― contribute, Friday, 31 December 2004 07:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― el sabor de gene (yournullfame), Friday, 31 December 2004 08:39 (nineteen years ago) link
It's really odd...I'm not sure how I can explain it...I think the album version is rather tame and doesn't do much for me and somehow that links subconsciously to how classic rock sounds like it could be furious but just bumbles around or...meh.
Solid Gold is a bit darker and heavier.
You know, that's probably why it appeals to me more!
― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Friday, 31 December 2004 12:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 01:44 (seventeen years ago) link
solid gold is a lot funkier than entertainment
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 18 December 2009 21:44 (fourteen years ago) link
god bless alex in nyc
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 18 December 2009 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Solid Gold is more what I want all Gang of Four records to be (ie, low-fi and dirgie), yet Entertainment! is somehow more coherent .. ah, fuck it .. it's better in an academic sense.. and I'm not proud to ever hold something up for being better because of principle rather than actual aesthetic appeal. So I recant and choose Solid Gold. Fuck you, Entertainment!
i love these twists and turns
honestly, i used to love entertainment! so much that i couldn't imagine ever preferring Solid Gold. but here i stand
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
anyone here see GoF during the Solid Gold era, and if so, did you get schwety
― these are not all of the possible side effects (Karl Malone), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link
a friend did, and I do think there was dancing, they were on tour with Black Uhuru - now that's a double bill!
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:53 (four years ago) link
The most recent Tape Op features an interview with the guy who produced or engineered Solid Gold, and in it he says he kept trying to give them advice on how to make it more commercial but they would have none of it. Supposedly there was some dude hanging around, so he asked the band who that was, and it was Mick Jones, who the producer claimed took a lot of his suggestions and I guess later applied them to the Clash.
I just read an interview with Andy Gill and I wish I hadn't. He came off such a dick, totally dismissing the other guys as poseurs, claiming more or less full responsibility for just about every aspect of the band's sound, from the lyrics to the delivery to the stage posturing to the arrangements to the public illusion that the band was somehow an equal collective of like minds.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
they were on tour with Black Uhuru - now that's a double bill!
oh god
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 10 May 2019 21:45 (four years ago) link
hey now, Red and Sinsemilla are very good and their band at the time was all-star
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 10 May 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link