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  • December 14, 2009 at 1:15 pm #12080
    neilwheel

    Music lovers take note :

    Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of ‘London Calling’ by The Clash, a milestone in rock music.

    Play It Loud!

    http://frameforum.org/lc2b4.jpg

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  • January 7, 2010 at 5:51 pm #632673
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    Tony Farrelly

    Fantastic.
    Wonder if they’ll
    Fantastic.

    Wonder if they’ll do one for All wrapped up by the Undertones?

    http://www.iwillfollow.com/ttwo/20071214_TheUndertones.jpg

    Possibly not classic enough…

    January 7, 2010 at 5:46 pm #632671
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    neilwheel

    You’ve played the album,
    You’ve played the album, bought the t-shirt, now lick the stamp :

    http://bit.ly/7Thldq

    December 24, 2009 at 9:41 am #632669
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    demoff

    Sorry the Razorbacks sound
    Sorry the Razorbacks sound like a lot of other bands out there and to me don’t stand out from the crowd.

    December 21, 2009 at 4:05 pm #632667
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    clubborntobike

    If you like the Clash try
    If you like the Clash try these http://www.myspace.com/therazorbacks or type this in on You tube….Shooting Stars – By Leigh Bucknall….. he is the singer I was lucky enough to see the Clash Live when I was a kid and these are the best band Ive seen since……Albums out in Feb

    December 20, 2009 at 5:38 pm #632665
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    Blackhound

    ‘White Man at Hammersmith
    ‘White Man at Hammersmith Palais’ was always one of my favourite Clash songs.

    Never a big Jam fan but did like ‘down at the tube station at midnight’ Living in the Midlands never really ‘lived’ it. Nearest for me was wandering around Willesden to/from seeing The Men They Couldn’t Hang on one of there last gigs. (Reformed later)

    December 17, 2009 at 3:46 pm #632663
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    Fringe

    spotify has been distracting
    spotify has been distracting me from all the other things i should be doing for some time now.. 😀

    December 17, 2009 at 3:17 pm #632661
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    Anonymous

    Just found Your Ready Now by
    Just found Your Ready Now by Slaughter and the Dogs, the tune me and my mates used to have to play before we hit the town…good times

    December 17, 2009 at 3:00 pm #632659
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    Anonymous

    Spotify has been serving me
    Spotify has been serving me up some gems this morning, Smash It Up and Love Song followed by The Wait and Requiem and finished off with The Subs Tomorrows Girls.

    December 17, 2009 at 1:10 pm #632657
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    Simon_MacMichael

    OldRidgeback wrote:I play the

    OldRidgeback wrote:
    I play the song to my kids and we sing along and do the actions. They’re Brixton born and bred.

    That immediately made me think of Mickey Gallagher’s daughter doing a version of Guns of Brixton on Sandanista 🙂

    Talking of Guns of Brixton, I can still remember the disappointment I felt the first time I ever heard that bass intro on the Radio 1 breakfast show back in the day, big grin on my face as I prepared to sing along, and it turned out to be Dub Be Good To Me.

    Still catches me out.

    December 17, 2009 at 12:11 pm #632655
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    OldRidgeback

    Great album – one of my all
    Great album – one of my all time favourites – I have it on vinyl and CD. When I saw the Clash in Edinburgh in the early 80s, I got to the mosh pit and then when they reached the end of their set Joe Strummer leaned forward and asked, “What do you want us to play?”

    I shouted out, “Guns of Brixton,” and you can guess what they played.

    I play the song to my kids and we sing along and do the actions. They’re Brixton born and bred.

    December 17, 2009 at 9:53 am #632653
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    Tony Farrelly

    Down in the Tube Station was
    Down in the Tube Station was my favourite too… had quite a few close encounters down there

    December 17, 2009 at 9:23 am #632651
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    Anonymous

    Guns of Brixton and Clash
    Guns of Brixton and Clash City Rockers will always be my favourite tracks of the Clash.

    Tube Station at Midnight by The Jam always summed up the feeling of the time, and being in the wrong place at the wrong time for me.

    I found myself similar situations quite often back in those days – I remember a major shoeing by a crew of Millwall skinheads who got on my bus, I was the only local skinhead on there! I did alright considering, but me against about 40 was tough going!

    December 16, 2009 at 9:50 pm #632649
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    Tony Farrelly

    I’ll have a dig around
    I’ll have a dig around Blackhound – should still be in my loft, got a mighty crate of vinyl up there and I don’t play London Calling often. Though it might be sacrilege to say it here I thought it would have made a really great single album… possibly they’d stretched themselves a bit thin over two discs… mind you, it was a big return to form after their second album… got that on vinyl too, and the first one, stopped after London Calling though.

    For me none of their albums match up to the single White Man in Hammersmith Palais (not selling that btw) a real slice of the sense of danger that accompanied a night out in London in the late 70s particularly the sudden realisation that you were somewhere where your face didn’t fit and that if you didn’t get out pronto various other vital parts of your body were going to stop fitting too.

    December 16, 2009 at 8:34 pm #632647
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    Anonymous

    I remember seing them at the
    I remember seing them at the Fridge in Brixton in the eighties. Not a great time for a lone skinhead on the Railton Rd!

    December 16, 2009 at 8:03 pm #632645
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    Blackhound

    Wonderful album, saw them not
    Wonderful album, saw them not long after the release at the Assembly Rooms in Derby.

    Never got it on vinyl for some reason but have the CD.

    If you track down that vinyl copy Tony and you want to sell I would be interested – still listen to a lot of vinyl….

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