Clash Cup matches 29 & 30 and results in
Hello Clash mad people….quick explanation of the Clash Cup which I should offer as around 50% of visitors each day are first timers. If so – keep coming back as I update the blog every 8-12 hours 7 days a week. So onto some results from earlier bouts:
Koka Kola defeated Drug Stabbing Time 20-13
Hate & War defeated Where you Gonna Go (soweto) 29-4
I was interested to see how that first match up went and Koka Kola took a lead and held it – so another track from GTER is finished. Hate & War is ready for the next round. So that said I need your votes – well 2 of these 4 songs do and you have until Sunday at dawn:
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4 New songs and I’m not in the predicting game tonight, I’ve seen some shocks lately so it’s in your trusted hands. As always a chance to hear or see the songs is beneath and my initial thoughts about the new contenders.
The Street Parade - I’ve only got two thoughts to share on this – the first moment I heard about the death of Joe Strummer I played this song first and then Nitcomb. Don’t know why, but I’ll never forget doing it and I didn’t start crying til it faded out…and that lasted days. I also consider it the most beautiful song they wrote.
Stop The World - I hadn’t heard this for years and what a great song it is. I don’t have the CD only the vinyl. It was the B-Side of The Call Up and I think it should have been on the album. Like so many Clash songs it sounds like nothing else they ever recorded.
Shepherds Delight - Just the other day when discussing Sandinista! and the fact I feel it’s got a few songs too many, this would be one of them. Now watch the votes prove me wrong. I actually struggle to find anything to say about this song….Red sky at night?
All The Young Punks…- I can’t ever tire of this, the chords, Joe’s voice, Micks guitar licks, the lyrics, that chorus, the harmonies. Pull it apart and Paul’s bass (or did Mick actually play on this one) and Topper just smacking out a beat. Another track that made you wonder like mad just what it was like to be in a band, a song that convinced me I could never work in a factory. Half a pint of Brown…
Vote early to avoid confusion. Thanks for all your time and visits!
Tim
I agree about The Street Parade, and itis one of the songs that always makes me cry when I hear it. It’s a song that to me shows the depth of Joe’s emotions and how he was just as human, if not more so, than anyone. As an icon I know Joe struggled with his fame and position, and this song is an example of how frail and emotionally insecure he was when it came down to love and humanity. I’ll take my broken heart, take it home in parts…one of my favorite Strummer lines…InRedemption Song Chris S. talks about his feeling that this song was about Joe’s failed “relationship” with actress Deborah(?) from NY—it’s a sad story, but it also reminds me of Joe walking around the streets of NY dark and lonely and away from the glare of the spotlight, just him and his emotions, a song that has many layers of meanings.
But it became a very happy song for me when I got the chance to meet Mick and CSi and we all had a little “street parade” up to the boardwalk with mick playing my guitar. My friend took a photo of it and I have captioned it in my mind the street parade.
I hope this song makes the top ten!
Tim Comments: Thanks Joannie, a very considered review of a stand out song. Some songs just own a special place eh? This is one of them.