“We should all pose with our instruments for this”
“What about Terry? We can’t really bring out his kit to pose with”
“I don’t know, just bring the sticks”
“Give him a fucking baseball bat”
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The Clash
The Story of the Clash Volume 1
1988 CBS
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Tracks LP One:
01. The Magnificent Seven
02. Rock the Casbah
03. This Is Radio Clash
04. Should I Stay or Should I Go
05. Straight to Hell
06. Armagideon Time
07. Clampdown
08. Train in Vain
09. The Guns of Brixton
10. I Fought the Law
11. Somebody Got Murdered
12. Lost in the Supermarket
13. Bankrobber
Track LP Two:
01. (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
02. London’s Burning
03. Janie Jones
04. Tommy Gun
05. Complete Control
06. Capital Radio One
07. White Riot
08. Career Opportunities
09. Clash City Rockers
10. Safe European Home
11. Stay Free
12. London Calling
13. Spanish Bombs
14. English Civil War
15. Police & Thieves
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* Long Live Rock Archive
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[Billy comes out of the convenience store after threatening a cashier]
Terry: Jesus, Billy! What did you get?
Billy: Justice and a Slim Jim.
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The Clash Live at Shea Stadium
Today is International Clash Day, a day to celebrate The Clash. My kind of holiday. A few years ago on this day I shared my Top 5 Clash Albums. Today I thought I’d share my favorite live album, Live at Shea Stadium. It was recorded on Oct. 13, 1982 at Shea Stadium in NYC when they opened for The Who. The album was released in 2008. I picked this up in early 2014 at Cite de la Musique in Paris when I attended the Euro-punk exhibit there. Such a good live album!
This video is the full album.
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The Clash
The Singles
2007 Epic
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Tracks:
01. London Calling
02. Rock the Casbah
03. Should I Stay or Should I Go
04. I Fought the Law
05. (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
06. The Magnificent Seven
07. Bankrobber
08. The Call Up
09. Complete Control
10. White Riot
11. Remote Control
12. Tommy Gun
13. Clash City Rockers
14. English Civil War
15. Hitsville UK
16. Know Your Rights
17. This Is England
18. This Is Radio Clash
19. Train in Vain
20. Groovy Times
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* Long Live Rock Archive
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Talking in a group chat with some fellow author friends earlier, and the subject of our book reviews came up. As in, "What's the favorite thing anyone's ever said about your book?" type thing.
I had to pause and think about it because people have said a lot of nice things about my work. That it's the queer goth love child of Jane Austen meets Terry Pratchett, for one. That Nathan's disability arc meant the world to them. That Vlad's blatant neurodivergence made them feel seen. That Ursula's profound loneliness made them feel less alone.
But the one thing I see time and time again that makes me smile is the word "comfort." So that's the one I went with. That people find my work comfortable.
So you can imagine my surprise when someone chimed in going, "Noo, don't say that! Your work is so good!"
I won't lie, it took me a solid ten to twenty seconds to realize that she thought someone describing my work as being "comfortable" was an insult and not one of the nicest things anyone has ever said to me.
And maybe I'm just several types of mentally ill, chronically ill, and too beaten down by the world, but I do not understand what is wrong with comfort. Comfort, for me, is a physically unobtainable goal. You might as well rank it up there with getting transported into another world and becoming Queen of the Fae. For me, reading comfortable narratives where people get taken care of with compassion and love is a fantasy.
And, like, just objectively speaking, something being comfortable doesn't mean it's not good.
It doesn't mean it's not thought provoking. It doesn't mean conflict-free or lacking moral dilemmas. It means people feel safe reading it, knowing those things will be resolved.
I'm not trying to keep my readers on edge with anxiety, always wondering where the next plot twist will come in. That's not my style of writing. It's not my goal. It's fine if it's yours, but like... Comfort is not an insult, and it makes me a little sad to think some people think it is.
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