“Ramshackle Day Parade” by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
“No Second Thoughts” by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2CXaAzg6Z4
6 thoughts on “Volume 1.4.1”
Joe Strummer: This whole album is excellent, I saw the the cover come up and I was like Yessssss! Every song on this album is a hit. I just cued up the album and will listen to it all day. If you like this song, get the album. you wont be disappointed
Tom Petty: Wow, great pick, I have heard a lot of Tom Petty, but I have never heard this song before. When I saw Tom Petty, I didn’t think I was going to have to listen to the song because I have probably heard it. This was refreshing after thinking I was on TP burnout.
The Mescaleros:
Love the pick. Love the album. The track is one of my favourites from these sessions. The record had Strummer doing some of his strongest material in years. Shame he died before the release. Joe is missed.
Heartbreakers:
OK. So if you took Bob Dylan and crossed him with the early Hooters, do you get this track? It’s from the era of Tom Petty that I dig (lost him after Southern Accents).
I hung in there through the 1st solo record, Full Moon Fever. I have since dipped into the catalog post that and there is some great stuff to be found.
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Ramshackle Day Parade
I can see The Clash pieces pulled apart when I look at this and the Mick Jones stuff with Big Audio Dynamite.
I heard this record back around the time it came out, and liked it, but I can’t say that any particular track has stuck with me. Without Strummer’s distinctive vocals, this could be a U2 or Waterboys track. That’s not a dig, just an observation – as I do like this rousing, anthemic track.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – No Second Thoughts
I became a fan of the band with the You’re Gonna Get release – it was the album, their 2nd, I would have told you was my favorite from the band for many a year (with Magnolia being my favorite song). Sadly, I haven’t listened to the album as a whole in a long enough time that I’ve started to forget it (own it on vinyl only, in a box while we’re temporary renters). Will remedy soon as this song is just about perfect. On these early records, Petty wrote very earnestly about seemingly “small” things, but very important to young ones (the Gainesville, FL equivalent to Springsteen’s Jersey Shore stories?). Simple production with bongos (or similar), twangy bass, & jangly guitar (and wisps of fiddle(?) and I almost hear recorder or flute – maybe it’s just keyboard and/or the sound blending/overlap). Bliss.
“Ramshackle Day Parade” / J. Strummer and the Mescaleros. I love the Clash but never delved especially deep into Strummer’s main post-Clash project. He definitely continued the musical explorations for which the Clash were noted. And that instantly recognizable voice, even though he sang lots less rough than with the Clash. This one builds nice — the whole song’s just kind of a build, more than a groove vehicle. His lyrics, as usual, are enticingly imagistic (“holograms hold 44s”) and, as often, with an edge of impending apocalypse. I have to admit that if this song has a precise meaning, after two listens I am still missing it, but I like the track.
No Second Thoughts: I liked reading into the lyrics a sort of brush with or actual death experience in which she may be with more than a boyfriend but with the Grimm Reaper himself. This is most likely my own in-correct read of a much simpler premise . I liked the song and I like Mr. Petty (seems classic Petty style). I have no second thoughts.
Joe Strummer: This whole album is excellent, I saw the the cover come up and I was like Yessssss! Every song on this album is a hit. I just cued up the album and will listen to it all day. If you like this song, get the album. you wont be disappointed
Tom Petty: Wow, great pick, I have heard a lot of Tom Petty, but I have never heard this song before. When I saw Tom Petty, I didn’t think I was going to have to listen to the song because I have probably heard it. This was refreshing after thinking I was on TP burnout.
The Mescaleros:
Love the pick. Love the album. The track is one of my favourites from these sessions. The record had Strummer doing some of his strongest material in years. Shame he died before the release. Joe is missed.
Heartbreakers:
OK. So if you took Bob Dylan and crossed him with the early Hooters, do you get this track? It’s from the era of Tom Petty that I dig (lost him after Southern Accents).
I hung in there through the 1st solo record, Full Moon Fever. I have since dipped into the catalog post that and there is some great stuff to be found.
Featuring two artists we lost too soon.
Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros – Ramshackle Day Parade
I can see The Clash pieces pulled apart when I look at this and the Mick Jones stuff with Big Audio Dynamite.
I heard this record back around the time it came out, and liked it, but I can’t say that any particular track has stuck with me. Without Strummer’s distinctive vocals, this could be a U2 or Waterboys track. That’s not a dig, just an observation – as I do like this rousing, anthemic track.
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – No Second Thoughts
I became a fan of the band with the You’re Gonna Get release – it was the album, their 2nd, I would have told you was my favorite from the band for many a year (with Magnolia being my favorite song). Sadly, I haven’t listened to the album as a whole in a long enough time that I’ve started to forget it (own it on vinyl only, in a box while we’re temporary renters). Will remedy soon as this song is just about perfect. On these early records, Petty wrote very earnestly about seemingly “small” things, but very important to young ones (the Gainesville, FL equivalent to Springsteen’s Jersey Shore stories?). Simple production with bongos (or similar), twangy bass, & jangly guitar (and wisps of fiddle(?) and I almost hear recorder or flute – maybe it’s just keyboard and/or the sound blending/overlap). Bliss.
“Ramshackle Day Parade” / J. Strummer and the Mescaleros. I love the Clash but never delved especially deep into Strummer’s main post-Clash project. He definitely continued the musical explorations for which the Clash were noted. And that instantly recognizable voice, even though he sang lots less rough than with the Clash. This one builds nice — the whole song’s just kind of a build, more than a groove vehicle. His lyrics, as usual, are enticingly imagistic (“holograms hold 44s”) and, as often, with an edge of impending apocalypse. I have to admit that if this song has a precise meaning, after two listens I am still missing it, but I like the track.
No Second Thoughts: I liked reading into the lyrics a sort of brush with or actual death experience in which she may be with more than a boyfriend but with the Grimm Reaper himself. This is most likely my own in-correct read of a much simpler premise . I liked the song and I like Mr. Petty (seems classic Petty style). I have no second thoughts.