Their greatest album, a good comp, and some filler.
The perfect Clash experience.
He got GEER, not LC. GEER is the one with the two great tracks and the rest that are underdeveloped and rushed.
Yeah, sometimes I'll go long stretches without listening. Often a debate/convo around here will inspire me to listen to an album or boot.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
GEER is the one with the two great tracks and the rest that are underdeveloped and rushed.
You and I will never be in more agreement than on GEER.
That and an obscure lesbian folk/Americana singer.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
Their greatest album, a good comp, and some filler.
The perfect Clash experience.
I considered getting London Calling, but the anniversary edition with the demos (which I have never listened to!) is OOP. And anyway I think I have heard LC enough. The title track has become oversaturated in film/TV.
I would rather a good singles/B-sides comp than the US s/t. I think UK is a good album but not the best of '77.
I never bought the singles box. Is it worth it? Pricey.
The demos are OK, no great shakes or hidden gems imo. Cool to listen to for the first time, though.
The Sound System Extras discs are an excellent career-spanning odds and sods type thing. I think they basically replace SBMC and add some other stuff.
Their greatest album, a good comp, and some filler.
The perfect Clash experience.
I considered getting London Calling, but the anniversary edition with the demos (which I have never listened to!) is OOP. And anyway I think I have heard LC enough. The title track has become oversaturated in film/TV.
I would rather a good singles/B-sides comp than the US s/t. I think UK is a good album but not the best of '77.
I never bought the singles box. Is it worth it? Pricey.
The demos are OK, no great shakes or hidden gems imo. Cool to listen to for the first time, though.
The Sound System Extras discs are an excellent career-spanning odds and sods type thing. I think they basically replace SBMC and add some other stuff.
Man, I wasn't even aware of Sound System. Thanks for the info.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
Their greatest album, a good comp, and some filler.
The perfect Clash experience.
I considered getting London Calling, but the anniversary edition with the demos (which I have never listened to!) is OOP. And anyway I think I have heard LC enough. The title track has become oversaturated in film/TV.
I would rather a good singles/B-sides comp than the US s/t. I think UK is a good album but not the best of '77.
I never bought the singles box. Is it worth it? Pricey.
The demos are OK, no great shakes or hidden gems imo. Cool to listen to for the first time, though.
The Sound System Extras discs are an excellent career-spanning odds and sods type thing. I think they basically replace SBMC and add some other stuff.
Man, I wasn't even aware of Sound System. Thanks for the info.
Sound System is such an improvement in sound quality that it outright replaces the albums for me.
Their greatest album, a good comp, and some filler.
The perfect Clash experience.
I considered getting London Calling, but the anniversary edition with the demos (which I have never listened to!) is OOP. And anyway I think I have heard LC enough. The title track has become oversaturated in film/TV.
I would rather a good singles/B-sides comp than the US s/t. I think UK is a good album but not the best of '77.
I never bought the singles box. Is it worth it? Pricey.
The demos are OK, no great shakes or hidden gems imo. Cool to listen to for the first time, though.
The Sound System Extras discs are an excellent career-spanning odds and sods type thing. I think they basically replace SBMC and add some other stuff.
It's got the only tolerable listen of Lover's Rock, the instrumental Guns of Brixton is one of the spookiest things they've ever done, and I'm convinced from Remote Control 2 that s/t U.S. should've been done as a straight into-the-can 1979 re-record of s/t U.K...Topper-fied.
alright fuck it, just ordered it. I see it was released in 2013, which kinda made it urgent for me--not sure how long it'll be out there. Glad I have a credit card--damned expensive.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
alright fuck it, just ordered it. I see it was released in 2013, which kinda made it urgent for me--not sure how long it'll be out there. Glad I have a credit card--damned expensive.
You won't regret it. Well worth the expense.
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" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
Sound System is mainly worth it for the remastering of Sandinista, an incredible job. I still maintain Marky's S/T remaster is the best version of the first album.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
Their greatest album, a good comp, and some filler.
The perfect Clash experience.
I considered getting London Calling, but the anniversary edition with the demos (which I have never listened to!) is OOP. And anyway I think I have heard LC enough. The title track has become oversaturated in film/TV.
I would rather a good singles/B-sides comp than the US s/t. I think UK is a good album but not the best of '77.
I never bought the singles box. Is it worth it? Pricey.
The demos are OK, no great shakes or hidden gems imo. Cool to listen to for the first time, though.
The Sound System Extras discs are an excellent career-spanning odds and sods type thing. I think they basically replace SBMC and add some other stuff.
It's got the only tolerable listen of Lover's Rock, the instrumental Guns of Brixton is one of the spookiest things they've ever done, and I'm convinced from Remote Control 2 that s/t U.S. should've been done as a straight into-the-can 1979 re-record of s/t U.K...Topper-fied.
Never got the love for that version of Remote Control. Just sounds like a half-arsed run through to me, the debut album version is just fine.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board