I know what you're saying but I think S! has to be taken as a full album/experience. The tracks prop each other up to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Taken in isolation, no songs on S! will ever compare to the Big 4 on London Calling.matedog wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:17pmSolid Hoyston on distaste for Junkie Slip. I don't know if it's my least favorite, but it's down there.
Sandinista is a weird beast in that there are maybe five songs that I rank as the best on the album and I don't see them quite as transcendent as the best parts of London Calling which has maybe two or three upper echelon songs.
The Clash observations thread.
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I was tempted to put it second as it should always come in a pair with Corner Soul. The two sides of the Notting Hill Carnival coin.
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So what you're actually saying is LC would've been better as an EP.Heston wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:36pmI know what you're saying but I think S! has to be taken as a full album/experience. The tracks prop each other up to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Taken in isolation, no songs on S! will ever compare to the Big 4 on London Calling.matedog wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:17pmSolid Hoyston on distaste for Junkie Slip. I don't know if it's my least favorite, but it's down there.
Sandinista is a weird beast in that there are maybe five songs that I rank as the best on the album and I don't see them quite as transcendent as the best parts of London Calling which has maybe two or three upper echelon songs.
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Fuck that, I wanna know what Joe and Mick thought of Gals Panic.
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This would have been the only EP to better the COL EP...Marky Dread wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:39pmSo what you're actually saying is LC would've been better as an EP.Heston wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:36pmI know what you're saying but I think S! has to be taken as a full album/experience. The tracks prop each other up to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Taken in isolation, no songs on S! will ever compare to the Big 4 on London Calling.matedog wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:17pmSolid Hoyston on distaste for Junkie Slip. I don't know if it's my least favorite, but it's down there.
Sandinista is a weird beast in that there are maybe five songs that I rank as the best on the album and I don't see them quite as transcendent as the best parts of London Calling which has maybe two or three upper echelon songs.
London Calling
Rudie Can't Fail
Spanish Bombs
Clampdown
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Just needs an advert reprise of LC and you're good to go.Heston wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:42pmThis would have been the only EP to better the COL EP...Marky Dread wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:39pmSo what you're actually saying is LC would've been better as an EP.Heston wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:36pmI know what you're saying but I think S! has to be taken as a full album/experience. The tracks prop each other up to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Taken in isolation, no songs on S! will ever compare to the Big 4 on London Calling.matedog wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:17pmSolid Hoyston on distaste for Junkie Slip. I don't know if it's my least favorite, but it's down there.
Sandinista is a weird beast in that there are maybe five songs that I rank as the best on the album and I don't see them quite as transcendent as the best parts of London Calling which has maybe two or three upper echelon songs.
London Calling
Rudie Can't Fail
Spanish Bombs
Clampdown
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Sega Saturn Dub is an unreleased S! track.
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It's well underplayed in my house.
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For sure, I definitely agree.Heston wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:36pmI know what you're saying but I think S! has to be taken as a full album/experience. The tracks prop each other up to make the whole greater than the sum of the parts. Taken in isolation, no songs on S! will ever compare to the Big 4 on London Calling.matedog wrote: ↑15 Dec 2020, 6:17pmSolid Hoyston on distaste for Junkie Slip. I don't know if it's my least favorite, but it's down there.
Sandinista is a weird beast in that there are maybe five songs that I rank as the best on the album and I don't see them quite as transcendent as the best parts of London Calling which has maybe two or three upper echelon songs.
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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I think we could guess...
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Agreed about MH. I mean, calling it a "song" is already stretching it a bit.
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It was their "Tomorrow Never Knows".
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It doesn't physically irritate me like Junkie Slip.
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