“Johnny Appleseed”
by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
“Clampdown”
by The Clash
2 thoughts on “VOLUME 24.2.1”
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Johnny Appleseed
Just about what I expected based on what I’ve previously heard from J.S. & the Ms. A little Pogues-esque – a toe tapper fer sure. Welcome accents of fiddle and some sort of pipe/recorder. Plant the seeds all.
The Clash – Clampdown
London Calling may make it on my Desert Island Discs list. Nice to give this a fresh, separated listen.
Wall of sound. Unrelenting, marching beat. And then the delicious middle. Had to look up the lyrics – a little tough to glean from just a listen. “We will teach our twisted speech to the young believers” (according to Genius – I sometimes hear “unbelievers”). Chilling.
“Anger can be power” – dangerous in the wrong hands of course.
“Johnny Appleseed”/J. Strummer and Mescaleros. The great doc on Strummer called “The Future is Unwritten” pleasingly spends a fair amount of time on his post-Clash years, when he kept searching for community and kept making cool music like this, much in the same spirit (but a good deal more acoustic than the Clash usually were). I didn’t know this one; Joe had a knack for writing evocative lyrics whose specific meaning might be mysterious but whose overall intent — usually standing up for human rights, or the downtrodden — was clear, and this is a great example. Strumming, indeed!
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros – Johnny Appleseed
Just about what I expected based on what I’ve previously heard from J.S. & the Ms. A little Pogues-esque – a toe tapper fer sure. Welcome accents of fiddle and some sort of pipe/recorder. Plant the seeds all.
The Clash – Clampdown
London Calling may make it on my Desert Island Discs list. Nice to give this a fresh, separated listen.
Wall of sound. Unrelenting, marching beat. And then the delicious middle. Had to look up the lyrics – a little tough to glean from just a listen. “We will teach our twisted speech to the young believers” (according to Genius – I sometimes hear “unbelievers”). Chilling.
“Anger can be power” – dangerous in the wrong hands of course.
“Johnny Appleseed”/J. Strummer and Mescaleros. The great doc on Strummer called “The Future is Unwritten” pleasingly spends a fair amount of time on his post-Clash years, when he kept searching for community and kept making cool music like this, much in the same spirit (but a good deal more acoustic than the Clash usually were). I didn’t know this one; Joe had a knack for writing evocative lyrics whose specific meaning might be mysterious but whose overall intent — usually standing up for human rights, or the downtrodden — was clear, and this is a great example. Strumming, indeed!