joe would have loved jeff tho
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 09:52 (thirteen years ago) link
classic! (ecxept cut the crap obv)
― nakamura, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:00 (thirteen years ago) link
It's better than its rep.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 11:08 (thirteen years ago) link
So my 17-year-old son likes The Clash's London Calling cd but this slightly older NPR intern is lukewarm about it (see below). They should get rid of this kid:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2011/02/11/133631581/youve-never-heard-london-calling
here's part of his review:
Ultimately, London Calling feels like a time-and-place album. If I'd been a teenager when this record dropped, I probably would sing its praises like so many others have. It's definitely a great entry point to one of the most important bands and periods in the last 30 years, and I plan on checking out the rest of the group's discography. I'm not giving up on the band, but I've come to love the subsequent bands London Calling inspired more than the album itself.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Um, that reads OK to me.
That's a bit like my take on "Big Star"...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
What bands did it inspire? I preferred the Clash when they were a punk band personally. Coupla later singles aside.
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, you have yer Alarm, yer Manics, oh god...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I'd be curious to hear who he likes that were inspired by The Clash. If his only answer is Green Day, then I know to not take him seriously.
― 'what are you, the Hymen Protection League of America?' (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Exactly, I don't think it inspired anyone good
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:22 (thirteen years ago) link
It also inspired a lot of good bands that sound nothing like that album, so hey
― Mark G, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:25 (thirteen years ago) link
No Doubt, sorry, no doubt
― Tom D (Tom D.), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Rancid?
― You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. (hugo), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
What about stuff like the Angelic Upstarts? Though maybe that's not what this kid is talking about. I'm thinking there were a ton of bands that sprang up in 77 from the Clash/Pistols emergence?
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I hear The Replacements in "Four Horsemen" and Ted Leo and the Pharmacists in "Lost in the Supermarket." Other songs sound like they're laying the groundwork for the influx of pop-punk acts that spent the last two decades on the extreme-sports and music Warped Tour.
― kkvgz, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Grr at "if I'd been a teenager when this record dropped..."
(...unless he means "dropped onto my old-fashioned turntable", I guess)
― I was bored/trolling one day (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:19 (thirteen years ago) link
The amount of music in London Calling is staggering, but the songs aren't all winners. For every "Spanish Bombs" or "Death or Glory," there's a "Rudie Can't Fail" or "Jimmy Jazz."
RIGHT THAT'S IT
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I think I want to kill him. Not because he's not enthused, but...maybe it's the tone? agh.
Rudie and Jimmy aren't winners? GTFO.
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:41 (thirteen years ago) link
Light your torches, people
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, I just clicked the link and read the whole thing. He's basically alright.
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:45 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm okay with him being lukewarm
but Rudie Can't Fail...
I just can't
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
Tom's recent "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" is worth a read for the intelligent anti-Clash sentiments in the comments.
― Hey Look More Than Five Years Has Passed And You Have A C (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 April 2011 17:52 (thirteen years ago) link
if only he'd lived long enough to hear him :(
― side splitting genital based username (vdgna) (sic), Thursday, 14 April 2011 02:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i hope this kid gives 'london calling' a few more spins. i mean, i didn't love it all the first time i heard it either.
i'm sure the clash have had all sorts of influence on bands that don't actually sound like them, but most of the ones who actually tried to act and look like the clash were indeed pretty shitty, yes.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 14 April 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
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― ENBB, Thursday, 14 April 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm still reeling over Rudie
It's just so sad, I want to help him...or beat him senseless, i can't decide
― VegemiteGrrl, Thursday, 14 April 2011 03:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Tom's piece is fantastic and the comments cover the waterfront nicely. As someone who came to the Clash late and not wholeheartedly, I always felt that having reservations was crucial to liking them, and that the band themselves (or at least Strummer) would probably concur. They're a band who tried so many things that they were bound to fuck up some of them, but that gave their failures a certain nobility. People who profess to hate them seem to hate the myth more than the music.
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Thursday, 14 April 2011 07:50 (thirteen years ago) link
watching clash live on youtube - they really seemed to not care how they sounded that much and it was still awesome - how inspiring
― The Cheerfull Turtle (Latham Green), Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
I love the way they look like they're going to leap into the crowd and start whaling on them, esp Joe
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:13 (eleven years ago) link
The Clash are probably my favorite live band ever, but is there any doubt that they did too many drugs in the studio?
― Everything You Like Sucks, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:27 (eleven years ago) link
As someone who came to the Clash late and not wholeheartedly, I always felt that having reservations was crucial to liking them, and that the band themselves (or at least Strummer) would probably concur. They're a band who tried so many things that they were bound to fuck up some of them, but that gave their failures a certain nobility. People who profess to hate them seem to hate the myth more than the music.― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:50 AM (1 year ago)
― Pop is superior to all other genres (DL), Thursday, April 14, 2011 7:50 AM (1 year ago)
this really sums it up nicely!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
I've been learning all of "London Calling" with my guitar teacher, track by track, which has forced a closer listen. Remarkable how much chorus effect is on almost all the guitars, also how so many of the simple chord progressions support some awesome arrangements (organ, horns, percussion, etc.). Also amazed to discover that, for some inexplicable reason, "Lost in the Supermarket" seems to be in open E tuning, which is weird and relatively rare outside of the Allman Bros. and, I dunno, "She Talks to Angels" by the Black Crowes.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 9 August 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
Ooh Ooh Ooh, Complete CLASH POLL (that's a laugh) - ILX Artist Poll #41 (?) - Voting Ends July 9th at Midnight (EST)
― Gukbe, Thursday, 27 June 2013 02:19 (ten years ago) link
super-mad to be travelling during Clash poll and disco poll and Neptunes results
― pink, fleshy, and gleeful (sic), Thursday, 27 June 2013 14:43 (ten years ago) link
Spanish bums
― calstars, Saturday, 25 July 2015 10:53 (eight years ago) link
http://bandwidth.wamu.org/nick-hall-on-i-need-a-dodge-his-film-about-joe-strummers-soul-searching-years-after-the-clash/
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 July 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
In his first full-length documentary, I Need A Dodge: Joe Strummer On The Run, English filmmaker Nick Hall investigates what seems like a nearly impossible task to find Strummer’s car, a Dodge GT3700, lost in Madrid more than 20 years ago. Why search for the Dodge? Because Strummer — who died 13 years ago — loved the car. It transported him from Madrid to Granada and the rest of Spain during his creative crisis. But the car is simply, well, a vehicle. The film’s real aim is to document Strummer’s search for a new identity. It captures his devastation as The Clash disbands for good, then follows his recovery as he dedicates himself to producing a record for 091, a young and unknown band from Granada. The tale of Strummer’s 18-month “Spanish period” is told mostly through the memories of other musicians, who were first enamored by The Clash leader, then became his friends and collaborators.
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 25 July 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
Sounds interesting if a little reaching
― calstars, Saturday, 25 July 2015 18:32 (eight years ago) link
Yep, that's how it was
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 26 July 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
Not all flattering re Strummer--he only races back to London from Granada at one point because his significant other has called him (via a bandmate) and said that she's about to give birth and would like him there in the hospital. He had gotten so wrapped up in doing something new musically (producing the obscure band 091) after his version II of the Clash disentegrated (and folks were giving him grief for the dismissal of Mick Jones and more) that he lost track of stuff.
Oh, and it does sound like "Spanish bums" sometimes...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 27 July 2015 13:26 (eight years ago) link
Pleasantly surprised by "Janey Jones" at a Five Guys this morning.
― a shomin-geki poster with some horror elements (WilliamC), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 02:27 (five years ago) link
Circa 1999, I was well known for my hilarious parody song, “I’m in love with the Jenny Jones Show!
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Wednesday, 11 July 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
Ha
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 11 July 2018 13:03 (five years ago) link
I thought those were the actual words, for longer than I would care to admit.
― Pwn Goal Picnic (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 July 2018 02:38 (five years ago) link
My wife always thought Mick Jones was saying Oh my car is on throughout Spanish Bombs
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 12 July 2018 04:16 (five years ago) link
shareef don't like it, lock the taskbar
― meaulnes, Thursday, 12 July 2018 17:25 (five years ago) link
I used to think it was a song about walls.
The rock and roll wallThe Ghetty Stone wallThe ginnyjone wall
etc
― Mark G, Friday, 13 July 2018 09:17 (five years ago) link
lmao mark. that's good.
― meaulnes, Friday, 13 July 2018 12:45 (five years ago) link
haha mark otm, i used to think that too!!
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 13 July 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
*bump*
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 February 2020 01:36 (four years ago) link