ROUND 6 - The Wilderness Years, Non-Album Tracks, Pt. 1

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Vote for the song you like LEAST

Poll ended at 03 Jul 2019, 11:34am

Love Kills
4
22%
Dum Dum Club
1
6%
The Unknown Immortal
0
No votes
Tennessee Rain
10
56%
Evil Darling
3
17%
 
Total votes: 18
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ROUND 6 - The Wilderness Years, Non-Album Tracks, Pt. 1

Post by Flex »

The Burning Lights got snuffed out.
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

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Flex wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:34am
 The Burning Lights got snuffed out.
Man. I'm also sad to see that one go. A stirring track about loneliness and being lost.
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Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:48am
Flex wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:34am
 The Burning Lights got snuffed out.
Man. I'm also sad to see that one go. A stirring track about loneliness and being lost.
Yeah, I'm surprised it got bagged before Love Kills and a few others. I reckon it's one of Joe's best.
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msza2 wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:49am
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:48am
Flex wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:34am
 The Burning Lights got snuffed out.
Man. I'm also sad to see that one go. A stirring track about loneliness and being lost.
Yeah, I'm surprised it got bagged before Love Kills and a few others. I reckon it's one of Joe's best.
Yeah. Ten times the song over some of the others on the list.
a lifetime serving one machine
Is ten times worse than prison


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Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:50am
msza2 wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:49am
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:48am
Flex wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:34am
 The Burning Lights got snuffed out.
Man. I'm also sad to see that one go. A stirring track about loneliness and being lost.
Yeah, I'm surprised it got bagged before Love Kills and a few others. I reckon it's one of Joe's best.
Yeah. Ten times the song over some of the others on the list.
Agreed. Burning Lights is a top 5 Strummer song for me. Maybe Love Kills is a decent song, but it's hard to tell because it sounds like shit.
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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Great set of tunes. Voting for Tennessee Rain since it gets so eclipsed by The Unknown Immortal, imho.
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

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matedog wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 12:24pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:50am
msza2 wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:49am
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:48am
Flex wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:34am
 The Burning Lights got snuffed out.
Man. I'm also sad to see that one go. A stirring track about loneliness and being lost.
Yeah, I'm surprised it got bagged before Love Kills and a few others. I reckon it's one of Joe's best.
Yeah. Ten times the song over some of the others on the list.
Agreed. Burning Lights is a top 5 Strummer song for me. Maybe Love Kills is a decent song, but it's hard to tell because it sounds like shit.
Yeah, I don’t get this at all.
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This is hard, some of his best songs here.
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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matedog wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 12:24pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:50am
msza2 wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:49am
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:48am
Flex wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:34am
 The Burning Lights got snuffed out.
Man. I'm also sad to see that one go. A stirring track about loneliness and being lost.
Yeah, I'm surprised it got bagged before Love Kills and a few others. I reckon it's one of Joe's best.
Yeah. Ten times the song over some of the others on the list.
Agreed. Burning Lights is a top 5 Strummer song for me. Maybe Love Kills is a decent song, but it's hard to tell because it sounds like shit.
I don't think it sounds like shit, they just used that horrible drum machine that Robert Palmer used for Addicted To Love. The harmonica and guitars are fine. Weird how Joe stuck with a drum machine after the CtC debacle.
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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I love Evil Darling so much, especially that line "Apache war dead guarding your soul."
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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Heston wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 2:59pm
matedog wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 12:24pm
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:50am
msza2 wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:49am
Silent Majority wrote: ↑
02 Jul 2019, 11:48am

Man. I'm also sad to see that one go. A stirring track about loneliness and being lost.
Yeah, I'm surprised it got bagged before Love Kills and a few others. I reckon it's one of Joe's best.
Yeah. Ten times the song over some of the others on the list.
Agreed. Burning Lights is a top 5 Strummer song for me. Maybe Love Kills is a decent song, but it's hard to tell because it sounds like shit.
I don't think it sounds like shit, they just used that horrible drum machine that Robert Palmer used for Addicted To Love. The harmonica and guitars are fine. Weird how Joe stuck with a drum machine after the CtC debacle.
First thing I think of with that song is that glaring, loud, abrasive snare.
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 intro...



fuck, I hated the 80s drum machine fetish!
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