasonable to liken together musically. Cock Sparrer is better, by my estimation, but Shock Troops ain't exactly worlds apart from Sham 69's oeuvre.
The reasons I like Cock Sparrer and dislike Sham 69...

A) Cock Sparrer had much better tunes and lyrics.
B) Cock Sparrer had much better guitars.
C) Colin from Cock Sparrer had a pretty emotive voice, with a touch of the Steve Marriotts about it. Pursey just sounds yobbish, and has no real tone or inflection in his voice.
D) Jimmy Pursey
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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