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Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD1\13 - Closed Groove.wav Joe certainly was an inspiration but the other huge inspiration in my life around that time was Gordon Ogilvie. He encouraged us to write more and more about our own lives and having that sort of validation from someone who wanted to write with me made a huge difference. Gordon gave me the finished lyric of Suspect Device on the second day I met him and said “do you think you can do something with this?” I’ve said before it was like a ‘60’s Sci Fi shows where the rest of the room disappears and all I could see was that piece of paper and I knew exactly what I could do with it. It needed trimming as it was something like 16 verses long. I don’t think Gordon had grasped the idea of the 3-minute punk song at that stage. So we put Suspect Device together and I’d written Wasted Life around the same time so it was lift off for us. No Sleep 'Til Belfast 12" ("No Sleep 'Till Belfast", "Suspect Device", "Alternative Ulster", "Nobody's Hero" - live 17 December 1987), 1988

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In 1993, Henry Cluney was asked to leave the band, [4] and the trio of Jake Burns, Bruce Foxton and Dolphin Taylor continued for the next four years, joined on live shows by either Dave Sharp or Ian McCallum. marked the first release of XSLF, a band featuring both Cluney and Reilly ex-SLF (hence the name) as well as two other musicians. Reilly has since left due to health reasons, although the band still appears to be active. Show more Vote up content that is on-topic, within the rules/guidelines, and will likely stay relevant long-term. I may have misjudged Inflammable Material over the years. Is it less the angry Irish album I’ve always lazily assumed, but more a chronicle of teenage frustration? Life in the Irish provinces was crap to say the least. Catholics had no chance of work, same white skin pigment different religion are or were the display signs of confrontation between indigenous populations and the Protestant hordes. This song like the opener full of lyrics concerning teenage depression no solution because as the song lyric goes hate has made you blind.

Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD4\02 - Just fade Away.wav Known as Clash copyists due to the similarity of song choice in the middle of side two of both albums Inflammable Material and the Clash hosted lengthy cover versions of Reggae artists in their debut albums. Thats were the similarity ends, Johnny Was a song penned by Bob Marley was so much different to the Clash infused Reggae of Police and Thieves. Further Johnny Was was hardly in the style of Reggae at all. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD1\06 - Barbed Wire Love.wav

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The result of all that was I spent the next 75 minutes watching the monitors and dreading them breaking down again. People actually said to me that when we first came on we all looked really focused and determined. I had to tell them that it wasn’t determination, it was worry as we were all terrified of it going wrong again. It took away all the stage nerves as we were just worried about the equipment and it probably gave our playing an edge I imagine. We rattled through the whole set in 60 minutes which left perfect time for encores. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD1\01 - Suspect Device.wav That was definitely the low point and when we reformed four years later we were all aware that it had been a mistake and since then it hasn’t been plain sailing, there has been arguments but we’re older now and we can talk things through. I think also we’ve realised that it’s not just that Stiff Little Fingers mean a lot to us, and I don’t just mean that it’s our living though obviously it is, but we also realise how much it means to other people and you bear that in mind when you’re making decisions.Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD2\08 - I Don't Like You.wav 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. After Burns had moved on from Stiff Little Fingers, he had a short stint at a band with former The Jam bassist Bruce Foxton. They made a couple of demos, but Foxton received an invitation to make a solo album which ended their collaboration. Suspect Device" is the debut single by Northern Irish punk band Stiff Little Fingers, released on 17 March 1978. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD3\08 - At The Edge.wav

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Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD2\05 - Nobody's Hero.wav These were the first of what became SLF's signature style: lyrics that meld the personal and political, music that combines the energy of punk with infectious hooks, and delivery that rings of honesty and commitment. In 1979 they became the first band ever to hit the UK top 20 album charts on an independent label with their debut Inflammable Material. The album chronicles the band's anger and frustration at "the Troubles" in Northern Ireland and calls on youth to create their own reality. This was the first album on an independent record label to enter the UK Top Twenty. [8] Personnel [ edit ] Stiff Little Fingers Cranna, Ian (1979) "Rough Charm", Smash Hits, EMAP National Publications Ltd, 4–17 October 1979, p.6–7John Haggerty filling in on Stiff Little Fingers tour". Riotfest.com. 26 May 2011. Archived from the original on 13 June 2011 . Retrieved 3 February 2012. Stiff Little Fingers, especially the lead singer and main songwriter Jake Burns, were heavily influenced by The Clash. "What the Clash's first album did more than anything else was give me the confidence, through its lyrical subject matter, to realise it was OK to write about my own life and experiences" (Jake Burns). [3] The group started to write songs about growing up in the Troubles in late 1970s Northern Ireland. Among the first Stiff Little Fingers songs were "State of Emergency" and "Breakout". I can't lay claim to any of that contemporaneous unheard-of-punk-noise-shifting-my-music-paradigm stuff, but holy shit it sounds good. Link, Roland (2014). What You See is what You Get--: Stiff Little Fingers, 1977-1983. ISBN 978-1-78073-056-1.

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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. Probably not. I was a big Dylan fan who obviously wrote a lot of political songs but they were often couched in poetry whereas Joe was pretty direct and to the point. That’s probably the style I’ve adopted and any symbolism I use is generally pretty easy to see through as my brain just isn’t wired to write the sort of poetic lyrics that Dylan did. The trio of Burns, Foxton and Grantley recorded 1997's Tinderbox album, with help from Ian McCallum who joined as a full-time member for 1999's Hope Street. This same line-up recorded 2003's Guitar and Drum. a b c d e f g h Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.532. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.Ali McMordie, Brian Faloon, Bruce Foxton, Dave Sharp, Dolphin Taylor, Henry Cluney, Ian McCallum, Jake Burns, Jim Reilly, Steve Grantley The end song of many songs on side 1; 8 in all is a thought provoking discharge of dropping out of society. The troubles are too much for one to bear so what can one do? Powerful guitar punchy chord shapes emphasis from despair to where! This guy is leader if i can breakaway so can you! Nihilism is the word, if you can win you win if you loose you loose. He dont care if he is on the dole or not, no worries because life in the Irish province is really very worrying indeed. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD4\07 - Safe As Houses.wav In 1994, they released Get a Life in the UK, releasing it in the US in 1996. By the end of 1996 Taylor left due to family commitments. Burns called in Steve Grantley who had played drums for Jake Burns and the Big Wheel in the late 1980s.