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superseventies:

The Clash — Spanish Bombs - 1979

—One of my favorite songs. It’s about something amazing, the Spanish Civil War, and the line,

“The hillside rings with ‘Free the People’—Or can I hear the echoes from the days of ‘39? The trenches full of poets, the ragged army, fixing bayonets to fight the other line”

is so evocative of this ultimately unsuccessful battle against fascism that was supported by writers and artists, including Picasso and Hemingway. The film Pan’s Labyrinth is set during the ensuing dictatorship.

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

theclash48hours:

Charlie Don’t Surf - The Clash

This is the world’s most amazing song based on a movie.

ethanpaul:

The Clash - Clampdown

Love this song. It’s timely, always has been.

(via theclash48hours)

tomhanks-:

Safe European Home - The Clash

I know I keep saying, but I think THIS is my favorite song of all time.

(via theclash48hours)

Night before last, I awoke from a deep sleep with a sudden sense of foreboding, then felt a rumble rumble rumble BANG BANG.

(Actually, I’m sure it was the rumbling that woke me up, but I’d swear I woke before it started.) As always with an earthquake—if you’ve been in one, you know—there’s that first second where your senses can’t believe it, the second second where panic starts to rise, then it ends, and you feel this shock, disbelief, and exhilaration.

I laid there for some time, felt a little aftershock, then later another rumble-rumble-jolt. Kept thinking I should get up and get online, but was just too sleepy.

Now I wish I’d gotten up and gone to the USGS website, because apparently people were logging on and recording their experience. “Did You Feel It?”

Turns out the epicenter was in my town. I swear it was right under my bed. I’ve never felt that kind of quake before, though I’ve been in many. Usually it is either a sharp shock, or a gradual rumbling that just dies off. Never one like this. Blue Sunflower, resident geologist, tells me it’s because we were near the epicenter.

Anyway, at one point during my dozing, I was musing on the feeling, and it came to me that it was exactly like the beginning of one of my favorite songs: I Fought the Law by The Clash, with the awesome drumroll before the crashing of the guitars. Have a listen; relive the excitment.