The Clash - This Is England (Rebooted)
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Here's a word from Gerald Manns who remixed/rebooted this..."Well, like everyone I was extremely disappointed when CTC was released in 1985. I knew the new songs from different bootlegs, like Bring The House Down, Five Alive etc. All the years after I was hoping for the existence of some mastertapes that were smuggled out of the studio in munich by a mindful technician. But literature that was released decades later showed that Paul and Pete didn't take part in the recordings.
Last year I found two different audio editing softwares with different algorithms to separate vocals from an existing audio recording. The De-Berniator idea was born. So after ripping Joe's vocals from the tracks, cleaning them up (a lot of noisy bits, especially in The Dictator, had to be removed).
Next step was to get a good live performance of every song, copying Pete's drums beat by beat into a drum machine that sampled original drum sounds.
On songs The Clash didn't perform live I had to lay down the tracks in a Pete Howard stylee by myself. After that came listening, learning, rehearsing and recording guitars and basslines.
To get a better sound I had to buy a Les Paul to differ from my Telecaster sound (nice axe to have anyway). I had to add some backing vocals because the algorithms swallowed some of the football chants (didn't make them out as vocals). It took me a while to mix it all, but now it was time to kick it out of my house.
Especially in different Facebook groups are a lot of hate regarding the last line-up of The Clash. I think these were quite descent songs and a lot of fun to listen to now. For me, this is the CTC I expected and hoped for when it was released in 1985.
Feel free to spread these recordings wherever you like, maybe it will shine a better light on the last line-up.
Have fun!"
GMAN 
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Thank you!!! The only lineup I was able to see live... Worcester Centrum 1984, and yes, they were good, though not the Jones and Headon lineup that I'd only be able to dream of seeing. Thanks Thanks Thanks
The original is the only time production actually works for the song. I get that this sounds like something on Give Em Enough Rope
It ironically sounds much better than the producer deciding to add souless 80s synth beats.
You have ol’ Bernie to thank for that awful production!
@@curly_wyn But of course doesn't excuse the fact The Clash was exhausted.
In all honesty, this is one of the few times where I actually prefer the album take to the live/demo versions. Bernie’s production actually does the song a lot of good, and the cold and downbeat synths and footie chants fit the song extremely well. It’s no wonder it’s become so acclaimed in recent years. Still, great take on the song and I can definitely see why a lot of people like this version too. It’s a lot more uplifting and defiant compared to the hopelessness of the original
Xcuse me, “acclaimed” is a bit of a stretch. It’s more like: “A lot of people now see this as The Clash’s last good song.”
@@curly_wyn I actually think it's one of Joe's best songs, even with Bernie's crap amateur euro synth production. I prefer the guitar on the original. Weirdly it sounds less dated now then when it came out. I can't listen to 5 seconds of the rest of the album, though some of the demos were good enough.
@@jamesbrannigan5620 at most, the guitar definitely should’ve been the front and center focus, especially in that mix
No offense but I prefer the desolate lamenting of the original.
No problem, me too! But I wanted to recreate the live versions.
Couldn't have worded it any better!
I think it sounds great. This is England is one of the few in the original LP that actually sounded good though.
@@pungisotu It's just too uptempo for me to fit the maudlin lyrics.
@@JoeyArmstrong2800 I can dig it. I like the LP version better too. Then again it’s been with us for decades.
I saw The Clash live a bunch of times- once Paul Simonon even used a fretless bass.
Holy crap this is awesome!
Great project John, I agree the synth production lent itself to This is England but I love your work. I had some good bootlegs from the CtC era and it's astounding what a fuck up it really was -- Joe wrote some powerful tunes in this period that were ruined or left out completely (In the Pouring Rain). What could have been!
All credit to Gerald Manns who put this project together. I'm just the host!
This is better than the live Italy recording, couldn't even listen to that all the way through. Nice job, I'll skip the rest of album although I still find myself singing dirty punk out of the blue and a few others even though I haven't listened to crap since the 80s.
I find this version of the song gets better every time I hear it. It really is a triumph! Bravo!
The band should release this with good production
so great. original guitar riff and slower version
Very different and I think much better for it.
You actually made this album listenable. Thank you.
I really prefer your rebooted tracks, except for This is England. I really prefer the original version.
The guitar riff from demo and live. So good.
even changes the sequence of lyrics. awesome. looping for a month now
Now, this is a punk rock song!
Sounds great. Improved
It's an excellent version.
Amazing! Really impressed!
Amazing...
This song needs Topper.
Every Clash song needs Topper!
@@mutantproof Your right missing meaty drums .
Great. Thank you
What might have been!
OUTSTANDING WORK!!! Thanks for this. Incredible effort to wash the mud away!
More Punk at 1.25 speed
Much improved. Thanks.
This is only song of the original album that is better. The rest of the remixes are far better
Justice at last! Briliant!!!!!
Thanks John for all your work !!!!
no no no.. ctc was never the best album ... but leave it alone.. this is jangly
Appreciate the idea, but he took a problematic track and screwed it up solidly. JMHO.
Really? Here's the original demo: ruclips.net/video/7M9vQGI7GA8/видео.html