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They wrote initially about their own lives, growing up at the height of The Troubles in Belfast, in songs like "Suspect Device" and "Wasted Life". In November of '77, they released those two songs on their own Rigid Digits label and sent a copy to BBC Radio One DJ John Peel, who started playing it every night. No Sleep 'Til Belfast 12" ("No Sleep 'Till Belfast", "Suspect Device", "Alternative Ulster", "Nobody's Hero" - live 17 December 1987), 1988 A smashing introductive display of simple chords with aggressive sand paper vocals from Jake Burns. Words of despair against an occupying British Army, or more generally a thrashing soundscape against all violence in the island of Ireland. This song hits you in the face like a hurricane and sets the tempo for the rest of the album. "Were gonna blow up in their face" Jake shouts, a smell of revolution in the air with ordinary kids arming themselves to rid the spotty Irish youth of the shitty law of force from the British occupation. In February 1979, SLF released their first album on the Rough Trade Label, Inflammable Material. [1] The band had signed a contract with Island Records, but it fell through, leaving the group to release the album on Rough Trade, their existing label. [2] Despite the album's independent release, it reached number 14 in the UK Albums Chart and reached Silver status, selling over 100,000 copies. [2] Inflammable Material was the first album distributed by Rough Trade Records, and the first independent album to chart in the UK.

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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. The best album credited to Stiff Little Fingers is Inflammable Material which is ranked number 1,943 in the overall greatest album chart with a total rank score of 860. 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. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD1\10 - Rough Trade.wav In all of the squalor of war and hate a little bit of love at the centre of conflict will relieve the stress for young love. Love in despair is the remedy in this rare love song. Probably their most poppier song as the sandpaper vocals are rested in most of barbed wire love. Vocal barber shop harmonies are prominent in the chorus of the song. A nice use of the drums especally the snare with the added resonance which compliments the structure of the recording. There is a nice clapping ingredient in this love song that adds to the catchyness of this harshless melody.a b c d e f g Cranna, Ian (1979) "Rough Charm", Smash Hits, EMAP National Publications Ltd, 4–17 October 1979, pp. 6–7 The reissue includes the first part of an interview of Jake Burns by Alan Parker (the second part is included in the reissue of Nobody's Heroes). Stiff Little Fingers - History". Archived from the original on 4 February 2012 . Retrieved 11 November 2006. Use italics (lyric) and bold (lyric) to distinguish between different vocalists in the same song part 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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Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD5\01 - Falling Down.wav To attend a Stiff Little Fingers live show is to witness first hand the potent reaction as band meet audience, resulting in pogo-pyrotechnics that are as vigorous now as at any time during their career. This is not a “take it or leave it” band; this is a band that has forged an undying bond with their fiercely loyal following which seems to grow ever deeper as the years go by. November 1, 1978 - November 13, 1978 at Spaceward Studios, Cambridge. (Apart from "Alternative Ulster" recorded Island Studios, London May 1978.)

Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD4\04 - The Only One.wav Live footage of SLF performing "Suspect Device" at Belfast's Pound Club on 17 January 1978 – the first time the group played the song live – appeared as part of an Ulster TV Revue programme 'It Makes You Want to Spit' about punk in Belfast. The programme was broadcast on 6 March 1978. [5] [6] Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD2\04 - At The Edge.wav You’re living in the United States at a time when the political divide is as great as it has been for many years. As someone who has always spoken out and written songs to make your political stance clear, do you find it difficult to comment on the current political scene as you are not a citizen? In a nutshell, do you have to watch what you say in your songs? In 1987, Burns reformed the band with McMordie, Cluney and Taylor. When McMordie left in 1990, he was replaced on bass by Bruce Foxton, previously of The Jam, though McMordie rejoined in 2006. The current incarnation of SLF, which still tours, includes Burns, bassist Ali McMordie, guitarist Ian McCallum and drummer Steve Grantley.

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Gordon Johnston (2011). "Stiff Little Fingers @ Barrowlands, Glasgow". glasswerk.co.uk . Retrieved 18 March 2011.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}\CD5\04 - The Price Of Admission.wav 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. political, male vocalist, angry, rebellious, energetic, passionate, raw, protest, aggressive, anthemic, vulgar 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

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Best punk album ever. Despite The Clash, to whom I have a psychotic teenage emotional attachment, being my personal crown princes of punk for the long time, the Lost Years, when Inflammable Material was absent from my heart; despite really stylishly snobby punk purists insisting that real punk was only made between three-sixteen and a quarter to four on an overcast Thursday afternoon in 1977, thus categorising Inflammable Material as post-punk; and despite the only punk thing to claim under the circumstances being that Sandinista!'s triple-album pig-headedness is the best punk album ever, or, if someone out-punks you and claims that before you can, that something secretly iconoclastic by Abba is, actually, Inflammable Material is the best punk album ever. Fields, Gaylord (2 June 2005). "Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material". Rolling Stone. No.975. p.79. 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. The environment we grew up in probably did give the album some extra edge to people outside Northern Ireland but from our perspective it didn’t as that was the only thing we knew. Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD3\04 - Barbed Wire Love.wav

Filename H:\My Rips\Stiff Little Fingers\Stiff Little Fingers - Original Album Series (2014) [FLAC] {5CD Parlophone 2564636166}\CD5\09 - Big City Night.wav The Chrysalis period produced three albums in Nobody’s Heroes, Go for it and Now Then. Am I right in thinking you prefer Go For It? That made it from our point of view as it was a 40 th Anniversary and a celebration so it was great to be able to play with a group of bands who are old friends, who we’ve known for much of the 40 years.