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Today's thought of a band that has influenced my life as a music consumer as much as almost any other. This is the English punk band The Clash.
It was about 7 years (ie, as was so 13/14), when I began more interested in punk rock (music was my first taste of really mixed very strongly and still strongly influenced by the mainstream (from the time I still really embarrassing CDs but they are well hidden in the closet ;-))). This began with the dead pants so it happened that I wanted from my uncle for a birthday or a Christmas CD of those same. What I did not know was that my uncle in recent days even this music very much heard. So he gave me next to your pants or a burned CD version of the Clash album "London Calling" (he also lent me another 2 records: one of the Sex Pistols and a Slime, but which I was not as interested, especially because I did not own a record player). At first I
London Calling was more interested in less, because it was so old (so we think at that age feel free to surf ...). After some time I heard it out and I was immediately smitten. The Clash are they so "guilty" that my musical development in terms of punk rock was not the "mainstream punk rock" stuck and I began to hear other old punk bands (a good example here are the Ramones). It is like the end of the album London Calling attribute that I even began listening to old and they often also.
The Clash played at first pure, influenced by the Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, which was in time but always challenging and experimental. Appeared in 1978 with "(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais" is a song as a single, which strongly reminded not been to the original punk rock, but was strongly influenced by reggae and ska. Also later in the direction of dub and folk music experiments (especially the English and Latin American). The Clash were one of the first punk bands that were also perceived by the mainstream (in the UK and the U.S., they even had several top ten hits), which the band themselves, and particularly the singer Joe Strummer not just good . Were called The increasing success also led to the fact that the band more and more divided and in 1986 then after the deeply disappointing album "Cut The Crap" dissolved.
worked After the dissolution of the band members then on various projects (only the "important" members): singer / guitarist Joe Stummer: a solo album in the 80s, many soundtracks and small film roles, sometimes lead singer of Irish folk-punk band The Pogues, and from 1999 until his death in 2002 the great band Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros guitarist Mick Jones: many lesser-known bands, currently producer (including The Libertines and Babyshambles)
bassist Paul Simonon: devoted himself entirely to The Clash of painting until 2006 include the Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn, the band "The Good, The Bad And The Queen" founded
To say more would be that many bands (not only from the punk rock area) The Clash as major role models and see themselves as big fans come out (such as Die Toten Hosen, The Libertines, Beatles, Manic Street Preachers, REM or U2).
Links:
Wikipedia article
English fansite
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