Dunno why Al stuck this up…but I have hijacked the post and stuck some meat onto the bones via one of the most uplifting songs ever put onto plastic…Penguin x
Dunno why Al stuck this up…but I have hijacked the post and stuck some meat onto the bones via one of the most uplifting songs ever put onto plastic…Penguin x
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Penguin
February 17, 2008 at 2:54 amThe best track ever written and recorded? Yeah, go on…three minutes twelve seconds of majesty…your my guitar hero…!
alistairliv • Post Author •
February 17, 2008 at 9:47 amI stuck it up after listening to the Clash live music here which inspired me to dig out my battered old copy of Complete Control and even more battered Clash song book. I was going to write something but the emotions were too strong.
Nuzz
February 17, 2008 at 11:25 amIf yer into The Clash take a trip to this forum :
http://clashcity.com/boards/index.php
There is as much live stuff available for download as you can fill yer hard drive with, all for free and all shared by complete clash heads.
Penguin
February 17, 2008 at 11:32 amWhen / if you begin writing then Al, get rid of my message but keep the music post!
Steve
February 17, 2008 at 2:03 pmI’ve always wondered what Strummer was singing from 2.20 onwards. The line gets faded out diplomatically but it sounds like something to do with (gulp) drugs.
Still a truly FANTASTIC record!
alistairliv • Post Author •
February 17, 2008 at 8:48 pmJust put words to song up. Yes the lines is about drugs.
Steve
February 17, 2008 at 11:34 pmHa! So ironically The Clash applied self-censorship to a song about artistic freedom… (unless of course the decision to obscure the line was taken by either CBS or Bernie Rhodes – in which case the ironies of *that* would make by head spin!)
But it’s contradictions like that which make their records still resonate in a way that more ideologically “pure” ones don’t….