London Calling

[stanley75]

tune
am old enough, lucky enough to have seen the clash live. R.I.P. Joe

Don't mate! I'm old enough to have seen them support the Pistols! Although I was only 13 tbh.

I always thought the Clash peaked with the first album. At the time I couldn't've imagined the band that banged out London's Burning, Bored with USA and White Riot would end up doing nonsense (imo) like Rock the Casbah. Fact is I think Strummer reverted to the music he was more comfortable with toward the end. That was sort of pub rock/RnB. Saw him at early Glastonburys too. As a punter. Bit of a hippy on the quiet (him not me).

[waterbuffalo]

thing that irritates me is on the radio, in the US and elsewhere, they only play -should I stay, Casbah, I fought the law, but they don't play lost in the supermarket or the dub, reggae stuff, which is the stuff I really like, they don't make em like the pistols and the clash anymore, or the boomtown rats, for that matter.

[DeepcutHoop]

a writer from the 20's
the new york crowd,
the algonquin table..

And very, very funny. Recently read her New Yorker book reviews from the late twenties. Superb.

[waterbuffalo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa4IQj9P180

career opportunities

[waterbuffalo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVygiX0KEEw

clash/snyder/81

[waterbuffalo]

this is England

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcKsAMD8WqI&feature=related

[waterbuffalo]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrcpxpbgAnc&feature=related

billy english civil war
the levellers

[Fraggy]

Im in the #### end of nowhere & the local radio stations here play Londons calling at least once a day