Though I still prefer LC to GEER, no one song on GEER is as low a point as Lover's Rock.eumaas wrote:I'd probably be more charitable to the other songs on LC I don't like if Lover's Rock weren't on it.Dr. Medulla wrote:I was in my bank today and they were playing "Lover's Rock." At first I thought, "Hey, cool, the Clash, and not RTC or SISOSIG." Then I realized, "Christ, 'Lover's Rock' sucks."
The Clash observations thread.
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Wolter
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Marky Dread
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
But LC did have 9 more attempts at failing than GEER.Wolter wrote:Though I still prefer LC to GEER, no one song on GEER is as low a point as Lover's Rock.eumaas wrote:I'd probably be more charitable to the other songs on LC I don't like if Lover's Rock weren't on it.Dr. Medulla wrote:I was in my bank today and they were playing "Lover's Rock." At first I thought, "Hey, cool, the Clash, and not RTC or SISOSIG." Then I realized, "Christ, 'Lover's Rock' sucks."
Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty
We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.
"Without the common people you're nothing"
Nos Sumus Una Familia
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
Bravo.Marky Dread wrote:But LC did have 9 more attempts at failing than GEER.Wolter wrote:Though I still prefer LC to GEER, no one song on GEER is as low a point as Lover's Rock.eumaas wrote:I'd probably be more charitable to the other songs on LC I don't like if Lover's Rock weren't on it.Dr. Medulla wrote:I was in my bank today and they were playing "Lover's Rock." At first I thought, "Hey, cool, the Clash, and not RTC or SISOSIG." Then I realized, "Christ, 'Lover's Rock' sucks."
Bra-vo.
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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Re: The Clash observations thread.
I had to laugh the other night. I was playing pool with this pissed-up bloke and Mag 7 came on the jukebox. When it came to the line, "What have we got? Magnificence!", this bloke thought it was the Ghostbusters song and started shouting "Who you gonna call? Ghostbusters!" Me and my mate started to laugh at him, then we realised they are actually very similar. Too late for a lawsuit?
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
It would probably not be in the Clash's best interest to sue someone for lifting passages from other songs...Heston wrote:Too late for a lawsuit?
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
Tell that to the Rolling Stones.Wolter wrote:It would probably not be in the Clash's best interest to sue someone for lifting passages from other songs...Heston wrote:Too late for a lawsuit?
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BR16ADE_R055E
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
Reminds me of Tears for Fears nicking the line "Everybody wants to rule the world" from "Charlie Don't Surf," and then Joe discussing it with one of the TFF guys.
Re: The Clash observations thread.
According to my friend Joanna, Democritus was the first one to come up with "the future is unwritten."
Of course, being a Greek, she thinks they did everything first.
They probably did.
Of course, being a Greek, she thinks they did everything first.
They probably did.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
Re: The Clash observations thread.
And that is an awful song.BR16ADE_R055E wrote:Reminds me of Tears for Fears nicking the line "Everybody wants to rule the world" from "Charlie Don't Surf," and then Joe discussing it with one of the TFF guys.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
But to be fair, and with all love to Joe, I'm not seeing him reading Democritus.eumaas wrote:According to my friend Joanna, Democritus was the first one to come up with "the future is unwritten."
Of course, being a Greek, she thinks they did everything first.
They probably did.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
Re: The Clash observations thread.
Oh my yes. It's almost certainly just him coming up with the same concept. Joe doesn't really strike me as a very deep reader.Wolter wrote:But to be fair, and with all love to Joe, I'm not seeing him reading Democritus.eumaas wrote:According to my friend Joanna, Democritus was the first one to come up with "the future is unwritten."
Of course, being a Greek, she thinks they did everything first.
They probably did.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
I like that song.matedog wrote:And that is an awful song.BR16ADE_R055E wrote:Reminds me of Tears for Fears nicking the line "Everybody wants to rule the world" from "Charlie Don't Surf," and then Joe discussing it with one of the TFF guys.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
A true 80s anthem. It's nothing I ever seek out, but when I hear the first fifteen seconds or so, I always smile. Just something oddly comforting about the tune.Flex wrote:I like that song.matedog wrote:And that is an awful song.BR16ADE_R055E wrote:Reminds me of Tears for Fears nicking the line "Everybody wants to rule the world" from "Charlie Don't Surf," and then Joe discussing it with one of the TFF guys.
"Grab some wood, bub.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
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Re: The Clash observations thread.
Nothing wrong with that song. Other than, of course, Hoy.Dr. Medulla wrote:A true 80s anthem. It's nothing I ever seek out, but when I hear the first fifteen seconds or so, I always smile. Just something oddly comforting about the tune.Flex wrote:I like that song.matedog wrote:And that is an awful song.BR16ADE_R055E wrote:Reminds me of Tears for Fears nicking the line "Everybody wants to rule the world" from "Charlie Don't Surf," and then Joe discussing it with one of the TFF guys.
”INDER LOCK THE THE KISS THREAD IVE REALISED IM A PRZE IDOOT” - Thomas Jefferson
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
"But the gorilla thinks otherwise!"
