Re: [bomp] Re: Clash Overrated?

[Redlabour@xxxxxxx]

Greetings,

The Clash, the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, the Jam,
the Buzzcocks, and many more between 1976-79
saved Rock n Roll and a generation of people from
the shit that was being hashed out at that time.

Although I only have "The Best of  the Clash Volume I,"
I think their music was needed and their contribution
to what would be the music scene's better moment
should be noted.

It was partially groups like the Clash that influenced
many later bands that fitted into the "alternative genre"
of the 1980s and early 90s.

Joe Strummer is dead.  Let's pay the man his respect,
and let's hope to see some younger folks burst into
the scene and impress us the way the Standells &
the Count V impressed the youngsters of the 1960s
or David Bowie and the New York Dolls did in the 
early 70s, or the Ramones and the Clash in the late
70s, or REM or the Minutemen did in the 80s, or
Woggles and Mondo Topless would in the 1990s and
up until this year.

Happy New Year,
Melvin Little
 
PS: I am paying my respects to Mary Hansen right now.
If anyone of you do not own "Transient Random-Noise
Bursts With Announcements" by Stereolab, you should
purchase a copy.  That's what I'm listening to now. 

In a message dated 1/3/03 9:23:07 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
davidmin@pacbell.net writes:


> Subj:Re: [bomp] Re: Clash Overrated? 
> Date:1/3/03 9:23:07 PM Pacific Standard Time
> From:<A HREF="mailto:davidmin@pacbell.net";>davidmin@pacbell.net</A>
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> 
> 
> 
> Sorry to beat a dead horse, so to speak, but there are some who feel that 
> the Clash were reactionary and formalistic, especially compared to the 
> Pistols.  That is to say, the Clash represented a return to "real" i.e., 
> ernest and natural-sounding rock, vs. the punks who wanted to destroy all 
> music, especially rock.  This was the real stylistic influence of the Clash 
> for early U2 (as earlier mentioned).  I don't expect many on this board to 
> agree, but there are people more on the arty side of punk who think so.  
> 
> David
> 
> On Tue, 31 Dec 2002 22:54:35 EST, you wrote:
> 
> >
> >In a message dated 12/31/02 5:02:20 AM Eastern Standard Time, 
> >owner-bomp-digest@xnet2.com writes:
> >
> >> Does anyone on this list believe The Clash
> >> >were overrated? 
> >
> >I used to hate them when I was younger, then again I wasn't too informed 
> >about them. I grew to like them over time. I couldn't understand all the 
> hype 
> >about them when London Calling came out. It seemed that the people that 
> liked 
> >them where I grew up were people I couldn't stand, so unfortunately, they 
> >kind of slipped through the cracks. By the time I got into them, they were 
> 
> >winding down. 
> >
> >The thing I don't understand is that they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of 
> >Fame, but Alice Cooper, to my knowledge, isn't!?!? 
> >
> >MJ 
> >
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