Strummservations

[YoungParisians]

"The Outsider" Joe Strummer interview NME 2-APRIL-1988
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[YoungParisians]

Joe Strummer - Not Fade Away - NME 26-MARCH-1988
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[IkarisOne]

Joe didn't need help writing songs-- he often, but not always, needed help arranging songs. If anything he had too many ideas for songs and couldn't always tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one.

I'm tallying up a list of post-82 Joe songs with melodies as strong as anything anyone's ever written and came up with this short list:

This is England
Three Card Trick
North and South
Tennessee Rain
Baby the Trans
Shouting Street
Sleepwalk
Sandpaper Blues
Yalla Yalla
Johnny Appleseed
Burning Streets
Coma Girl
Arms Aloft

[Marky Dread]

Joe didn't need help writing songs-- he often, but not always, needed help arranging songs. If anything he had too many ideas for songs and couldn't always tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one.

I'm tallying up a list of post-82 Joe songs with melodies as strong as anything anyone's ever written and came up with this short list:

This is England
Three Card Trick
North and South
Tennessee Rain
Baby the Trans
Shouting Street
Sleepwalk
Sandpaper Blues
Yalla Yalla
Johnny Appleseed
Burning Streets
Coma Girl
Arms Aloft

All decent songs. You could add a handful pre Clash also. Now if only they had been played by the classic line up. There's more than writing good songs and melodies there's chemistry in a band that makes something great.

[Low Down Low]

Joe Strummer - Not Fade Away - NME 26-MARCH-1988
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Loving all this YP, one thing about joe, he could never give a boring interview. Dont know if you do requests, but there was an interview promoting Earthquake Weather I'd love to read again. Think it was in nme with the last line joe saying "it's nae bad jimmy", i think. Guess sometime latish 89.

[Heston]

Joe didn't need help writing songs-- he often, but not always, needed help arranging songs. If anything he had too many ideas for songs and couldn't always tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one.

I'm tallying up a list of post-82 Joe songs with melodies as strong as anything anyone's ever written and came up with this short list:

This is England
Three Card Trick
North and South
Tennessee Rain
Baby the Trans
Shouting Street
Sleepwalk
Sandpaper Blues
Yalla Yalla
Johnny Appleseed
Burning Streets
Coma Girl
Arms Aloft

Did Joe write all those single handedly though? Never studied the credits for the post Clash stuff.

[Silent Majority]

Joe didn't need help writing songs-- he often, but not always, needed help arranging songs. If anything he had too many ideas for songs and couldn't always tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one.

I'm tallying up a list of post-82 Joe songs with melodies as strong as anything anyone's ever written and came up with this short list:

This is England
Three Card Trick
North and South
Tennessee Rain
Baby the Trans
Shouting Street
Sleepwalk
Sandpaper Blues
Yalla Yalla
Johnny Appleseed
Burning Streets
Coma Girl
Arms Aloft

Did Joe write all those single handedly though? Never studied the credits for the post Clash stuff.

Mescalero melodies are definitely collaborative. After X-Ray, they built those songs from the rhythm up together, jamming to get a tune together.

[Low Down Low]

Joe didn't need help writing songs-- he often, but not always, needed help arranging songs. If anything he had too many ideas for songs and couldn't always tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one.

I'm tallying up a list of post-82 Joe songs with melodies as strong as anything anyone's ever written and came up with this short list:

This is England
Three Card Trick
North and South
Tennessee Rain
Baby the Trans
Shouting Street
Sleepwalk
Sandpaper Blues
Yalla Yalla
Johnny Appleseed
Burning Streets
Coma Girl
Arms Aloft

Did Joe write all those single handedly though? Never studied the credits for the post Clash stuff.

Mescalero melodies are definitely collaborative. After X-Ray, they built those songs from the rhythm up together, jamming to get a tune together.

Yes i think thats definitely how it worked. I'd have paid decent money just to sit in on those guys having a jam together, a very gifted bunch indeed. Like the phrase "mescalero melodies", thats the later joe stuff i like best.

[YoungParisians]

Straight To Hell soundtrack advert
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