This is the original 1987 mix, the way Mick and Joe wanted it at the time. It's only been remastered for 001. Try listening to Marky's edit, I think Joe can be heard a bit more.
Yeah, you can definitely hear Joe a bit more on the Marky edit. It's weird I thought Joe wasn't on it at first but now I can't unhear him. 101 got it right when he said you can hear Joe more at the end of each line. He hangs on a split second longer than Mick.
He's singing really successfully with Mick's register, moreso than he did with the Clash.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison
Give it a try. It's possible Marky's edit may be derived from a non-brickwalled source.
I tried more than once. Still no Joe joy.
Try on the 10:30 minute version at exactly 2:39, you can very distinctly hear Joe on the second "tell me whyyyyy." Joe holds the note a good bit longer.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
Give it a try. It's possible Marky's edit may be derived from a non-brickwalled source.
I tried more than once. Still no Joe joy.
Try on the 10:30 minute version at exactly 2:39, you can very distinctly hear Joe on the second "tell me whyyyyy." Joe holds the note a good bit longer.
Give it a try. It's possible Marky's edit may be derived from a non-brickwalled source.
I tried more than once. Still no Joe joy.
Try on the 10:30 minute version at exactly 2:39, you can very distinctly hear Joe on the second "tell me whyyyyy." Joe holds the note a good bit longer.
The Daleks handbag was the Roland guitar synth ! the same as TJ in Sputnik.
Yes, as exhibited at Mick's Rock 'n' Roll Library.
I think US North must have been intended for release as a Big Audio Dynamite song. The band wouldn't have 'road-tested' it otherwise, would they?
The lyrics are obviously Strummer though. I think you could have shown me the words written down, and without being given any clues, I would have been able to identify them as Joe's work.
I have a thing for that old 80's kit - when Mick took the library to Norwich art school, he also had the bond guitar and the Linn drum machine.
One thing I always thought about after visiting, that there were some tapes with various notes on them, just wish I had taken the old Walkman - might of been a few gems there!
Fantastic to see this song finally released as a studio version :) Loving this song so much and very happy with a 10 minute version. Thank you to all that was involved in the edited versions they were great too.
I definitely cant hear Joe Strummer singing on this at all, and what sound engineer would have mixed this so that he cant be heard at all ?. Personally i doubt very much Joe is recorded on this.I hear Mick's voice sounding twice on it - is it called double tracked ?
Personally i think this has Joe's name attached to it just to get a release from the record company. This is probably the only way Bad fans were ever going to get to hear this song by having it presented as a joint song between the two of them.
Whats next ? Bad doing the cover studio version of Poontang now. If there is a version i would love to hear that, lets get another campaign going