If Music Could Talk

That's just the way it is unfortunately, and a message needs to be sent out. There are precedents. Financial irregularities have relegated a few teams. Very fucking harsh mate. To all those season ticket holders and lifelong fans etc. So they get screwed either way. I am a heartless bastard. ;) Yes...

I'm torn because I can see the virtues and dangers in playing ball with the majors to gain a wider audience, but I lean against it because I'm skeptical that the you can succeed at larger goals working from within. Personal success, sure, but greater social success suggests arms length and a middle...

I think they were well out of debt by the end of 82. Combat Rock sold massively worldwide but especially in the States. I'm thinking less of the money and more their contractual obligation. Didn't they sign some shitty deal where they owed so many records to the label? I honestly think that was jus...

They should all be relegated, second thoughtss or not. Disagree mate. I hate the idea of the super league and all it's bullshit. But why should players and fans have to suffer just for greedy business men. That's just the way it is unfortunately, and a message needs to be sent out. There are preced...

They should all be relegated, second thoughtss or not. Disagree mate. I hate the idea of the super league and all it's bullshit. But why should players and fans have to suffer just for greedy business men. That's just the way it is unfortunately, and a message needs to be sent out. There are preced...

I think youve got something there. It's a shame that the end of 82 thru 83 wasn't spent as deliberate downtime instead of the dysfunctional lost year that resulted in the break-up. Maybe Joe and Mick could have each released solo efforts: Joe's to placate the angst surrounding his punk integrity th...

Heston wrote: ↑

20 Apr 2021, 2:11pm

They should all be relegated, second thoughtss or not.

Disagree mate. I hate the idea of the super league and all it's bullshit. But why should players and fans have to suffer just for greedy business men.

London Calling seems to be the first time they embraced classic rock and roll. Obviously in 77 they had "No Elvis, Beatles..." (ignoring the Kinks riffs of course). It doesn't completely eschew modernity, particularly in the lyrics department as they are as Clashy as ever - Clampdown, drug referenc...

This is when we really need Rattie. Based on my memory, there were always tensions, but things got better when Bernie first got the boot in 78 and they remained charged and unified during their first US tours through London Calling. After their successes, Joe seemed to feel some sense of complacenc...

This is when we really need Rattie. Based on my memory, there were always tensions, but things got better when Bernie first got the boot in 78 and they remained charged and unified during their first US tours through London Calling. After their successes, Joe seemed to feel some sense of complacenc...

London Calling seems to be the first time they embraced classic rock and roll. Obviously in 77 they had "No Elvis, Beatles..." (ignoring the Kinks riffs of course). It doesn't completely eschew modernity, particularly in the lyrics department as they are as Clashy as ever - Clampdown, drug referenc...

All this is fair, but tbh I suspect a lot of this style of animus is rooted in other stuff -- maybe as simple as not really liking their music! The Clash enjoyed the Weezer reputation of constantly disappointing the media and real fanz—their best stuff was always in the past—decades before Weezer. ...

Inder wrote: ↑

20 Apr 2021, 12:30pm

Would've been simpler if Mick and Joe stuck to writing songs about trains. Give 'Em Enough Freight.

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Inder wrote: ↑

20 Apr 2021, 12:18pm

I just picked up a couple of Southside Johnny CDs. I really dig their soul/r&b vibe.

I really resent how The Clash are everyone's favourite targets for "working class betrayal" types and people outraged that they didn't live in penury as some kind of cosmic penance for being somewhat successful, especially after all the details on financials have come out in various books etc. Peop...