We're gonna pump you so full of thorazine that we won't need to straitjacket you. LC's one seriously duff track.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:12pmIf it's insanity to love Lover's Rock, then prepare my straitjacket kind sir.
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You and me both. My favourite Clash song, those first 15 seconds or so still produce shivers. Epic without being that forced U2 epic.
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Your both right of course and i remember feeling exactly the same way many years ago. If i was to do a recording for someone new to the clash i would have to include it but for me it gets skipped now if i play the album. I am being serious when i say there was a time i was playing LC album 5 times a day at least i was really obsessed with that album.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:48pmYou and me both. My favourite Clash song, those first 15 seconds or so still produce shivers. Epic without being that forced U2 epic.
I stand by what i say about the Live version though that version of the song just plods and everything that sounds great in the studio version is lost and disappointing and badly translated when you listen to it live.
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Lyrically and thematically a bit naff for sure, but the instrumentation makes up for it for me. Some of Mick's work on it is sublime.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:47pmWe're gonna pump you so full of thorazine that we won't need to straitjacket you. LC's one seriously duff track.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:12pmIf it's insanity to love Lover's Rock, then prepare my straitjacket kind sir.
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Man, i thought I loved LC but that is some devotion right there! I've never tired of it even after all these years, but I do tend to ration it so I'd never play it straight through more than once every couple of months or so. And i tend to agree on the title track, just never did acquire the sheer force of the studio track live, which was odd as it's usually the other way around, i find.NoMoreHugh wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:13pmYour both right of course and i remember feeling exactly the same way many years ago. If i was to do a recording for someone new to the clash i would have to include it but for me it gets skipped now if i play the album. I am being serious when i say there was a time i was playing LC album 5 times a day at least i was really obsessed with that album.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:48pmYou and me both. My favourite Clash song, those first 15 seconds or so still produce shivers. Epic without being that forced U2 epic.
I stand by what i say about the Live version though that version of the song just plods and everything that sounds great in the studio version is lost and disappointing and badly translated when you listen to it live.
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Thorazine in bed #4!NoMoreHugh wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:13pmYour both right of course and i remember feeling exactly the same way many years ago. If i was to do a recording for someone new to the clash i would have to include it but for me it gets skipped now if i play the album. I am being serious when i say there was a time i was playing LC album 5 times a day at least i was really obsessed with that album.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:48pmYou and me both. My favourite Clash song, those first 15 seconds or so still produce shivers. Epic without being that forced U2 epic.
This is true. It loses its spark and urgency live.I stand by what i say about the Live version though that version of the song just plods and everything that sounds great in the studio version is lost and disappointing and badly translated when you listen to it live.
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Ssh ssh ssh, stop struggling, let the medication do its work.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:15pmLyrically and thematically a bit naff for sure, but the instrumentation makes up for it for me. Some of Mick's work on it is sublime.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:47pmWe're gonna pump you so full of thorazine that we won't need to straitjacket you. LC's one seriously duff track.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:12pmIf it's insanity to love Lover's Rock, then prepare my straitjacket kind sir.
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Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:36pmSsh ssh ssh, stop struggling, let the medication do its work.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:15pmLyrically and thematically a bit naff for sure, but the instrumentation makes up for it for me. Some of Mick's work on it is sublime.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:47pmWe're gonna pump you so full of thorazine that we won't need to straitjacket you. LC's one seriously duff track.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:12pmIf it's insanity to love Lover's Rock, then prepare my straitjacket kind sir.
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See, all your anxieties are giving way to the bliss of numb nothingness.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:56pmDr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:36pmSsh ssh ssh, stop struggling, let the medication do its work.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:15pmLyrically and thematically a bit naff for sure, but the instrumentation makes up for it for me. Some of Mick's work on it is sublime.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:47pmWe're gonna pump you so full of thorazine that we won't need to straitjacket you. LC's one seriously duff track.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:12pmIf it's insanity to love Lover's Rock, then prepare my straitjacket kind sir.
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For me, London Calling (the album) is an entirety, songs 1 through 19. I do not like to take select tracks from that and listen to it, I need all 19, one after the other, in order. I like Lover's Rock, its not their best song ever but in the context of the album as a whole, it fits. The variety of that album is a strong factor in its appeal to me as well. Taken as a whole, I wouldn't change a thing. Coming after Rope makes it even more impressive to me since it kind of merged some aspects of the first album and the second album which made this incredible and quite varied third album.
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So i gave it a listen again last night in my drug induced stupor and noticed some nifty Topper percussion I hadn't copped before, likely cos I'm always fixated on Mick during that song. As a consequence, I'm now contemplating moving it up a place on my LC ranking list to 17. Might up the dosage tonight and see can we push it up further!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 8:35pmSee, all your anxieties are giving way to the bliss of numb nothingness.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:56pmDr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:36pmSsh ssh ssh, stop struggling, let the medication do its work.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:15pmLyrically and thematically a bit naff for sure, but the instrumentation makes up for it for me. Some of Mick's work on it is sublime.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 6:47pm
We're gonna pump you so full of thorazine that we won't need to straitjacket you. LC's one seriously duff track.
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Get tired of hearing London Calling never. Would be like getting tired of living. Life affirming song. Awesome.
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
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I'm with Tom here, or at least I was, when LC was released.
I loved Rope, every track, I played it a lot and found LC just a bit too... I dunno, long and sprawling and ambitious! Yeah, the very things it's now respected for. Many dynamite tracks to be sure (and yes, Four Horsemen was a fave right from the start) but I taped selections from it from friends' copies rather than buy it and settled with that for ages. (I did buy the double album eventually off a mate)
And of course, Sandinista just had the same effect on me, x10!
In time everything the band recorded just gets smeared together into one long audio journey, and now I love everything about every album, and wouldn't alter one thing about them all. But at the time, some of their releases were a bit tough to digest. Whereas Rope, to me, was never a stop-gap / stepping stone album with some patchy filler, it was a bona fide classic LP!
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I'm with Tom here, or at least I was, when LC was released.
I loved Rope, every track, I played it a lot and found LC just a bit too... I dunno, long and sprawling and ambitious! Yeah, the very things it's now respected for. Many dynamite tracks to be sure (and yes, Four Horsemen was a fave right from the start) but I taped selections from it from friends' copies rather than buy it and settled with that for ages. (I did buy the double album eventually off a mate)
And of course, Sandinista just had the same effect on me, x10!
In time everything the band recorded just gets smeared together into one long audio journey, and now I love everything about every album, and wouldn't alter one thing about them all. But at the time, some of their releases were a bit tough to digest. Whereas Rope, to me, was never a stop-gap / stepping stone album with some patchy filler, it was a bona fide classic LP!
My name's John, and I'm a Rope-a-holic
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I've rarely encountered a patient with such a debilitating case of loversrockia. Up the dosage again—better the patient end up a vegetable than a prisoner of this illness.Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 2:45amSo i gave it a listen again last night in my drug induced stupor and noticed some nifty Topper percussion I hadn't copped before, likely cos I'm always fixated on Mick during that song. As a consequence, I'm now contemplating moving it up a place on my LC ranking list to 17. Might up the dosage tonight and see can we push it up further!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 8:35pmSee, all your anxieties are giving way to the bliss of numb nothingness.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:56pmDr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:36pmSsh ssh ssh, stop struggling, let the medication do its work.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:15pm
Lyrically and thematically a bit naff for sure, but the instrumentation makes up for it for me. Some of Mick's work on it is sublime.
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Nobody messes with Nurse Ratchett and stays compos mentis long enough to tell the tale.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 6:28amI've rarely encountered a patient with such a debilitating case of loversrockia. Up the dosage again—better the patient end up a vegetable than a prisoner of this illness.Low Down Low wrote: ↑22 Jun 2022, 2:45amSo i gave it a listen again last night in my drug induced stupor and noticed some nifty Topper percussion I hadn't copped before, likely cos I'm always fixated on Mick during that song. As a consequence, I'm now contemplating moving it up a place on my LC ranking list to 17. Might up the dosage tonight and see can we push it up further!Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 8:35pmSee, all your anxieties are giving way to the bliss of numb nothingness.Low Down Low wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:56pmDr. Medulla wrote: ↑21 Jun 2022, 7:36pm
Ssh ssh ssh, stop struggling, let the medication do its work.