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Paul Simonon and drummer Topper Headon didn’t coin the phrase, they also refrained from protesting it. This act gained them enormous mistrust in certain quarters. True, there was a good deal of self-mythologizing to the Clash. Just listen to tracks such as “Clash City Rockers,”“Last Gang In Town” or “Four Horsemen.” It was a trait absorbed from glam heroes Mott The Hoople, one of Jones’ teenage obsessions. But the Clash truly were more than a mere punk band or even a rock ‘n’ roll band. They really seemed larger than life, especially if you were a teenager catching one o...
By Jeff K May 14, 2021 Released on this day in 1982 Combat Rock is the fifth studio album by The Clash. In the U.K. the album charted at number 2, spending 23 weeks in the charts and peaked at number 7. In the U.S. it spent 61 weeks on the chart. Featuring two of the band's most radio-friendly singles "Rock the Casbah" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go," and enormous support from MTV, Combat Rock has gone on to sell more than 2 million copies in the U.S. alone. The commercial success of Combat Rock sadly led to infighting in the band and would prove to be the last Clash album featuring the...
By Keefer Mar 9, 2021 1969 - Wiggen sisters Dorothy, Helen, Betty, and Rachel record Philosophy of the World as The Shaggs. Numerous music critics and historians consider it the worst album ever recorded, but years later both Frank Zappa and Kurt Cobain call it one of their favorites ever made. The original 100 pressings become some of the most coveted albums in the world among collectors. 1970 - Having recently changed their name from Earth to Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward made their concert debut at The Roundhouse, London. 1981 - Robert Plant played ...
Big Audio Dynamite C'mon Every Beatbox - Big Audio Dynamite, Jones, Mick [Clash] Beyond the Pale - Big Audio Dynamite, Jones, Mike [2] Limbo the Law - Big Audio Dynamite, Donovan, Dan [1] Sambadrome The Big V [*] "5/5. "#10,upping street" is unmistakably one of B.A.D.'s best.hardcore beats had to have started somewhere, why not the 80s! big audio totally made their mark on music, and our stereos! so basicslly, this means the origional art of sampling was created by artists like them. music today totally sucks. that's not hard to see. "#10 upping street" had a solid beat that totally dented hi...