...As
England's most socially outspoken new wave act, the Clash may appear to be tilting
at the same windmills of injustice, inequality, and establishmentarian insensitivity
as the radicals of those same ten years ago. But when guitarist/ lyricist Joe
Strummer sings in the title track of London Calling "the Ice Age is coming/the
sun is zooming in/engines stop running/and the wheat is growing thin/a nuclear
error but I have no fear/ London is drowning/and I live by the river" he
is addressing combustible social, natural, and human issues with the band's
thoroughly modern musical armory of classic punk adrenalin, Third World reggae
and ska slapback rhythms, and blues variations that enable the Clash to take
on the jazzy changes of "Jimmy Jazz" and gritty aggression of the R&B oldie
"Brand New Cadillac" with equal facility. Whether that is enough to get the
Clash or any other so-called "new wave" act on American radio doesn't have so
much to do with how commercial or uncommercial they are as it does with how
commercial FM program directors perceive them to be....
Προσέξτε ότι
αν και είμαστε στα 1980 το όνομα του Paul είναι γραμμένο ως Simenon.
Επίσης στη δεξιά λεζάντα έχει ακούσει κανείς για bamalama
punk?
Το κείμενο έχει
τίτλο "Tom Petty, Ramones & Clash lead the charge of the new wave
brigade" του David Fricke.
posted
23.09.2001
Πίσω
στο Clash Main
Circus March
4, 1980