Favoriting Tony Coulter: Playlist from July 23, 2013 Favoriting

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Favoriting July 23, 2013: Tony Coulter Presents Tape Hiss: Urge, Murphy No Geisha, Nobodies, Plain People of England, & Die Trip Computer Die (PLEASE NOTE: "Tape Hiss" shows are not archived.)

Artist Track Album Year
The In-Theme  Holger Hiller: Toyshopshoptoy   Favoriting    
 
Urge  Revolving Loop   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  Bobby   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  New Sex   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  Shadow Man   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  Ready for Life   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  Sea of Storms   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  Inkman   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  Minutes to Go   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  Megadeath   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  Nowhere to Go   Favoriting Demos  1980 
Urge  Marching   Favoriting Demos  1980 
 
Murphy No Geisha  Nazo Nazo   Favoriting Murphy No Geisha  2000 
Murphy No Geisha  Chotto   Favoriting Murphy No Geisha  2000 
Murphy No Geisha  Kyoko Chan No Uta   Favoriting Murphy No Geisha  2000 
Murphy No Geisha  ?? [Japanese title]   Favoriting Murphy No Geisha  2000 
 
Nobodies  Pastiche   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Art   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Canteen Culture   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Crisis, What Crisis?   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  La Defense   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Days of Lead   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Moos   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Decca Hopefuls   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Kremlinoligist   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Man Who Died Laughing   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Miserychords   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Power   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Bower   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Quand Tu Liras Cette Lettre   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
Nobodies  Going Down Gracefully   Favoriting Cup of Tea  2009 
 
The Plain People of England  Siren   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  Every Man Jack   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  London Derriere   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  Group Sex   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  Drake   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  An Irish Airhead Foresees His Death   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  Civil War   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  Battle Train to Clonsilla   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  My Battle with Irony   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  DNA   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
The Plain People of England  The Night Before the Morning After   Favoriting The Gab – Gift or Curse?  200? 
 
Die Trip Computer Die  System of the Tortured   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Gestations   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  A Bad Idea   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  In Bed with 1,000 Priests   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Seductive Song of War   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Messrs. Smirkett & Bloat   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Fink Drummer   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Chief-Inspector Kickback   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Contains Psychological   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Goodbye Again   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Every 'Why' Is a 'How'   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  The Naked Statue   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Roll, Frankie, Roll   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  A Short Film About Gas   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
Die Trip Computer Die  Flowerball   Favoriting Flowerball  200? 
 
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Listener comments!

Avatar 8:41am
Grey & Pink:

Who are the plain people of England?
Avatar 11:15am
Tony Coulter:

Hullo dere, Grey & Pink -- you're early! The Plain People of England, Nobodies, and Murphy No Geisha are all bands led by Rob Murphy -- best known (sort of known!) for the group Orchestre Murphy. He's a great, great British songwriter who's been releasing stuff for over 30 years, but he's still barely known -- partly because he keeps on changing the names of his groups!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:52am
listener james from westwood:

good tuesday, tony, and all hiss fans near and far!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:54am
listener james from westwood:

(also known as the hiss army!)
Avatar 11:54am
Tony Coulter:

Morning James! Sad to say, my cassette deck crapped out on me, so today's show will feature CD-Rs skipping in place of the hiss.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:56am
listener james from westwood:

nertz! sad to hear about the dead tech. either way, it's don't-miss event radio sans archive!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 11:59am
Uncle Michael:

no hiss bliss?
Avatar 12:00pm
Carmichael:

Hiya Tony. Have you tried to fix the deck using the "3-foot drop test"? Make sure you measure accurately!
Avatar 12:01pm
Tony Coulter:

Hola, Uncle Michael and Carmichael! I'll probably try the hit the thing with a hammer repeatedly test first.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:02pm
Uncle Michael:

Is your hammer calibrated?
Avatar 12:03pm
Tony Coulter:

Nope, it's Calabrian.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:04pm
DCE:

good day, sir Tony
Avatar 🥁 12:04pm
Jeremy N:

It's hammer time! Greets all.
Avatar 12:05pm
Carmichael:

Make sure to hammer out a'love between your brothers and a'sisters, aaaaaallll over this land.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:06pm
Rich in Washington:

When you're a hammer, everything looks like Tony's cassette deck.
Avatar 12:06pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya, DCE & Jeremy!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:08pm
Rich in Washington:

Sorry to hear about your tape deck. I'm looking for one, too. So hard to find a simple, single well, non-auto reverse tape deck these days.
Avatar 12:08pm
Tony Coulter:

Urge was kind of Kevin Harrison's pop band. They only released two singles. "Bobby" was one of those, and was a minor hit in the U.K.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:09pm
listener james from westwood:

presumably one can find tape decks at places like goodwill, but not with those sorts of features, and likely in less than decent condition.
Avatar 12:09pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey Rich! I saw my tape deck's death coming, so it wasn't too much of a shock.
  12:10pm
Jim Pastor:

been weeks since I've been able to catch the show - glad to be tuned in
Avatar 🥁 12:10pm
Jeremy N:

I wonder how much that Nakamichi that manually flipped the tape goes for now...
Avatar 12:11pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya Jim! Glad to see you here.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:11pm
listener james from westwood:

tony: what sort of music do you want to play at your funeral?
tape deck: ha ha, very fuckin' funny.
Avatar 12:12pm
Tony Coulter:

Ha!
Avatar 12:13pm
Tony Coulter:

It's always been surprisingly hard to find cassette decks that play at the right speed -- so many are off by just a bit.
Avatar 12:16pm
Tony Coulter:

But fortunately for this show, CD-Rs are the modern man's cassette. Or at least they were, until cassettes came back into fashion.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:17pm
Rich in Washington:

I am already getting nostalgic for CD-Rs.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
listener james from westwood:

wfmu, the home of recording formats in eclipse.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:18pm
Rich in Washington:

Has anyone here ever experienced Reddit/vinyl?
It's a Reddit forum composed mainly of 15-to-20-ish (mostly) males who just discovered vinyl records exist.
Avatar 12:19pm
Tony Coulter:

mp3s killed the radio star -- except on FMU.
Avatar 12:21pm
Tony Coulter:

Have never seen Reddit, no. I have watched some of those "vinyl community" vids on youtube, though.
Avatar 🥁 12:22pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Good afternoon Captain Capstan. Get that pinch-roller free of disease ASAP...
Avatar 12:23pm
Tony Coulter:

Heya,Turnip!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:23pm
Uncle Michael:

I was participating in the Youtube Vinyl Community facebook group for a while but I bailed because it's just to active to keep up with and not much of it's that interesting.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
Uncle Michael:

Tony, have you been degaussed recently?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 12:24pm
northguineahills:

Good happy Tuesnoon to you all!
Avatar 12:25pm
Tony Coulter:

Hey, NGH!

@ Uncle Michael: Are you saying I have gas?
Avatar 12:29pm
Carmichael:

Tony, I have had a Sony TC-K61 deck for decades. The motor just lit itself on fire in a fit of despair.
Avatar 12:31pm
Tony Coulter:

Cassette sepaku.
Avatar 12:37pm
Grey & Pink:

just switched on and thought Siouxie and Banshees were playing. Swimming horses indeed!
Avatar 12:38pm
Tony Coulter:

Greets, G & P!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 12:40pm
Uncle Michael:

You have gauss.
Avatar 12:42pm
Grey & Pink:

you tube vinyl community - now there's a contradiction - surely you want the best possible digital sound on your pc.
Then again to see an old scratchy piece of vinyl playing on an ancient turntable in a YT video is kind of interesting and nostalgic and perhaps the only way you may ever get to hear that track played on vinyl.
Avatar 12:48pm
Tony Coulter:

Speaking as someone who has tons of vinyl, I think vinyl fetishism has gotten out of hand. It's the music that matters, not the medium -- isn't it?
Avatar 🥁 12:52pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Aye, Tony. I love a good LP package, something that adds to the whole experience, but when every new release is on 180g vinyl & comes with ultra-heavy board gatefold jackets (and $25+ pricetags) it gets a bit much...

Hell, many of those classic old obscure LPs that folks are killing each other for on eBay were pretty thin & flimsy, vinyl-wise...
Avatar 🥁 12:52pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

(re: 1980-era Sky record label releases)
Avatar 12:53pm
Carmichael:

To a degree, Tony. I much prefer vinyl for the nostalgic element, but yeah, the whole hipster vinyl thing has gotten out of hand.

BTW, I picked up an instructional LP for the pipe organ! It's pretty cool, great for dropping into segues.
Avatar 🥁 12:53pm
Jeremy N:

This Japanese title song is very familiar but I can't place it.
Avatar 12:53pm
Grey & Pink:

well to be truthfull - I used to love to go to hi fi shops to see $10,000 turntables - to hear them playing some crappy record - did it sound any better than a $100 turntable?
So when you see these turntables in YT videos it reminds of those days that I used to fantasize about owning a Voyd Valdi or a Goldmund Turntable.
As for the music - you are right - thats what matters not so much the medium.
Avatar 12:55pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Jeremy: I've played it on my show in the past -- perhaps that's it.
Avatar 12:56pm
Carmichael:

I was just thinking the same thing, Jeremy.
Avatar 🥁 12:57pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

Another precious packaging fad now seems to be the 1-sided LP with custom laser etching on the flip. Couple that with the heavy-board gatefold and we've got fetishism run amok...
Avatar 12:59pm
Tony Coulter:

Re: vinyl fetishism. What gets me are people who claim to like a given artist, but will only buy their stuff if it's on vinyl.
Avatar 1:02pm
Tony Coulter:

There are no credits on this Nobodies CD-R except one: It's produced by Bob Drake (of Thinking Plague).
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:02pm
listener james from westwood:

i reconnected recently w a college roommate who, during the late 80s, was the biggest buyer of cds i've ever known. he bought hundreds of them in freshman year alone, extolled the virtues of those that were labeled "DDD," etc. massive, massive audiophile. in his more recent email, he mentioned how he was getting rid of his now thousands of cds and buying the albums ... on vinyl. i gave him the info on the next fmu record fair and wished him well.
Avatar 🥁 1:03pm
Jeremy N:

I have a vague sense that the ? title song is a european hit of the sixties..?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:04pm
Uncle Michael:

I go to record stores and buy the weird shit out of the dollar bin.
Avatar 🥁 1:04pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

sigh... listener james, I'm in a similar predicament. Too many CDs and the used/trade market is dead as an asphalt possum...
Avatar 🥁 1:05pm
Jeremy N:

So many different factors are involved in the current vinyl fad. But fetishism of all stripes seems on the rise in general culture, no?
Avatar 🥁 1:05pm
Jeremy N:

UM: Exactly my strategy which continues to this day.
  1:05pm
MrFab:

Hey, y'all!
And how 'bout those vinyl pressing plants that compress all that "warm" and "greater dynamic range" to mp3 before mastering to vinyl? I stick with '50s thirft store vinyl, and usually get modern stuff in convenient digital formats.
Avatar 1:05pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Jeremy: Could be -- there are no credits on that CD-R either. I'll listen to it again with that in mind.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
listener james from westwood:

indeed. the collecting instinct permeates a lot of subcultures. marketers know it, too. witness the amount of merch that likely changed hands at the san diego comic-con last weekend. the need to be seen owing something, or to finish a collection the quickest, is a nonzero percentage of various collection fandoms.
Avatar 🥁 1:07pm
Jeremy N:

Rev, I say hold onto them CDs, if the internets keeps cracking down on distribution, they may become desirable once more.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:07pm
listener james from westwood:

which, don't get me wrong, is fine if that's not mortgage money going out the door!
Avatar 1:08pm
Tony Coulter:

@ MrFab: You hit the nail on the head re modern vinyl. So much of it sounds terrible. So few labels get it right these days. (Oh, and greets!)
Avatar 🥁 1:10pm
Jeremy N:

Yes, it's more about the music than the medium but it's really a lot about distribution on the practical level, about how music enters our lives.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:10pm
Rich in Washington:

I think the silliest example of vinyl fetishism gone too far might be the new Andy Kaufman 'album', composed of micro-cassette recordings he made. You can buy it as a digital download for 11 bucks or so, buy it on CD and then on 12" vinyl record for 20+ bucks.
I'm not sure why you'd want it on vinyl over the other formats. The sound quality of micro-cassette?
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:11pm
Rich in Washington:

There are other, more grievous examples. I just thought that one struck me as odd this week.
Avatar 1:11pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Jeremy: I suspect you're right that CDs will eventually become fetishized as well, as soon as people realize how much great music is only on CD -- and as soon as enough time passes for them to seem exotic.
  1:12pm
Jim Pastor:

when a media phases out, information is invariably lost....
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:13pm
Rich in Washington:

I'm already fetishizing CDs. I like making CD jackets, sort of like the ones from Creel Pone CD-R releases.
I am all ready for the CD resurgence.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:14pm
Rich in Washington:

the more that friends tell me that CDs are going bye-bye, the more I want to make them.
Avatar 🥁 1:14pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

as a designer. CD packaging CAN be great. Just need to get people once & for all to NEVER AGAIN consider the jewel-case. It's too fragile to mail, and it has no soul.... lots of options with digipak design, though.
Avatar 🥁 1:14pm
Snortley:

Of course, CDs eventually delaminate, so any fetish would be some sort of audio necrophilia.
Avatar 🥁 1:15pm
Jeremy N:

I definitely fetishize my japanese soundtrack CDs, they have beautiful artwork and some very cool packaging.
Avatar 🥁 1:16pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

I buy vinyl whenever possible & if there's a choice .. but so many DIY projects out there, CD is the only option, & gotta support the rebel factions. .. So the collection is slowly evolving into mostly limited & handmade things by local noisemakers & allies elsewhere. .. and that's a kick.
Avatar 🥁 1:16pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

different kind of pkg fetishizing in that case: the short-run local obsessive-artist thing. I can get behind that.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:17pm
listener james from westwood:

rev., 100% of those cds my former roommate bought in freshman year were not only in jewel cases, but longboxes. horrifying.
Avatar 1:17pm
Tony Coulter:

imho, all media formats have their plusses and minuses -- and can sound good with the right mastering.
Avatar 1:19pm
Carmichael:

Tony & Jeremy: I've been running that ? title song through my cranium, and I keep getting an unknown Hollies song and Cleaners from Venus' Clara Bow.
Avatar 🥁 1:19pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

hah! The longbox... talk about a vestigial organ... what a strange thing those were.
  1:21pm
Jim Pastor:

digging this Cup of Tea. Think I'll augment it with some Earl Grey
Avatar 1:21pm
Tony Coulter:

Ha! A song about fetishism.
  1:21pm
Jim Pastor:

iced
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:27pm
Uncle Michael:

digipaks suck.I don't want analog cover wear on a digital storage format. At least with a broken jewel case I can replace it.
Avatar 🥁 1:30pm
Jeremy N:

I don't see why they can't all be like the japanese cardboard LP style sleeves. I'll accept some shelf wear.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:32pm
DCE:

nice melancholia tea brewing up here
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:33pm
Rich in Washington:

I too like the LP-style CD sleeve. They can make shelf-reading somewhat daunting.
I've been putting my self-made CDs in library card-catalog-style drawers and those CD boxes you can buy at Ikea.
Avatar 🥁 1:38pm
Rev. Turnip Druid:

digging the plain people for reasons I can't understand at this point...
Avatar 1:38pm
Tony Coulter:

Rob Murphy's real name is Rob Storey. He really should be better known than he is. Then again, he works hard at being obscure.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 1:40pm
listener james from westwood:

and now we know ... the REST of the storey!
Avatar 1:41pm
Tony Coulter:

He's the man behind Murphy No Geisha, Nobodies, Plain People of England -- and Orchestre Murphy, Murphy Federation, Miners of Banal ... and a bunch of others.
Avatar 1:42pm
Grey & Pink:

I believe in Japan they put out blu ray audio discs. I tried a couple and decided that they sounded no different to the normal.
I mean can you imagine, what was I thinking buying Hawkwind's In search of space on bluray uncompressed audio discs.
It sounded no different at all!
Whats more for the price I payed I expected a miniture space log book that came with the original vinyl. Sadly there was no such thing.
Avatar 1:45pm
Grey & Pink:

a little more Kevin Ayers sounding this last set!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 1:45pm
Rich in Washington:

with all the stories of CDs circling the obsolescence drain, I am surprised there weren't more attempts in its long history to offer more content on CDs. Or have I missed something?
Avatar 1:47pm
Grey & Pink:

well lps were always around 30 mins long - not 75 mins of demos, outtakes and interviews etc!
Avatar 1:50pm
Grey & Pink:

what is the longest LP of all time?
Avatar 1:51pm
Tony Coulter:

Any one of those that end with a locked groove?
Avatar 1:52pm
Grey & Pink:

yeh I don't mean them, yeh I don't mean them, yeh I don't mean them, yeh I don't mean them, yeh I don't mean them, yeh I don't mean them, yeh I don't mean them, yeh I don't mean them, yeh I don't mean them,
Avatar 1:55pm
Tony Coulter:

I have a Heiner Goebbels LP that's around 60 minutes long.
Avatar 1:55pm
Grey & Pink:

probably the Grateful Dead Live, Europe 72 - the complete gigs - 450 hours worth of live dead! released in 2010.
Avatar 1:57pm
Tony Coulter:

re Goebbels: I'm talking a single LP.
Avatar 1:58pm
Grey & Pink:

and just to think, the dead are now releasing their live stuff on vinyl.
Probably need a fork lift truck to get 450 hours worth of vinyl into you house!
Avatar 2:00pm
Grey & Pink:

probably candidate for the worst long lp -
PIL - Metal box - 3 records of boring discordant dub!
Avatar 2:01pm
Grey & Pink:

saying that, I have never managed to get through the Nitty Gritty's Will the Circle be unbroken box set!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:02pm
Rich in Washington:

Even though it's one of my most cherished records from my youth, I nominate The Clash's Sandinista for 2nd - one disc of pretty OK-ish Clash songs with two discs of self-indulgent dross.
Avatar 2:04pm
Grey & Pink:

yeh I agree Rich - was'nt one side the failed recordings of the aborted trip to Jamaica to record at Lee Perry's Black Ark studio?
  2:05pm
MrFab:

"Metal Box" was only 2 disks. Probably the album I have listened to more than any other in my life. And, yep, "Sandinista" was my most-listened-to Clash album! So odd and unpredictable...
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:05pm
northguineahills:

Sandinista is what converted me to a Clash fan, before that, i was still fighting my demons to accept pop music (this would have be '98)
Avatar 2:06pm
Grey & Pink:

look away now TC but I must admit to owning but never listening to the Art Bears box set - I think it was all the remixed stuff that put me off!
Avatar 2:10pm
Grey & Pink:

box sets/double discs I absolutely loved however -
1. Wattstax
2. The Band - Rock of Ages

Over indulgent double albums in my bloated opinion:-
1. Hendrix - Ladyland
2.Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffitti
3. Yes - tales of topographical Ocean
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:12pm
northguineahills:

*be=been
Avatar 2:14pm
Tony Coulter:

I'm still not a convert to Clash-ism. I do like PIL, though.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:16pm
northguineahills:

I do like pop music today, as I enjoyed the Plain People of England.
Avatar 2:20pm
Grey & Pink:

I think to like the Clash means buying into the whole punk philosophy - not Grey and Pink but Black and white!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:21pm
northguineahills:

Sandinista also had some nice dubisms that can draw you in.
Avatar 2:23pm
Tony Coulter:

Just playing the devil's advocate here -- and talking through my ass, as I don't actually own any of their albums -- but the Clash always seemed like fake corporate punks to me. But I will set that prejudice aside and give Sandinsta a try.
Avatar 2:24pm
Tony Coulter:

er, "Sandinista" -- damn butterfingers.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
northguineahills:

London Calling does have that fake corporate punk effect, but I still enjoy it. I didn't get it until after Sandinista.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:26pm
Uncle Michael:

Joe Strummer was a guy that wanted to be a rock and roll musician for a living. If that's fake punk, I'll forgive it. He had a pub rock band and then saw the writing on the wall with punk and went that way. I think the Clash made some pretty great records along the way.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:29pm
DCE:

digging this computer trip
  2:32pm
MrFab:

As a young teen, I looked to the Clash the way baby boomers did to Dylan. I don't know why, they were just a rock band. But they seemed a lot "realer" to me than, say Bruuuce, with his whole phony workin' man schtick.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:34pm
Rich in Washington:

I recently just played all the toss-off tracks from Sandinista on Grooveshark and I am still really sentimental about that album. It was the first punk/new wave record I ever got and it was an Xmas gift. Still have it, in fact.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:34pm
northguineahills:

mi tambien (sobre die trip computer die)
  2:35pm
MrFab:

Having said that, Tony, the Clash may sound utterly meaningless to you now, at this late date, and you past your impressionable teen years (tho I'm sure you still look mahvelous!).
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Rich in Washington:

I do agree, though, that they had this contrived rebel image, sort of like Bruce Springsteen's aw-shucks, small-town persona.
But what did I know when I was 13 or whatever? I probably wouldn't have gotten involved in leftish politics had it not been for The Clash.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:36pm
Rich in Washington:

Love this, Tony! Great stuff!
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:37pm
northguineahills:

I'll admit that I never heard the Clash until I was in college, in the mid-90s, but I didn't get into music until I was 16.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:38pm
Uncle Michael:

I suppose the Ckash don't hold up all that way to my jaded, middle aged cynicism either. That said....There's a Clash tune coming on Friday.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:39pm
Rich in Washington:

Recently picked up a copy of Mick Jones' other band Bad's Big Top Phoenix, which has lots of weird interstitial stuff that reminds me a lot of Sandinista. Kind of a bad (no pun intended) album with a few great moments.
Avatar Swag For Life Member 2:41pm
Rich in Washington:

@Uncle Michael: Do you do a show? Where/when?
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:43pm
Uncle Michael:

I do one here...on Fridays. Noon eastern.
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:44pm
Uncle Michael:

Wow, my previous comment betrays the hydrocodone I took this morning.
Avatar 2:47pm
Tony Coulter:

@ Rich: Michael has a new(ish) show here on the GTDR stream, called "Hinky Dinky Time." Fridays, noon to 3:00. It's fab!
Avatar 🥁 Swag For Life Member 2:48pm
Uncle Michael:

Thank you, Tony.
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Tony Coulter:

Sorry I never get to listen live, btw. I'm almost alway working then. (Hence my absence from the live comments page.)
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DCE:

ngh, what did you do the first 15 years of your life?!
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Joan:

I'm a little behind here, but I always thought the Clash seemed a little canned, not really punks at all. I saw them in Hyde Park in the Summer of 86, after I'd smoked some dope wiht some Rastas there. Barely remember it. I think it would be hard for any artist to fill 2 records with truly good stuff all the way through--not a comp., but music made at that time.
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Tony Coulter:

This Die Trip Computer Die disc ain't going to be finished by the top of the hour, despite my efforts to keep my mic breaks short. I'm going to play the whole thing, though -- which means running over around 8 minutes or so. Stick around!
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Uncle Michael:

Good! Great stuff!
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Tony Coulter:

Hey, Joan!!
  2:58pm
Joan:

Hey Tony! I'm sticking around.
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DCE:

I'll stick around for this, yes
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northguineahills:

I read books non-stop and played soccer. I must have got kicked in the head when I was 16.
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DCE:

certainly worth pasttimes as well, ngh!
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listener james from westwood:

i'm in my barrel and heading for the falls!
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Uncle Michael:

Thanks for the show, Tony.
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listener james from westwood:

many thanks, tony! good tuesday, all!
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Tony Coulter:

See you everybody!!
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