MUSIC: the official thread.

Same... They were the darlings of the critics, especially in the US, but outside of a decent song here or there, a lot of their output was shit, especially all of those songs that Mick Jones sang... "Should I stay or Should I go", "Train in Vain"... Total garbage, third-rate power pop

 

Agreed re: The Clash.
'The Emperor's New Clothes Of Music' back in the late-70s onwards.

Howver The Clash were like The Beatles and Led Zeppelin for that generation. Like 'em or not, they're there; you can say "I hate that fuckin' Mount Everest and its stupid look" for all you want, but unless you actually get there & flatten it with a million TNT demolition charges , nobody's gonna be interested.

 

Each to their own. Most the 'first rate' 70s stuff Clogg listens to sounds like more dated cheese than the pot of cottage cheese I just tossed and, well, magus thinks judas preist are good. The clash were an event.

 

Precisely. Don't get me wrong they had a few good songs but the reputation doesn't match the output IMO.

 

Depends what you mean and who you're referring to as 'dated cheese'.
Music from the 1970s decades tends to be one that a) influences and b) sells in droves

As for myself I'm merely name-checking Judas Priest as important to the NWOBHM movement as The Clash were to the punk/new wave movement.

One of these bands sold millions globally and one were the critics' darlings.

However it is interesting that the best album by The Clash - Sandinista! was battered by the press upon its release in 1981....

 

This is an exceptional album though:



And they initially tried to sell it at £5.99!
A triple album!

 

Fucking love this song and always will - 1980 - Tom Browne was just the trumpet player.
Just a cool song, guaranteed to get me dancing:

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There's a boatload of dross on Sandinista tbh

 

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:nono:

 

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Are you fucking joking :dunno:

 

Hut probably has this cunt on loop

 

I always liked this version, with the Diana Ross sample, better than the more popular version

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Choon.

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Judas Priest!?!?

 

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Andre 3000: one of the greatest MCs ever
Rick Ross: greatest correctional facility officer turned rapper

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Summer '88, or was it '89
Or was it winter-time, ah, nevermind
I'm in my room, booming
Drawin' LL Cool J album covers with Crayolas on construction paper
I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna hook my waves up
I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups
Before lil' Marc was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup
Before my voice would break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs
Before my mama wake up, before my crumbs would cake up
Before they tell me they love me and we'll never break up
Before the time she makes love to someone that I thought was my homeboy
But boy, was I wrong, now
I don't budge, don't want much, just a roof and a porch
And a Porsche, and a horse and unfortunately
But of course an assortment of torches that scorches the skin, when they enter
Intruders, whose tutors did a lousy job
How's he God if he lets Lucifer let loose on us?
That noose on us won't loosen up, but loose enough to juice us up
Make us think we do so much and do it big
Like they don't let us win, I can't pretend
But I do admit, it feel good when the hood pseudo-celebrate
Hence, why every time we dine we eat until our belly aches
Then go grab the finest wine and drink it
Like we know which grape and which region it came from
As if we can name 'em, hint hint, it ain't, um, Welch's
Hell just fell three thousand more degrees cooler
Ya'll can't measure my worth
But when you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the Greek gods
Because the odds have always been stacked against me when back's against the wall
I feel right at home, y'all sitting right at home
All Kelly green with envy while I'm jelly beans descending
Into the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smile
With such a devilish grin, like "where the hell have you been"
She yelling that selling’s a sin, well so is telling young men
That selling is a sin, if you don’t offer new ways to win
A dolphin gon shake his fin, regardless if he gets in
Or out of water, most important thing for him is to swim
And Flipper didn’t hold his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue?
I miss the days of old when one could hold his gal on his arm
And not set off these alarms, when camera’s snap snap snap snap
Return fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa
They’ll learn why, mere privacy, so essential
They won't make no laws, I break their laws til they see out our window
I take the fall to make them all treat human kind more gentle
Forsake them all, I hate them all, don’t like em, don’t pretend to
Yeah something tells me we ain’t in Kansas anymore
All that shit that used to be cool ain’t cool anymore
All the women we were pursuing, now they want more
And they deserve it all, don’t settle for what ain’t yours

 

Err, yeah, I think you´re in the wrong thread Erratic: this is about MUSIC not SHIT.

 

Too many positive superlatives needed.... :bears:

 

More from the one and only 3 Stacks

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Now Suzy Skrew had a partner named Sasha, Thumper
I remember her number like the summer
When her and Suzy yeah they threw a slumber
Party but you can not call it that cause it was slummer
Well it was more like spend the night
Three in the morning yawning dancing under street lights
We chilling like a villain and a nigga feeling right
In the middle of the ghetto on the curb, but in spite
All of the bullshit we on our back staring at the stars above
Talking bout what we gonna be when we grow up
I said what you wanna be, she said, "Alive"
It made me think for a minute, then looked in her eyes
I coulda died, time went on, I got grown
Rhyme got strong, mind got blown, I came back home
To find lil' Sasha was gone
Her mamma said she with a nigga that be treating her wrong
I kept on singing my song and hoping at a show
That I would one day see her standing in the front row
But two weeks later she got found in the back of a school
With a needle in her arm, baby two months due, Sasha Thumper

 

That weirdo Andre is a great MC, and Outkast is a great group.

 

Gad I wish I was 16 and at this gig. Just so immense

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You'll hate me even more now: I was at that concert!

 

Hmmm.

 

Magus also claimed to have been at a Dead show in 1974... The man is a wind-up menace

 

Why, of all bands and all posts, would I picked a Big Country concert when a) Id seen them twice before that and b) probably 5 times after? :scratcher:

Got their first album the week it was released- bought two copies - both the red and blue cover (you wouldnt know about that) and first saw them at Sefton Park outdoor show



Pop Quiz: what early 80s Channel 4 programme had one of their hits as the opening and closing theme tune (programme and song, please)?