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Offline Drunky

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« on: September 22, 2004, 12:25:18 AM »
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« Reply #1 on: September 22, 2004, 12:28:47 AM »
no offense to you Drunky, but I can't believe how some critics rave about that band as if they were some ground-breaking act, awesome act.
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« Reply #2 on: September 22, 2004, 12:31:44 AM »
Drunky... wow... First the Jerk, then The Clash.

The Clash...

Nuke.... BLASPHEMER!

The Clash... I dunno if anything's really beat them yet.
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« Reply #3 on: September 22, 2004, 12:33:02 AM »
Strummer R.I.P!
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« Reply #4 on: September 22, 2004, 12:38:09 AM »
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Drunky... wow... First the Jerk, then The Clash.

The Clash...

Nuke.... BLASPHEMER!

The Clash... I dunno if anything's really beat them yet.


Nash, I guess it's just because I was in highschool when they hit and saw nothing very special in what they were doing at the time.

I hated Rock this Casbah and London Calling too.
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« Reply #5 on: September 22, 2004, 12:38:35 AM »
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no offense to you Drunky, but I can't believe how some critics rave about that band as if they were some ground-breaking act, awesome act.


No skin off my teeth.  But...

1.  They were punk before punk was recognized as punk.  Now that's punk...or gansta...can't remember.

2.  They were notably aggressively political attacking things that others hadn't before.  Much before the Sex Pistols God Save the Queen mind you.

3.  The also melded a massive multitude of magnificent music into a funky fresh new type of sound.  Reggae, blues, punk, rock, pop...it's all there.

But then of course, the Beatles were also just another band.
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« Reply #6 on: September 22, 2004, 12:59:06 AM »
Another really cool thing about the Clash... (I was talking about this with my brother on a road-trip we took this summer).....

Around the time of Sandanista! they developed a style, lyrically, of talking about war.... not in an angry protest sense... but just... I dunno - almost poetic. It wasn't about blame, and it didn't seem to pass any judgement on it whatsoever. It was just slices of life during war.

And it occured... no other band before or since has done this.

If you haven't heard Sandanista! you should give it a twirl... Very nostalgic - even though it can't be. Not aggressive or anything either - quite the opposite. It's like you and they are there during it and, it's not a bad thing or good thing - it just is.
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« Reply #7 on: September 22, 2004, 12:59:54 AM »
The Clash were good.  The Beetles tongue balls.
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