saw him walking a couple of vaguely unpleasant and desperately unclash looking little dogs in regents park a while back and he still managed to look cool. x
I wouldn’t normally leave a negative comment but I find this interesting. I had to turn this off after about one minute and once again failed to see what it is about The Clash that people rave about. Apart from half a dozen great singles of course. Hope this won’t affect your judgement of my Bass offering.
Now that really is rather splendid. I am never ever disappointed when Mr Strummer and his friends pop up on an evening's shuffle. They always manage to fit with whatever comes before and starts after. If you follow.
Famously he couldn't play a damn thing in the beginning, but they decided he had to be in the band because he looked so cool. Mick Jones used to mark the notes out for him on the guitar. I love that.
T'internet is a bit of a blur lately, thanks to dodgy computer problems at home and blocked internet at work. It's like going past peoples' houses on the train, trying to see what goes on inside the windows. Occasionally the train stops and you can see something. Grand track.
Simon, if I may say so that's exactly the sort of pithy and well-turned comment you used to leave here and elsewhere in the days before you had your own, er, 'outlet'.
I have waxed lyrical about Sandinista ever since I got it on double cassette all those years ago but my mate who loves the Clash has always dismissed it as a over indulgent mess. At the brother in law's 40th the other week, The very same mate said that he had finally succumbed and bought it on cd and had to admit that he's finally learned to love it.
I used to have it on cassette back in the old days, but it didn't make sense until I got it on CD. For some reason it made more sense as a double album, in much the same way London Calling works really well as a single album on CD.
This came up on shuffle tonight. And it's funny, I been bass-heavy lately - all Wobble and dub reggae, the rain falling outside my window.
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saw him walking a couple of vaguely unpleasant and desperately unclash looking little dogs in regents park a while back and he still managed to look cool.
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Greatest Clash album
ReplyDeleteI wouldn’t normally leave a negative comment but I find this interesting. I had to turn this off after about one minute and once again failed to see what it is about The Clash that people rave about. Apart from half a dozen great singles of course. Hope this won’t affect your judgement of my Bass offering.
ReplyDeleteNow that really is rather splendid. I am never ever disappointed when Mr Strummer and his friends pop up on an evening's shuffle. They always manage to fit with whatever comes before and starts after. If you follow.
ReplyDeleteTotally cool- track and bass player
ReplyDeleteFamously he couldn't play a damn thing in the beginning, but they decided he had to be in the band because he looked so cool. Mick Jones used to mark the notes out for him on the guitar. I love that.
ReplyDeleteT'internet is a bit of a blur lately, thanks to dodgy computer problems at home and blocked internet at work. It's like going past peoples' houses on the train, trying to see what goes on inside the windows. Occasionally the train stops and you can see something. Grand track.
ReplyDeleteSimon, if I may say so that's exactly the sort of pithy and well-turned comment you used to leave here and elsewhere in the days before you had your own, er, 'outlet'.
ReplyDeleteAnd I feel your pain. I detest! being 'offline'.
Ah yes, the days where my comments were sometimes longer than the posts I was commenting upon!
ReplyDeleteBloody internet! Or lack thereof!
I have waxed lyrical about Sandinista ever since I got it on double cassette all those years ago but my mate who loves the Clash has always dismissed it as a over indulgent mess.
ReplyDeleteAt the brother in law's 40th the other week, The very same mate said that he had finally succumbed and bought it on cd and had to admit that he's finally learned to love it.
It's never to late. Are you listening JC?
'Over indulgent mess' to 'Greatest Clash album' - amigos, it was ever thus.
ReplyDeleteIt is big, bad, mad, sprawling, flawed and brilliant, and I wouldn't be without it.
Stay free x
I used to have it on cassette back in the old days, but it didn't make sense until I got it on CD. For some reason it made more sense as a double album, in much the same way London Calling works really well as a single album on CD.
ReplyDeleteFunny how the format changes the listen...
I need to go to sleep right now but the idea of the "desperately unclash looking little dogs" his making me smile
ReplyDeleteSimonon's dogs?
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