Stone Thames

Mick Jones, Carbon/Silicon, BAD and cetera.
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Marky Dread wrote:
03 Sep 2017, 7:27pm
MarkyJacobs wrote:
03 Sep 2017, 3:50pm
Whilst not the first to do so (Soft Cell, anyone?), the song also name-checks the drug ecstasy long before it was a thing in the UK.

Indeed I've heard a story, from the horse's mouth so to speak, of driver Ray's bemusement at certain band members' 'cuddly' behaviour on an early trip to New York.
Which song are you referring by Soft Cell. Not "Tainted Love" as that's an old Northern Soul classic by Gloria Jones (Bolan's girlfriend).
Found this, could be what he meant: https://www.google.com/amp/s/witchesbre ... -muse/amp/
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So not really a lyric as such?

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Although (from Memorabillia):

"I say call me the baby, the good time lady,
Just look at me and it's easy to see why they call me Cindy Ecstasy."

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Kory wrote:
03 Sep 2017, 9:16pm
Marky Dread wrote:
03 Sep 2017, 7:27pm
MarkyJacobs wrote:
03 Sep 2017, 3:50pm
Whilst not the first to do so (Soft Cell, anyone?), the song also name-checks the drug ecstasy long before it was a thing in the UK.

Indeed I've heard a story, from the horse's mouth so to speak, of driver Ray's bemusement at certain band members' 'cuddly' behaviour on an early trip to New York.
Which song are you referring by Soft Cell. Not "Tainted Love" as that's an old Northern Soul classic by Gloria Jones (Bolan's girlfriend).
Found this, could be what he meant: https://www.google.com/amp/s/witchesbre ... -muse/amp/
Yeah I think Marky J confused me by starting to talk about E. I thought he was referring to Heston's earlier question about Aids.
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Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty


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"Heard the news about the scare
In the underwear
Population's getting thin
Forget the bomb, it's cardinal sin..."

Absolute genius lyrics.

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MarkyJacobs wrote:
04 Sep 2017, 2:03am
"Heard the news about the scare
In the underwear
Population's getting thin
Forget the bomb, it's cardinal sin..."

Absolute genius lyrics.
"Iron undies back in style" yeah it has some fantastic lyrics.
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Carnal sin, not cardinal sin isn't it?

My favourite lines are:
Save the rose reject romance
Mick Jones don't drop his pants

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Handsome is as handsome does
I did it everywhere
Before the current era, I didn't have a care
Putting a little stick about. Putting the frighteners on flash little twerps

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oliver wrote:
04 Sep 2017, 8:18pm
Carnal sin, not cardinal sin isn't it?
Yes. Even better!

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Maybe the 'cocaine and ecstasy' line was actually meant in the same way as I would have heard it as a 16 year-old with little knowledge of drugs. By which I mean a reference to a single drug (cocaine) and associated sexual pleasure (ecstasy).

I wouldn't have thought so. Doesn't really matter, I guess.

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MarkyJacobs wrote:
05 Sep 2017, 11:47am
Maybe the 'cocaine and ecstasy' line was actually meant in the same way as I would have heard it as a 16 year-old with little knowledge of drugs. By which I mean a reference to a single drug (cocaine) and associated sexual pleasure (ecstasy).

I wouldn't have thought so. Doesn't really matter, I guess.
Nah, anyone familiar with the New York club scene would have been hip to Ecstasy by then.
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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Kind of related... I've sometimes wondered if Mick's friendship with DJ Paul Oakenfold pre-dated the time of the BAD II tour with U2. Oakenfold would have been UK A&R for Def Jam when The Bottom Line came out on that label?

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I guess no-one will know but Teddy B? There was talk of a visit to a Stussy warehouse? But that would definitely have been in the BAD II days...

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05 Sep 2017, 5:04pm
I guess no-one will know but Teddy B? There was talk of a visit to a Stussy warehouse? But that would definitely have been in the BAD II days...
Maybe Teddy IS Oakenfold...
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Maybe Teddy IS Oakenfold...
It would be interesting if he was. But I'm sure Teddy said he visited (the Stussy warehouse) with Mick and Oakenfold...

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MarkyJacobs wrote:
05 Sep 2017, 6:01pm
Kory wrote:
05 Sep 2017, 5:17pm
Maybe Teddy IS Oakenfold...
It would be interesting if he was. But I'm sure Teddy said he visited (the Stussy warehouse) with Mick and Oakenfold...
Smokescreen!

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