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matedog wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:17pm
Solid 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.
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.
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Kory wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:31pm
Heston wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 12:24pm
I'll have a go. Best to worst...
Glad to see Let's Go Crazy way up there. Severely underrated, but I have a soca jones so that's just me.
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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Heston wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:36pm
matedog wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:17pm
Solid 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.
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.
So what you're actually saying is LC would've been better as an EP. :lol:
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Kory wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:34pm
Do we have any knowledge of what the band thought of the ska revival? We know the Specials connection obviously, but I'm wondering if there's any interview stuff where they talk about maybe the Selecter or the Beat, or anybody else.
Fuck that, I wanna know what Joe and Mick thought of Gals Panic.
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Marky Dread wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:39pm
Heston wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:36pm
matedog wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:17pm
Solid 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.
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.
So what you're actually saying is LC would've been better as an EP. :lol:
This would have been the only EP to better the COL EP...

London Calling
Rudie Can't Fail
Spanish Bombs
Clampdown
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Heston wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:42pm
Marky Dread wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:39pm
Heston wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:36pm
matedog wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:17pm
Solid 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.
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.
So what you're actually saying is LC would've been better as an EP. :lol:
This would have been the only EP to better the COL EP...

London Calling
Rudie Can't Fail
Spanish Bombs
Clampdown
Just needs an advert reprise of LC and you're good to go. ;)
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Flex wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:40pm
Kory wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:34pm
Do we have any knowledge of what the band thought of the ska revival? We know the Specials connection obviously, but I'm wondering if there's any interview stuff where they talk about maybe the Selecter or the Beat, or anybody else.
Fuck that, I wanna know what Joe and Mick thought of Gals Panic.
Sega Saturn Dub is an unreleased S! track.
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BitterTom wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 3:48pm
Junkie Slip is underrated.
It's under everything.
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Heston wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:45pm
BitterTom wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 3:48pm
Junkie Slip is underrated.
It's under everything.
It's well underplayed in my house. ;)
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Heston wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:36pm
matedog wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:17pm
Solid 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.
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.
For sure, I definitely agree.
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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Flex wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:40pm
Kory wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 6:34pm
Do we have any knowledge of what the band thought of the ska revival? We know the Specials connection obviously, but I'm wondering if there's any interview stuff where they talk about maybe the Selecter or the Beat, or anybody else.
Fuck that, I wanna know what Joe and Mick thought of Gals Panic.
I think we could guess...
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Kory wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 7:35pm
I think we could guess...
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oliver wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 4:04pm
BitterTom wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 3:48pm
Junkie Slip is underrated.
I like it... I'm amazed anything is rated lower than Mensforth Hill
Agreed about MH. I mean, calling it a "song" is already stretching it a bit.
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Olaf wrote:
16 Dec 2020, 4:43am
oliver wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 4:04pm
BitterTom wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 3:48pm
Junkie Slip is underrated.
I like it... I'm amazed anything is rated lower than Mensforth Hill
Agreed about MH. I mean, calling it a "song" is already stretching it a bit.
It was their "Tomorrow Never Knows". ;)
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Olaf wrote:
16 Dec 2020, 4:43am
oliver wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 4:04pm
BitterTom wrote:
15 Dec 2020, 3:48pm
Junkie Slip is underrated.
I like it... I'm amazed anything is rated lower than Mensforth Hill
Agreed about MH. I mean, calling it a "song" is already stretching it a bit.
It doesn't physically irritate me like Junkie Slip.
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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