#clash city rockers

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Merry Xmas from Joe and his Morris Minor parked up at Clarendon Cross with the long gone Portland Arms in the background.

[rastronomicals]

1:11 AM EDT August 21, 2024:

The Clash - "Clash City Rockers" From the album The Clash (April 8, 1977)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Bands who at one point or the other were the best in the      world

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[acostumbradoalfindelmundo]

El Clash es también un lugar donde podemos ser nadie. No es un requisito, es una posibilidad como cualquier otra, solo que es una muy difícil de encontrar en otro lado. En casi cualquier lugar es requisito indispensable ser alguien o algo, en un mundo que nunca te garantiza que estará ahí para vos otro día. El Clash es un lugar donde podemos ser nadie, y va a seguir ahí la próxima noche que vayas. Porque está hecho de la materia oscura de la noche, nunca lo tocó un solo rayo de sol, su atmósfera está compuesta por el aliento de quienes lo habitamos. En madrugadas como esta lo describo, lo escribo y lo bebo celebrando ese poquito de whisky extra que a veces me dan cuando pido mis (des)medidas de siempre. El Clash es un lugar donde puedo ser nadie, y donde nadie más puede ser yo, o vos.

(esta foto la sacó Joe, que tiene la costumbre de no fallar jamás en eso de captar imágenes)

Acostumbradoalfindelmundolandia: linktr.ee/acostumbradoalfindelmundo

[punkrockmixtapes]

The Clash - Clash City Rockers

[apdistractions]

45's at 45...released 17th February 1978

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Clash t shirt though…

Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of Chic, NYC, 1979

[bronzebowl]

[theunderestimator-2]

Mick Jones during his Big Audio Dynamite era, here posing in London with MCA (Adam Yauch) & Mike D (Mike Diamond) of the Beastie Boys plus photographer & common friend Josh Cheuse in an early '86 photo probably shot by Ad-Rock (Adam Horovitz).

Here's a excerpt from an AD-Rock interview on The Guardian in which he recalls how MCA re-taught Mick Jones how to play 'Clash City Rockers’ during their visit at Mick's house while surprise guests keep ringing his doorbell:

"We’re in London for a few days to “work”. Our friend from New York, photographer Josh Cheuse, was friends with Mick Jones from the Clash. He worked with them a little bit and hooked it up for us to go hang out with him one night. AT HIS FUCKIN’ HOUSE! And by the way, he is one of the nicest people in the world. We meet, hang out, have a little tea, a couple beers, and then he shows us his studio in the basement. Not a practice space, but a nice little studio, with all kinds of equipment. While Mick Jones is showing us a guitar of his, Yauch asks him to play Clash City Rockers. I don’t know what possessed him to do that but, I mean, fuck yeah, I wanted that to happen. He kind of laughed and said that he forgot how to play it, and so Yauch took the guitar and taught Mick Jones how to play the song. Yes! Mick Jones from the fucking Clash. Oh wait… Someone’s at the door. Yup. It’s Joe fucking Strummer! Our new close friend Mick Jones had said some people were coming over; Now Joe Strummer’s here and the doorbell rings again… It’s fucking Johnny fucking Rotten! He’s with this cool-ass German lady and we are now officially drunk, and freaking out. In Mick Jones’s living room. We’re getting ready to go see a movie, and one more person shows up on our way out. Take a guess… could be any-fuckin’-body, right? It is one of the coolest people in the world. Ever. Paul Simonon. Picture yourself with your two best friends… real tipsy. Driving around the streets of London at night in two cabs with, basically, the fucking Clash and Johnny Rotten. Stopping at red lights, laughing, screaming, and throwing things at each other out the windows. I mean… just a few years ago, these people made music that changed our lives. We absolutely and totally fucking love them. And now we’re getting drunk with them and we’re on our way to go see a slasher movie together. IN LONDON!!!".

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[punkrockhistory]

Released 46 years ago

Clash City Rockers, a single by the punk rock band The Clash

Here on January 1978

#punkrockhistory

[autumnonapoea]

As loathe as I am to make heroes of mere men, Joe Strummer comes closest to being my genuine hero. Know your rights y’all

joe strummer

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Crass

[y2kbeautyandother2000sstuff]

I was tagged by @devilishugly for top 5 favorite songs so hell yes!!!

1)"The End"- The Doors (not a Doors fan either)

2)"Watch Me Die"- Underoath

3)"Carousel" Blink 182

4) "When the Levee Breaks" Led Zeppelin (FAVORITE BAND)

5)"Paint It Black" The Rolling Stones

Honorable mentions- "Crack City Rockers"- Leftover Crack, "White Man in Hammersmith Palais"- The Clash

tagging the users below bc I feel like they either have great music taste and I wanna know their favorites, or I don't know their music taste and I'm curious about it. I don't wanna tag too many people, so I'll only tag a handful, but if anyone of my followers/mutuals do this, please tag me cause I'd love to know your favorite songs!!!! @desertangels70s, @andvaka, @zmbiefood @rocketsaurus @soundofwatersworld @bitchhpuddingg @blazed-bitch @dzdndcnfsd @tessamercury @baratheonbastard @corruptvisage @emwheezie @daves-england

[acostumbradoalfindelmundo]

Nos superan en número. El ejército de quienes ganan (dominan, imponen) está unido, con todo a favor, y en terreno alto. Lxs derrotadxs estamos fuera de su reino, de sus horarios, de sus reglas dentro de reglas, destilando en el Clash. Afuera nos atrapan de a unx con redes burocráticas, es una masacre. Algunxs aún resistimos. Afuera somos diáspora y ellxs siempre tienen territorio. En el Clash es al revés. El Clash sobrevive, se adapta: hay tantos Clash como voces dentro de tu cabeza, hay un Clash para cada cual. Miles de Clash. Siempre vos, siempre yo, siempre Clash. He visto miles de Clash, más veces de las que fui a bailar, escribir, chupar, tomar. El Clash saquea el tiempo, se queda con lo mejor de cada eternidad, trafica segundos, contrabandea minutos, hace copias ilegales de las horas, las multiplica por cien o por mil, y las regala más o menos a eso de las 2 a.m.. Por eso una noche en el Clash son mil y una noches. Podes ir todas las semanas y pasarla genial, o una vez y luego volver dos mil años después y la vas a pasar bien igual. Por eso lxs ganadorxs no encuentran el Clash, se pierden en su tiempo porque el ejército de la victoria tiene cada minuto minuciosamente organizado para ser más productivxs que felices. Nosotrxs ya vivimos en paz en nuestra derrota, perdimos muchas veces, escapamos, nos atraparon, volvimos a escapar. No importa el laberinto que nos propongan, siempre encontramos el Clash para tomarnos una y descansar de cada batalla que ni siquiera quisimos pelear. Por el contrario, el ejército de la victoria no podrá vivir en paz con su desastre, porque se derrumbará por sí solo, colapsará su losa radiante y no sabrán cómo caminar con sus pies congelados. A diferencia de nosotrxs no tendrán donde vivir su derrota. Tan habituadxs a organizar su tiempo, a hacer rendir cada segundo, aún no se dieron cuenta de que el cáncer que los vencerá se alimenta de las horas contadas.

Acostumbradoalfindelmundolandia: linktr.ee/acostumbradoalfindelmundo

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Nothing stands the pressure of the Clash City Rockers!

[archivist-crow]

The Clash - The Clash (1977/1979)

Forty-five years ago today, on July 26, 1979, the eponymous album by The Clash was released in the US. While the Clash’s debut album was released in the UK in 1977, it was deemed “not radio friendly” by CBS America and was only available in the states as an import. Despite the record being the highest selling import of the year, it would take over two years for the album to see a US release. By the time the record was released in 1979, the band had already released their second album, Give ‘Em Enough Rope, so The Clash was the second of the band’s albums to be released in the US. However, the US version of the album was radically different. With a wealth of material to choose from, CBS excised five songs from the UK version and added six, among them the singles: "Clash City Rockers,” "Complete Control,” "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais,” and "I Fought the Law". So, the US version, the version most Americans know, was a very different experience, but still astonishingly good.

[mickjonesteeth]

hii clash city rockers, i made a mick archive account on insta! it's called @beyondtheapplecart <3