What are you listening to, right now................
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@snowy First Band to debut in the British charts at #1 since the Beatles. I was working in a sweat shop in Brighton and when the Radio 1 DJ told the audience there was a new #1 and etc no one guessed who it would be. Not for Entertainment though
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@dogmeat yep, the song debuted at #1 if not the band. Eton Rifles had gone in at #3 only a few months before and about 10 other tracks had been top 40 singles.
Repeated the feat with Town Called Malice.
Malice gets a bad rap from being overplayed but if taken in isolation is a bloody good song.I managed to get to Weller gigs three times while in London and now days he does go through his catalogue a bit for the punters. It's a hard ask when you have recorded so much and there are always these old tossers that just want him to resurrect their youth by playing endless Jam songs.
I always found it interesting to see what songs he still holds in high enough regard to play.
That's Entertainment, Man in the Corner Shop, Ghosts....Malice and Start come out as crowd pleasers (being number ones) but I actually like the way that he doesn't play songs like Underground which are truly Jam songs and require Bruce and Rick. I feel like it is honouring their contribution. -
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Also has one of the best ever opening lines. 'Supupyour beer and collect your fags, there's a row going on down near Slough'
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@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Amusing isn't it.
Man, the Jam takes me back. I was seriously young but had two older sisters. The eldest was into The Jam, Clash, Ramones et al. I still love it.
I'll have to have a word with the other sister. I'm having Abba flashbacks or something - it's not good for my mental health.
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@snowy said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Amusing isn't it.
Man, the Jam takes me back. I was seriously young but had two older sisters. The eldest was into The Jam, Clash, Ramones et al. I still love it.
I'll have to have a word with the other sister. I'm having Abba flashbacks or something - it's not good for my mental health.
Sounds like your sister is from my era. My teen years were a diet of those bands.
The Clash at he Logan Concrete Centre in 82 is still one of the best gigs I have been too.Edit: Playlist here https://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-clash/1982/logan-campbell-centre-auckland-new-zealand-73d7c2dd.html
Imagine a band these days opening their set wih their most famous song. -
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Have just found a recording of the complete Auckland gig. I thought that there was only one show and that's also what various websites tell me but I have also found a poster that mentions an extra show the next day.
There are a couple of moments that I remember strongly. In particular when Strummer stopped because some fucktard bootboy gobbed and hit him. Challenged the guy to come on stage and retrive the spit.
Must listen through now to confirm which gig I was at as that setlist doesn't quite seem right either. I recall the crowd getting bored when they played the Sandinista stuff and chanted 'old stuff' at them.EDIT: found it in the recording. The quality is crap but can confirm I was at the Friday night show. I can't even confirm if the Saturday one happened. Strangely they played in Welly on the Sunday at the Town Hall
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The Clash Setlist at Concerts for the People of Kampuchea 1979
Get the The Clash Setlist of the concert at Hammersmith Odeon, London, England on December 27, 1979 from the London Calling Tour and other The Clash Setlists for free on setlist.fm!
Part of the concert of Kampuchea series. Ian Dury played support
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@canefan said in What are you listening to, right now................:
The Beths are my sound of the Summer
I did not know that Napoleon Dynamite's brother could play the drums.
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@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Also has one of the best ever opening lines. 'Supupyour beer and collect your fags, there's a row going on down near Slough'
You couldn't have this more wrong. Out of touch? Have you even seen what he said about it?
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@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Also has one of the best ever opening lines. 'Supupyour beer and collect your fags, there's a row going on down near Slough'
You couldn't have this more wrong. Out of touch? Have you even seen what he said about it?
Yes. What he intially said. The “what part of it didn’t he get “ response from PW and then his later clarification.
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@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Also has one of the best ever opening lines. 'Supupyour beer and collect your fags, there's a row going on down near Slough'
You couldn't have this more wrong. Out of touch? Have you even seen what he said about it?
Yes. What he intially said. The “what part of it didn’t he get “ response from PW and then his later clarification.
Where are you reading this? The New Statesman or something?
Cameron is many things to many people but he isn't stupid, thick or without a complete sense of reality. 3 things you'd need to be to not understand that song.
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@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Also has one of the best ever opening lines. 'Supupyour beer and collect your fags, there's a row going on down near Slough'
You couldn't have this more wrong. Out of touch? Have you even seen what he said about it?
Yes. What he intially said. The “what part of it didn’t he get “ response from PW and then his later clarification.
Where are you reading this? The New Statesman or something?
Cameron is many things to many people but he isn't stupid, thick or without a complete sense of reality. 3 things you'd need to be to not understand that song.
Well he called it a protest song for a start. It’s not protesting anything.
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@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@majorrage said in What are you listening to, right now................:
@crucial said in What are you listening to, right now................:
As more proof of how out of touch with reality David Cameron was he once famously named this as one of his favourite songs....a track about what prats Etonians like him were and how futile it was to take them on.
Also has one of the best ever opening lines. 'Supupyour beer and collect your fags, there's a row going on down near Slough'
You couldn't have this more wrong. Out of touch? Have you even seen what he said about it?
Yes. What he intially said. The “what part of it didn’t he get “ response from PW and then his later clarification.
Where are you reading this? The New Statesman or something?
Cameron is many things to many people but he isn't stupid, thick or without a complete sense of reality. 3 things you'd need to be to not understand that song.
Well he called it a protest song for a start. It’s not protesting anything.
Good God. I'll leave this one be.
