I suppose you mean the titles we see when we look at the thread listing page. So for example:

The Clash on MX Thread. Featuring Joe Strummer. Which is a take on The Clash on Broadway.

Or perhaps Straight To Hell: The Clash/Joe Strummer Thread. I like that one myself.

Or maybe MX Calling: The Clash/Joe Strummer Thread.

These are just ideas. I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for.

John and Robert: The Dead Kennedys Thread.

Or perhaps John and Robert = Jello: The Dead Kennedys Thread. Cheesy, but kinda funny.

The Dead Kennedy ones don't really mention song titles or lyrics or anything, but perhaps are a clever play on words anyway. And the = Jello one could kind of relate not only to Jello Biafra, but also to the condition of both Kennedy's on there final day. A bit tasteless, but hell, it is the Dead Kennedys. The name of the band itself was meant to shock.

How many other official band threads are there? I looked through almost all the punk pages and I see threads about bands such as Bad Religion and Social D and what not, but nothing that looks too official.

Anyway, these are just off the top of my head. If I have any brain power to spare tommorow I'll try to think of some more. I do like the Straight To Hell one, though. :)

[QUOTE=JohnXDoe]I suppose you mean the titles we see when we look at the thread listing page. So for example:

The Clash on MX Thread. Featuring Joe Strummer. Which is a take on The Clash on Broadway.

Or perhaps Straight To Hell: The Clash/Joe Strummer Thread. I like that one myself.

Or maybe MX Calling: The Clash/Joe Strummer Thread.

These are just ideas. I'm not sure exactly what you are looking for.

John and Robert: The Dead Kennedys Thread.

Or perhaps John and Robert = Jello: The Dead Kennedys Thread. Cheesy, but kinda funny.

The Dead Kennedy ones don't really mention song titles or lyrics or anything, but perhaps are a clever play on words anyway. And the = Jello one could kind of relate not only to Jello Biafra, but also to the condition of both Kennedy's on there final day. A bit tasteless, but hell, it is the Dead Kennedys. The name of the band itself was meant to shock.

How many other official band threads are there? I looked through almost all the punk pages and I see threads about bands such as Bad Religion and Social D and what not, but nothing that looks too official.

Anyway, these are just off the top of my head. If I have any brain power to spare tommorow I'll try to think of some more. I do like the Straight To Hell one, though. :)[/QUOTE]


The official ones are listed in the rules, they are
The Clash
Dead Kennedys
Leftover Crack/Choking Victim
Streetlight Manifesto/Catch 22
Against Me!

The AFI one is an unofficial official since its the main thread on the band, the same with the Misfits thread that was floating around for awhile.

[QUOTE=CombatRock]Do you own a telecaster or can get a hold of one?[/QUOTE]

My mate has one...I'll see what i can do :thumb:

From London to Jamaica: the Clash / Strumma Thread.

the clash is my favorite band right now, my favorite songs are death or glory, rudie cant fail, and lost in the supermarket. im also reading a book thats a biography of the clash called passion is a fashion, its quite interesting :thumb:

[QUOTE=JohnXDoe]

Or maybe MX Calling: The Clash/Joe Strummer Thread[/QUOTE]

I like that one.

[QUOTE=skankthenspank]the clash is my favorite band right now, my favorite songs are death or glory, rudie cant fail, and lost in the supermarket. im also reading a book thats a biography of the clash called passion is a fashion, its quite interesting :thumb:[/QUOTE]

I was gonna get that book... but I didn't have enough money and don't like reading that much :(.

And you can't go wrong with either one of those songs.

Andy has Passion is a Fashion.


That sounds like a Barbie movie.

So whats the new name going to be for the thread?

Clash are faggots

LOL

[QUOTE=Skrunnch]Skrunnch is a large bundle of stickss

LOL[/QUOTE]


I really dig the name change.

Ouch.

My name change suggestion had to do with one of the best Clash bootlegs I've heard.

[QUOTE=CombatRock]So whats the new name going to be for the thread?[/QUOTE]

I dunno :confused:. There are some good ideas around, I suppose. Could be almost anything, really. Final decision is up to the Mod In Black. He might have his own ideas. I haven't come up with any others. It just seems like an endless prarade of names is possible. I figure I'd keep it simple. I really haven't thought about any of the other bands. Maybe I'll give it a go later.


EDIT: Oh, it's been changed! Very good. I like it. Wonder why. :)

Yea, i think it was the best one.

I just got done watching this speical in PBS called Get Up Stand Up, it was about music and politics. And when they did the "punk" part It had the Clash, and its showed the clash more than any other bands, its showed them playing live, and talked to joe. and on one of the clips of them live, Joe was playing a strat.

I just got out all of my Clash best ofs and singles collections. Lost In A Supermarket always ruins my enjoyment. On one of my compilations its like white riot, janie jones, i fought the law, career oppurtunites, garageland and just when you're really enjoying the awesome along comes Lost In A Supermarket, followed by Train In Vain. And then I have to get up and push the skip button. And d'amn if I'm not too lazy to bother with that.

^ "I wasn't born so much as I fell out, nobody seemed to notice me....."

I like the lyrics to the song. Not crazy about the chorus or the song itself, but it's pop enough for Mick, I suppose.

It's funny that Combat Rock should mention politics and the Clash. The Clash were probably the most overtly political band ever. Thanks to Joe they could be very direct like in Washington Bullets or The Call Up, or more clever as in The Magnificant Seven or Atom Tan. That's another thing I liked about the Clash. They weren't really around very long, but they evolved so fast while they were. Musically, lyrically, and creatively. I don't think any other band could of pulled off those politics and all that music [I]and[/I] found critical and mainstream success. All the while maintaining a level of credibility few bands could ever hope of achieving in the first place. I've been listening to [I]a lot[/I] of them as of late and I think I'm enjoying them more then ever. I hear new and different things in the mix. The Chaos In New York album has really opened my ears, also. I think they have moved up a notch on my list of all time favorite bands.

I will agree that The Clash are one of the best "political" bands around, the only other band who are their equal are the dead kennedys. Basically I judge a bands political music quality on whether or not I can get over disagreeing with them enough to really listen to them.

I wouldn't call the Clash the most political band... maybe at their time. The Magnificent Seven gots some sweeet political lyrics, Radio Clash is cool too.

And I like Lost In the Supermarket. The guitar solo is pretty rad with the effects. If somebody could tab it they'd get sex from yours truly.

I couldn't be bothered to go to school yesterday so i went shopping and went to a newsagent and picked up a magazine and they had a little article saying that The Clash (Mick and Paul) are reforming with Tim from Rancid which I know everybody knows but thinks its not true but anyway Tim said that they rehearsed London Calling the other day and it sounded fu'cking brilliant. So I guess it is going to happen. They are not coming to Australia so I won't be able to see them.

What magazine was it? It sounds like the exact fake story posted on here.

Blunt Magazine.

Sounds like a tabloid or a mag for potheads.

is Tim going to sing? i hope not. his voice gets worse and worse as the years go on

The Clash are not reforming with Tim Armstrong.

Bite your tongues. :p

I agree with Steve, before the bourbon and 50 marlboros a day voice was cool, in stuff like ruby soho, but now it just pisses me off.

"some of my friends sell records, some of my friends sell drugs"
what a smelly wanker he is. Just as well Metal Hammer gave the transplants album 1 out of ten, serves him right.

[QUOTE=RIP Ian Curtis]I will agree that The Clash are one of the best "political" bands around, the only other band who are their equal are the dead kennedys. Basically I judge a bands political music quality on whether or not I can get over disagreeing with them enough to really listen to them.[/QUOTE]

Thats, a first, a Clash fan who dosent agree with their message.

[QUOTE=RIP Ian Curtis]

"some of my friends sell records, some of my friends sell drugs".[/QUOTE]
HAHAHHA I heard that song the other day and started laughing at that part.

I saw a sailboat called London Calling today.