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MyMediaMusic
My favorite song on the debut album. Love the "...and we're going through a tight wind..." at the beginning, nice little nod from the Kings of UK punk to the Kings of US punk.
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honeymoonisover
the main reason this song got into the album was because without it the album would be too short according to the band
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Arctic-Lights
shit you're right, looked at all the timestamps for the songs and they're like 1:40 - 2:10. This one is six minutes
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AUFrechterGang
Like The Clash in anyway. My big Heroes! Better than the Stones they could have been!
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venividivicious
Wow! Only just noticed Joe says "They're going through a tight wind" at the start. Ramones & The Clash. Powerful.
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ctd55
We're nearing to the end, and it's time for the unusually long, (potentially) momentum-killing track. An epic song needs a grandiose theme, so it's time to get Biblical: nothing short of armageddon will do. The police and thieves--two sides of the same coin, and neither more legitimate than the other--spill out in to the streets and get their war on, while a drawn-out rockified reggae cover plays as musical accompaniment. The soundtrack of armageddon, then, is the track least reminiscent of the chaos and violence of a warzone. There's a lesson here, I think: punk isn't up to the task of depicting the end times. Punk's simplicity, one of its signal virtues, limits its possible scope. It burrows in and destroys, it strips things down and obliterates; it can't achieve the epic sweep needed to assay grandiose topics. Maybe the distilled energy of punk can prompt revolution fervor, but it doesn't provide a canvas adequate to portray the revolution in all its breadth and complexity.
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evildeaddd
my friend used to play this OVER and OVER and OVER in my car, and now everytime I hear it i'm forced to do the same. may he rest in peace ♥
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tudujoia
you really can't compare this to the original, imo. the things that make this version awesome are just not present in the junior murvin version. same could be said for the original. either way, i could listen to both on repeat for the rest of my life and probably never get sick of hearing them.
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CocoaDusted
As much as I love The Clash, I think the Junior Murvin version is just a BIT better.
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borskistar
only The Clash could do a version as good as the original.....oh yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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