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a b c d e Bailie, Stuart (2018). Trouble Songs - Music And Conflict In Northern Ireland. Bloomfield Press. ISBN 978-1-5272-2047-8. In mid-1979, Stiff Little Fingers signed their Rigid Digits label to Chrysalis Records, and in 1980 released their second album, Nobody's Heroes. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD2\06 - Bloody Dub.wav In 2006, original bassist Ali McMordie returned to the fold, and the line-up has settled to the best ever; Jake Burns on lead vocals and guitar, Ali McMordie on bass, Ian McMallun on guitar, and Steve Grantley on drums. Though focused on their new material, they always play the old favorites at gigs. Jake said, "You have to strike a balance. The difficulty with a band like ourselves is to try not make it sound like a cabaret band. Obviously, it'd be very easy to go, 'Hey, here's another old one you may remember.' A lot of the old songs the audience greet like old friends. I suppose it's the same as any band that's been around for any length of time. And yes, there are nights that we don't particularly want to play "Alternative Ulster" or "Suspect Device" because we've heard them 'til they're coming out our ears. But there's always the possibility that somebody out there has never seen the band before, never heard them."

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Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD3\09 - Wasted Life.wav Swenson, John (1983). "Stiff Little Fingers". In Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Record Guide (2nded.). Random House/Rolling Stone Press. p.491. ISBN 0-394-72107-1. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD4\08 - Gate 49.wav Or Less ("Listen"/"That's When Your Blood Bumps"/"Sad-Eyed People"/"Two Guitars Clash"), 6 January 1982, (UK No.33) [29] This version of the band recorded their first LP "Inflammable Material" which included their signature songs about life in Belfast "Alternative Ulster", "Suspect Device" and "Wasted Life" as well as a musically bold reworking of Bob Marley's "Johnny Was".

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ABOUT USLouder Than War is a music, culture and media publication headed by The Membranes & Goldblade frontman John Robb. Online since 2010 it is one of the fastest-growing and most respected music-related publications on the net. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD2\07 - Doesn't Make It All Right.wav The commonly used "Irish Clash" tag is a lazy one, but there can be no denying the influence that Strummer and co had on SLF. Band leader Jake Burns has never made a secret of his admiration of the London legends, and cites his first spin of their classic self-titled debut as a key moment on his road towards forming his own group. The Clash's imprint can be found all over his songs too, with a similar balance of grit and melody appearing in the record's more up-tempo moments. There's even a reggae crossover here in the form of their Bob Marley cover "Johnny Was," which along with the classic singles lifted from the album (more on them later) ranks among the highlights. I enjoy very few albums as much as I enjoy Inflammable Material, the debut, and all around best album from Northern Irelands Stiff Little Fingers.

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Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD5\11 - Is That What You Fought The War For.wav A great slow opener to a nexus of massive in your face simple punk guitar chords. All there is to live for estranged teenagers is to be a martyr for an impossible cause in an ongoing political confusion, hostility and turmoil. Yet, violence has to be questioned what a waste of life, this song is driven with powerful guitar riffs and guitar solo that are a highlight of side one of the album. Jakes sorethroat vocals must have been painful after the recording at Spaceward Studios by the leafy streets of Cambridge.Terri Hooley, of Northern Ireland's Good Vibrations records, also says that "SLF were really starting to make waves beyond Northern Ireland, and I always see them as the ones that got away. I know I have always said I never rated them, but that was probably jealousy on my part. I actually think they are a great band and deserve their success". [9] Well if anything I get more nervous now. When I was 18 or 19 when we formed the band, I didn’t really know anything and thought we could take the whole world on. Now, after doing it for 40 years I know everything that can go wrong. I arrive at venues and if something went wrong last time we were there, I’m thinking “please don’t let that happen again”.

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It wasn’t just The Clash themselves, it was more specifically Joe and the more I saw him interviewed and then seeing him in the flesh talking to people, the more I felt his influence. The first time I came across him The Clash were meant to be playing Belfast but they couldn’t get insurance for the hall and they were a lot of angry people in town who had come to see them. A few of us found out they were staying at The Europa Hotel and Joe and Paul took the time to come out and talk to us. At the time, The Europa was surrounded by wire and guards and they were standing at the wire explaining why the gig was cancelled and I often think to myself, “I can’t see Phil Collins doing that”. It was a genuine respect he had for the audience and the connection that he made that made a big impression on me. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD3\01 - Nobody's Hero.wav A tongue in cheek racist lyric that in 1979 SLF could get away with because the whole subject of race was thought of by white people as something to be joked about. White people were not disposessed to these racist insults and jibes so does that make it alright? I doubt that very much!. Race was embedded into the English psyche and its foulness permeated society especially through television. SLF were making an anti racist statement but looking at the lyrics they could be interpreted as pure racism. They used racism to make a joke about themselves calling the Irish as green wogs with faces not fitting into this white world. Even though the Irish skin is whiter than white life was cheap in Northern Ireland at the time. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD5\01 - Falling Down.wav Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD4\05 - Hits And Misses.wavFilename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD5\07 - Bits Of Kids.wav By April, the initial 500 copies had sold out and another 1,500 were pressed. [4] Further re-pressings took place as sales took off. By July 1978, Sounds was reporting that over 10,000 copies of the single had been sold.In October, Melody Maker estimated sales had reached 12,000. [1] Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD1\11 - Johnny Was.wav Suspect Device" is the debut single by Northern Irish punk band Stiff Little Fingers, released on 17 March 1978. He released the set without even bothering with a single to precede it, preferring fans to hear it as a whole entity – an archetypically progtastic move”: Prince’s Around The World In A Day