Oh alrght then, just for you:

Joe Strummer is thorougly over-rated as a guitarist, and The Clash are unmitigated wank.

(Am I doing it right now?)

Yes Melly! YES!

yeah, the mc5 are crap.

clash hatin' is certainly unpopular with me. unless yr dissing sandinista, fuck that shit.

i've seen mick jones walking down oxford st. on sunday night, and i wanted to stop him to tell him that the clash were shit, but he looked fatigued and tired. Maybe he was tired of being rubbish for so long.

Mick Jones always looked a bit fatigued and tired when he was in the clash too. the price you get for being in a shit band, i suppose. He looked far more sprightly in Big Audio Dynamite, what with his big baseball cap.

sandinista is fucking shit

rock the casbah is also a pile of wank

sandanista's alright really. i definitely prefer it over any other clash album. probably because large parts of it sound fuck all like the clash.

i love a good blasting of should i stay or should i go on the stereo once in awhile

combat rock is kind of shit though except without straight to hell we wouldn't have the fantastic "paper planes"

Do you think that if he slept more regularly the clash would have turned out to be less shit?

i like combat rock. about half of it, anyway. straight to hell is their best song.

give em enough rope sucks, too.

edit: i was going to say that the clash would have been better off without mick jones but then i remembered cut the crap. haha.

good point

straight to hell is nowhere NEAR their best song
that is easily the most flippant statement i have ever heard in my life

magnificent seven is their best song. and even that's shit.

i knew i should've thrown in that "pretty much" somewhere.

well, if it's not straight to hell, it's guns of brixton.

i like them. i dunno. i think people expect too much of musicians.

i totally see where youre coming from. i agree for the most part. i prefer crass myself.

i think i like the undertones more than i like any punk band

Only songs I've heard by The Clash in my entire life are: White Riot, Rock The Casbah, London Calling, Guns of Brixton. I always thought of them as an angry pop band.. not really punk.

I also agree about the punk and politics bit. Rarely does music that is political from the get-go turn out to be something worthwhile as MUSIC. This is why I still can't get behind Bikini Kill. Yet I really like Huggy Bear. Anyway, here is an example of shitty political music, a thoroughly uninspired commentary on white privilege: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8popa7M4tI

All the Clash-bashing makes me a saaaaaad panda. :7(

11 emails in my myspace, what the fuck

not enough or too much?

too much!

some chick sent me 3 emails with the same idea, but all variations on her sentences. "i want to rant to you about something..." *15 minutes later* "i really need to rant and rave about something but i don't know if you want to hear about it..." *2 hours later* "hey you may not care but when you get a chance, write me. i kinda want to rant about something."

.....wtf

well they said that we were crap,
the name of the bands crass, not clash

i still really like the clash
although i barely listen to them.
but the first album and london calling are amazing, and combat rock has some really good tracks...

but then again, you're a girl so that sort of negates any opinion you might have on this most manly of topics.

Fugazifan has said much the same thing but, as a male, his opinion obviously carries significantly more weight.

I think I prefer Mick Jones to Joe Strummer, mainly because I like his voice a lot more.
I like the UK version of their first album, a few songs from Give 'Em Enough Rope, most of London Calling is great, some of Sandanista is good, and then I don't really care for most of the rest.

wavves has to be the most shitty pitchfork wankers band so far.

Wavves are great. Awesome songs. Just catchy, simple, melodic poppy, noisey power chord rock. Nothing mindblowing but nothing offensive. There's a slow, surfy song on one of their albums that is easily one of the best songs I've heard in a long time. Nothing too original, but it's still great. Could use some better production though, the "hey, we recorded everything clean but then ran it through some shitty VST plugin effect so it sounds like garbage!" schtick kinda sucks. I love the poppy vocals. They're really good, I hope semi-popular music goes more in that direction rather than wherever the fuck it was going before. I don't totally understand the ENORMOUS hype, to be honest, because there's about a billion other great bands doing truely unique, wonderful things that no one gives a fuck about... so, yeah, I "get" the backlash.. but in all reality, they're still a great band.

As far as bands that have great, simple, poppy bands who have blown up overnight thanks to the internet, though, no band can top Vivian Girls. I LOVE them. Just amazing music.

Also, Pitchfork rules! Not as good as Drive Like Jehu or Hot Snakes but John and Rick had to start somewhere!!

I like pitchfork but not those indiekids how live by it and take it as their bible.

Wavves just doesn't do it for me, I tried and tried but I just keep stuck that I'm Bored is a nice song but for the rest it's crap. And the guy is a total ass.

wavves are so fucking lo fi, i love it

Everyone how is a bit into rockmusic is saying I should check them and I would love it. To be honest their/he is tottaly on my alley in musical taste but it sounds just like some big pile of overhyped crap to me.

Yeah, it's overhyped. The songs are still cool, though. Personally, I am glad that there are still musicians out there, hyped to hell or not, who are just focusing on writing catchy, simple good songs. Obviously, he's not the only one who's doing it -- but compared to most of the shit that gets hyped up to Hell (who the fuck is this Grizzly Bear band everyone on my myspace is listening to? what is that bullshit? UGH), he's not bad at all.

OH -- but I gotta say, he does seem like a total fucking dipshit, in interviews and live. Of course, he's what.. 22? Hopefully he'll grow out of it...

Or stop using drugs/alcahol. His drummer left the band throught his ego problems.

Grizzly Bear are a bunch of weak softhearted indierockers which everyone seems to fall in love with.

In these days I miss bands as be your own pet....

I'd like to be aunt jemima pearl's pet.

Tottaly.

Accutaly guys the new arctic monkeys is quit fucking good.

Y'know I didn't 'get' Wavves for a long time, but they totally clicked for me recently. I think I was just turned off by everyone and their dad being into them

more awesome shit if you like wavves

http://www.myspace.com/crystalstilts
http://www.myspace.com/beachfossils

the shittiest pitchfork wanker band is goddamn FLEET FOXES

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