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Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7
| Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 01:11 pm: | |
I bought this a birthday present for my sister the other day...Quickly dawned on me she already had it so thought I'd keep it myself...Never heard it despite all the 'It's the best' type stuff. I lasted two songs - didn't do a thing for me I'm afraid - 0oops! Does it get better later folks or does it just drone on in the same dreary fashion like a boring sub-Pearl jam ?(another band I can't get my head around). And while I running on I never 'got' The Clash or The Jam NEITHER! gcw |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146
| Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 01:44 pm: | |
I lasted all the songs but I'm not a fan either. I reckon early death works wonders for some folk. Never 'got' The Clash either, but liked The Jam... |
Protodroid (Protodroid) Username: Protodroid
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 160.6.1.47
| Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 02:02 pm: | |
Music bores insist its sublime, but it's a drone. The only good song in it has been ruined by use in the musical montages that end most American television drama programmes these days. |
Allybird (Allybird) Username: Allybird
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.70.91.247
| Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 02:03 pm: | |
I liked London Calling. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146
| Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 03:08 pm: | |
London Calling's ok, as is Rock the Casbah and a few others, but as far as I'm concerned they were just another band, not gods. Unlike GCW, who's quite obviously a rock god, Gibson Flying Vee and all... |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146
| Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 03:13 pm: | |
A good image is worth repeating* *apologies to Universal films |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7
| Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 03:19 pm: | |
....Thats My Baby! gcw |
Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.77.60.218
| Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 05:29 pm: | |
I always thought that Grace was massively overrated. Like the odd track but, overall, it bores me stiff I'm afraid. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.96.241.143
| Posted on Sunday, January 25, 2009 - 05:54 pm: | |
Never heard it, GCW. But I love The Clash, The Jam and Pearl Jam (their debut album is an absolute classic). If you listen to That's Entertainment or Down in the Tube Station at Midnight and still don't get The Jam there's no hope for you, my friend. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.184.161
| Posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 - 12:44 am: | |
And 'Going Underground'. And 'Dreams of Children'. And 'The Butterfly Collector' (about Andy Warhol?). The most poetic of the New Wave songwriters. Though Hazel O'Connor is a close second. |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146
| Posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 - 01:00 am: | |
Hazel O'Connor? The greatest songwriter known to man (or woman)? |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7
| Posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 - 11:39 pm: | |
"If you listen to That's Entertainment or Down in the Tube Station at Midnight and still don't get The Jam there's no hope for you, my friend." I am aware of both songs mate...And remain unmoved by the sub-Who copyist perpetrators.....! gcw_! |
Steve Bacon (Stevebacon)
Username: Stevebacon
Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 90.213.27.228
| Posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 - 11:42 pm: | |
Does that Marshall amp go up to 11? |
Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.244.136.131
| Posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 - 11:44 pm: | |
I liked, no, loved roughly half the songs on the album Grace; but these days I don't play it anymore. |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7
| Posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 - 11:45 pm: | |
..To elaborate...I found The Jam difficult to like as to me, they copied their image & sound from the Who's Mod period. Plus in '79, you either had to be a Mod(2nd time around) or a Rocker -I went for the latter. Did love the Specials though...did The Jam ever write a song as good as Ghost Town? - I don't think so...And even if they did, i don't like Weller's voice.(!). The Clash? not so much dislike as ...Always wonder why they get the kudos over better bands like The Ruts... gcw |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7
| Posted on Monday, January 26, 2009 - 11:47 pm: | |
"Does that Marshall amp go up to 11?" It sure does, but as I suffer from tinnitus (or 'Weller' as I call it!) I only play on '10' gcw |
Huw (Huw) Username: Huw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 218.168.180.20
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 07:23 am: | |
I've never loved The Clash, but I do have a big soft spot for certain of their songs, as I grew up with all that stuff. I still think 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais', 'Complete Control', 'Safe European Home', 'Spanish Bombs' and a few others are classics. I liked their reggae style stuff too, like 'Guns of Brixton', 'Armagideon Time' (sp?), and their covers of songs like 'Police and Thieves' and 'I Fought the Law'. Gcw - I was listening to The Crack the other day, and it still sounds great. A real shame about Paul Fox. I met him a couple of times and he was always keen to chat (especially about the guitar and the things he got up to with his mate Rat Scabies). |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:18 am: | |
GCW - I agree about Ghost Town. One of the best pop songs ever written. |
Zed (Gary_mc) Username: Gary_mc
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 213.219.8.243
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:19 am: | |
And when I say pop, I mean it in the best sense: great popular music, rather than empty pop nonsense. Back then, thew term pop wasn't the insult it is now. |
Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b
Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.165.182
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 10:23 am: | |
For Jam lovers and haters alike: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=KIjLhbnBK-c |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 02:42 pm: | |
I can't believe no-one's mentioned The Stone Roses in this thread yet... |
Weber_gregston (Weber_gregston) Username: Weber_gregston
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 212.121.214.11
| Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 02:50 pm: | |
Ian Brown is a chavvy dickhead who deserves to be shot for his droning dreary crap. |
Joel (Joel) Username: Joel
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 91.110.171.101
| Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 12:22 am: | |
Maybe, but 'Made of Stone' is a brilliant song. 'The last thing that your hands will feel...' Bloody hell. |
Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7
| Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 09:11 pm: | |
"I can't believe no-one's mentioned The Stone Roses in this thread yet..." Stop.iT.nOW. gcw |
Mick Curtis (Mick)
Username: Mick
Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146
| Posted on Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 11:16 pm: | |
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