Clash City Showdown Revisited?

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101Walterton wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 9:25pm
IkarisOne wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 9:02pm
Heston wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 8:53pm
I love the section on the Cost of Living EP, agree with every word.

Imagine losing the three weakest songs on London Calling (for me Lover's Rock, Four Horsemen and Revolution Rock) and replacing them with GotW, Groovy Times and I Fought the Law? You'd have an absolute beast of an album on your hands.
Two of my favorite tracks!
Definitely Revolution Rock is a top track for me.
I still love it but something has to come in the bottom three, and it is a cover. I was actually going to have BNC instead but feared the backlash.
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:
08 Jan 2020, 9:39pm
101Walterton wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 9:25pm
IkarisOne wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 9:02pm
Heston wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 8:53pm
I love the section on the Cost of Living EP, agree with every word.

Imagine losing the three weakest songs on London Calling (for me Lover's Rock, Four Horsemen and Revolution Rock) and replacing them with GotW, Groovy Times and I Fought the Law? You'd have an absolute beast of an album on your hands.
Two of my favorite tracks!
Definitely Revolution Rock is a top track for me.
I still love it but something has to come in the bottom three, and it is a cover. I was actually going to have BNC instead but feared the backlash.
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Heston wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 9:39pm
101Walterton wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 9:25pm
IkarisOne wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 9:02pm
Heston wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 8:53pm
I love the section on the Cost of Living EP, agree with every word.

Imagine losing the three weakest songs on London Calling (for me Lover's Rock, Four Horsemen and Revolution Rock) and replacing them with GotW, Groovy Times and I Fought the Law? You'd have an absolute beast of an album on your hands.
Two of my favorite tracks!
Definitely Revolution Rock is a top track for me.
I still love it but something has to come in the bottom three, and it is a cover. I was actually going to have BNC instead but feared the backlash.
That and the fact that even you can't believe BNC is one of the three weakest LC songs.
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https://web.archive.org/web/20050816123 ... fdove.net/

The Clash Zone was great. Here is a version of it from 20005 courtesy of the wayback machine site.

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laxman wrote:
09 Jan 2020, 3:13pm
https://web.archive.org/web/20050816123 ... fdove.net/

The Clash Zone was great. Here is a version of it from 20005 courtesy of the wayback machine site.
Hello,

This brings back memories as I visited it regularly to swap cd's (and cdr's - for those old enough!).

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My favourite CCS article/'toon is Why Me and The Clash Couldn't Be Pals — total classic.

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Just re read Who Did What.
I remember enjoying reading it when it when it was up on the website back in the day as I had no idea on most of it. Remember being impressed how Chris worked it out.
No mention of Lost In The Supermarket which I always used to think was a Mick song for obvious reasons.

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101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2020, 3:29am
Just re read Who Did What.
I remember enjoying reading it when it when it was up on the website back in the day as I had no idea on most of it. Remember being impressed how Chris worked it out.
No mention of Lost In The Supermarket which I always used to think was a Mick song for obvious reasons.
Are the "obvious reasons" the fact that Mick sang it? Cos otherwise everything in the lyric points to Joe's childhood. I never bought this theory that Joe wrote it from Mick's point of view.
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:
10 Jan 2020, 4:13am
101Walterton wrote:
10 Jan 2020, 3:29am
Just re read Who Did What.
I remember enjoying reading it when it when it was up on the website back in the day as I had no idea on most of it. Remember being impressed how Chris worked it out.
No mention of Lost In The Supermarket which I always used to think was a Mick song for obvious reasons.
Are the "obvious reasons" the fact that Mick sang it? Cos otherwise everything in the lyric points to Joe's childhood. I never bought this theory that Joe wrote it from Mick's point of view.
Yes Mick singing it.

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Inder wrote:
09 Jan 2020, 7:29pm
My favourite CCS article/'toon is Why Me and The Clash Couldn't Be Pals — total classic.
Cheers. I actually laughed my ass off when I came up with that cartoon. Inspired by Homer Simpson, incidentally.

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IkarisOne wrote:
10 Jan 2020, 6:14pm
Inder wrote:
09 Jan 2020, 7:29pm
My favourite CCS article/'toon is Why Me and The Clash Couldn't Be Pals — total classic.
Cheers. I actually laughed my ass off when I came up with that cartoon. Inspired by Homer Simpson, incidentally.
I seem to recall there was dispatch where you really made the case for Mongrel Rock, but I couldn’t seem to find it in the book. Was it only online? I checked obvious sections like the CR, live Clash, and music theory ones, but I either flipped right by it or it wasn’t put in the book.
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Kory wrote:
17 Jan 2020, 4:01am
IkarisOne wrote:
10 Jan 2020, 6:14pm
Inder wrote:
09 Jan 2020, 7:29pm
My favourite CCS article/'toon is Why Me and The Clash Couldn't Be Pals — total classic.
Cheers. I actually laughed my ass off when I came up with that cartoon. Inspired by Homer Simpson, incidentally.
I seem to recall there was dispatch where you really made the case for Mongrel Rock, but I couldn’t seem to find it in the book. Was it only online? I checked obvious sections like the CR, live Clash, and music theory ones, but I either flipped right by it or it wasn’t put in the book.
hmm, not ringing a bell. I'll have a look.

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IkarisOne wrote:
17 Jan 2020, 11:49am
Kory wrote:
17 Jan 2020, 4:01am
IkarisOne wrote:
10 Jan 2020, 6:14pm
Inder wrote:
09 Jan 2020, 7:29pm
My favourite CCS article/'toon is Why Me and The Clash Couldn't Be Pals — total classic.
Cheers. I actually laughed my ass off when I came up with that cartoon. Inspired by Homer Simpson, incidentally.
I seem to recall there was dispatch where you really made the case for Mongrel Rock, but I couldn’t seem to find it in the book. Was it only online? I checked obvious sections like the CR, live Clash, and music theory ones, but I either flipped right by it or it wasn’t put in the book.
hmm, not ringing a bell. I'll have a look.
Maybe I'm just compositing a bunch of different posts together in my mind.
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Heston wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 7:26pm
Kory wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 7:17pm
Heston wrote:
08 Jan 2020, 4:34pm
I'm a few pages in and I'm reading about a Paul Simonon solo album recorded for Stiff that was never released (!). Never heard this mentioned anywhere else, is there a story behind this?
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I would obviously pay a lot of money to hear this. Good comedy albums are thin on the ground.
If that was a comedy album for Stiff that makes sense. They realeased a blank lp entitled 'The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Raegan' around 1980, so they had form.

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Be cool if you went on Higherside Chats and did an interview just about The Clash

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