Strummservations
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"The Outsider" Joe Strummer interview NME 2-APRIL-1988
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Hello? Go ahead, man. Yeah I'd just like to say, um, lets have some music now, huh? Ok, ok...thank you.
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Joe Strummer - Not Fade Away - NME 26-MARCH-1988
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Hello? Go ahead, man. Yeah I'd just like to say, um, lets have some music now, huh? Ok, ok...thank you.
Re: Strummservations
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
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
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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.IkarisOne wrote: ↑22 Feb 2021, 5:29pmJoe 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
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Low Down Low
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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.YoungParisians wrote: ↑22 Feb 2021, 12:04pmJoe Strummer - Not Fade Away - NME 26-MARCH-1988
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Did Joe write all those single handedly though? Never studied the credits for the post Clash stuff.IkarisOne wrote: ↑22 Feb 2021, 5:29pmJoe 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
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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Re: Strummservations
Mescalero melodies are definitely collaborative. After X-Ray, they built those songs from the rhythm up together, jamming to get a tune together.Heston wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021, 9:10amDid Joe write all those single handedly though? Never studied the credits for the post Clash stuff.IkarisOne wrote: ↑22 Feb 2021, 5:29pmJoe 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
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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.Silent Majority wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021, 10:17amMescalero melodies are definitely collaborative. After X-Ray, they built those songs from the rhythm up together, jamming to get a tune together.Heston wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021, 9:10amDid Joe write all those single handedly though? Never studied the credits for the post Clash stuff.IkarisOne wrote: ↑22 Feb 2021, 5:29pmJoe 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
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Straight To Hell soundtrack advert
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Hello? Go ahead, man. Yeah I'd just like to say, um, lets have some music now, huh? Ok, ok...thank you.
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Re: Strummservations
Hello? Go ahead, man. Yeah I'd just like to say, um, lets have some music now, huh? Ok, ok...thank you.
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Live review and tour dates from Melody Maker in 1988
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Hello? Go ahead, man. Yeah I'd just like to say, um, lets have some music now, huh? Ok, ok...thank you.
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Love the review, the writer is quite astute with his 101'ers comment. Cheers for these.YoungParisians wrote: ↑25 Apr 2021, 4:59pmLive review and tour dates from Melody Maker in 1988
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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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Cool scans YP. Thanks for sharing. I've got this one framed and hanging above the toilet. Wonder how many VHS copies actually sold for the suggested retail price of $79.98.
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Re: Strummservations
Yalla Yalla and Sandpaper Blues were co-written with Richard Norris with Pablo Cook also on the former and Gary Dyson on the latter.Silent Majority wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021, 10:17amMescalero melodies are definitely collaborative. After X-Ray, they built those songs from the rhythm up together, jamming to get a tune together.Heston wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021, 9:10amDid Joe write all those single handedly though? Never studied the credits for the post Clash stuff.IkarisOne wrote: ↑22 Feb 2021, 5:29pmJoe 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
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Does anyone remember/have a source for Joe’s assessment of Crass? I can’t find it anywhere.
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