The Clash [Epic, 1979]Cut for cut, this may be the greatest rock and roll album (plus limited-edition bonus single) ever manufactured in the U.S. It offers ten of the fourteen titles on the band's British debut as well as seven of the thirteen available only on forty-five. And the sequencing is anything but haphazard; the eight songs on side one divide into self-contained pairs that function as extended oxymorons on careerism, corporate power, race, and anomie. Yet the package feels misbegotten. The U.K. version of The Clash is the greatest rock and roll album ever manufactured anywhere partly because its innocence is of a piece--it never stops snarling, it's always threatening to blow up in your face. I'm still mad the real thing wasn't released two years ago, and I know for certain (I made a tape) that the singles would have made a dandy album by themselves. Nevertheless, a great introduction and a hell of a bargain. A
>>128763771>The U.K. version of The Clash is the greatest rock and roll album ever manufactured anywhereLol
>>128763876that's a common opinion among patricians
>>128764155Not even the best UK punk album released in 1977
>>128764209half of this album is 30 second snippets of songs. it's good for what it is, but it's not better than the clash
>>128764350>30 second snippets of songsand it's based. brevity is the soul of wit
>>128763771If the politics is leftist album is an A
>>128764406He's a simple man, behind all that verbiage
>>128764406>If the politics is leftist album is an ANah>Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables [I.R.S., 1980]I do want there to be more punk rock--I do, I do. I do want there to be more left-wing new wave--really. By Americans--I swear it. But not by a would-be out-of-work actor with Tiny Tim vibrato who spent the first half of the '70s concocting "rock cabaret." Admittedly, I'm guessing, but I'm also being kind--it sounds like Jello Biafra discovered the Stooges in 1977. C+
>>128763771why did critics glaze punk so much?i mean the first clash album is literally a marble mouth horsely yelling over just-started-playing guitar thrashing.was it because there wasn't really rock journalism for the hippy music revolution, so punk was first big movement they could latch onto?
>>128766617>i mean the first clash album is literally a marble mouth horsely yelling over just-started-playing guitar thrashing.it sounds like you haven't listened to it, because it's one of the most melodic albums of all time
>>128766690i'm listening to it now.it's better than i remembered.but it's mostly a 'this band has potential when they actually learn how to play a beat besides thrash' album.the glazing was ridiculous.
>>128766755it's punk rock, not prog. for a punk album, the playing is good and all the songs are great. if you don't like the genre, that's one thing, but that doesn't mean it isn't a great album or that they aren't good musicians
>>128764209Not rock and roll (and not Chairs Missing).
>>128764406false. there are leftie acts that got bad grades>>128764427this, don't wate time with idiotic identity politics zoomers creating strawmen as a way to "own" certain persons
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>>128766818my point was why were old heads, like Xgau at the time, glazing stuff that was rudimentary compared to what they'd been reviewing for a decade.i mean it is fine, I guess, for the 17 year old's (at the time) to have their own music heroes or jump on the current thing (that's what young people do), but it just feels fake for some old dude at the time (like almost all the famous rock journalists from the period) to jump on 'current thing' too.
>>128764406Christgau hates leftism.
>>128767385>my point was why were old heads, like Xgau at the time, glazing stuff that was rudimentary compared to what they'd been reviewing for a decade.critics had always hated 70s AOR with long winded instrumental parts. Cuckgau was always pretty open about preferring short, fast garage rock songs over a singer going on about spaceships or Greek mythology over a 10 minute guitar solo.
>>128763771>this may be the greatest rock and roll album (plus limited-edition bonus single) ever manufactured in the U.S.I agree.
It had become apparent probably as early as 1969 or 70 that the average rock listener and critics were looking for entirely different things in their music.
Just Another Band From L.A. [Bizarre, 1972]You said it, Frank. I didn't. C
reminder that his wife fucked multiple other dudes in his bed and he just accepted it
>>128767892I'm sorry you didn't get an invite.
>>128767721i mean you can hate elp, but not start worshipping dudes who can barely play.if punk rock was so great, then why does it seem critics were the only old heads who liked it? I mean Xgau was 37 at the time of this review, please show me any hippy musician (besides Neil Young ....... who also notoriously likes to have a rep for being hip to 'new thing') who were gaga over punk. or any of the legions of old hippy music fans who jumped on punk too as a supposed breath of fresh air.i mean even steve jones from sex pistols admitted he listened to boston and steely dan during punk era rather than punk.
>>128767892>wife fucked multiple other dudes in his bed and he just accepted itfalse. it happened once and was a cheating, he didn't know it when happened. nice fetish projection though fag >>128768351if you have good melodies, chorus, verses don't hav to be that technical
>>128768351Are old generations your arbiter for what's good or not? Out of punk rock came new wave, post-punk, alternative rock, indie, hardcore, gothic rock, etc, which would dominate the music scene for the next decades.
>>128768843no, i'm pointing out how phony a lot of critics are.go ahead and like punk, i don't care.but literally the only 37 year old's at the time who claimed to like it were critics like Christgau. If you can find five pre-punk rock stars who claimed the Clash was the greatest thing they ever heard, like Xgau, I'll alter my view that most critics lie a lot about what they really like.
>>128768843>Out of punk rock came new wave, post-punk, alternative rock, indie, hardcore, gothic rocklol no... all of that stuff was going on at the same time. punk wasnt even music because nobody ever bought the stuff or listened to it. it was a bunch of no talent kids screaming into a mic and beating on a geetar in front of 20 other kids
>>128770723That's what 28 year olds in anoraks were saying back then.
>>128770723No it didn't. It all branched out of punk, and what your describing is hardcore. The original punk scene in both the UK and US was a melodic return to garage rock/power pop.
>>128770723sounds based tbqh desu
