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Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
edited May 2009 in Other Music
Up their in my top 10 bands of all time!
I played their essential compilation yesterday, they never sounded so good on my new sound system!
This is radio clash!
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • strummersstrummers Posts: 2,611
    Couldn't agree more!

    Wish I'd seen them live. Was lucky enough to see JOe a month or so before he passed - amazing bloke!

    RIP Joe - such a big loss! :cry:
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  • letsongsprotestletsongsprotest Novi, MI Posts: 552
    Elevator, gooooooin' up
    There's a trapdoor in the sun.
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    I still can't believe Joe is not here anymore but his spirit lives on....THE CLASH ROCKS
    One of my all time favorites:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQwm1v1R-qM

    STRAIGHT TO HELL

    If you can play on the fiddle
    How's about a British jig and reel?
    Speaking King's English in quotation
    As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze
    In the generation
    Clear as winter ice
    This is your paradise

    There ain't no need for ya
    There ain't no need for ya
    Go straight to Hell boys
    Go straight to Hell boys

    Y'wanna join in a chorus
    Of the Amerasian blues?
    When it's Christmas out in Ho Chi Minh City
    Kiddie say papa papa papa papa papa-san take me home
    See me got photo photo
    Photograph of you and Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
    Of you and Mamma Mamma Mamma-san
    Lemme tell ya 'bout your blood bamboo kid.
    It ain't Coca-Cola it's rice.

    Straight to Hell, boys
    Go straight to Hell, boys
    Go straight to Hell, boys
    Go straight to Hell, boys
    Oh Papa-san
    Please take me home
    Oh Papa-san
    Everybody they wanna go home
    So Mamma-san said

    You wanna play mind-crazed banjo
    On the druggy-drag ragtime U.S.A.?
    In Parkland International
    Hey! Junkiedom U.S.A.
    Where procaine proves the purest rock man groove
    and rat poison
    The volatile Molotov says-

    PSSST...
    HEY CHICO WE GOT A MESSAGE FOR YA... SI...
    VAMOS VAMOS MUCHACHO
    FROM ALPHABET CITY ALL THE WAY A TO Z, DEAD, HEAD

    Go straight to Hell, boys
    Go straight to Hell, boys
    Straight to Hell

    Oh Papa-San
    Please take me home
    There ain't no need for ya,
    There ain't no need for ya

    Go straight to Hell, boys
    Go straight to Hell, boys

    Can you cough it up loud and strong
    The immigrants
    They wanna sing all night long
    It could be anywhere
    Most likely could be any frontier
    Any hemisphere
    No man's land
    Ain't no asylum here
    King Solomon he never lived round here

    Straight to Hell, boys
    Go straight to Hell, boys
    Go straight to Hell, boys
    Go straight to Hell, boys

    Oh Papa-San
    Please take me home
    Oh Papa-San
    Everybody, they wanna go home now

    Peace
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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Favourite Album?
    Debut album...UK or US version?

    For me it is:
    U.S version debut
    & U.S version

    But must admit very tough to decide between London Calling & their debut (U.S version)!

    Bankrobber should've been on an album and also This is Radio Clash!
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    Tough for me to be rational about the Clash, and Joe ...

    Y'all know the Clash ... but, if you haven't jumped on board yet, I highly recommend the Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros work ... great stuff. Live sets always included 4-5 Clash tunes. Joe had really found himself as a more diverse musician.

    If you can find the "Acton Town Hall" boot, it's the only time Joe and Mick played together post Clash, three tunes to end the show (Bankrobber, White Riot and London's Burning) ... it was a small fundraiser for a U.K. firehouse, about a month before Joe died.

    Rumor has it ... Paul Tollet had a verbal agreement for them to reunite at Coachella 2003, which, was my first Coachella. Sadly, Joe passed Dec 2002.
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  • TiaMijaTiaMija Posts: 597
    Joe fans shouldn't miss the documentary The Future Is Unwritten, now on DVD.
    http://www.joestrummerthemovie.com/
    The soundtrack is great, too.
  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    TiaMija wrote:
    Joe fans shouldn't miss the documentary The Future Is Unwritten, now on DVD.
    http://www.joestrummerthemovie.com/
    The soundtrack is great, too.

    Note ... this is more about the time Joe spent OUTSIDE of the Clash then it is about Joe with the Clash.

    It's brilliant.
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    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    My favorite is 'Give 'Em Enough Rope'. Can't beat 'Safe Europen Home', 'Tommy Gun', 'English Civil War', 'Guns on the Roof' and the out of character, 'Julie's in The Drug Squad'
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  • fall by the waysidefall by the wayside Jericho, VT Posts: 757
    The Clash were incredible! London Calling is an absolute masterpeice of an album. Strummer was penciled in to open for PJ in 03, before he passed :( That would have been an awesome show.
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  • jimed14jimed14 Posts: 9,488
    fall by the wayside wrote:
    The Clash were incredible! London Calling is an absolute masterpeice of an album. Strummer was penciled in to open for PJ in 03, before he passed :( That would have been an awesome show.

    Really? I have not heard that before. Anyone else? (I'm not being sarcastic, I'm serious, is this true?)
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    "I don't believe in damn curses. Wake up the damn Bambino and have me face him. Maybe I'll drill him in the ass." --- Pedro Martinez
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    jimed14 wrote:
    TiaMija wrote:
    Joe fans shouldn't miss the documentary The Future Is Unwritten, now on DVD.
    http://www.joestrummerthemovie.com/
    The soundtrack is great, too.

    Note ... this is more about the time Joe spent OUTSIDE of the Clash then it is about Joe with the Clash.

    It's brilliant.

    Just saw the trailer, I am going to purchase it on Amazon!

    EDIT: My local JB Hi Fi store has it in stock wooooo
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Got it and also Clash live, 2 dvds.
    Amazing how many Clash dvd's are out now since the last time I checked the stores.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • London CallingLondon Calling Posts: 164
    jimed14 wrote:
    fall by the wayside wrote:
    The Clash were incredible! London Calling is an absolute masterpeice of an album. Strummer was penciled in to open for PJ in 03, before he passed :( That would have been an awesome show.

    Really? I have not heard that before. Anyone else? (I'm not being sarcastic, I'm serious, is this true?)

    yeap, he was asked and apparently he asked Pete Townsend whether he could vouch for them.
  • RoughMixRoughMix back of a lorry Posts: 385
    Saw The Clash in '79 as a warm up for The Who.
    Absolutely incredible.
    People booed,That was disappointing.
    They were ahead of their time.
    "They don't give a shit Keith Moon is dead,
    is that exactly what I thought I read."
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    Finished watching ''The Future is Unwritten" today.
    Love the footage of Joe having a go at the reporter, it's the best.
    Joe "Ohh Shut Up Will You, Ya' Stupid Cunt!!!!" :lol:
    What a legend, RIP.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • Brownie9160Brownie9160 Posts: 190
    Cosmo wrote:
    My favorite is 'Give 'Em Enough Rope'. Can't beat 'Safe Europen Home', 'Tommy Gun', 'English Civil War', 'Guns on the Roof' and the out of character, 'Julie's in The Drug Squad'

    And my all-time favorite Clash song, 'Stay Free.' Such an awesome guitar riff in that one. Great tribute Brad K paid to that album with the Columbia poster last year...still need to get my hands on it!
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  • Shawn Smith CollectiveShawn Smith Collective Posts: 986
    RoughMix wrote:
    Saw The Clash in '79 as a warm up for The Who.
    Absolutely incredible.
    People booed,That was disappointing.
    They were ahead of their time.

    I thought the only time The Clash toured with The Who was on the 1982 tour in support of Combat Rock (this is the one that culminated with the Shea concert) and the boos were because fans were upset with Combat Rock being a "sell out" album.
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