Thread 127645611

>Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust
What did he mean by that?

It's a shame he was wrong though because bands like Oasis broke through afterward making their whole career on doing a Beatles cosplay when they don't hold a candle to them.

>>127645611 (OP)
it means he's envious of the Beatles' popularity and is insecure.

>>127645678
>punk band calling out something popular and mainstream
No way.

>>127645684
>"punk"

>>127645684
>The Clash
>Punk

>>127645684
>CBS/Epiq recording artists the Clash calling out someone for being mainstream
Perhaps they'd like to join Sony Recording artists Rage Against the Machine for a real rebellion tour!

>>127645704
>>127645712
what level of contrarianism is this? what's next, 2pac isn't a rapper?

Joe Strummer was no different. It was terrible the way he died, but it needs saying that he wasn't the savviest cultural commentator. His politics were all over the place; bluster over substance, that's what he represented. We supported The Clash in New York in 1981. Belting out naive generalizations in front of this backdrop that went from the Yorkshire Ripper to pictures of kids being coshed; all very clichéd. It was like watching the news in your living room with The Clash playing in the corner. Everybody knows it's wrong. But coming at it from that angle is pointless, thoughtless even.

The sad thing about it all is he distanced himself from his middle-class background and education, appropriated this tough heart-on-the-sleeve messenger stance so convincingly, but lacked the wit to take it anywhere fresh. He was preaching to the converted, and I don't just mean his fans, but himself as well. He daren't offend anybody, because they'd just charge him with being a phoney, and he daren't look at it in a sceptical way, because then he'd be employing his privileged education. That was the crux of his problem

>>127645611 (OP)
Phony Clashmania was the new big thing

>>127645611 (OP)
The Beatles weren't for real man, The Clash were music for the kids on the street, power to the people, Rock and Roll!

Babbys first punk roc

>>127645611 (OP)
>the real beatle-mania is only just beginning

>>127645787
>2pac isn't a rapper?
2pac is dead. nothing contrarian about that, either.

>>127645806
this. I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
Punk = poseur.

>>127645611 (OP)
he hated beatles because they were pleb working class.
patrician joe rightly called out this basterdized music being made by the help.

>>127645806
Came here to post this.
God’s work, anon.

>>127645611 (OP)
>Strummer wept when he heard that the phrase "Rock the Casbah" was written on an American bomb that was to be detonated on Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War.

>>127645787
They sound like British Bruce Springsteen

>>127645611 (OP)
Both Joe and Mick are Jewish so they hate traditional White Anglo-Saxon culture.

Combat Rock > London Calling

>>127645806
None of this bullshit matters, and anyone who thinks it does is ruining music. Sound is all that matters. Fuck politics. Fuck image. Fuck "authenticity." Don't even like the Clash, either. Dreadfully boring band.

>>127649002
found the "punk"

>>127645611 (OP)
As always, the special school dropouts here take the line literally, it's actually a comment on how British punk's first wave had lost it's cultural clout only a few years after it began.

>>127645611 (OP)
1968: Beatles tell Charles Manson to go kill
1979: The Clash tell Mark David Chapman to go kill

>>127645611 (OP)
By 1980 the proper punk movement was over in the UK