I've got to lose this skin I'm imprisoned in.

Know your rights,
All three of 'em.

Can't wait to get ahold of this book, looks like a good read.

/Overpowered by funk? Funk out.

But is it on pirate satellite?

Joe Strummer unavailable for comment.

amindtat: Joe Strummer unavailable for comment.

Topper Headon is though, but nobody ever asks him.

Oh, this is a must read.

Go straight to hell, boy.

FTA: The first time I heard the word "punk" was in Time Out where they wrote that Eddie & the Hot Rods were a second-generation punk band and I remember thinking: "What is this word?" And then the Pistols came through and it was clear what they meant.

Joe Strummer is/was so awesome. I'm purchasing this book.

/If Adolf Hitler were here today--they'd send a limousine anyway.

I'll definitely read it, but most of this is already out there between Johnny Green's Book and the recent Joe Strummer biography.

downtownkid: I'll definitely read it, but most of this is already out there between Johnny Green's Book and the recent Joe Strummer biography.

Are you saying this is just another story?

Lee's_Austin: FTA: The first time I heard the word "punk" was in Time Out where they wrote that Eddie & the Hot Rods were a second-generation punk band and I remember thinking: "What is this word?" And then the Pistols came through and it was clear what they meant.

Joe Strummer is/was so awesome. I'm purchasing this book.

/If Adolf Hitler were here today--they'd send a limousine anyway.

Way to Godwin the thread, dude...

Lee's_Austin: /If Adolf Hitler were here today--they'd send a limousine anyway.

That is one of my favorite lines ever.

Face front you got the future shining
Like a piece of gold
But I swear as we get closer
It look more like a lump of coal

That is another one of my favorites.

Lord Brixton /If Adolf Hitler were here today--they'd send a limousine anyway.

Way to Godwin the thread, dude...

Completely unintentional.

Gunny Highway Lee's_Austin: /If Adolf Hitler were here today--they'd send a limousine anyway.

That is one of my favorite lines ever.

Dude, totally. White Man In Hammersmith Palais was my first favorite Clash song. Once I heard the whole record, The Clash became my favorite record of theirs. The opening riff on Complete Control and then Mick Jone's Solo (You're my guitar hero!) always gets me pumped.

Face front you got the future shining
Like a piece of gold
But I swear as we get closer
It look more like a lump of coal

That is another one of my favorites.

Nice. Give 'Em Enough Rope and Sandinista! are the records I have listened to the least. Not on purpose. I just haven't made my way to them yet.

"What are we gonna do now??"

"Hup, two, three, four!"

"Clampdown" is probably my favorite, barely edging out several others.

/Saw them in Providence in 1982
//Life as I knew it was over

Well, that was real close to interesting.

/Loved the band tho'.

turbotikigod: amindtat: Joe Strummer unavailable for comment.

Topper Headon is though, but nobody ever asks him.

Wasn't there at the very begining, nor at the very end either (meaning when they were touring after Combat Rock).

/Topper was absolutely brilliant
//His bad habits helped to destroy the chemistry of the band
///Fark you and your heroin habits, Topper
////Mick's ego and diva antics didn't help either, nor Strummer's stubbornness

SplitGuy: /Topper was absolutely brilliant

Yes, he certainly was -- he could really play very well, and had amazing energy behind the kit. It's only because of that that they put up with him as long as they did.

I don't blame most of the band's dissolution on Topper, tho -- the musical ennui of the late 80's was much more of a factor.

A book?

I hate when people feel compelled to explain art, love or rock and roll.

Just play the farkcking record.

Is it October yet?

I've been told this is the only band that matters.

Take that you rotten kids!


/if you think the likes of fools like PANIC AT THE DISCO or the Jonas brothers are good, you need to look back and learn

//get off my lawn too

///seriously FTW!

Lee's_Austin: Lord Brixton /If Adolf Hitler were here today--they'd send a limousine anyway.

Way to Godwin the thread, dude...

Completely unintentional.

You mean Joe Strummer was in a band other than the Pogues?

Who'da thunk it!

Lord Brixton Lee's_Austin: Lord Brixton /If Adolf Hitler were here today--they'd send a limousine anyway.

Way to Godwin the thread, dude...

Completely unintentional.

[Image bof George Reeves winking]

Effing awesome. That is hilarious.

skippytheferret: You mean Joe Strummer was in a band other than the Pogues?
Who'da thunk it!

The Mescaleros, obviously.

Vacuum cleaner sucks up budgie.




/Cheeseboooiigher!

Lee's_Austin: Give 'Em Enough Rope and Sandinista! are the records I have listened to the least.

While Sandinista! took me a while to get into (most because it isnt really a punk album) I have come to love it as much as any of the others. Give Em Enough Rope on the other hand is my favorite album of theirs. I suggest buying a copy, leaving it in you car CD player for a few weeks, and rocking to one of the all time best punk albums. The last three tracks (Stay Free, Cheapskates, All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)) are farking awesome.

/Off to get my daily injection of Clash

Topper Headon still drying out from heroin?

I know they kicked him out in '82 put I'm positive he has memories of the Clash. Or perhaps he was that wasted he remembers zilch,

The only Band that matters!


London Calling is on my personal top ten CD/Album list (maybe their first album too).

Hmm, yeah, the first one too.


Clash City Rockers.

Saw 'em five times
--NY Palladium 1978 (the show depicted on the cover of London Calling)
--Bonds
--The pier on the Hudson up by The Intrepid
--Shea Stadium, opening for the Who
--Asbury park, NJ (this was the post-Jones Clash, with those three kids brought on board)

My favorite band

Get off my lawn

There is too much Topper hate in this thread.

Here he is playing with Mick's band Carbon Silicon last year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jw0NVxVrb-E&feature=related

horonto: Topper Headon still drying out from heroin?

I know they kicked him out in '82 put I'm positive he has memories of the Clash. Or perhaps he was that wasted he remembers zilch,

He seemed to have it together in the Joe Strummer documentary.

If you can listen to the intro to a live version of "Clampdown" and remain unmoved, you have no soul.

Gunny Highway Lee's_Austin: Give 'Em Enough Rope and Sandinista! are the records I have listened to the least.

While Sandinista! took me a while to get into (most because it isnt really a punk album) I have come to love it as much as any of the others. Give Em Enough Rope on the other hand is my favorite album of theirs. I suggest buying a copy, leaving it in you car CD player for a few weeks, and rocking to one of the all time best punk albums. The last three tracks (Stay Free, Cheapskates, All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)) are farking awesome.

/Off to get my daily injection of Clash

My dad says the same thing about Give Em Enough Rope. So, obviously, I need to get with the program.

Whatever, they're no Green Day...

/runs and hides

Lee's_Austin: Gunny Highway Lee's_Austin: Give 'Em Enough Rope and Sandinista! are the records I have listened to the least.

While Sandinista! took me a while to get into (most because it isnt really a punk album) I have come to love it as much as any of the others. Give Em Enough Rope on the other hand is my favorite album of theirs. I suggest buying a copy, leaving it in you car CD player for a few weeks, and rocking to one of the all time best punk albums. The last three tracks (Stay Free, Cheapskates, All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)) are farking awesome.

/Off to get my daily injection of Clash

My dad says the same thing about Give Em Enough Rope. So, obviously, I need to get with the program.

I completely, completely agree. G'EER is a FANTASTIC LP. It got a very bad rap because 1) it was produced by Blue Oyster Cult producer Sandy Perlman and 2) it did not sound like other punk records of the time, meaning "like shiat".

It was a momentary thing that was over by London Calling -- but many critics took it as an attempt for a larger audience -- which is certainly WAS -- but now we all understand that is not a bad thing. The album still sounds awesome.

If there is a better rock song than "Safe European Home" I have never heard it.

Zombie Eater

They said that we were trash,
Well the name is Crass, not Clash.
They can stuff their punk credentials
Cause it's them that take the cash.
They won't change nothing with their fashionable talk,
All their RAR badges and their protest walk,
Thousands of white men standing in a park,
Objecting to racism's like a candle in the dark.
Black man's got his problems and his way to deal with it,
So don't fool yourself you're helping with your white liberal shiat.
If you care to take a closer look at the way things really stand,
You'd see we're all just attractive and successful African-Americans to the rulers of this land.

While I think Crass is a pretty good band this always kinda pissed me off. What the hell did Crass ever do to really change anything? Both good bands though. Only difference is Crass I consider a good punk band while I consider The Clash a great rock and roll band.

Could just be me though.

The Dynamite Monkey I completely, completely agree. G'EER is a FANTASTIC LP. It got a very bad rap because 1) it was produced by Blue Oyster Cult producer Sandy Perlman and 2) it did not sound like other punk records of the time, meaning "like shiat".

It was a momentary thing that was over by London Calling -- but many critics took it as an attempt for a larger audience -- which is certainly WAS -- but now we all understand that is not a bad thing. The album still sounds awesome.

If there is a better rock song than "Safe European Home" I have never heard it.

Right on. I feel the same way about the self titled LP and Complete Control. This is pumping me up, I can't wait to get my hands on it. From all the positive recommendations I hope for another life changing experience like I had with the first record.

Another tome to check out is "Last Gang in Town" published a few years ago.
The Johnny Green book is pretty funny.

Crass wins the "punker than you" award but their music is completely unlistenable.

It was when Joe Strummer died and Bono said "Without the Clash there would be no U2" that I realized he says this about every freaking artist whose gone before him.

/Wish I'd seen The Clash or Stiff Little Fingers.

davynelson:

A book?

I hate when people feel compelled to explain art, love or rock and roll.

Just play the farkcking record.

While there are some books I've run across that fall into this category -- primarily over-analyzing books by art critics -- in general, I think this is crap. Books like this one are good.


drongozone:

Saw 'em five times
--NY Palladium 1978 (the show depicted on the cover of London Calling)
--Bonds
--The pier on the Hudson up by The Intrepid
--Shea Stadium, opening for the Who
--Asbury park, NJ (this was the post-Jones Clash, with those three kids brought on board)

My favorite band

Get off my lawn

Only saw them once -- Houston, October '79 with Joe Ely and Legionnaire's Disease opening. Great show, of course.

If the book is half as entertaining as A Drink with Shane MacGowan I'm buying it. I'm just kidding; I was going to buy it anyway.

Blah blah blah blah, or whatever is said at the beginning of Clampdown.

Passion is a Fashion by Pat Gilbert is a good read as well.

Three Card Trick and Rebel Waltz are my op 2 and 3 favs, with Straight To Hell being 1.#

Shouldn't have hit add comment so quick.

I was talking about The Clash with a friend of mine who is 10 years older than I, I am 34. As everything by them was out when I started to listen to them, I don't have the chronological perspective to their music some do. For me, White Riot and Atom Tan happened at the same time, though I know they didn't.

My friend prefers the older material, as that was what moved him at that age, in fact he has a hard time listening to anything past, and including Sandinista!. As much as I would have loved to see them, I did get to see The Mescalaros, so I am happy to have had my Clash flood, instead of a trickle.

downtownkid: Crass wins the "punker than you" award but their music is completely unlistenable.

i don't know, "the Feeding of the 5000" is pretty straight ahead... for Crass.
/FTW