...I DONT CARE 'TO WHAT CHANNEL'? JUST TO ONE THAT HASNT GOT ANY CLASH MUSIC ON IT, COZ ITS PISSING ME OFF HEARING THEM USED IN ADVERTS SO OFTEN.
I'm not a great fan of TV and when I do have it on its usually as background noise when I'm doing something messy that means I cant keep changing the music, such as painting (no Im not an 'Artist', Artists sell work that people like), its my other, other hobby.
Aaanyway, I've had the TV on about five or six times this past two weeks, either as background noise as I said or to watch a DVD (Im a B-movie + old Horror films fan of Geek-God like proportions) and I couldn't help noticing the amount of Clash music I kept hearing on Freeview channels like the cheapo C.24 (ITV4 I think, which occasionally shows my beloved Sweeney or the Professionals hence it being tuned to that otherwise shit channel).
I must admit that it was a bit amusing the first couple of times I heard 'Brand New Cadillac' playing while Clint Eastwood threw punches at everything on the screen that moved, but after those first few times my amusement seriously waned and I began to wonder why we were now hearing CLASH tunes regularly on TV when once there were none?
It can't be a co-incidence that the amount of Clash tunes that are filling in film and TV show ads has increased since JOE STRUMMER died, the only questions I want to know is why now, who agreed to it all, and have they ever heard the term 'overkill'?
It could be MICK JONES who owns half of the tunes or it could of been Strummers wife looking to feather the family nest and give his kids a decent future (but at the cost of destroying their Dads legacy? there must be other ways).
I just don't know why or how, but what I do know is that the bands music wasn't appearing on TV before STRUMMERS death because he was saying a firm, 'right-on' "no" to all offers, and he must of turned down a small fortune in doing so over the years.
By doing that STRUMMER had I reckon proved what a real proper Punky geezer he was who, despite a few career 'burps' during the 1980's still had his heart in the same musically moral place that endeared him to many of us from the late 1970's onwards, and shows us that (wiping tear from my jaded, cataract filled eye) JOE was still as Punk Rock as the day he...ermmm, wrote 'White Riot' on a Boiler suit....(haven't you got any better examples than that?).
So heres to JOE (again), I will raise the Tea (in my horrid 'Wills & Kate' mug) to him now, and as I take my Meds tonight I will be still thinking of him, until that is, the Meds take effect and I begin to dribble as I'm given one last wipe and put to bed.
I'm not a great fan of TV and when I do have it on its usually as background noise when I'm doing something messy that means I cant keep changing the music, such as painting (no Im not an 'Artist', Artists sell work that people like), its my other, other hobby.
Aaanyway, I've had the TV on about five or six times this past two weeks, either as background noise as I said or to watch a DVD (Im a B-movie + old Horror films fan of Geek-God like proportions) and I couldn't help noticing the amount of Clash music I kept hearing on Freeview channels like the cheapo C.24 (ITV4 I think, which occasionally shows my beloved Sweeney or the Professionals hence it being tuned to that otherwise shit channel).
I must admit that it was a bit amusing the first couple of times I heard 'Brand New Cadillac' playing while Clint Eastwood threw punches at everything on the screen that moved, but after those first few times my amusement seriously waned and I began to wonder why we were now hearing CLASH tunes regularly on TV when once there were none?
It can't be a co-incidence that the amount of Clash tunes that are filling in film and TV show ads has increased since JOE STRUMMER died, the only questions I want to know is why now, who agreed to it all, and have they ever heard the term 'overkill'?
It could be MICK JONES who owns half of the tunes or it could of been Strummers wife looking to feather the family nest and give his kids a decent future (but at the cost of destroying their Dads legacy? there must be other ways).
I just don't know why or how, but what I do know is that the bands music wasn't appearing on TV before STRUMMERS death because he was saying a firm, 'right-on' "no" to all offers, and he must of turned down a small fortune in doing so over the years.
By doing that STRUMMER had I reckon proved what a real proper Punky geezer he was who, despite a few career 'burps' during the 1980's still had his heart in the same musically moral place that endeared him to many of us from the late 1970's onwards, and shows us that (wiping tear from my jaded, cataract filled eye) JOE was still as Punk Rock as the day he...ermmm, wrote 'White Riot' on a Boiler suit....(haven't you got any better examples than that?).
So heres to JOE (again), I will raise the Tea (in my horrid 'Wills & Kate' mug) to him now, and as I take my Meds tonight I will be still thinking of him, until that is, the Meds take effect and I begin to dribble as I'm given one last wipe and put to bed.
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