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Artist:

The Clash

Song:

Should I Stay Or Should I Go

Album: 

Combat Rock

Year: 

1982

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The Clash was one of the first and most important British punk bands. In the 1970s, they were the Beatles to the Sex Pistols' Stones, and went on...
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briank | MEMORY FROM 1993

Car ride

LOCATION: Car , Ste. Genevieve, MO

YEAR: 1993

TAGS: mississippi, river, car

PUBLISHED: June 19, 2008

I remember it was 1993 because of the flood. We were leaving the vast parking lot that used to be my playground, but was now being used to fill burlap sacks with sand. I was only 8 years old so I filled a few bags, but didn't really grasp the gravity of the situation. My hometown was being swallowed up by the Mississippi River.

After a long summer afternoon of dodging forklifts with pallets, i rode in the back of my mom's new Ford Thunderbird listening to the radio. "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" played. I must have heard it before because my mom and I sang along. Loudly. I asked her who it was and she said "The Clash." The band name seemed weird to me at the time, but I think that was my introduction and bildungsroman into the world of punk. I've never looked back.

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RHMF said: I remember that flood...nice to have something good come from it like discovering The Clash...cool. (6/19/2008)

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