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Crucial Vinyl: Culture's Two Sevens Clash

The Don's Crucial Vinyl, an album that has shaped his musical taste, is Culture's 1977 debut album Two Sevens Clash.

Each week Don selects a piece of Crucial Vinyl (an album that has shaped his musical taste and helped make him who he is). He features three tracks and explains why it means so much to him.

This week he picks Culture's 1977 debut album Two Sevens Clash, produced in Kingston, Jamaica by Joe Gibbs.

Don says, 'Culture's Two Sevens Clash is a must-have for the original cover alone, and the band is another
great example of the three-piece vocal harmony groups that were so popular in Jamaica.

The album's release coincided with the punk explosion in the UK, and the title track really captured the punks' imaginations. Two Seven Clash refers to Marcus Garvey's apocalyptic prophecy that there would be chaos on the 7th of July 1977, when the sevens 'met'. This took on a whole other meaning for punks and the track provided the perfect soundtrack to their cultural ground zero.'

As ever, Don's other selections cross time, space and genre.

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Sun 19 Oct 2014 22:00
成人快手 Radio 6 Music

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Music Played

  • Alpha & Omega

    Yemenite Chant

  • Martyn Bennett

    Move

  • Haley

    Heavens Made For Two

  • David Bowie

    Soul Love

  • Susan Cadogan

    Hurt So Good

    • 2 Sides Of Susan Cadogan.
    • Ariwa.

  • Capitol 1212 feat. Serocee

    Makin' Disturbances

  • Culture

    See Them A Come

  • Culture

    I'm Not Ashamed

  • Culture

    Two Sevens Clash

  • Holger Czukay

    Persian Love

  • Dub Pistols

    Everyday Stranger

  • Espelhos Fundidos

    Fumaca Preta

    • Fumaca Preta.
    • Soundway Records.

  • Esthero

    Superheroes

    • Breath From Another.

  • The Fleetwoods

    Come Softly To Me

    • Single.
    • Dolphin.
    • 1.

  • Flying Lotus

    Never Catch Me feat..Kendrick Lamarr

  • Daryl Hall & John Oates

    I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)

  • High Hazels

    Valencia

    • Heist.

  • Jenny Lewis with The Watson Twins

    The Big Guns

    • Rabbit Fur Coat.
    • Team Love.

  • Kein Hass Da

    The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth / Darryl Jennifer Dub

  • King Midas Sound feat. Pupajim

    Frequencies

  • Kings of Leon

    Back Down South

  • Frederick Knight

    I Been Lonely

  • Lyn Taitt & the Jets

    I Don't Want To See You Cry

  • Miraculous Mule

    Motherless Child

  • Peaking Lights

    New Grrrls

  • S. E. Rogie

    Nyalimagotee (The Cornerstone of my Heart)

  • Sinkane

    Galley Boys

  • Spoon

    Inside Out

  • T. Rex

    Debora

  • The Temptations

    Ball of Confusion (That's What the World is Today)

  • Twin Sisters

    I Want A House

    • [Merlin] Redeye Distribution, [Merlin] Domino Recording Co (on behalf of Double Six Records).

  • The Verve

    Bitter Sweet Symphony

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Oct 2014 22:00
    成人快手 Radio 6 Music