the clash - lose this skin

[A Dashing Blade]

iirc Sandanista was a triple album released at a cut-price with proceeds going to Nicaragua at a time when the country was being f*cked over by Reagan & Thatcher.

Tho' I usually dislike politics intruding into music (Red Wedge anyone?) Sandanista is the exception that proves the rule.

 

[rollinder]

proceeds going to Nicaragua at a time when the country was being f*cked over by Reagan & Thatcher.

knew they fucked themselves over with the record company re royalites but didn't know that.

they had spokespeople for the Sandinista's speaking and leafleting at gigs afterwards.

When Joe spoke, you listened. I remember him talking about the Cosa Nostra thing with the Sandinistas long before they (the Clash) did the album. Reagan trading cocaine for cash through Miami - I thought, 'Joe, this has to be all made up. The president of the United States trading drugs?' But it turned out to be true. Joe had gone to South America on some sort of fact-finding mission with his guitar, into the jungle. He was talking about it ten years before anyone knew it had happened." - Pete Townshend discussing the late Joe Strummer, Rolling Stone Magazine, November 2, 2006.

http://backlotfilm.blogspot.com/2006/12/all-or-nothing-filmmaking.html

nice little fantasy but the bit in bold is bollocks innit & he doesn't know the difference between the costra Nostra and the Contras

 

[oryx]

One More time is terrible (Paul should have been banned from going anywhere near a microphone) but entertainingly so

I think One More Time is the best thing on it!

I love this album - it's the only Clash album I own. Except I've only got it on vinyl & haven't heard it for years.

 

[GroovyCrimes]

Paul doesnt sing One More Time.He sings 'Crooked Beat'

 

[rollinder]

Paul doesnt sing One More Time.He sings 'Crooked Beat'

arrgh I meant Crooked beat