Dictator has to be the most EET song of 83-85 period. The Cut the Crap version is the end and the beginning. I'm listening now with headphones and it's unlike anything I've ever heard. It continues to astound. Joe is saying something under the second chorus, but it's probably the second most quiet thing on the track behind the bass. There is so much to it, I can never let it go.
His adlibs are just wild on this track too.
The first comment on YouTube sums it up...
"It sounds like I have 3 YouTube Windows open at once"
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
I can still remember my feelings of utter bewilderment & shock when I first heard Dictator. Like Heston (?) at first I thought that there was a problem with the actual vinyl itself or my record player.
In fact I recall that moment more that any other first vinyl play of the Clash.
I am still dumbfounded by the experience - yet over the years the song seduces me to play it every blue moon to check that I didn't imagine it.
I can still remember my feelings of utter bewilderment & shock when I first heard Dictator. Like Heston (?) at first I thought that there was a problem with the actual vinyl itself or my record player.
In fact I recall that moment more that any other first vinyl play of the Clash.
I am still dumbfounded by the experience - yet over the years the song seduces me to play it every blue moon to check that I didn't imagine it.
Yes it was me who thought the record was fucked. This was the Clash album I'd been waiting for for 2 years. I got into them just as Mick was sacked when I heard Should I Stay on the pub jukebox where we used to play underage pool. Over the next few months I bought all their records. This Is England/Do It Now had seemed a decent lead off single so imagine my horror when I heard Dictator. I kept cleaning the needle and putting it back on to no avail.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
It's the greatest album ever made and I personally made it better. Without me this world would be nothing!
Marky Josef Stalin Dread.
Hi Bernie. Sorry, Ber-nard. How's that book coming?
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
It's the greatest album ever made and I personally made it better. Without me this world would be nothing!
Marky Josef Stalin Dread.
Hi Bernie. Sorry, Ber-nard. How's that book coming?
I've almost finished it. Should be ready for the 75th anniversary of Cut the Crap.
*sigh* 2060 already sucks.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
It's the greatest album ever made and I personally made it better. Without me this world would be nothing!
Marky Josef Stalin Dread.
Hi Bernie. Sorry, Ber-nard. How's that book coming?
I've almost finished it. Should be ready for the 75th anniversary of Cut the Crap.
*sigh* 2060 already sucks.
It will contain a free cd.
If that cd is Cut the Crap, you're not sweetening the tea.
"I used to bullseye womp rats in my T-16 back in Whittier, they're not much bigger than two meters.'" - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft