Saturday, March 29, 2025

The Clash: This Is England

The Clash as a band ended badly.

"The Only Band that Matters" disintegrated after the popular Combat Rock album.

But then drummer Topper Headon, who was undergoing substance abuse problems quit the band. Mick Jones, the lead guitarist and the co-frontman, was kicked out.

That left the other frontman, Joe Strummer, and bassist Paul Simonon. 

Three years after Combat Rock was cut, Cut the Crap, the final Clash collection, was released. And Simonon doesn't even play on it. In all but name, this is a Joe Strummer solo album.

Combat Rock is an embarrassment--along with Creedence Clearwater Revival's swan song, Mardi Gras--it's one of the worst albums ever released by a major act. I paid full price when this well, crap, was issued. Man, I was pissed when I played it for the first and only time.

However, there is diamond in this debacle, "This Is England." 

But that song should have been released as a Strummer single.

Friday, March 28, 2025

Robert De Niro just received the worst news of his career 😂

As they say, when you go woke--you go broke. With the flop of Robert De Niro's latest movie, "The Alto Knights," here is more proof. 

Wednesday, March 26, 2025

Lefties Losing It: Democrat’s disgraceful comments against wheelchair-bound Texas governor

US Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) called Greg Abbott, Republican governor of Texas who is confined to a wheelchair, "Governor Hot Wheels." 

What is overlooked is that Crockett--a leftist loon--made these comments at a Human Rights Campaign event.

And the clapping seals in the audience--our betters, of course--cheered her hateful comments.

 

Monday, March 24, 2025

Bernie Sanders tries to leave interview after refusing to answer AOC question

It appears socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is turning into a Biden-esque cranky old man.

It's time for a lie-down, comrade.

Sunday, March 23, 2025

Strawbs - Autumn: Heroine's Theme / Deep Summer's Sleep / The Winter Long

Strawbs is one of those English bands, like the Move, that never caught fire in America.

If you enjoy folk rock and progressive music, then Strawbs just might be for you. Think Fairport Convention meets Peter Gabriel-era Genesis.

"Autumn: Heroine's Theme / Deep Summer's Sleep / The Winter Long" is the opening track of their 1974 album, Hero and Heroine.

If the Beatles were still together in the mid-1970s, they might have released stuff like "Autumn."

Friday, March 21, 2025

Thursday, March 20, 2025

‘Real men stand up for women’: Charlie Kirk hits back at Tim Walz

Tim Walz is an embarrassment and he should leave public life, for his own sake, once his term as governor of Minnesota ends.

Monday, March 17, 2025

Mark Dice: Elon haters got even more unhinged over the weekend than ever before! Haha

If you don't like Elon Musk--or Tesla cars--then don't drive one. But as usual, leftists take things way too far.

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Van Morrison, The Chieftans - Irish Heartbeat (Official Audio)

St. Patrick's Day is here in two days. And to celebrate here is Van Morrison and the Chieftains with the Belfast Cowboy's "Irish Heartbeat."

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

InfoWars reporter Jamie White ‘brutally murdered’ near Austin residential area

Had the murder victim worked for a mainstream media outlet, the killing of InfoWars' Jamie White would be a lead story nearly everywhere.

The complete story will likely be public soon.

Rest in peace, Jamie.

Saturday, March 08, 2025

Slowhand & Van - The Rebels (Eric Clapton, Van Morrison)

The five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 lockdowns will be here later this month. The tragic time in history was the most surreal and unhappy time in my life.

Sadly, the "experts," many self-appointed, were wrong on the severity of COVID. 

In 2022 and 2024 I contracted COVID. Yes, I was vaccinated. So yes, COVID was real.

A few bright minds, not "experts," stood up against the madness. Two of them, Van Morrison and Eric Clapton, who only had the British version of a high school education, knew better. 

These two septuagenarians were rebels when our youth failed us.

Here is Van and Slow Hand performing "The Rebels."

Friday, March 07, 2025

Darin LaHood throws down with Mayor Brandon Johnson over crime in Chicago

Because of Democratic gerrymandering, Illinois has only three Republican members of Congress. Even though J.B. Pritzker, Illinois' lying governor, promised to veto unfair maps. One of them is Darin LaHood, from the central part of the state.

See him scold Chicago's leftist mayor, Brandon Johnson, about crime in the city.

Thursday, March 06, 2025

"Who elected you?" | Mayor Johnson grilled over Chicago's sanctuary status

Watch US Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) hammer Mayor Six-Percent, aka Brandon Johnson of Chicago, over sanctuary city policies.

Democrats and their media allies are praising Johnson's performance as he testified in front of a congressional committee over illegal immigration.

Just because he did better than Joe Biden did in his June debate doesn't mean Johnson won the day.

He didn't.

Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Mark Dice: TRUMP HUMILIATES DEMOCRATS IN SPEECH TO CONGRESS - BEST SPEECH OF HIS LIFE?

President Donald J. Trump was brilliant last night during his speech to a joint session of Congress last night.

As for the Democrats, the not-so-loyal opposition, they made fool of themselves holding up auction-style as the president spoke. Even hardened leftists were probably rolling their eyes over that sophomoric stunt.

 

Monday, March 03, 2025

Speaker Johnson suggests Zelenskyy steps down | Sunday Agenda

It appears that Volodymyr Zelenskyy's blow up in front of President Trump and Vice President Vance was not the victory for him the left is claiming it to be.

Saturday, March 01, 2025

The Kinks - Scattered (acoustic)

By the early 1990s, the Kinks were a decade away from their last hit, "Come Dancing." Phobia, the band's last studio album, was released in 1993.

The arena rock era of the band began in 1979, and it gave the British Invasion legends newfound popularity.

But by Phobia, the Kinks were all about "the sound," but not music that sounded good. 

But standing out on Phobia is the closing track, "Scattered."

Ray Davies, the principal songwriter, and his brother, Dave Davies, produced this swan song, and by 1993, the Kinks were in need of an intervention. They should have hired a star producer, such as T-Bone Burnett, Rick Rubin, or Chris Thomas. 

They would have dumped the multi-track vocals of "Scattered" and used an Americana approach--although that term hadn't been coined yet.

Here are the Davies brothers with an acoustic take of "Scattered," which is much better than the studio take.