What are you listening to? The world really needs to know - Mark IV

Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
Not the cheeriest tune in the world,but fabulous anyway:

First single released from their new album end of last year, acoustic version good too.
 
Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
Can pinpoint the moment I fell in love with Joe Strummer; when he laughs through the line about Burton Suits. Played this so much, my dad threatened to throw it out, to which I shouted about living in the Kremlin and with newly formed female Hoity-Toityness, would slam my bedroom door. Ahhh sweet youth.

 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
Funny, I just listened to this song two days ago, and I don't often pull out the Clash singles.

If Adolph Hitler were here today
They'd send a limousine anyway

I always thought it was a great song because it was very critical of something he loved, and that isn't an easy thing to do. But I suppose if you've positioned yourself as The Voice of the People, you sort of have to do it.
 
Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
Agreed.The Clash were the first band to introduce me to politics at a young age. He takes a side swipe at the bands being too superficial and commercial, and the fiercely divided gap at the time between Mods and Rockers, racism and the underlying issues of right wing politics.But at the time, I mostly just quite fancied him,despite him being an ex public school boy.
 
Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
Today,Peter Gabriel and Squeeze, apologies for the naff Squeeze lyrics, just need a bouncing dot going along and we're all set.


 
Purple Stickpin

Purple Stickpin

For those of you who think that the Dead are all about noodling and tuning and allsorts, they really get down to business when they dredge up this Rev Gary Davis chestnut in 1989. A late '60s staple that they hadn't played since Pigpen was still with them. And while this is mostly about the vocals, it's hard to ignore Phil's thick bass lines that cut through:

 
Johannes

Johannes

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Not really a fan of (german) punk I recently read something about this band and their surroundings.

Pretty interesting story. They were the first and ever punk band of the German Democratic Republic in the 80's whose LP made it across the border into West-Germany. And this was only because it was a split-LP together with another Band, called "Zwitschermaschine". And the lead singer of Zwitschermaschine, Sascha Anderson, had been an informant for the Ministry for State Security in the German Democratic Republic, spying on all his friends, bandmates and colleagues. Which was why he had "friends" in high places who allowed him to produce the LP. It was called "DDR von unten".

Ironically, this song is called "Spitzel" = Informant.

 
PhillyDave

PhillyDave

“The essential doesn't change.” Beckett
Just discovered The Doors "L.A. Woman" was released this day in 1971. And by coincidence i was listening to this on the ride to work.

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mjp

mjp

Founding member
I love this because it's so dynamic and rocking and paranoid, and the white American men that play it just aren't free! Don't you understand?!

Plus, come on, any band that is so repulsive that you can't show their heads (except in grainy video inserts) has to be just the most awesome band in the world.

 
Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
mjp said:
I love this because it's so dynamic and rocking and paranoid, and the white American men that play it just aren't free! Don't you understand?!

Plus, come on, any band that is so repulsive that you can't show their heads (except in grainy video inserts) has to be just the most awesome band in the world.
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Please say it is a really, really good spoof by the Bare Naked Ladies; otherwise I'm scared!
Felt like a member of the audience following the Springtime for Hitler debut scene in The Producers.
 
Skygazer

Skygazer

And in the end...
... Am supposed to be working, but had to come back for a second viewing, this is soo bad it's good, the tune is in my head now, eeek.
 
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