Still Making Amends

 

Nothing much to say about Joe S & the 101ers but...dig it! 

Remastered reissue of this 1975 album with 9 previously unreleased tracks

 

The 101ers featuring Joe Strummer - Elgin Avenue Breakdown Revisted,
Astralwerks ASW74458, 2005.
decryption code in comments

Letsagetabitarockin'    
Silent Telephone    
Keys to Your Heart (V.1)    
Rabies    
Sweet Revenge   
Motor Boys Motor   
Steamgauge 99    
5 Star R'n'R    
Surf City    
Keys to Your Heart (V.2)    
Sweety of the St. Moritz   
Hideaway   
Shake Your Hips (Slim Harpo cover)    
Lonely Mother's Son   
Don't Let it Go (Bo-Diddley cover)    
Keep Taking the Tablets    
Junco Partner (Wee Willie Wayne cover)  
Out of Time (Glimmer Twins cover)   
Maybelline   
Gloria (Vain Morrison cover)

Enjoy,
NØ

John Mellor Goes Over the Border with Jimmy Cliff

 

After gifting Joe Strummer's London Calling BBC radio shows, I couldn't stop listening to more of Joe's own music. I revisited The Clash, The Mescaleros, The 101'ers, & everything else. I decided heading into the new year I would post some that I though you all might like to hear.

First is Joe giving us that good old Eathquake Weather, then a few bootleg releases: When Pigs Fly (a previously unreleased soundtrack LP); Outtakes & Rarities; & the fantastic Collaborations.

Spend some time with Joe, it will be well worth the while & I'll hit you all again next year. 

 

Joe Strummer - Earthquake Weather, Epic EK 45372, 1989.
all decryption codes in comments

Gangsterville    
King of the Bayou    
Island Hopping    
Slant Six    
Dizzy's Goatee    
Shouting Street    
Boogie with Your Children
Leopardskin Limousines    
Sikorsky Parts    
Jewellers & Bums    
Highway One Zero Street    
Ride Your Donkey
Passport to Detroit    
Sleepwalk

bonus tracks -
Punk Rock Blues
15th Brigade
Cholo Vest
Baby O'Boogie
Mango Street 

 

 

Joe Strummer - When Pigs Fly bootleg, 1992.

Side One -
When Pigs Fly    
Pouring Rain    
Rose of Erin    
Ellis Island Line    
Phantom Country Fair    

Side Two -
Storm in a D-Cup    
Free at Last    
When Pigs Fly (instrumental)
Burning Lights (from I Hired a Contract Killer)    
Afro Cuban Be-Bop (from I Hired a Contract Killer)    
Victory Lane (from Dr Chance)    
Junco Partner (acoustic) 

 

Joe Strummer - Outakes & Rarities bootleg, 2002.

War Cry
Yalla Yalla
15th Brigade - these come from the mid-nineties period prior to the creation of The Mescaleros.  

Louisiana Turnpike
Search Party
Plymouth Roadrunner
Outta Space
Detour
Japanese Cars
Nameless
Cholo Vest - these are the songs deleted from the Permanent Record OST as Joe had intended it.

Brand New Cadillac - encore from the Hollywood Palladium Pretenders show on Nov. 11,1994.

 

 

 

Joe Strummer - Collaborations bootleg, 2004.

Generations (with Electric Dog House)
Salsa y Ketchup (with Zander Schloss)
Yalla Yalla (Norro's King Dub)
Return of the Blues Cowboy (with Jools Holland)
Straight Shooter (with Latino Rockabilly War)
Over the Border (with Jimmy Cliff)
Redemption Song (with Jimmy Cliff)
Living in the Flood (with Horace Andy)
The Harder They Come (with The Long Beach All Stars)
Just the One (with The Levellers)
Time & a Tide (with the Mescaleros)
Turkish Song of the Damned (with the Pogues)
Ocean of Dreams (with Steve Jones)
Let’s Get a Bit of Rockin' (with the 101'ers)
Ride Your Donkey (with Latino Rockabilly War)
Guitar Slinger (with Brian Setzer)
MacDougall Street Blues (with Jack Kerouac)
Junco Partner (with Billy Bragg)
Rockets Galore (with Mikey Dread)
Ghetto Defendant (with Allen Ginsberg)

Enjoy,
NØ

London Calling the Punk Warlord, Come in Please!

 Re-uploaded by request 04/22/2026

 

This is the project I've been working on to gift to everyone everywhere who loves music. 

 

Also to anyone like myself who really, really misses Joe. Joe's goal in life was building a family of rebels to rebuild a better world in glory. He used his music as his ethos. 

 

 

Nearly 7 hours worth of excellent musick served up by Joe himself.  I've tried to serve these up as exact as I could.  I replaced any song that I noticed had major sound problems with cleaner, better takes.  I also added Don Letts' Radio 6 Tribute to Joe Strummer as a bonus. 

 

Joe Strummer's London Calling BBC radio show. 

no decryption codes needed 

SERIES ONE - 1998

Program 1, August 31, 1998 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
This Land Is Your Land - Trini Lopez
Small Axe - U-Roy
Minuit - Earnest Ranglin & Baba Maal
Lokoko - Thu-Zahina
Long As I Can See The Light - Monkey Mafia
Martha Cecilia - Andres Landero Y Sus Conjuntos
Symbolic Language – Pacou

Program 2, September 7, 1998 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Lawdy Miss Clawdy - Elvis Presley
Ah, Ngai Nzambe - Luyeye Gaston
Daddy - Dust Junkies
Da Camino a la Vereda - Buena Vista Social Club
Carrick Fergus - Brian Ferry
Ja Gaita - Orquestra Emisoras Fuentes
Sandpaper Blues - Radar

Program 3,September 14, 1998 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Know Your Rights - The Clash
Groovin' - Young Rascals
Natty Rebel - U-Roy
Jullandar Shere - Cornershop
Colours - Donovan
To Love Somebody - Nina Simone
Day-O - Harry Belafonte
Izinkomo Zombango - Mzikayifani Buthelezi
Ba Boo La La - The Lion

Program 4,September 21, 1998 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Amazimuzimu - Dilika
La Cumbia Primero - Fiesta En Mi Pueblo
Domino - Van Morrison
Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
Boy in the Bubble- Paul Simon
Take Me with You My Darling, Take Me with You - The Master Musicians of Jajouka
(Recorded by Brian Jones)
Fever- Horace Andy
Over the Rainbow/Wonderful World - Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
La Vaca Vieja- Rufo Garrida Y Su Orquestra
It Wasn't God who Made Honky-Tonk Angels - Kitty Wells

SERIES 2 - 2000

Program 5,January 9, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
The Killer - Big Youth
Hang on Sloopy - The McCoys
Nvule N'Delela - Brenda Fassee
Little Old Wine Drinker Me - Dean Martin
Y Su Conhuntos - Andres Landero Y Sus Conjuntos
Starting a New Cycle (Starting a New Life) - Van Morrison
Sala Molende - Tabu Frantal

Program 6,January 16, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Hit the Road Jack - Big Youth
Fire in Soweto - Sonny Okosun
Nursery Rhyme - Bo Diddley

I Got Life (Ain't Got No)- Nina Simone
Crawfish - Elvis Presley
Rez - Underworld

Program 7,January 23, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Cool Breeze - Big Youth
Stairway to the Stars - Ella Fitzgerald
Not Fade Away - Rolling Stones
Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Jeeny- Afel Bocoum
Castles Made of Sand - Jimi Hendrix
Shoba (Let's Go to Johannesburg) - A Sambe Siye E Goli
Swingtown - Steve Miller Band
Junco Partner - The Clash

Program 8,January 30, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
The Freedom Fighters - Ricky & Bunny (to an The Upsetters riddim)
Tous Les Garcons et Les Filles - Francoise Hardy
Gwandir - Nasha
Corinna Corinna - Bob Dylan
Syncopate- The Astronauts
Nguellel - Baba Sek
Public Enemy #1 - Max Romeo

Program 9,February 6, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Mon Amour, Ma Cherie - Amadou & Mariams
Do it Again - Beach Boys
Baby, What You Want Me to Do - Jimmy Reed
The Man Who Sold the World - LuLu
Romal - DJ Gino's Gangsters featuring Surjit Bindrakhia
Chimta -Tariq Lohar
Mehabooba - Ravi Bal

Program 10,February 13, 2000 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Feeling Time - Joy White
Azara Al Hay - Rasha
Tippy Toes - The Meters
Cumbia Saramuya - Los Corraleros De Majagual
Wang Dang Doodle - Koko Taylor
Tumbling Dice - Rolling Stones
Hatisi Tose - Bhundu Boys

SERIES 3 - 2001

Program 11,June 24, 2001 -

Top Ranking - Johnny Clarke
The Sunnyside of the Street - The Pogues
Some Velvet Morning - Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood
Sanga Mbele Mbele - Thu Zahina
Gravel Pit - Wu-Tang Clan
Long Side Of The Old Santa Fe Trail - Jules Allen
Pennsylvania 6-5000 - The Brian Setzer Orchestra
Free, Single, & Disengaged - Huey "Piano" Smith & His Clowns

Program 12,July 1, 2001 -

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Rock & Roll Music - The Beatles
Couchie - Yellowman
Umfaan - Ricardo Bornman
Siwuhambile Umhlaba - Amaswazi Emvelo & Mahlathini
Nervous Breakdown - Eddie Cochran
Tell it Like it Is - Nina Simone
Cinderella - Eric Monty Morris
Long Hot Summer Night - Jimi Hendrix

Program 13,July 8, 2001

Not Fade Away - The Rolling Stones
Unza Unza Time - Emir Kusturica & the No Smoking Orchestra
Noisy Place - U-Roy
Raise the Alarm - Big Dog
Check Your Bucket - Eddie Bo
Gotta See Jane - R.Dean Taylor
Can I Get a Witness - Marvin Gaye
Co-operation - Franco & Sam Mangwana

Program 14,JULY 15, 2001

Radio One - Mikey Dread
Global a Go-Go - Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Good to Be on the Road Back Home Again - Cornershop
Peno - Saban Bajramovic
La Bamba - Ritchie Valens
Roots & Culture - Shabba Ranks
Aida Baoury - Orchestra Baobab - N'Wolof
Beat on the Brat - The Ramones

 

 

Don Letts' Radio 6 Tribute to Joe Strummer

Surf City - The 101'ers
Complete Control - The Clash
Rudie Can't Fail - The Clash
Straight to Hell - The Clash
Beyond the Pale - Big Audio Dynamite
This is England - The Clash
Know Your Rights - The Clash
King of the Bayoo - Joe Strummer
Love Kills (Sid & Nancy OST) - Joe Strummer
Gangsterville - Joe Strummer & Latin Rockabilly War
Coma Girl - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
Johnny Appleseed - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
All in a Day - Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
At the Border, Guy - Joe Strummer
The Harder They Come - Joe Strummer

 

 

Enjoy & Peace,
NØ

Let's Rock Again!

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Get Down Moses

(from Streetcore 2003)

I just got finished watching the movie Let’s Rock Again which follows the newly revitalized Joe Strummer & his fantastic new band The Mescaleros on tour across the world in 2000 & 2001, not long before his untimely death. This film, as is said, touched my heart. M. Strummer was such a humble musickian, beautiful soul, & selfless human. & if there are any doubts about the quality of his new musickal path, it is set aside graphically by the great live performances captured in this warm, loving picture.

John Graham Mellor, better known as Joe Strummer.

He says his musickal heroes are Captain Beefheart & King Tubby. Mine, too (& Joe).

He was without a doubt one of the most powerful vocalists & greatest lyricists of our generation.

Though a majority of critics fail to see the absolute genius in his work with his new band, The Mescaleros, their musick would prove to be some of Joe’s most stunning work ever. Joe never abandoned his fierce, yet friendly demeanor. Strummer & Co. play everything from acoustic numbers to some of the finest straightforward rock & roll tunes that he has ever written. Somehow it is this later work of Strummer’s that truly show his talents, allowing us to see the entire discography of The Clash in a different light.

The Mescaleros stand today as one of the finest backing bands in history. Though much of the musick is more mellow & relaxed than his work with The Clash, Joe Strummer sounds as good & powerful as ever. Showcasing his trademark raspy, growling voice, Strummer re-stakes his claim as one of the greatest, most captivating vocalists in history. Joe gave the world musickal gifts unlike any other performer. Shaping & influencing countless musickians who followed, Strummer's name continues to demand the utmost respect to this day. After disappearing from the musick scene for eleven years, Strummer surrounded himself with some of the finest musickians & began to explore new musickal territory, creating some of the finest songs of his career.

Cementing his name as a legend, as well as proving that regardless of the style of musick one played, it was the soul behind the songs that mattered most, Joe Strummer was clearly on the verge once again when he was taken from this world far too soon. There are probably few moments in musick that are as heart-wrenching as the one found at the end of the album Streetcore. After playing the clean & stripped down, grab-life-by-the-balls song, "Silver & Gold," Strummer mutters his final ever recorded words, as he simply states, "OK, that's a take..." Such final words, eerily predicting his passing (which would occur less than a week later), along with the overall sentiment of the song which stands as his last, are in many ways a fitting end for a man who truly lived through his music.

But having said all that, at the end of the movie, Joe’s words seem even more apt & less prophetic, but more true to the spirit of Joe ‘Woody’ Strummer...Let’s Rock Again!

Let's Rock Again!

Thank you for the musick, Joe. I’ll never forget you.

Enjoy,
NØ