Are You Red..Y Appreciation Thread

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I love this song, sincerely and non-ironically.

Inder, the guitar intro is great.
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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After the lyrics to Dirty Punk made me cringe, and WATC almost made me stop my cassette player...
Are You Red..Y sounded pretty good.
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Heston wrote:I love this song, sincerely and non-ironically.

Inder, the guitar intro is great.
I think if they had released it with the live arrangement it would have been amazing.

But I think the CTC version would be a fun and funny "alternate" mix if that had happened.

The single could have been:

A Side: "Are You Ready For War"
B Side: "Are You Red..Y (Clash Audio Dynamite By Nite Mix)"
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Heston wrote:I love this song, sincerely and non-ironically.

Inder, the guitar intro is great.
The guitar intro doesn't make any sense!

What the fuck is diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-ratatatatatatatat-diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-duuuuuuuuuuun supposed to mean! It has no relevance to anything, doesn't appear anywhere else in the song, isn't a recurring theme, is just incongruous, superfluous and HORRIBLE!

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Inder wrote:What the fuck is diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-ratatatatatatatat-diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-duuuuuuuuuuun supposed to mean! It has no relevance to anything, doesn't appear anywhere else in the song, isn't a recurring theme, is just incongruous, superfluous and HORRIBLE!
It means they were keeping it real, yo.
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Flex wrote:
Inder wrote:What the fuck is diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-ratatatatatatatat-diddley-dum-de-dun-dun-dun-dun-duuuuuuuuuuun supposed to mean! It has no relevance to anything, doesn't appear anywhere else in the song, isn't a recurring theme, is just incongruous, superfluous and HORRIBLE!
It means they were keeping it real, yo.
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And if you're weighing the live and studio versions of this little ditty, you'd have to conclude that...somewhere along the way...the reinventon went a trifle pear-shaped. :mrgreen:
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Was listening on the way in this morning. The keyboards on this song are actually pretty well done with some interesting bits throughout. Same for the guitars.

The intro is a bit suspect as noted above, but otherwise, Heston might be on to something.
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It sounds okay live and didn't sound bad as a demo. It doesn't sound very good after Bernard Rhodes got his hands on it. Backing track sounds like it could have been used in a 1985 Radio Shack commercial. The music (as does most of the music on CtC) sounds like it was powered by "D" batteries.
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matedog wrote: ↑
10 Jun 2019, 10:18am
 Was listening on the way in this morning. The keyboards on this song are actually pretty well done with some interesting bits throughout. Same for the guitars.

The intro is a bit suspect as noted above, but otherwise, Heston might be on to something.
That'll be the frenetic disco sheen I once referred to. Inder is wrong about the intro, I love the Sea Shanty vibe, it is most excellent.

Great song.
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 Jun 2019, 11:40am
matedog wrote: ↑
10 Jun 2019, 10:18am
 Was listening on the way in this morning. The keyboards on this song are actually pretty well done with some interesting bits throughout. Same for the guitars.

The intro is a bit suspect as noted above, but otherwise, Heston might be on to something.
That'll be the frenetic disco sheen I once referred to. Inder is wrong about the intro, I love the Sea Shanty vibe, it is most excellent.

Great song.
It could've been a contender.
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Got plenty of time for this one, love the chorus and the do do do do do do do do do keyboard after, my favourite bar the obvious top 3.
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Is this song better that One Emotion? Maybe.
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