tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post115175220399366044..comments2023-12-27T14:06:50.562+00:00Comments on (Contains Mild Peril): No More HeroesGeoffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00340519450159428760noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1152626773347776142006-07-11T15:06:00.000+01:002006-07-11T15:06:00.000+01:00Don't get me started on old public schoolboy Joe. ...Don't get me started on old public schoolboy Joe. The Clash were so political and right-on that they harboured at least one junky and at least one coke head. How radical.<BR/>The Clash always pandered to the lowest common denominator.<BR/>And as for Billy Bragg ...St. Anthonyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05539878989031969603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1152058238171025682006-07-05T01:10:00.000+01:002006-07-05T01:10:00.000+01:00I love The Clash, but like all successful politica...I love The Clash, but like all successful politically motivated bands, they're hugely overated. But they wrote some great tunes. In my honest opinion of course.<BR/><BR/>Like all revolutionary rockers, Strummer faced the problem of what to do when you get old. The smart ones corpse it as early as possible to preserve the myth. The unfortunate live on to degrade in front of us all...Delhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10804947827499336453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151967808661143322006-07-04T00:03:00.000+01:002006-07-04T00:03:00.000+01:00Er, dead rockers, eh? Most of my records are by d...Er, dead rockers, eh? Most of my records are by dead men, and the ones that aren't dead don't really deserve to still be alive.<BR/><BR/>Punk - I think you've hit the number there, Richard.<BR/><BR/>Ritchie Blackmore's wigs - eugh, that's a really nasty thought.<BR/><BR/>Public schoolboys? I'm dreadfully middle-class and obsessed with my finger-rolls...and I have a Latin o-level. So a worthwhile investment there, then.<BR/><BR/>swlrp; what the prefects made me dokrusty the bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04796461077371269318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151963802020990072006-07-03T22:56:00.000+01:002006-07-03T22:56:00.000+01:00ooooh, john cusackoooohi think it's the fact of hi...ooooh, john cusack<BR/><BR/>ooooh<BR/><BR/>i think it's the fact of his wonky teeth in a nation of the orthodontically-enhancedUrban Chickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04692332227897168182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151941908322162692006-07-03T16:51:00.000+01:002006-07-03T16:51:00.000+01:00"Billy Brag said if it weren't for The Clash, punk..."Billy Brag said if it weren't for The Clash, punk rock would be just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers.."<BR/><BR/>But I thought that that was exactly what it was meant to be?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151929254373680582006-07-03T13:20:00.000+01:002006-07-03T13:20:00.000+01:00"There is a lineage, of course."Oh yes, of course...."There is a lineage, of course."<BR/><BR/>Oh yes, of course. English public schoolboys playing at being dispossessed.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00340519450159428760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151867865676229702006-07-02T20:17:00.000+01:002006-07-02T20:17:00.000+01:00Oh, I quite liked Cusack till I read that - what a...Oh, I quite liked Cusack till I read that - what a load of old bollocks, eh?<BR/><BR/>(and "I remember Phill Jupitus being lifted over my head on his way to the front. I thought it was raining." *giggles*)Spinsterellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08611660308963083276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151867206926237602006-07-02T20:06:00.000+01:002006-07-02T20:06:00.000+01:00You're too young to understand, Billy.You weren't ...You're too young to understand, Billy.<BR/><BR/>You weren't there at the Hammy Pally with 2,000 of us white rioters. I remember Phill Jupitus being lifted over my head on his way to the front. I thought it was raining.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00340519450159428760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151863898486948572006-07-02T19:11:00.000+01:002006-07-02T19:11:00.000+01:00The Clash. Meh.Wire are loads better.The Clash. Meh.<BR/>Wire are loads better.Billyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17841187654606981532noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151840770152306222006-07-02T12:46:00.000+01:002006-07-02T12:46:00.000+01:00There ought to be a plaque to commemorate The Gums...There ought to be a plaque to commemorate The Gums of Brixton.Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00340519450159428760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151831541524720722006-07-02T10:12:00.000+01:002006-07-02T10:12:00.000+01:00Joe Strummer's ill-fitting dentures symbolise the ...Joe Strummer's ill-fitting dentures symbolise the tawdry myth of rock 'n' roll. Like Richie Blackmore's wigs, and Ricky Martin's 'girlfriends'.Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151784379471221102006-07-01T21:06:00.000+01:002006-07-01T21:06:00.000+01:00Glastonbury and dope isn't all that punk is it?Glastonbury and dope isn't all that punk is it?Geoffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00340519450159428760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16460150.post-1151760166990608852006-07-01T14:22:00.000+01:002006-07-01T14:22:00.000+01:00Nice one Geoff, I thought the Clash were shite as ...Nice one Geoff, I thought the Clash were shite as well. I lost all vestiges of respect I may have had for Strummer when he was filmed off his brain at Glastonbury just before he died. Everyone's round him doing the arse-licky bollocks but I just thought if they'd met him on the train like that they would have changed seats thinking he was just another stoner talking out of his arse. Give me Bon Scott over him anyday - no pretence at all.<BR/><BR/>There is gossip about John Cusack playing Rory in a mooted biopic. Although I'm not sure a film about a gentle-natured blues-rocker who never hurt anyone or made plastic pronouncements on all kinds of non-music related toot and actually made it 20 years past the rock and roll sign out age of 27, would have any mileage. A job for the Fleesh in a few years maybe.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com