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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Carbon Silicon: from the garage to the internet, November 1, 2007
Mick Jones and Tony James still rock. The lyrics ask all the questions, and provide a few answers. Really, though, this is about garage rock and it is great. EZKill's bass is mixed down low but at times becomes sonic, especially if it's played loud, as intended. The drummer pounds like he's channeling a Ramones album. The presentation is take it or leave it, this what they want to offer, it comes from their moral center. The wisdom of men who've seen a lot, and have come back to the big time power chords. They had fun making it, and it shows. Check out Youtube to see them in action. Great disc.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
mick jones returns ... , November 21, 2007
A splash of the Clash, and bit of Mick Jones' BAD past propel this return from one of England's great imports. Jones and partner Tony James (Generation X) conjured up a danceable soundtrack to their often-political lyrics, an irresistable combination to anyone familiar with Jones' two previous bands. Spot on, as the Brits would say.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The Old Clash Fan Fight Album, February 10, 2008
Billy Bragg, under the pseudonym "Johnny Clash," paid homage with the "Old Clash Fan Fight Song." Former Clash & Big Audio Dynamite member Mick Jones has given the Old Clash Fans cause to stand and rejoice. Carbon/Silicon, a two guitars-bass-drums affair like his vanguard punk band, reunites Jones with former Generation X guitarist Tony James (the pair were in the seminal mid-'70s band the London SS). CSi began issuing downloadable music as early as 2004, but "The Last Post" is the first physical CD release.
Like any great songwriting team - Lennon/McCartney, Jagger/Richards - Jones/Strummer had a unique sound, which doesn't sound anything like the James/Jones partnership, and Jones himself has an individual style, where one could easily hear Big Audio Dynamite performing some of the tunes on "Last Post." But CSi approach this as a straight-up rock 'n' roll record, abetted by mix engineer Bill Price (whom Clash fans will know as one of the band's principal engineers from London Calling onward, and the producer of the Cost Of Living EP).
The album's opener, "The News," may be a touch too "shiny happy" punk with its eagerly optimistic lyrics and production that sounds like something out of the BAD oeuvre, yet it is nonetheless infectious (and, in truth, is no more gleeful than Joe Strummer's cover of "Silver & Gold").
At track 3, CSi get raw: never one to be bashful of revisiting earlier works (witness liberal use of "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" in BAD's "The Globe"), Jones retools the riff from The Clash b-side "1977" for "The Whole Truth," while "Caesars Palace" harkens to some of the better rock moments on Sandinista!
Not an album for everyone, but for Anglophiles of a certain age who know there's more truth than humor in the phrase "Old Guys Rule" (see also The Solarflares), this album will not disappoint.
Key tracks are "The News," "The Whole Truth," "Caesars Palace," "Really The Blues" (the kind of song The Stones wish they could write of late) and "Why Do Men Fight?"
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