I'm sure Joe would've found a much better line that meant fish "for" money if he had wanted to. I'm convinced the line is biblical as Joe was fond of dropping biblical references in his songs. As a lot of reggae artists would.
Rat Patrol 2LP acetate
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Forces have been looting
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Curfews have been curbing
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No fuchsias for you.
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No, i tried to slip past, new identity, new passport, the works but was apprehended and sent to a reeducation camp where i was forced to repudiate every piece of fan fiction i'd written and taught how to fight the urge to post a thousand personal pics every day. Only then was I allowed to join on probation which should be up any decade now!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 7:07pmWere you a SNEWSer who somehow snuck by the sleeping night watchman here?Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 5:05pmWell, i do try to keep a lid on my distant snews past but inevitably the mask slips every now and then.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 4:59pmThat is the SNEWSiest bit of info I've heard here in years!Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 4:49pmJoe definitely did have a thing for fish as one bit of trivia i recall was joe being an avid collector of fish recipes, among other bric a brac.
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The highlight of the Rat Patrol KYR is "Smaaasshh!"
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That's great!
Forces have been looting
My humanity
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No fuchsias for you.
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"But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved IMCT."Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 7:37pmNo, i tried to slip past, new identity, new passport, the works but was apprehended and sent to a reeducation camp where i was forced to repudiate every piece of fan fiction i'd written and taught how to fight the urge to post a thousand personal pics every day. Only then was I allowed to join on probation which should be up any decade now!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 7:07pmWere you a SNEWSer who somehow snuck by the sleeping night watchman here?Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 5:05pmWell, i do try to keep a lid on my distant snews past but inevitably the mask slips every now and then.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 4:59pmThat is the SNEWSiest bit of info I've heard here in years!Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 4:49pmJoe definitely did have a thing for fish as one bit of trivia i recall was joe being an avid collector of fish recipes, among other bric a brac.
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I do like that.
My favourite moment is the synth (mellotron?) at the end of Death Is a Star. Was never a fan of the song before but this mix has converted me.
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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Strangely, I think my favorite RP moment might be the rhythmic rumbles toward the end of RAD. Reminds me of some Tubby mixes.
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The descending guitars on the IC outro takes the cake for me, but I do like the RAD rumbles. I also do genuinely like the RP mix of KYR, the higher key rhythm guitar that's prominent on Combat Rock is gone, with the space echo guitar doing the staccato part and then the low stabs from the Les Paul Jr. slashing in on the off-beats. Similar guitar arrangement to Police & Thieves kindaKory wrote: ↑21 May 2021, 9:52pmStrangely, I think my favorite RP moment might be the rhythmic rumbles toward the end of RAD. Reminds me of some Tubby mixes.
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Joe singing with actual De Niro dialogue would've saved one of the very Clash tracks I don't have much use for, or even without the De Niro footage. I suppose as is the track met some sort of requirement for an "all for one, one for all" moment were everyone had a chance in front of the microphone. It's just weird to me that they supposedly brought in Johns to rein in Mick's vision and RAD still survived in that form.Marky Dread wrote: ↑18 May 2021, 7:04pmThat mix I did with the actual De Niro dialogue worked great. Still yeah a Joe vocal would've been brilliant.Heston wrote: ↑18 May 2021, 7:01pmJoe would have been fucking brilliant on the verses of RAD. It's criminal that such a great (and I mean great) backing track has Paul's pretty dismal vocals on it. I'm in the minority that can accept Kosmo's voice over. Paul makes him sound great.Silent Majority wrote: ↑18 May 2021, 6:50pmWhat's a producer's job, if not to say: don't let your publicist do a shit impersonation of a film from six years ago for this album that we want to see go top ten? Or, why don't we replace these Paul vocals with something from a singer, any singer?matedog wrote: ↑18 May 2021, 6:47pmIn fairness, he did take over a minute off of Red Angel Dragnet. We lost more of the sound collage portion of Inoculated sure.Silent Majority wrote: ↑18 May 2021, 6:24pm"Better make Inoculated City shorter and worse! There needs to be room for Red Angel Dragnet! I'm very successful!"
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I don't actually believe this, but let's say Kosmo Vinyl is being an absolute, not knowing his position jerk and stepping on Mick's toes and Paul, the least musical, worst vocalist of the band is also nearly coming to blows with you about the mix of a record. Would you then let them both humiliate themselves on record?
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Devo once again just failed to make into the the Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame for, evidently to voters, failing to cross this tightrope.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑19 May 2021, 11:40amOne of the consistent tensions in the history of rock music has been this conflicted view of the mass audience. If you want to be taken seriously, you can't appeal to the mass, because the masses are lazy and stupid (so conventional thought goes). The masses follow fads and like things for superficial reasons. At the same time, sales are still validation that what you're saying is getting heard approvingly. Sales and charts can and do get thrown around as proof for either side—that a song/band is good or shit—because, however unconsciously, we're acting out this long-standing question of what does mass taste represent, democracy or idiocracy.
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Those women were goddesses. I'm surprised anyone noticed a song being played.Silent Majority wrote: ↑19 May 2021, 12:21pmIt's a totally unmemorable set of visuals, those dancers.Low Down Low wrote: ↑19 May 2021, 12:10pmI guess Bankrobber doesn't really count on account of the band not actually "performing" it. I know i must have seen it at the time as i never missed an episode of totp but can't remember what my reaction was or what i even thought of the band at that moment.
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It may just have been that Kosmo did the best De Niro impression in their circle of friends. One day a real De Niro impersonator will wash all the scum of the streets.Silent Majority wrote: ↑22 May 2021, 12:10pmI don't actually believe this, but let's say Kosmo Vinyl is being an absolute, not knowing his position jerk and stepping on Mick's toes and Paul, the least musical, worst vocalist of the band is also nearly coming to blows with you about the mix of a record. Would you then let them both humiliate themselves on record?
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That's an interesting possibility. Give 'em enough rope, and they'll hang themselves.Silent Majority wrote: ↑22 May 2021, 12:10pmI don't actually believe this, but let's say Kosmo Vinyl is being an absolute, not knowing his position jerk and stepping on Mick's toes and Paul, the least musical, worst vocalist of the band is also nearly coming to blows with you about the mix of a record. Would you then let them both humiliate themselves on record?
Even if it wasn't consciously done, the effect was the same as if it had been.
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I don't know how these work. How many of these acetates did they print? Presumably it was very limited.