Classic Clips

Heartbreaker In Sound And Vision – ‘I PROMISE’ By RADIOHEAD

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29 April 2024

Eight years ago standout album OK COMPUTER turned 20.
To celebrate the occasion, RADIOHEAD released a special anniversary
edition of their masterpiece called OKNOTOK featuring three previously
unreleased tracks recorded during the OK sessions.

One of them is the supreme ballad titled I PROMISE
(more than 25 million streams on Spotify).

A heartbreaker that sends shivers
down your spine, in sound and vision.

I won’t run away no more, I promise
Even when I get bored, I promise
Even when you lock me out, I promise
I say my prayers every night, I promise

I don’t wish that I’m strict, I promise
The tantrums and the chilling chats, I promise
Even when the ship is wrecked, I promise
Tie me to the rotten deck, I promise

I won’t run away no more, I promise
Even when I get bored, I promise
Even when the ship is wrecked, I promise
Tie me to the rotten deck, I promise

I won’t fool around no more, I promise
Even when I get bored, I promise
Even when you lock me out, I promise
I say my prayers every night, I promise
I won’t fool around no more, I promise

I won’t run away no more, I promise

Listen/watch.

Radiohead: Instagram

27 March 1987 – U2 On A Roof Where The Streets Have No Name 37 Years Ago

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27 March 2024

Global rock stars U2 released their piece de resistance The Joshua Tree on 9 March 1987.

One of the sublime hit singles on the LP was WHERE THE STREETS HAVE NO NAME.
A video clip for the song was shot on the roof of a building in Los Angeles, 18 days after the album launch, on 27 March, 37 years ago today. The event drew thousands of people cheering in the nameless streets.

U2 played an 8-song set with 4 versions of the single. Eventually, the police ordered
the band and their crew to stop and leave as the audience became too big to handle.
Yet the clip won the Best Video Grammy Award afterward.

The masterstroke peaked at #11 in the US, #4 in the UK,
and topped the Charts in Ireland and New Zealand.

Relive the euphoric moments.

U2: Bio – Discography – Website

Classic Clips – AC/DC With ‘LET THERE BE ROCK’ (1977) Fronted By BON SCOTT Who Passed Away This Day In 1980

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BON SCOTT, the original crazed frontman of Australian hard riff-rock turbine AC/DC
died 44 years ago today, on 19 February 1980. After a heavy night’s drinking in London ,
he was found in a friend’s parked car. The coroner’s report stated that he had “drunk himself to death”, after suffocating on his own vomit. R.I.P.

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Classic Clips – BABES IN TOYLAND With ‘BRUISE VIOLET’ (1992)

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For your eyes

16 February 2024

Minneapolis‘ riot grunge grrrls BABES IN TOYLAND (1987–2001, 2014–2020) were punk pussyKats you’d better not mess around with. Their barbed wire in-your-face bravado could split atoms and Kat Bjelland‘s intimidating vox was clamorously ace.

Remember their stupendous single BRUISE VIOLVET and its utterly cool
babes-rock video clip from their amazeballs 1992 album Fontanelle?

Roll the tape.

BIT: History

Classic Clips – SINEAD O’CONNOR And SHANE MACGOWAN With Cover Of THE POGUES Gem ‘HAUNTED’

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9 January 2024

We lost two musical Irish icons last year with
SINEAD O’CONNOR and SHANE MACGOWAN.

Back in 1994 they teamed up for a cover of The Pogues‘s 1986 gem
HAUNTED. The song featured on Shane MacGowan & The Popes
1994 LP The Snake.

Sinead looks gorgeous and Shane is Shane.

Goosebumps.

On 20 March, a group of friends and collaborators will salute the both of them with an
all-star Carnegie Hall in New York City tribute show featuring Cat Power, the Mountain Goats, the Dropkick Murphys, Glen Hansard, Amanda Palmer, David Gray, Bettye Lavette, Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hutz, Julia Cumming, Kat Edmonson,, the Resistance Revival Chorus and more TBA.

A Good Idea For 2024 – Legendary Punks SHAM 69 With Scream-Along Anthem ‘IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED’

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5 January 2024

Band: SHAM 69
Who: Rough pub punks from Hersham, Surrey, England, led by dynamite
vocalist Jimmy Pursey who fabricated several hit chants between 1975-1980.
They reunited in 1987. Pursey left in 2006.

Their massive scream-along hit IF THE KIDS ARE UNITED was a classic punk anthem
and I think it would a good idea to reissue it this year. Unity is the only answer to get
us all through the daily intolerant BS.

“If the kids are united then we’ll never be divided
If the kids are united then we’ll never be divided
If the kids are united then we’ll never be divided
If the kids are united then we’ll never be divided”

SCREAM ALONG!

SHAM 69: Bio – Discography

The Kinks ‘VICTORIA’ By THE FALL With Lord MARK E. SMITH – Released 35 Years Ago

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22 December 2023

Iconic post-punk misfits THE FALL released their
cover of The Kinks‘ 1969 classic VICTORIA 35 years
ago in 1988.

It featured on their The Frenz Experiment LP.

Back to the Victorian era with lord Mark E. Smith.

The Kinks original (1969)


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THE FALL: Facebook

Classic Clips – Video For ‘EVERYTHING COUNTS’ By DEPECHE MODE Released 40 Years Ago

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20 December 2023

Band: DEPECHE MODE (Basildon, Essex)
Active: Since 1980 – 15 studio LPs so far,
with their brand new album Memento Mori
as the most recent one.

Single/clip: EVERYTHING COUNTS
Released: 1983 – 40 years ago
Album: Construction Time Again

About the video: It was directed by Clive Richardson and shot in West Berlin. Richardson had previously directed the video for their classic hit Just Can’t Get Enough two years earlier. In this video, frontman Dave Gahan appeared for the first time blonde-haired, hiding his natural black colour of hair.

WATCH.

From 1983 to 2024.

DEPECHE MODE: Facebook – Instagram – All Albums

‘SEVEN NATION ARMY’ By THE WHITE STRIPES Released 20 Years Ago – More Than 600 Million Views On YouTube Today

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19 December 2023

THE WHITE STRIPES was/is one of the greatest bands of the 21st Century.
Meg and Jack were a mean blues-rock machine who released 6 albums
between 1999 and 2007.

One of their best LPs, without a shadow of a doubt, is their
breakthrough one Elephant released 20 years ago (April 2003).

The opening track and also the album’s first single SEVEN NATION ARMY
(more than 1 billion streams so far on Spotify – 1, 475 465 471 to be exact)
made them famous around the globe. It was at #1 on the UK indie charts
and #1 on the US Alternative Charts.

The accompanying video (more than 612 million views on YouTube, so far)
was a cool rock ‘n’ roll one with, of course, Meg and Jack, as the charismatic
stars in the middle.

WATCH/LISTEN

THE WHITE STRIPES: Bio – Discography – Instagram

Classic Clips – SINEAD O’CONNOR With Astonishing Performance Of Her Debut Single ‘TROY’ On Dutch TV Show In 1987

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We lost two monumental Irish artists this year. Shane MacGowan (on 30 November,
aged 65) and Sinead O’Connor (on 23 July, aged 56). But as the cliché goes, in these
case an undisputable certainty, they will live on through their music. All fans, including
me, will play their songs for years to come.

One of the countless Sinead O’Connor goosebumps moments is her astonishing version
of 1987 debut single TROY on the then famous Dutch music TV Show Countdown, that same year.

Bone-chilling.

SINEAD O’CONNOR: Bio – Discography – Instagram