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by KCportland
20 Aug 2023, 9:03pm
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: How about some love for Stop The World
Replies: 42
Views: 7830

Re: How about some love for Stop The World

I absolutely love the song, always been one of my favorites since I first heard on BMC almost 20 years ago. It reminds me of Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite, lots of musical and atmospheric similarities. I think the slow tape speed helps (increasing/decreasing tape speed was a trick the Beatles us...
by KCportland
10 Jul 2023, 8:30pm
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: The Clash at Live Aid or Band-Aid?
Replies: 21
Views: 2192

Re: The Clash at Live Aid or Band-Aid?

The Clash, specifically Joe, and Bob Geldof hated each other from way back. Geldof got on Joe for being middle class and hiding it, and was pretty vocal about it in the press. Typical UK class posturing, from both parties, got in the way of a good opportunity...for both parties. I'm sure the non-in...
by KCportland
10 Jul 2023, 5:48pm
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: The Clash at Live Aid or Band-Aid?
Replies: 21
Views: 2192

Re: The Clash at Live Aid or Band-Aid?

The Clash, specifically Joe, and Bob Geldof hated each other from way back. Geldof got on Joe for being middle class and hiding it, and was pretty vocal about it in the press. Typical UK class posturing, from both parties, got in the way of a good opportunity...for both parties. I'm sure the non-in...
by KCportland
10 Jul 2023, 3:58pm
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: The Clash at Live Aid or Band-Aid?
Replies: 21
Views: 2192

Re: The Clash at Live Aid or Band-Aid?

The Clash, specifically Joe, and Bob Geldof hated each other from way back. Geldof got on Joe for being middle class and hiding it, and was pretty vocal about it in the press. Typical UK class posturing, from both parties, got in the way of a good opportunity...for both parties. I'm sure the non-inv...
by KCportland
09 Jul 2023, 5:56pm
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)
Replies: 177
Views: 11212

Re: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)

I also wonder, why did CBS sit on the record for 8 months before they released it? Was there additional mixing happening over the summer? I would have thought CBS would have been keen on getting the LP out asap. I do wonder if CBS was weighing on rejecting the mix or just shelving it outright and s...
by KCportland
09 Jul 2023, 12:49pm
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)
Replies: 177
Views: 11212

Re: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)

That's also another technical issue on CTC, isn't it? I'm assuming that's what's meant by the "Pitch Corrected" versions of This Is England circulating on YouTube, right? I remember the story about Ambition, and recall an interview with Godard -- right around the time of CTC's release, in fact -- w...
by KCportland
09 Jul 2023, 12:27pm
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)
Replies: 177
Views: 11212

Re: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)

That's also another technical issue on CTC, isn't it? I'm assuming that's what's meant by the "Pitch Corrected" versions of This Is England circulating on YouTube, right? I remember the story about Ambition, and recall an interview with Godard -- right around the time of CTC's release, in fact -- w...
by KCportland
08 Jul 2023, 8:32pm
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)
Replies: 177
Views: 11212

Re: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)

As Michael Fayne states in the book, the idea was to create a whole new type of music, something that would really turn heads, and make people take notice. He vividly remembers Bernie bringing in various tapes he'd recorded off US hip-hop stations, saying that they had to get some of that essence o...
by KCportland
25 Jun 2023, 12:51am
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: EET Week 2023
Replies: 60
Views: 5730

Re: EET Week 2023

I don't possess the photo editing skills to do it but if someone could put together a photo of all nine Clash members as if they're posing in the same photo, that would be amazing and funny and cool. Someone smart could use these images, just have to squeeze Terry in, and maybe lose Keith. Black an...
by KCportland
25 Jun 2023, 12:44am
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: EET Week 2023
Replies: 60
Views: 5730

Re: EET Week 2023

Flex wrote:
25 Jun 2023, 12:23am
KCportland wrote:
25 Jun 2023, 12:07am
I don't possess the photo editing skills to do it but if someone could put together a photo of all nine Clash members as if they're posing in the same photo, that would be amazing and funny and cool.
Well, I dunno about photoshop but here's what an AI generator came up with
The Clashillaz!
by KCportland
25 Jun 2023, 12:07am
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: EET Week 2023
Replies: 60
Views: 5730

Re: EET Week 2023

I don't possess the photo editing skills to do it but if someone could put together a photo of all nine Clash members as if they're posing in the same photo, that would be amazing and funny and cool.
by KCportland
23 Jun 2023, 10:03am
Forum: The Last Gang
Topic: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)
Replies: 177
Views: 11212

Re: Cut The Crap songs vs. This is Big Audio Dynamite songs (Album + B sides)

TIBAD has Mick's best lyrics. Medicine Show, E=MC and Sony are particularly very sharp lyrics. Wasn't E=MC2 Don's lyric? Dunno about the rest but from what I read that was his major contribution along with samples. Yes, Don said they were his. Oh wow. I never knew that, I wonder if any of the other...