{"id":64151,"date":"2019-11-21T16:11:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T14:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/?p=64151"},"modified":"2019-11-21T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T15:25:12","slug":"the-faraway-towns-hearing-to-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-faraway-towns-hearing-to-london\/","title":{"rendered":"The faraway towns hearing LOndon&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Clash&#8217;s <em>London Calling<\/em> rammer de 40 \u00e5r i december, og derfor skyder artikler, genudgivelse, ja, selv en udstilling i London op i denne tid. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/music\/features\/clash-london-calling-40-birthday-anniversary-museum-joe-strummer-a9201746.html\">Lige her er det The Independent<\/a>&#8216;s Chris Harvey, der hylder det  skels\u00e6ttende dbl-album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EfK-WX2pa8c\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>&#8220;In some ways,&nbsp;London Calling&nbsp;was not even the most radical UK album of 1979. The Slits released&nbsp;Cut, PiL\u2019s experimental&nbsp;Metal Box&nbsp;opened with 10 and a half minutes of the near unlistenable \u201cAlbatross\u201d, The Pop Group set off a post-punk chain reaction with&nbsp;Y, while Joy Division subtly tilted rock on its axis with&nbsp;Unknown Pleasures.&nbsp;London Calling&nbsp;only just made&nbsp;NME\u2019s top 10 albums of the year, at number eight.&nbsp;Meanwhile, in Coventry, the 2-Tone movement was producing multiracial bands that did more than just pay homage to Jamaican music like the punks.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>But&nbsp;London Calling&nbsp;had something unique. It was lightning in a bottle. All the shades of The Clash\u2019s music \u2013 anger, passion, swagger, political fury, romantic heroism, anguish, dread, hope, innocence, humour and exhilaration \u2013 had been caught by producer Guy Stevens. It had street smarts and grandeur. In&nbsp;The Last Testament, Clash guitarist Mick Jones&nbsp;was at pains to point out that the songs had already been written, the arrangements already worked out, during a sustained period of intense writing and rehearsing at Vanilla Studios, behind a garage in Pimlico, before Stevens arrived on the scene. But the producer, a famously erratic alcoholic, whose techniques, as Letts\u2019 film shows, were unconventional to say the least, wanted something more. Smashing chairs, pouring wine over a piano as Strummer played, swinging a ladder violently around his head, Stevens captured the spirit of The Clash. As the band\u2019s former manager Kosmo Vinyl puts it in a quote from the Museum of London exhibition: \u201cGuy Stevens wanted to make a record that sounded like scoring a goal at a Wembley Cup Final.\u201d&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-faraway-towns-hearing-to-london\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-faraway-towns-hearing-to-london\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Clash&#8217;s London Calling rammer de 40 \u00e5r i december, og derfor skyder artikler, genudgivelse, ja, selv en udstilling i London op i denne tid. Lige her er det The Independent&#8216;s Chris Harvey, der hylder det skels\u00e6ttende dbl-album. &#8220;In some ways,&nbsp;London Calling&nbsp;was not even the most radical UK album of 1979. The Slits released&nbsp;Cut, PiL\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-faraway-towns-hearing-to-london\/\" class=\"more-link\">L\u00e6s videre <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The faraway towns hearing LOndon&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_middle\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-faraway-towns-hearing-to-london\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"dark\" layout=\"standard\"  width=\"225px\" size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button  \" data-href=\"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/the-faraway-towns-hearing-to-london\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"small\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":283,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-rocknroll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/283"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jensunmack.dk\/wordpress-3\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}