What's next? The Clash reforming minus Joe Strummer?

This is hardly an isolated reunion incident
In the last 10 years..

-Misfits reunite without Glen Danzig
-Dead Kennedys without Jello Biafra
-Thin Lizzy without Phil Lynott
-Dead Boys without Stiv Bators
-Judas Priest without Halford
-MC5 without Rob Tyner and Fred Smith

 

I just chuckled thinking about that video of Danzig getting his ass kicked. ;D

Punk started to suck when rockstar jackoffs like Geln Danzig started to rule the roost.

 

My favorites are the bands whose minor players reunite, but can't get rights to the original name, which explains Creedence Clearwater Revisited and Electric Light Orchestra, Part II.

 

Which explains why Bruce and Rick will be touring as either "The Toast" or "The Marmalade."

 

I had no idea the Kennedys got back withot Jello Biafra. Was East Bay Ray in the band?

 

Didn't know Priest went out without Halford.

And Lizzy--what 20 some years after Lynott died? That's just so wrong.....

"So, is this it or you gonna milk it in Europe....."

 

"Rock the Casbah" (or "Lock the Cashbox" as a drunken ex-girlfriend used to warble) was one of the first songs played over the open airwaves during the liberation at Desert Storm. Drop your bombs between the minarets. Very sexual.

 

The video shot in Texas with the little armadillo waddling along was cool, too.

But the best songs on that album weren't singles: Straight to Hell, Sean Flynn, Red Angel Dragnet with Ginsberg reciting weird shit.

 

Heard "Bankrobber" on XM the other day. I'm a huge Clash fan but I'd forgotten what a great fucking song that is.

 

That song rules.

"White Man in Hammersmith Palais" and "Bankrobber" are probably the best original Clash reggae songs.

Although all the weird, dubbed stuff on "Sandinista!" sounds pretty good if you're high. Never was sure if "Sandinista!" was a triple album or an EP. It all kind of blends together.

 

Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story

'N' every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n' roll
Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold
But I believe in this -- and it's been tested by research
He who fucks nuns will later join the church

Death or glory becomes just another story
Death or glory becomes just another story

 

I've always thought "White Man In Hammersmith Palais" was the Clash's best song.

Was no fan of Sandanista (particularly all that dub stuff) but it had enough great songs like "Police On My Back" (awesome cover of an Eddy Grant song), "Somebody Got Murdered", "Magnificent Seven" and "Hitsville UK" to be a terrific single album rather than a three-album mess.