The Clash observations thread.

[Marky Dread]

https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2019/ ... -the-clash

...when biscuits made from wallpaper paste are simply not enough.

''I’ve cooked since I was a kid – I’d hop off school and sneak back home, starving, so I’d look in cookery books. That developed my interest in learning how to feed myself''.

[gkbill]

I prefer Pepsi. Koka Kola is great though.

Joe Chimes' bass sounds great on it.

Kosmo plays bass on that track but is uncredited.

Seriously what did Kosmo do??

Tambourine.

Hello,

Lead or back-up?

[Dr. Medulla]

I prefer Pepsi. Koka Kola is great though.

Joe Chimes' bass sounds great on it.

Kosmo plays bass on that track but is uncredited.

Seriously what did Kosmo do??

Tambourine.

Electric and acoustic toady.

[Flex]

A confession: I'm listening to Jail Guitar Doors Live at the Lyceum and I'm deeply regretting my choice to vote it off the island in multiple rounds.

[Wolter]

A confession: I'm listening to Jail Guitar Doors Live at the Lyceum and I'm deeply regretting my choice to vote it off the island in multiple rounds.

Live JGD was a revelation to me when I first discovered Clash boots. That song owns.

[Marky Dread]

A confession: I'm listening to Jail Guitar Doors Live at the Lyceum and I'm deeply regretting my choice to vote it off the island in multiple rounds.

Live JGD was a revelation to me when I first discovered Clash boots. That song owns.

I think the studio version is great. But a lot of Clash stuff takes on a new lease of life live.

[Wolter]

A confession: I'm listening to Jail Guitar Doors Live at the Lyceum and I'm deeply regretting my choice to vote it off the island in multiple rounds.

Live JGD was a revelation to me when I first discovered Clash boots. That song owns.

I think the studio version is great. But a lot of Clash stuff takes on a new lease of life live.

I definitely appreciated the studio track better after that.

[101Walterton]

A confession: I'm listening to Jail Guitar Doors Live at the Lyceum and I'm deeply regretting my choice to vote it off the island in multiple rounds.

Live JGD was a revelation to me when I first discovered Clash boots. That song owns.

I think the studio version is great. But a lot of Clash stuff takes on a new lease of life live.

That is when Charlie went from a great track toone of my favourites. Warming up to defend it in the upcoming poll.
KYR also went up in my opinion after hearing boots.

[BitterTom]

A confession: I'm listening to Jail Guitar Doors Live at the Lyceum and I'm deeply regretting my choice to vote it off the island in multiple rounds.

Live JGD was a revelation to me when I first discovered Clash boots. That song owns.

I think the studio version is great. But a lot of Clash stuff takes on a new lease of life live.

That is when Charlie went from a great track toone of my favourites. Warming up to defend it in the upcoming poll.
KYR also went up in my opinion after hearing boots.

S! songs live are fantastic. Take SGM, great in the studio, even better live, Charlie, Mag7, PomB just to name a few.

[Flex]

I'm spinning Combat Rock in anticipation of upcoming voting decisions, and two things stand out to me:

1. I do NOT regret helping bounce Death is a Star early. It's what I remember.
2. I thought of side two as a 2 horse race between Sean Flynn and Ghetto Defendant but I'd sort of forgotten about how great Inoculated City is.

What an ethereal Clash side, overall.

[Kory]

Man, what a great band. The board's ok, too.

[Marky Dread]

Man, what a great band. The board's ok, too.

Average white board.

[BitterTom]

So I finally found out Joe says "catwalk jungle" in TIE. When I first heard it I assumed (I was only 15) it was "the cat was Junco." In some vague S! reference but never bothered to find out what he really said.

What the hell is a 'catwalk jungle'?

[Inder]

Beautiful bit of urban imagery that I've always understood to refer to either narrow, interconnected streets/alleys that you're likely to get mugged in or an observation on how toughs are always on a pose.

Fantastic lyric.

[BitterTom]

Beautiful bit of urban imagery that I've always understood to refer to either narrow, interconnected streets/alleys that you're likely to get mugged in or an observation on how toughs are always on a pose.

Fantastic lyric.

You'll have to forgive me, I'm a lyrical philistine.