ROUND 6 - London Calling - Side Two
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ROUND 6 - London Calling - Side Two
Voted off: The Right Profile
"They don't think it be like it is, but it do." - Oscar Gamble
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Silent Majority
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Re: ROUND 6 - London Calling - Side Two
Guns of Brixton is my vote to go.
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Unbelievably hard choice, but I'll go Guns of Brixton. I think I know the personal order I'd like to see these songs fall, painful as it may be.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Re: ROUND 6 - London Calling - Side Two
Spanish Bombs has good lyrics and that's it. GoB is a stellar recording and one of the few instances of the album version being way better than any live version. Love all the little percussion and sound effects and Topper switching up the beat through out. Can't vote for it yet.
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.
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The only bad thing about GoB is that it's one of those songs that make right-wing idiots think the Clash are with them (RTC is another one of those).
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Re: ROUND 6 - London Calling - Side Two
Simonon nails that fucking vocal, let's give the boy credit where it is due.
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Clampdown is a monster of a song. Joe's crazy mumbled intro, the moment where they all come crashing in after the 1-2-3-4...the Mick sung portion...the ending is great with Joe's ad libs..."Gitaling Gitalong!"
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Broken clocks and all...Silent Majority wrote: ↑10 Apr 2019, 2:02pmSimonon nails that fucking vocal, let's give the boy credit where it is due.
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Clampdown is the clear winner here.WestwayKid wrote: ↑10 Apr 2019, 2:10pmClampdown is a monster of a song. Joe's crazy mumbled intro, the moment where they all come crashing in after the 1-2-3-4...the Mick sung portion...the ending is great with Joe's ad libs..."Gitaling Gitalong!"
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Brixton again for me, harder choices are ahead.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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Taking a detour to Wolston Manor tonight.
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.
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I voted Supermarket because GoB is just too badass.
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Re: ROUND 6 - London Calling - Side Two
SB but it's still an incredible song. GoB is smashed by Paul, Clampdown is one of their finest works and LITS is the best song ever.