Joe Strummer, Mescaleros - Global a Go-Go
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Free Music Notes for Global a Go-Go
Free Music Review: So sad he is gone
Hit: 5 Stars
Fantastic CD. Joe Strummer was so before his time. His politics were cutting edge! His talent will be missed forever!!Free Music Review: BUY THIS CD
Hit: 5 Stars
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros open your ears to a new unexpected form of music. Worth every penny.Free Music Review: Joe Strummer still has it!
Hit: 5 Stars
If you like the Clash, or BAD, or even Strummers solo career, this cd will blow you away.Free Music Review: Joe Strummer: 1952-2002
Hit: 4 Stars
It's just to sad to think that the guy who was responsable for so much is gone. Of course many people know of the Clash but not as many know about the real impact on music that they had. Before the Clash white guys from anywhere in the world wouldn't dare to cover a reggae music like they did. Rock or punk bands just didn't cover reggae music but The Clash did. The Clash were also one of the first bands to pick up on the all black music of rap. At the time rap was still underground and listen to mainly by a black audience. The Clash came along in the early 80's and churned out 3 songs, This Is A Radio Clash, The Magnifficent Seven and Lightnight Strikes and the unnoffical birth of rap rock began. The Clash even made it onto black radio stations with their songs as well, something that was unheard of at the time. The Clash were also one of the first bands to really add politics to their music, something that punk is known for today. The opened people's ears to so many musical genres that normally they wouldn't hear. Dub, RandB, Rap, Reggae, Blues, Rockabilly, Soul...The Clash were more groundbreaking than they got credit for. Of course we also can't forget the tons of bands that formed because of them. U2 said they formed because of the Clash and even Clash enimies, The Police wouldn't have had a carrer if it wasn't for ripping off the Clash's white reggae music. 25 years later Joe Strummer is still carrying rhe punk rock torch while other fellow punkers have lost the true meaning of what it's all about. Johnny Rotten is off living in his mansion and re-uniting the Pistols for tours that cost $40-$50 to get into and MTV has their own brand of punk that just sees it all as a image. Sure Joe's solo stuff sounds nothing like the Clash did (well some of his earlier solo stuff on Earthquake Weather, which is his best solo album and needs to be re-released had some Clash sound)but Joe was just one member of the Clash! Mick Jones' band Big Audio Dynamite sounded nothing like the Clash but they still had minor success (though it was with songs that sounded like Should I Stay Or Should I Go). The album cover says Joe Strummer not the Clash just like John Lennon's albums said his name and not the Beatles. I will say that not everyone that is into what Joe because known for will like his two recent albums with the Mescaleros but name me one former punk that's kept their sound fresh and new over the years and has not sold out and re-did the same songs over and over. Joe was truly an original. Global A GO-GO to be is a good album but I really can't compare it to the last one. Both are totally different and even feature different members because the original Mescaleros line-up isn't all there anymore. The first album was basically them getting their feet wet and now with one album out of the way and tons of touring (I was lucky enough to see Joe's first U.S. show in 10 years back in 1999 in DC and it was amazing)they are now more comfortable. Yes once again people looking for The Clash will be letdown though there are hints of the Clash on this album. At The Border,Guy is pure Sandinista! and has the same feel as Bankrobber did, which is one of the best Clash songs ever. I actually think that if the Clash were still making music today that this is what it would sound like. All of the members have moved on from the pure punk sound of the early days, which actually was only featured on the first album. Joe still was hanging around the scene until his death two weeks ago and still helped out old friends and took the newer bands under his wing much like Joey Ramone did until his death in 2001. Joe Strummer is gone but like all musicians that have passed away their music will live on forever. It's even more bittersweet to think that The Clash were ready to acutally re-form for the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame show in 2 months ( they were going to play White Riot without Topper but original drummer Terry Chimes was gonna play behind the kit)but since Joe is gone the world will never get that much needed Clash re-union. We will always have the music that Joe gave us. Joe may not be here to give us more music but we can help his legacy live on by spreding the word around about what this man did and letting the future genrations listen to what real music with real heart and soul actually sounded like. It's sad that the real artists have to be taken from us while there is so much [junk] polluting the musical world these days. We need Joe Strummer, the world needs Joe Strummer!
Thank You so much Joe, for everything!
Free Music Review: "Welcome, stranger, there's no danger..."
Hit: 4 Stars
I bought this 2001 album -- along with Rock Art And The X-Ray Style -- just two days before 9/11, so in the days following the terrorist attacks, Joe Strummer was just about all I listened to. But while Rock Art seemed mostly escapist to me, Global A Go-Go grew more poignant with each listen as I dug deeper into Joe's "one world" vision. In the song "Global A Go-Go" (which features harmony vocals by Roger Daltrey of the Who), the former Clash frontman sings of taking over the world's airwaves and using music to bring all kinds of people together: "Bo Diddley's in Finland Station, Sun Ra's in Omaha, the Skatalites in New York City ... Good hip-hop in Islamabad." "Bhindi Bhagee" is virtually a celebration of diversity, as Strummer dicusses food and musical styles with a stranger. I also love the wry commentary of the rollicking "Johnny Appleseed" ("If you're after getting the honey, then you don't go killin' all the bees") and the funky "Cool 'n' Out" ("God sure baked a lot of fruitcake, baby, when Adam met the Eden lady"). My favorite track would have to be the lush "Mega Bottle Ride," about a depressed lad who finds a cure for his "blues" -- not in drinking or dancing, but in an amusement park ride.Of course, Strummer and his ragtag band of talented multi-instrumentalists continue to do interesting things with their music. Even more so than Rock Art, Global captures the unself-conscious eclecticism of Clash classics like London Calling (1979) and Sandinista (1980) without actually trying to re-make those records. Joe and the Mescaleros perform a lovely, 18-minute version of the traditional "Minstrel Boy"; new member (and onetime Clash collaborator) Tymon Dogg brings his violin into the mix, most memorably on "Johnny Appleseed," "Bhindi Bhagee," and the folk-based ballad "Bummed Out City"; and tracks like "Shaktar Donetsk" and "Mondo Bongo" find the band delving deeper into world music. There are only a couple of clunkers here: "Gamma Ray" has a humorous lyrical conceit (a paranoid nutjob blames the world's ills on the title object), but it doesn't hold up for 7 whole minutes; "At the Border, Guy," also 7 minutes but less funny and with a more monotonous melody, is even more tedious. These missteps aside, though, Strummer shows us that "mature punk" needn't be such a scary thing if it still has something interesting to say musically and lyrically.
P.S.: Joe -- bless his heart -- dedicates this album to the late Joey Ramone (of punk heroes the Ramones).