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     Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
I liked London Calling. | ||
| Mick Curtis (Mick) Username: Mick Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.157.92.146 |
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 |
 A good image is worth repeating* *apologies to Universal films | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
....Thats My Baby! gcw  | ||
| Jonathan (Jonathan) Username: Jonathan Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 79.77.60.218 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Hazel O'Connor? The greatest songwriter known to man (or woman)? | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.151.125.7 |
"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 |
Does that Marshall amp go up to 11? | ||
| Tom_alaerts (Tom_alaerts) Username: Tom_alaerts Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.244.136.131 |
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 |
..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 |
"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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
"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 |
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