Re: Strummservations
Posted: 22 Feb 2021, 12:03pm
"The Outsider" Joe Strummer interview NME 2-APRIL-1988
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Strummservations
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Re: Strummservations
Posted: 22 Feb 2021, 12:04pm
Joe Strummer - Not Fade Away - NME 26-MARCH-1988
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Re: Strummservations
Posted: 22 Feb 2021, 5:29pm
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
Re: Strummservations
Posted: 23 Feb 2021, 6:53am
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
Re: Strummservations
Posted: 23 Feb 2021, 8:50am
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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Re: Strummservations
Posted: 23 Feb 2021, 9:10am
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
Re: Strummservations
Posted: 23 Feb 2021, 10:17am
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
Re: Strummservations
Posted: 23 Feb 2021, 10:33am
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
Re: Strummservations
Posted: 25 Feb 2021, 8:36am
Straight To Hell soundtrack advert
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Re: Strummservations
Posted: 31 Mar 2021, 5:12pm
Re: Strummservations
Posted: 25 Apr 2021, 4:59pm
Live review and tour dates from Melody Maker in 1988
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Re: Strummservations
Posted: 29 Apr 2021, 5:13pm
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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Re: Strummservations
Posted: 29 Apr 2021, 8:28pm
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
Posted: 30 Apr 2021, 6:49am
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
Re: Strummservations
Posted: 01 May 2021, 4:19pm
Does anyone remember/have a source for Joe’s assessment of Crass? I can’t find it anywhere.