Red Mosquito

the clash does have one song high on my draft board

Lament wrote:That is a stunningly good pick that I would have never expected from you, Stip. Well done.

I think my 60s team was unappreciated for its breadth and depth and not always super obvious choices

stip wrote:the clash does have one song high on my draft board

It's makes me sad that I probably can guess which one song this is.

I should probably warn you now though, Should I Stay or Should I Go is from the 80s.

Nice pick, Lament. The Clash was on my shortlist for first up, but since this one is still up for grabs...



The Sex Pistols - Anarchy in the U.K.

Lament wrote:I don't trust anyone who didn't at some point in their life believe that The Clash were the single greatest band of all-time.

Not only that, I saw 'em live. (I win life.)

PryTo wrote:

Lament wrote:I don't trust anyone who didn't at some point in their life believe that The Clash were the single greatest band of all-time.

Not only that, I saw 'em live. (I win life.)

Yes. Yes you do.

I met Joe Strummer once, so that's gotta give me an honorable mention at life, right?

Also, awesome pick. My favorite song from probably my second favorite album of all-time.

Honorable mention +, easily. But you know me -- I want the story, Lament! How did this meeting come to pass? In my former life as a music journalist, I interviewed Strummer about a year before he passed. Nicest guy in the world. I'm sure he was even better in person, yes?

Guys, I had sex with Joe Strummer. I win.

Lament wrote:I should probably warn you now though, Should I Stay or Should I Go is from the 80s.

theplatypus wrote:Guys, I had sex with Joe Strummer. I win.

We may need a ruling on this. Was it pre or postmortem?

I guess you'd call it... intermortem.

It's actually a pretty mundane story. It was at an in-store event in Chicago in 2001. For as lionized as he'd become in death (and he deserves it), it's kinda sad how unappreciated he was while he was still alive. Up until about thirty minutes before they let us in for a full band performance and signing, there were probably only thirty of us lined up (compare that to a month earlier when Weezer was at the same store for just a signing and they had almost a thousand people lined up around the block).

Watching him interact with fans during the signing was a revelation. He took the time to genuinely talk with every single person there, and listen to their stories about the Clash and what his music meant to them. He really did seem like the coolest, nicest guy in the world. He had his daughter with him, and was having a blast just hanging out with her and all of these strangers who he treated like they were old friends. When I got my opportunity to meet him, the employee who was overseeing the proceedings told him I was the only person who braved the crowd of about a hundred-plus NSync fans to buy Global-A-Go-Go at the midnight release sale earlier that week. He got a chuckle out of that.

He's probably the one person I've met who left me truly in awe. I didn't really know what on earth to say to him, so I just blurted out the same "The records you've made have changed my life" that he'd no doubt been hearing non-stop for almost twenty-five years, but it weirdly felt like he "got" it, that no matter how many times he'd heard it, he still understood how important it was to whoever was saying it actually be getting a chance to say it to him (if that makes sense).

Now, let's hear about this interview!

theplatypus wrote:I guess you'd call it... intermortem.

what song was playing in the background?

There are so many songs I want to take with my first pick. This is gonna be really difficult.

If you can make it to the :30 mark without either dancing, shaking head or ass, or a getting big, cheesy grin on your face then there is something wrong with you!



Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough

Top 5 MJ song.

as a teenager in the 70s, I'll be picking real 70s music that I sang in front of the mirror in to my comb from my back pocket

Kaius wrote:If you can make it to the :30 mark without either dancing, shaking head or ass, or a getting big, cheesy grin on your face then there is something wrong with you!



Michael Jackson - Don't Stop Til You Get Enough

1st song from my list taken so far.

Nice play, Kaius.

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