Just enjoying the hell out of these refreshing versions of Clash hits in a glorious playlist.
I thought you may want to share the pleasure and/or put your favourite sound tweaks.
Isn’t music just the best thing in the world?!
Remix your loved ones for glorious soundclashes
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Here’s the last song in the set as a taster
But The Clash didn’t have any hits! *
* Apart from 17 top 40 entries
I’m just playing with the Afterword meme. I don’t care if they had hits or not. I just loved their experimentation, and this new discovery (for me) just refreshes that sense I always got from a new Clash song of something unexpected.
Not aimed at you, it is a favourite phrase of one of our regular posters.
The only one girls could dance to was “Bank Robber”, and the dance routine on “Top of the Pops” rather punctured the Clash’s pomposity. I think:
There are a few Clash songs that can work on the dancefloor:
Police and Thieves, I fought the law and most of all Rock the casbah.
When Rachid Taha did his cover of Casbah, it became a guaranteed floor-filler-
Yeah, but, apart from a well-rehearsed discussion on the popularity or otherwise of the Clash, have you got any decent curated soundclash playlists?
Talking to me? No
Sorry I ruined your thread, was only an attempt at a joke. I will not post again on it.
You didn’t ruin my thread. If I protested at jokes on threads, I would be a hypocrite.
Please post again, as much as you like. My OPs often tend to cryptic and inscrutable.
Here’s 1980 in a 3 minute cocktail – any drinkers?
Choose a year for where we go to next.
I have a quantity of hand-crafted remixes/collages/whatevers, none of them playlists, all of them offering a uniquely satisfying and indeed immersive listening experience. Getting people (and by that I mean The Afterword) interested is just too much of a slog, but they proved very popular at my (defunct) blog, where one of them has had just over a thousand downloads.
That sounds tempting. I’ll have to check them out.
Links still good:
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2023/07/thirty-minutes-dept-to-slumberland-and.html
Link dead:
https://falsememoryfoam.blogspot.com/2022/06/you-stick-it-to-em-tell-them-how-avant.html
There are others, but ignore these first.
I’ll be sure to czech these out.
I’m listening to the first one now – a pleasant ambient reminder of Mickey Hart’s solo excursion – At The Edge.