opera races
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The Clash! That's another band I'm almost ashamed to admit I haven't listened to a lot in awhile ... yet I would still put them fairly near the top of my long list of favorite bands.
I remember reading about them when they were first active but didn't actually hear any of their music until a guy I knew at the time came over with a copy of London Calling (vinyl of course). First we listened to Train In Vain then I think some other songs too but not the entire album (and the vinyl was a two record set) - he'd brought over a stack of records!
When I got my own copy of London Calling I noticed something funny with Train In Vain ... on an automatic turntable if you try to bring the needle arm over far enough to try to listen to only that track ... it's just far enough over that the arm lifts right back up, goes back to its resting place and the turntable/record player shuts off! Too funny! That was my experience at least. So I either had to listen to the entire side of the record or a song or two before it.
More on London Calling ... always loved the music. Initially I was a bit put off by the vocals ... not sure whether it was Mick Jones or Joe Strummer or both ... but they grew on me lol!
I have a fair number of Clash albums on vinyl (plus Black Market Clash which looks like a 10" EP yet has 9 tracks on it and a 12" single of This Is Radio Clash) ... and cassette ... and CD ... and a box set (more CD's) called Clash On Broadway. Yet I hardly think I have everything Clash! Oh yeah and a DVD too ... and Rude Boy on a VHS tape which I recorded off the Independent Film Channel, I think.
Rude Boy ... the "plot" is ... whatever ... but it's a very good film for watching some Clash live performance video. I was fortunate to see it in a movie theatre (a wonderful old movie palace/art house in Milwaukee) on a nice big screen around the time the film was first released.
I don't know why but I've always enjoyed this song from Give 'Em Enough Rope:
Then Mick Jones had Big Audio Dynamite ... I think their stuff is interesting. I like No. 10 Upping St. - the original version on cassette at least.
I have three Joe Strummer CD's and like those too. When I still had cable I saw Joe Strummer acting in an interesting film - probably another goody from IFC Channel - called Mystery Train.
I remember reading about them when they were first active but didn't actually hear any of their music until a guy I knew at the time came over with a copy of London Calling (vinyl of course). First we listened to Train In Vain then I think some other songs too but not the entire album (and the vinyl was a two record set) - he'd brought over a stack of records!
When I got my own copy of London Calling I noticed something funny with Train In Vain ... on an automatic turntable if you try to bring the needle arm over far enough to try to listen to only that track ... it's just far enough over that the arm lifts right back up, goes back to its resting place and the turntable/record player shuts off! Too funny! That was my experience at least. So I either had to listen to the entire side of the record or a song or two before it.
More on London Calling ... always loved the music. Initially I was a bit put off by the vocals ... not sure whether it was Mick Jones or Joe Strummer or both ... but they grew on me lol!
I have a fair number of Clash albums on vinyl (plus Black Market Clash which looks like a 10" EP yet has 9 tracks on it and a 12" single of This Is Radio Clash) ... and cassette ... and CD ... and a box set (more CD's) called Clash On Broadway. Yet I hardly think I have everything Clash! Oh yeah and a DVD too ... and Rude Boy on a VHS tape which I recorded off the Independent Film Channel, I think.
Rude Boy ... the "plot" is ... whatever ... but it's a very good film for watching some Clash live performance video. I was fortunate to see it in a movie theatre (a wonderful old movie palace/art house in Milwaukee) on a nice big screen around the time the film was first released.
I don't know why but I've always enjoyed this song from Give 'Em Enough Rope:
Then Mick Jones had Big Audio Dynamite ... I think their stuff is interesting. I like No. 10 Upping St. - the original version on cassette at least.
I have three Joe Strummer CD's and like those too. When I still had cable I saw Joe Strummer acting in an interesting film - probably another goody from IFC Channel - called Mystery Train.
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