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jgatie said:
Meh, the socialist thing never bothered me. The day I look to rock stars for advice on politics or economics is the day I give up on everything. Besides, enough of Joe's lyrics dealt with the hypocrisy of being a rock star (White Man In Hammersmith Palais, Garage Band) that I truly believe he was in on the joke; even if they themselves were ripe with the same hypocrisy (US Festival).

But he could still be a dick.

That was well outweighed by the way they embraced their fans and truly believed they were a band for the people. Two statements about The Clash I will go to my grave believing - They are "The only band that matters", and "We need them now more than we needed them then". The Clash were rebels, and even if they were manufactured rebellion, I didn't care. To quote Marlon Brando in "The Wild Ones" when asked what he was rebelling against, he replied "Whatta you got?" That's The Clash to me.
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I always thought the "only band that matters" business was pretentious rubbish. But hey, to each his own.

I once got into an argument with a guy in high school was the only other person who dug punk & new wave. This was 1979.

This guy revered the Clash. When I questioned their cred visa vi the Pistols -- they were fashionistas, and so, of course, were Lydon & his pal Ritchie -- he was incensed by my lack of awe.

I lent him McCartney's Back To the Egg. He lent me London Calling (still by far my favorite).

Back To the Egg is a good record, often overlooked.

Even so, I got the better of the deal.
 
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GordonHowe said:
I always thought the "only band that matters" business was pretentious rubbish. But hey, to each his own.

I once got into an argument with a guy in high school was the only other person who dug punk & new wave. This was 1979.

This guy revered the Clash. When I questioned their cred visa vi the Pistols -- they were fashionistas, and so, of course, were Lydon & his pal Ritchie -- he was incensed by my lack of awe.

I lent him McCartney's Back To the Egg. He lent me London Calling (still by far my favorite).

Back To the Egg is a good record, often overlooked.

Even so, I got the better of the deal.
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Sure it's pretentious. That's the hypocrisy at work. Remember how Joe so inelegantly put it, "He who f***s nuns, will later join the church." They, much like U2 later, "Started to believe (their) own bullshit". Except it was salt of the Earth Adam Clayton who gave that quote, Bono really isn't that self-aware.

And yeah, you got the much better deal.
 
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JAD said:
Dierks Bentley

Drunk On A Plane


Somewhere On A Beach
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The beginning verse of Drunk on a Plane was one of the trivia questions last night. Had to complete the lyric (also the title). I KNEW I knew the song, but it's DJ Trivia, so they're playing other songs while you're thinking, and I just couldn't get the right melody to go with the lyrics they were showing. Bummed when the answer was shown. I love both of these videos btw. My favorite from that era has to be Billy Currington's "People are Crazy" though. Just love the story it tells.
 
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Many bands and musicians in the former Soviet Union played rock, punk, and metal, but were heavily stifled due to censorship and were prevented from truly expressing themselves in their music, much like many others. It wasn't until the 80s that rock music took hold thanks to the loosening grip over the USSR the CPSU had. And it was this band, Kino, which rose to the top. The late Viktor Tsoi's songwriting and rhythm guitar riffs paired amazingly with lead guitarist Yuri Kasparyan, as well as the bass of Igor Tikhomirov and the "drumwork" (really a drum machine) of Georgiy Guryanov as they wrote from the perspective of the withered and disillusioned Soviet citizen who was weary from the Soviet-Afghan war. Which this song, translated as Blood Type, was in protest of as well as war in general. It got so big that Blood Type, and the album named after it, were given a limited release in America by Capitol Records.

 
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Blowfish said:
IMO Under-rated. Unreal talent. Hope you enjoy GH.
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Very nice.

They're clearly intelligent, tight as a band, and they play with intention, as the actors say.

Thank you for sharing and I will investigate.

Problem has been, I would mix up Widespread Panic with Panic At The Disco!

I knew nothing of either, but even I gather that these are two very different bands.

Thanks again, please keep posting,

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EvilDead said:




Joji and The Weeknd are, for my money, the two best singers in modern pop because they actually do music that's different sounding and what people want to hear.
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Good stuff here too. Prefer the former but the latter is nice, too.

Thank you for posting.
 




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EvilDead said:




Released at a time when synth pop seemingly dead in the water outside of the original bands from the era, the unrepentant wave of nostalgia for the 1980s over twenty years after the decade in question came and gone popped out a whole new generation of synth pop musicians beyond the indie scene that sustained itself in the early 2000s. One of these was the band La Roux, who riding high from their collaborations with dubstep artists (who had the spotlight at the time) as well as a deal with Capcom to use their hit single in advertising for the game Bayonetta, were able to draw attention to the revitalized genre of synth pop along with other great British artists like Calvin Harris and Vincent James Turner. The rise of synth pop also came about in tandem with the birth of a sister genre synthwave, a melding of Eurodisco, Italo Disco, French House, Synth Pop, Electro, as well as drawing inspiration from 80s video games and 80s cinematic synthesizer scores for movies like Blade Runner and even the genre of heavy metal thanks to the genre of AOR and experimentation from bands like Maiden and Priest.
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My head is spinning.

Will check, and thank you for posting,

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Got the cast off my leg and gave me a walking boot. Give me one for the other foot and I could do the Herman Munster shuffle.
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"All right look at my shoes, Not quite the walking blues"



Del, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne, Don't Runaway, Just Walkaway

 
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Little Drummer Boy

Sabbath covered this


Pin Ups with Bowie


Eat your vegetables said Mothers


Part of his Journey
 
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