What Are you Listening to Right Now?
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
So damn good.
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
Love both The Clash version and Junior Murvin's version equally. Although Lee Scratch Perry and Junior Murvin thought The Clash had ruined the song. Crazy to think they covered such a contemporary song at the time.101Walterton wrote: ↑18 Feb 2019, 9:28pmOne of my all time favourites, love The Clash version but the original can't be topped.
Reminds me of sound systems on very hot summer evenings in North Kensington especially around carnival time.
Also love this track from the same album.
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Yeah. When I learned how new it was at the time, I was pretty shocked.Marky Dread wrote: ↑18 Feb 2019, 10:07pmLove both The Clash version and Junior Murvin's version equally. Although Lee Scratch Perry and Junior Murvin thought The Clash had ruined the song. Crazy to think they covered such a contemporary song at the time.101Walterton wrote: ↑18 Feb 2019, 9:28pmOne of my all time favourites, love The Clash version but the original can't be topped.
Reminds me of sound systems on very hot summer evenings in North Kensington especially around carnival time.
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
I really should like this album more as it checks so many of my boxes. But it always sounds meandering, like elaborate demos of dicking around. Anyway, I'll listen to Soul Mining after this.
edit: And now onto Infected, my favourite The The album and one of my perfect 80s records.
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
Such a fabulous album. Songs about Lou Reed/Robert Mugabe/Evel Knievel/Hedy Lammar/Sgt. Bilko/Mussolini. And a second disc called "Restorations" of ten Stranglers tunes. Great stuff.
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Monkeeing around.
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
I gave that a listen a few days back. About 4 decent songs the rest sound like unfinished ideas with too much repetition lyrically.
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
Better than some of his solo stuff but Yep bit averageMarky Dread wrote: ↑22 Feb 2019, 7:18pmI gave that a listen a few days back. About 4 decent songs the rest sound like unfinished ideas with too much repetition lyrically.
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
Listening to this hard hitting R&B / Garage Rock classic from '79. The Clash obviously loved these guys as they used this albums opening cover version of The Standells "Dirty Water" when they played Boston in '79. I love The Standells original but this version might just top it.
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The Police - Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (1993)
Been quite a while since I've listened to these guys. I've softened considerably to the back half of The Police's career, but those first two records and early-era tracks are just so flippin' good. "Nothing Achieving" is as good a punk song as anyone has ever recorded, imho. The personalities in the band almost ruin it all, but the music is too good to ignore. Gotta not put this stuff back on the shelf for song this time.
Been quite a while since I've listened to these guys. I've softened considerably to the back half of The Police's career, but those first two records and early-era tracks are just so flippin' good. "Nothing Achieving" is as good a punk song as anyone has ever recorded, imho. The personalities in the band almost ruin it all, but the music is too good to ignore. Gotta not put this stuff back on the shelf for song this time.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
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Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
Yes I bought the first album after hearing them initially on John Peel. I bought my sister Regatta de Blanc (on 2 10” vinyl) which I since acquired. I like some of the early stuff.Flex wrote: ↑26 Feb 2019, 1:54pmThe Police - Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (1993)
Been quite a while since I've listened to these guys. I've softened considerably to the back half of The Police's career, but those first two records and early-era tracks are just so flippin' good. "Nothing Achieving" is as good a punk song as anyone has ever recorded, imho. The personalities in the band almost ruin it all, but the music is too good to ignore. Gotta not put this stuff back on the shelf for song this time.
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
Ghost in the Machine is my go to Police album, love every second of it
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Re: What Are you Listening to Right Now?
Not quite complete but a great box set. The early new wave / white reggae tracks are superb and I like all the latter pop stuff. They were a brilliant band and amazing musicians. Maybe a little too technical to be punk but all the best bands from that era left the punk sound behind fairly quickly and just kept the all important attitude. The Police get shit but that's based mostly on Stings follow up career and is really unfair.Flex wrote: ↑26 Feb 2019, 1:54pmThe Police - Message in a Box: The Complete Recordings (1993)
Been quite a while since I've listened to these guys. I've softened considerably to the back half of The Police's career, but those first two records and early-era tracks are just so flippin' good. "Nothing Achieving" is as good a punk song as anyone has ever recorded, imho. The personalities in the band almost ruin it all, but the music is too good to ignore. Gotta not put this stuff back on the shelf for song this time.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia