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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11The idea of new Clash mucic! Inspiring!
What's inspiring about it? Inspiring me to laugh at the po-faced polemics of these bunters. Joe Strummer was the son of a Brit Diplomat who pretended to have street cred. The BBC? Aren't they corporate media? Didn't the clash take money from the nasty Levi's people.
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I really doubt that you are ignorant of the role that Joe Strummer played in suporting workers struggles. Therefore I can only presume that you are a sad lonely troll.
The reason the Clash are so good has nothing to do with "workers struggles" and all that bollix. They were a brilliant rock and roll band. Billy Bragg makes a great virtue of all that but no-one will remember him in 20 years because he was/is a mediocrity despite and indeed partly because of his tediously right on views
Oh yeah, they're so great aren't they?
FACT: Jaguar cars use London Calling in their ads: http://www.collisiondetection.net/mt/archives/000003.html
FACT: Should I Stay Or Should I Go" was used in a TV advert for Levi's jeans
They made some great music though. People who make political criticisms of music aren't music fans. I once met a bloke who only listened to music he considered politically acceptable (lots of punk, reggae and early hip-hop). Need less to say he was an unleasant, preachy, humourless shithead.
This is for the same reason that all politicians are philistines. They see art as a waste of time if it doesn't serve political ends.
If its anything like their last album "Cut the Crap" I wont be holding my breath.
Liked some of their stuff though. Think their first album sound a bit silly now though. Trying too hard to be 'punk'.
No thank God it's from well before Cut The Crap. It's stuff from the London Calling sessions, including a version of Bob Dylan's "The Man In Me", which I'm dying to hear. The original is lovely and featured on the Big Lebowski soundtrack (the scene where the Dude gets knocked out, and dreams he's floating down a bowling lane).
Mind you, if it wasn't good enough to go on the album back then......
They're using this archive material as an excuse to sell us London Calling again, in deluxe re-mastered blah blah edition. So long as you have a CD burner and a single friend gullible enough to fork out for it, you'll be ok.
I can't believe people are falling for this "discovered missing tracks" ruse - it's all part of a forthcoming release:
http://www.billboard.com/bb/daily/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000616378
Still, strummer, the white "bloke" who sang about white riots from his white mansion would have been proud of yet another con.
Don't think he had a mansion when he wrote White Riot. Anyway, so what. They were a band not a fucking political party so get over it.
Unseen photos of former Clash singer Joe Strummer have gone on display in an exhibition which explores his personal archive of band memorabilia. Dozens of handwritten lyrics, concert setlists, jottings, drawings and tour mementoes have been brought together in London to celebrate Strummer's legacy.
They had been kept in storage by the artist at his West Country home in the years leading up to his untimely death in 2002 at the age of 50. Photographs of Strummer during his pre-Clash days as singer of pub-rockers The 101ers are also included in the exhibition at the London Print Studio in Harrow Road, west London.
The premises lie at the heart of a district which is still synonymous with Strummer's formative days as an artist.
It was there he refined his ambitions of stardom in the mid-1970s, as well as honing his skills as a political activist, as a squatter at 101 Walterton Road (giving rise to the 101ers).
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the 101ers' first concert at local pub The Chippenham. The pictures were taken by Julian Yewdall, a founder member of The 101ers who squatted with Strummer.