101'ers: Smokey Joe's Cafe 2-CD set (Live, Demos)

How many years since Joe Strummer died? Wikipedia reminds me that it's been nine years, minus a day, since that news broke. Sure I was shocked but, like with the passing of an estranged family member, my reaction was both delayed and complex. I remember dismissing all the praises for Streetcore, thinking it was all just so much posthumous posturing. While I've fully come around on the Mescaleros era, especially Streetcore, I can understand those who haven't.

Similarly, it took me some time to come around to The 101'ers. I snatched up a copy of the  101'ers Five Star Rock n' Roll featuring Strummer's  '76 pub-rockin roots back about twenty years ago but soon ditched it. It wasn't till the release of  Elgin Avenue Revisited in 2005 that the appeal of the band's ultra-stripped down retro rock n' roll style finally clicked.

CD 1 (demos and live)
1. Gloria (Derby Cleopatra's 20/12/75)
2. Rabies (Pathway Studio's March '76)
3. Keys To Your Heart (Pathway Studio's March '76)                             
4. Surf City (Pathway Studio's March '76)
5. Sweet Revenge (Pathway Studio's March '76)
6. Surf City (Pathway Studio's March '76)
7. Five Star Rock'N'Roll (Pathway Studio's March '76)    
8. Surf City 42 (Orsett Terrace Jan '76)
9. Sweet Revenge (Orsett Terrace Jan '76)
10. Keys To Your Heart (Orsett Terrace Jan '76)                     
11. ??? (???)
12. Sweet Revenge (Orsett Terrace Jan '76)
13. Monkey Business (The Roundhouse 18/4/76)
14. Shake Your Hips (The Roundhouse 18/4/76)                                
15. Junco Partner (The Roundhouse 18/4/76)
16. Don't Let Go (The Roundhouse 18/4/76)
17. Surf City (42 Orsett Terrace Feb '76)
18. Sweet Revenge (42 Orsett Terrace Feb '76)
19. Sweet Revenge (42 Orsett Terrace Feb '76)
20. Surf City (42 Orsett Terrace Feb '76)
21. Keys To Your Heart (42 Orsett Terrace Feb '76)
22. Heartbreak Hotel (42 Orsett Terrace Feb '76)                
23. Heartbreak Hotel (42 Orsett Terrace Feb '76)
   
CD2 Live at Derby Cleopatra's 20/12/75
1. Bony Moronie                            
2. Letsagetabitarockin
3. Shake Your Hips
4. Hoy Hoy Hoy
5. Heartbreak Hotel
6. Choo Choo Ch'Boogie
7. Smokey Joe's Cafe
8. Johnny B.Goode
9. Oh Carol
10.Out Of Time
11. I'm Down
12. Route 66
13. Who Do You Love?
14. Silent Telephone
15. Monkey Business
16. Junco Partner
17. Be Bop A Lula
18. Steam Gauge 99
19. Hideaway
20. I Saw Her Standing There
21. Slippin' & Slidin'
22. Country Rock & Roll/Hand Jive
23. Sweety Of The St Moritz
24. Motor Boys Motor
25. Roll Over Beethoven
26. Gloria



This is a pretty raw double-CD bootleg, consisting of demos, outtakes and a full live show from late 1975. The two discs show both the band's early covers-heavy set and also their nascent song-writing, in originals like "Sweet Revenge" and, of course, "Keys to Your Heart". Remember Strummer.

So give us your takeon Joe's time in the 101'ers in the COMMENTS section (where you'll find the Smokey Joe's Cafe linkS)


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