Best Remote Control
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Best Remote Control
As per the other thread, I'm asking which is the best version. The drums may be slightly better in the Vanilla version but everything else about the s/t version is better for me, especially the lead guitar and singing.
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Re: Best Remote Control
The people of the great city of Justinville proudly cast their vote for the s/t version in this historic poll: It will the first time Heston has initiated a poll where he will be with the majority. God bless the Clash and God bless IMCT!
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S/T is obviously the best, but I think the Vanilla Tapes version hints at what could have been a definitive take if properly recorded in a studio and with the intention of commercial release.
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Vanilla Tapes...and it's not even close. Much richer arrangement, more mature vocal take...fully three-dimensional whereas the original was not exactly one of s/t's better recorded efforts (live it killed pretty much from Day 1). As stratospheric an improvement over the original as Cap Radio 2 if they'd run with it and done a formal take.
Re: Best Remote Control
S/T FFS.
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Sounded like everything else on the album to me apart from White Riot which was obviously recorded at different sessions. Mick's guitar just rips on the s/t version, he doesn't even get close to anything as good on Vanilla. Probably his best lead vocal on the album too.Rat Patrol wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 2:47pmthe original was not exactly one of s/t's better recorded efforts
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Where's the Meadowlark Lemon option?
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Limeys don't have Meadowlark Lemon. It'd be, like, Nigel Clivingtonshire.
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This is like choosing between your children!!
They are different but they each have their own qualities.
They are different but they each have their own qualities.
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This is what I find crazy. The Vanilla version seems like a rough retread with botched lyrics, inaudible vocals, sloppy guitar playing and a terrible mix. Not to mention one of Mick's best ever solos is excised. Yet people are talking like it's up there with the pretty much perfect s/t version. Each to their own and all that but this one just leaves me bemused.101Walterton wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:23pmThis is like choosing between your children!!
They are different but they each have their own qualities.
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I find it weird to agree with you, but I do.Heston wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:43pmThis is what I find crazy. The Vanilla version seems like a rough retread with botched lyrics, inaudible vocals, sloppy guitar playing and a terrible mix. Not to mention one of Mick's best ever solos is excised. Yet people are talking like it's up there with the pretty much perfect s/t version. Each to their own and all that but this one just leaves me bemused.101Walterton wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:23pmThis is like choosing between your children!!
They are different but they each have their own qualities.
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Thank god, I thought I was going crazy.Wolter wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:59pmI find it weird to agree with you, but I do.Heston wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:43pmThis is what I find crazy. The Vanilla version seems like a rough retread with botched lyrics, inaudible vocals, sloppy guitar playing and a terrible mix. Not to mention one of Mick's best ever solos is excised. Yet people are talking like it's up there with the pretty much perfect s/t version. Each to their own and all that but this one just leaves me bemused.101Walterton wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:23pmThis is like choosing between your children!!
They are different but they each have their own qualities.
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You're finally going to win one of these polls, amigo!Heston wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 5:13pmThank god, I thought I was going crazy.Wolter wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:59pmI find it weird to agree with you, but I do.Heston wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:43pmThis is what I find crazy. The Vanilla version seems like a rough retread with botched lyrics, inaudible vocals, sloppy guitar playing and a terrible mix. Not to mention one of Mick's best ever solos is excised. Yet people are talking like it's up there with the pretty much perfect s/t version. Each to their own and all that but this one just leaves me bemused.101Walterton wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:23pmThis is like choosing between your children!!
They are different but they each have their own qualities.
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Re: Best Remote Control
Didn't even need the Black Diamond option to divide the vote and confuse matters, it looks like a landslide.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 5:19pmYou're finally going to win one of these polls, amigo!Heston wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 5:13pmThank god, I thought I was going crazy.Wolter wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:59pmI find it weird to agree with you, but I do.Heston wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:43pmThis is what I find crazy. The Vanilla version seems like a rough retread with botched lyrics, inaudible vocals, sloppy guitar playing and a terrible mix. Not to mention one of Mick's best ever solos is excised. Yet people are talking like it's up there with the pretty much perfect s/t version. Each to their own and all that but this one just leaves me bemused.101Walterton wrote: ↑01 Nov 2017, 4:23pmThis is like choosing between your children!!
They are different but they each have their own qualities.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board