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Even though I have now gone through all 3 Mescaleros studio albums, I am not quite done with this Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros box set because it comes with Vibe Compass. A hypothetical 4th album that was never released

Much of Vibe Compas is Demos of songs from the other 3 albums, but it also contains a few never released songs.

https://youtu.be/6q88LYIuTn0?si=QQ4ZAU7bDVc1sMct

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Continuing with my Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros boxset, today I am reading depressing manga & listening to their 3rd & final album Streetcore.

Joe Strummer never lived to see this album come up.

Rest in peace, Joe. You died way too young.

https://youtu.be/F10tP5HIpaA?si=sLbVif2eTIpoC75-

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Today, I am continuing with my Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros box set, & I am onto their second album, Global A Go-Go.

Probably my favorite of the three albums. There is just so much music crammed into every single song.

https://youtu.be/uE2fBPYT8Nk?si=1BLH94s3wkWfeCL8

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This morning, I am starting into my Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros box set. Starting with the first album, Rock Art & the X-ray Style.

These albums are just beautiful but also hard to categorize.

I once saw an interview where Joe Strummer referred to his music with the Mescaleros as Acid Punk & its as good a characterization as anything I got.

I find these lines from Diggin the World to be very funny:

"You gotta live in this world, go diggin' the new
Live in this world, boy, tran, or girl"

The way he refers to Trans folk as a gender is funny to me.

But it was recorded in 1998, so I will cut him some slack.

https://youtu.be/LliymbErupw?si=KDbQuJWG5XTtHSIN

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At the absolute peak of their powers, Butthole Surfers made a live movie called Blind Eye Sees All (Touch and Go, 1985).

In my youth this was like a bible for me and my friends. We watched it over and over again on VHS. It must have been one of the very few copies in our state, Queensland in Australia (a right wing conservative nightmare in the 1970s and 80s). The singer Gibby Haynes became our teacher, who dearranged our minds with words. I had a (beautiful) dog called Gibby, a better friend nobody could ask for.

Here it is, direct from Austin Texas via the Sandoz Labs and in a brilliant display of psychedelic punk in Detroit Michigan in 1985.

The band is working two drum kits in tribal unison. King Coffey and
Teresa Taylor are fantastic. The light and projections are mind blowing (the dancing skeletons feature heavily). !00 Million People Dead is a drone and rhythm triumph. Paul Leary the guitarist is a genius. The use of samples and vocal effects by Gibby changes language and ultimatley thinking. The mock interview while the band lie in bed semi naked and seemingly high is a journey through deep and surreal caverns of wonderment.

Enjoy

https://soulvlog.blogspot.com/2014/02/butthole-surfers-bling-eye-sees-all-1985.html

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