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    • February 6, 2010 10:51 PM CST
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    • Michael Kaiser said:

      Now that you mention it, I recall Billy Childish referencing that song in an interview, so I guess I've heard of it by proxy. I also remembered that I have those Thee Stash recordings. So there's 4 more, I suppose.

      One can gather what an impression the Clash has made on me. I think it must be due to despising that "Rock The Casbah" song so much in my youth that I figured it wasn't worth pursuing the band much further. Heck! for all I know they may be the greatest thing since Emmett Lord!

      Strike my testimony from the record.

      YOU GOT GOOD TASTE said:
      What about ''I'm so bored of the USA' ?
      Michael Kaiser said:
      Besides "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay..." I can't name one Clash song.
      Billy Childish also did a cover of "1977" with Thee Mighty Caesars that appeared on one of those DOPE GUNS AND FUCKING IN THE STREETS compilations on Amphetimine Reptile. Probably not a record label you'd enjoy but there was some decent stuff on the comp that they appeard on. Maybe but maybe not, you'd probably like their first album whether the UK or US versions. The Clash do a decent version of Vince Taylor's "Brand New Cadillac" but it's stuck on the LONDON CALLING album,which I feel is kind of overrated.

    • February 6, 2010 8:17 PM CST
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    • Now that you mention it, I recall Billy Childish referencing that song in an interview, so I guess I've heard of it by proxy. I also remembered that I have those Thee Stash recordings. So there's 4 more, I suppose. One can gather what an impression the Clash has made on me. I think it must be due to despising that "Rock The Casbah" song so much in my youth that I figured it wasn't worth pursuing the band much further. Heck! for all I know they may be the greatest thing since Emmett Lord! Strike my testimony from the record. YOU GOT GOOD TASTE said:

      What about ''I'm so bored of the USA' ?
      Michael Kaiser said:
      Besides "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay..." I can't name one Clash song.

    • February 6, 2010 8:05 PM CST
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    • What about ''I'm so bored of the USA' ? Michael Kaiser said:

      Besides "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay..." I can't name one Clash song.

    • February 6, 2010 7:52 PM CST
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    • Besides "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay..." I can't name one Clash song.

    • February 6, 2010 5:20 PM CST
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    • fast eddie said:

      I have to agree with lord muck, they were most definitely punk. Punk at the time was more about the social revolution not just music. The press added the label not the artists. I'd rather listen to white riot than any pistols track, live it was an inspiration. If you can't call the clash punk you'd better rule out the ramones (who really wanted to be a surf band , just didn't have the chops to play it at the time), plus as Lord muck said they were great live
      I have friends who's band in 76/77 hated the punk label and called themselves hoodlum rock, but they were probably the best of the Toronto punk bands (the ugly - good luck finding their stuff) If you look back now most of the stuff seems pretty tame in comparison, but if you were there it changed music and art for the better (not to mention the fact that a lot of what we listen to now would likely never have come about without the first wave kicking down the walls of mediocrity that had developed in the music scene)
      Hoodlum rock:That's a great term. I mean think of it. That's what a lot of these sixties bands look like and bands like the Ramones and Dead Boys sound like...a bunch of hoods.

    • February 5, 2010 11:52 AM CST
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    • Not punk.

      Not even a good band. Ugh.
      I'll let white riot and 1977 off but that's about it.

    • February 3, 2010 4:58 PM CST
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    • my two cents on this is yes I get where you are coming from, but all in all- yeah they can get the punk credit. Just as much as when you look back at Led Zepplin and can say they started heavy metal. For the music coming out at the time, there was noone out there that took all these influences and put a harder edge to it. But when you see what is punk these days, 20 years down the road we'll say the same thing again.

    • February 3, 2010 8:11 AM CST
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    • I have to agree with lord muck, they were most definitely punk. Punk at the time was more about the social revolution not just music. The press added the label not the artists. I'd rather listen to white riot than any pistols track, live it was an inspiration. If you can't call the clash punk you'd better rule out the ramones (who really wanted to be a surf band , just didn't have the chops to play it at the time), plus as Lord muck said they were great live
      I have friends who's band in 76/77 hated the punk label and called themselves hoodlum rock, but they were probably the best of the Toronto punk bands (the ugly - good luck finding their stuff) If you look back now most of the stuff seems pretty tame in comparison, but if you were there it changed music and art for the better (not to mention the fact that a lot of what we listen to now would likely never have come about without the first wave kicking down the walls of mediocrity that had developed in the music scene)

    • February 3, 2010 8:07 AM CST
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    • So much of a label's meaning is derived from both the context of its use and the experience of the labeler that it's damn near impossible to settle such a debate. In fact, in this particular scenario, the Clash are pretty much interchangeable with the MC5, the Stooges, the Sonics or even - in the hands of the most skilled contrarian - the Beatles and/or Elvis. The best you can hope for is an agreement to disagree. To illustrate my point, I propose that Johnny Cash was far more punk than just about anybody mentioned so far. Further, he was so before such a thing a punk was even on the "scene" radar. What's punker than that? The Clash experimented with lots of different sounds and were largely just ahead of the curve in terms of what the next big thing was. While their s/t was released in the UK the same year as Bollocks, many more bands borrowed from the Clash than from the Sex Pistols, musically speaking and, for better or worse, much more of the Clash's contribution is evident in today's sounds than that of the Pistols'. London Calling incorporated musical styles and production values that other "punk" bands of the time wouldn't have touched. If your criteria is that punk goes against the grain of the times, you have a pretty solid argument for the punk-ness of the Clash. If your criteria has to do with clothes and attitude, that's an entirely different debate, I suppose but it would still be hard to make the argument that the Clash didn't, at least, give it a college try. Personally, - with the exception of Combat Rock - I like the Clash regardless of which categories they might fall into. Additionally, Joe Strummer's solo output serves as evidence that, musically, the Clash were, at the very least, musically capable and, at most, "the only band (punk or otherwise) that matters."

      Side note: Generally, these types of arguments degenerate quickly into name calling and sanctimonious name-dropping. I'm new to this forum so it's nice to see some cogent and civilized discourse. Carry on.

    • February 3, 2010 5:36 AM CST
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    • WOW! AM i really Glad i stumbled onto this ix!! FOR YEARS i had wondered:"Did i miss SOMETHING??" when it came to these guys.. arriving at the conclusion that i DID NOT.. My "view" (views) ON them.. being EVEN MORE EXTREME than yours.. I bought A CLASH Album.. "ONCE".. The "Green One"!! ~didn't have it long enough to EVEN figger-out the title!! within a week or two.. i took that SUCKER back to the record merchant that i'd bought it from, begging him to:"BUY IT BACK" from me!! i was probably craving "SOMETHING.. LOUDER & FASTER!!"!! around this same time..buying a 7"ep. by a little known Band called:"ANTIDOTE"! &..another 7" Called: "DEAD ROCK 'N' ROLLERS"!!..which seemed to merge with & fit my sensibilities(??!!) ..at The time. Their So-Called POLITRICKS.. WERE Apparrently"LOST".. ON this youth... i have a 10" Of: "GIVE 'EM ENOUGH ROPE"..But Your Comments LEAVE me scratching my head as to: "Why the FUCK i have it??.. haven't given that ONE a spin.. in YEARS!!"...was it because Of The 10" factor?? and, i think, the 45 that came with The aforementioned:"Green Album" might still be floating around my place.. SOME WHERE.. The ONLY tune Of theirs.. that SOLICITES ANY kind Of response or reaction (and SUMS THEM UP Pretty well .. FOR ME) from me is: "Rock The Casbah" a band morphing, changing with the times.."Trying-Out alittle DISCO JOE??!", ..very VERY 80's!! I revisited "LONDON CALLING"..err i think it was.. some years back at the request Of a dearly appreciated musical friend & MUSE.. and don't EVEN REMEMBER my reaction!! ALL that tripe being said,... Its really and Obviously a "matter Of Opinion" man. do i consider THEM SO?? A LOUD & resounding "NO!" ..but Clearly I AM in The minority here.. Which is Alright by me! ME & ME RECORDS have SURVIVED "Quite Nicely".. without THEM.

    • February 6, 2010 5:09 PM CST
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    • Not that I'm condoning any of this, but isn't it something he normally could have handled if he hadn't had the flu at this time...of course, falling asleep with that much junk in your system isn't good either...better to let it wear off before crashing. Better not to do any junk in the first place.

    • February 6, 2010 12:52 PM CST
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    • Jay Reatard Blows It-- that about sums this up.. Stupid

    • February 6, 2010 12:59 PM CST
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    • Some great choices, as usual.
      My monthly sub recharges tomorrow, yes!

    • February 6, 2010 12:48 PM CST
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    • My eMusic downloads the past month ..

      * Slipping And Sliding by Big Al Downing. He was an Okie kid who idolized Fats Domino, a country boy who loved rock 'n' roll. He won a talent contest on Coffeyville. Kansas radio station singing "Blueberry Hill." One of the listeners was a white singer named Bobby Poe who hired Downing, still a teenager, to play piano and sing in his band The Poe Cats. The Poe Cats were hired as the backup band for a young rockabilly gal from Oklahoma, Wanda Jackson and in 1957 backed her on her biggest song "Let's Have a Party."

      It was one of the first integrated rock 'n' roll bands and it wasn't easy on Downing. In 2003, he told No Depression, “I remember once when we were in Butte, Montana ... There were no blacks anywhere in the town. They put a blanket over my head and we went into the hotel. Once we got to the show, people were hurling food and other things at me on the stage and we had to go back to the dressing room.”

      But besides his work with Jackson, Downing, with the Poe Cats cut lots of tunes on their own and that's what's on this collection. Domino's influence is apparent on several of the tracks, as is Little Richard's. Los Lobos fans will recognize "Georgia Slop." Basically this album is full of every I love about early rock 'n' roll. Big Al is one of the great under-recognized heroes of the era.


      * Hill Country Revue: Live at Bonnaroo by North Mississippi Allstars. This live set from the 2004 festival in Tennessee is a gathering of the Dickinson (Luther, Cody and daddy Jim) and the Burnside (R.L., his sons Garry and Duwayne, and his grandson Cody) families plus some friends like Othar Turner's Rising Star Fife & Drum Band (featuring the grandchildren of the late fife master), Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes and others.

      What they produced was a magic mix of blues, Southern rock and some Dixie-fried psychedelia. "Psychedelic Sex Machine" is just loads of fun. But Jim Dickinson's version of "Down in Mississippi" (written by J.B. Lenoir, but a signature song of the elder Dickinson) might be the mightiest version he ever did.

      * The Essential Carl Smith 1950-1956. This honky tonk giant toured with Hank Williams, who got him his first appearance on the Grand Old Opry in 1950. He married June Carter before Johnny Cash did (Carlene Carter is his daughter). And when he died last month, The Nashville Tennessean in his obit used an old quote from Waylon Jennings: "From the minute he came out, I wanted to look like him, tried to comb my hair like him and learned every song he ever recorded."

      This collection of 20 songs from 1950 to 1956 makes you realize what Waylon was talking about. You can hear Hank's influence in songs like "Trademark" (which was co-written by Porter Wagoner) and "Are You Teasing Me" (a Louvin Brothers song). Meanwhile songs like "Go Boy Go" and "Back Up Buddy" ("back up, buddy, don't you come any closer/I know you want her, but the answer is `No, sir' ...") sound as if they were recorded right on the border of honky tonk and rockabilly.
      Plus:


      * Most of The Sheik Said Shake by Hipbone Slim & The Knee-Tremblers. Allright! Voodoo Rhythm last month quietly added a bunch of albums to eMusic including some relatively new ones (The Pussywarmers, The Movie Star Junkies and the latest from King Automatic and The Guilty Hearts).

      This is Hipbone Slim's third Voodoo Rhythm album, released a couple of years ago. Like his previous albums is dangerous sounding British psychobilly.

      So far I don't hear anything quite as snarling as the title song ofSnake Pit or as catchy as "What Do You Look Like," Sir Bald Diddley's duet with Holly Golightly on Have Knees, Will Tremble. 

      Still, it's irresistible. I'll definitely pick up the rest of this album when my account refreshes next week.

      And (speaking of the rest of an album) ...

      * The remaining four tracks from tracks from No Requests Tonight by The Devil Dogs, which I didn't get last month. It's good and rocking, though my favorite track on the album still is the cover of Sonny Bono's "Laugh at Me."

    • February 5, 2010 1:45 AM CST
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    • wow!thanks, will give it a listen and include a track or rwo in my next podcast

    • February 4, 2010 5:57 PM CST
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    • Phantom surfers,Slacktone (once i saw them in Genova IT,but I was late,just in time for the last song!!).
      And I like The Vulcanos but I don't know if it's a new or old band.Impala and Untamed Youth are not bad.

    • February 4, 2010 3:41 PM CST
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    • I'd have to go with the same bands above (Phantom Surfers, Satan's Pilgrims, The Apemen(yeah,they are from the Netherlands)) plus the Bomboras , the Ghastley Ones, Los Straitjackets, and (I'm surprised nobody's mentioned them) Jackie and the Cedrics. Embarrassing to say this but I'm really not up on who's really current.

    • February 4, 2010 5:47 PM CST
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    • Hmmm....I've been searching through these forums for the pic I asked about and still can't find it....could have sworn I saw it in the discussion "What's spinnin' on your turntable" or something like that" but I noticed that two pictures are gone... one entry has a "deleted by photobucket" in lew of a picture....and another entry has a box with a red x instead of a picture.... anyway....to give a hint of what I'm looking for....imagine this Mad Monster Party if it looked more like this the living dead Pictures, Images and Photos anybody NOT know what i'm talking about?

    • February 2, 2010 4:51 PM CST
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    • I saw that picture when I was doing bing and google searches but no...it looked like a picture from the sixties...I know I saw it here in one of the forum topics a while back but can't seemto find it now. Thanks though. sworn liars said:

      what about this?

    • February 2, 2010 4:09 PM CST
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    • I don't think this is mad monster party.

    • February 2, 2010 3:51 PM CST
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    • what about this?

    • February 2, 2010 2:39 PM CST
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    • Nah, that wasn't it. No, these looked like real skeletons and it's somewhere here posted in the forums but I can't find it. Probably one of those photobucket pictures that expired.... BLACKCAT69 said:


      The Nebulas?

    • February 3, 2010 11:40 AM CST
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    • I think the Barman is refering to the Bondi Lifesaver in 1980.