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
joe would have loved jeff tho
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
Rudie and Jimmy aren't winners? GTFO.
― Hardcore Bangage (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:41 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― 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
classic
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 February 2020 03:00 (four years ago) link
Always
― Οὖτις, Sunday, 9 February 2020 03:03 (four years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/sandinista-188352/
We can still use that stubborn Sixties morality, and we would do well to remember the missed opportunity of punk — the revolution that wasn’t — without the simple postures of either of those underachieved countercultures. But we also need these post movement, postideological, private and public “count me out — and in” complications of identification and distance, of participation in and respite from the varieties of violence in the world and the inequalities that cause them. If I were younger, I’d write something on a bathroom wall. It’d be a lot shorter and more to the point. Maybe Lennon lives, Clash rule and rock against Reagan. And I wouldn’t worry about the improbabilities.
― j., Sunday, 9 February 2020 03:17 (four years ago) link
I had a blast last night at an International Clash Day dance party & art show. Some local players did a one-off cover band focusing on material up through London Calling (plus the two hits).
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 9 February 2020 03:59 (four years ago) link
classic, then and now
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:07 (four years ago) link
burn all early-ILX UK contrarians at the stake
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
Even Ned?
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:08 (four years ago) link
Lol
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:10 (four years ago) link
I said "UK", 1st poster "Omar" specifically
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:12 (four years ago) link
I'm sure Ned has realized the error of his ways :)
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:13 (four years ago) link
omar was dutch? or spanish iirc
― j., Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link
I stand corrected, before my time. But yeah these old threads really double down on the sacred cow mutilation, to their detriment.
― let's talk about gecs baby (sleeve), Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:20 (four years ago) link
NED IS A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:20 (four years ago) link
“ Why? Because the voices are shit” is one of my all-time favorite ILX lines
― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Sunday, 9 February 2020 04:48 (four years ago) link
Did anyone listen to the Spotify miniseries history (hosted by Chuck D)? It was predictable hagiography, but still worth it imo. Lots of archival interviews. Last episode did a nice job of ending with the Joe/B.A.D. reunion, instead of the back-to-roots Clash mark 2 show. (I have a boot of the Latino Rockabilly War first show where they cover a few songs from the 2nd BAD record.)
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Sunday, 9 February 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
Started to because a friend of mine mentioned it but got derailed/distracted. What I heard was pretty good. Obviously Chuck is burning his as well as their legend though.
― TS: Kirk/Spock vs. Hitchcock/Truffaut (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 9 February 2020 23:36 (four years ago) link
Ha. Maybe. Both groups always wanted legend + mainstream success though. No doubt one of the reasons they're both interesting, but also why many the children of the double IPA generation are too good for them.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Monday, 10 February 2020 13:38 (four years ago) link
I liked that podcast in the predictable ways I would, as both a Clash and PE fan. I did learn a fair amount. My favorite episode was the recording of Sandinista, which made me revisit it. It sound like it was fun to make.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 10 February 2020 14:20 (four years ago) link