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Post by paulie on Sept 20, 2006 16:47:44 GMT -5
i was (pleasantly) surprised to hear should i stay or shoud i go in a Open Season commercial this afternoon. i don't think Paul has any creative control over the other songs in the movie but its always perplexed me why Paul prefered the pistols over the clash.
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Post by BronxTeacher on Sept 20, 2006 18:12:36 GMT -5
Paul doesn't seem to like didactic, political rock; neither do I. Somewhere on this message board are some excerpts from interviews where he talks about how he had no use for Sandinista!
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Post by MWells on Sept 20, 2006 20:17:47 GMT -5
Paul doesn't seem to like didactic, political rock; neither do I. Somewhere on this message board are some excerpts from interviews where he talks about how he had no use for Sandinista! Strummer wasn't a big fan of The Mats, either, apparently, so I guess the feeling was mutual. Oh, well... Regardless, I love 'em both! |
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Post by scoOter on Sept 21, 2006 8:07:02 GMT -5
it doesn't surprise me in the least paul prefers the pistols to the clash. that said, i prefer the clash to the pistols. like by the hugest degree imaginable.
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Post by The Lizzard on Sept 21, 2006 9:23:56 GMT -5
it doesn't surprise me in the least paul prefers the pistols to the clash. that said, i prefer the clash to the pistols. like by the hugest degree imaginable. I second that! Then again, I'd also rather have the Ramones over all of 'em. Clash is a close runner-up, though. |
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Post by BronxTeacher on Sept 21, 2006 17:20:55 GMT -5
Paul doesn't seem to like didactic, political rock; neither do I. Somewhere on this message board are some excerpts from interviews where he talks about how he had no use for Sandinista! Strummer wasn't a big fan of The Mats, either, apparently, so I guess the feeling was mutual. Oh, well... Regardless, I love 'em both! Actually, the Strummer interviewer reported only that Strummer "wasn't a fan"...which is entirely different from not liking them. It's possible that Joe just wasn't familiar with the Mats. |
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Post by salparadise on Sept 21, 2006 18:48:08 GMT -5
yea, very weird indeed. just listen to "clampdown" for example, that tune alone sounds like THE proto-mats song.
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Post by Tarzan on Sept 21, 2006 21:26:17 GMT -5
I recall an interview where PW said he bought a Clash record (London Calling?) and took it back the same day. PW said Strummer couldn't sing worth a damn.
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Post by MWells on Sept 21, 2006 22:38:03 GMT -5
Strummer wasn't a big fan of The Mats, either, apparently, so I guess the feeling was mutual. Oh, well... Regardless, I love 'em both! Actually, the Strummer interviewer reported only that Strummer "wasn't a fan"...which is entirely different from not liking them. It's possible that Joe just wasn't familiar with the Mats. I sit corrected.  |
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Post by headlightbeams on Sept 22, 2006 6:47:09 GMT -5
"After this we discussed reggae, Latin music, the Replacements (he wasn't a fan) ..."
—Anthony Roman, lead singer for Radio 4, on a conversation with Joe Strummer, maybe around 1990, in the book "Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer"
"Maybe their best. My younger sister was realy into them and I would listen to London Calling through her bedroom wall. I went to see them on a triple bill with David Johansen and The Undertones. The sound was awful but they came on and it was probably the perfect thing I needed to see. It was before i was in The Replacements and was still listening to hippie music. I went to see them and everything changed overnight. I was right up front in a big crush of people. I liked the aggression of their music but I didn't give a damn what they were talking about because it didn't relate to my life and by Sandinista! I had no use for any of that crap. But I thought they looked very cool and they were a very capable rock band, more than they were a punk band."
—Paul Westerberg, on the song "London Calling," in an all-star poll of rock n roll people on the Clash's 30 best songs, in the Dec. 2003 issue of Uncut
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Post by paulie on Sept 22, 2006 9:18:05 GMT -5
I recall an interview where PW said he bought a Clash record (London Calling?) and took it back the same day. PW said Strummer couldn't sing worth a damn. i haven't read that quote before so i have to hear it in its full context to even describe how off the wall it is( or how true). joe strummer was great. his singing, guitar, lyrics, style, everything was phenomenal. if they reunited and reformed the traveling Willburies Paul and Joe (if he was alive) would be a perfect fit. none of the Sex Pistols could sing or play to save their lives. |
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Post by headlightbeams on Sept 22, 2006 14:34:08 GMT -5
kgp must know where this comes from, but I'm pretty sure it was not London Calling but the first "The Clash" LP that PW said he returned to the store. Presumably the US release, which of course was actually released here after the second Clash LP and had a different mix of songs then did the UK version of "The Clash". Maybe PW would have kept it if it had "Protex Blue."
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