Surely in everyone’s top ten anyway.
What are forumites favourite albums/tracks/lyrics.
Combat Rock is one of my all time favourite albums, immesne.
Sandinista is very under rated.
Big audio dynamite was better
[quote=“Mark Renton, post: 887700, member: 1796”]Surely in everyone’s top ten anyway.
What are forumites favourite albums/tracks/lyrics.
Combat Rock is one of my all time favourite albums, immesne.
Sandinista is very under rated.[/quote]
Fucking A. Led zeppelin were my favourite band for a long time when i was younger until these guys took over. London calling is their best album and a masterpiece but for some reason Combat Rock is my favourite album of theirs. The Future is Unwritten is a great music film.
That’s a fantastic movie (minus Bono) I must re watch it soon.
I love Strummers response when a journalist tells him patronisingly that people can’t hear the lyrics in the Clash’s music -“yeah, it’s a pity too, cause they’re really fucking good.”
Their best track is probably Complete Control. The outro is magical. It’s not even on an album! Neither is White Man in Hammersmith Palais, an epic song.
Edit out the filler on Sandinista and it’d be their best album,imo. Could probably even get two quality albums out of it. They have some magnificent stuff on B-Sides and EPs too. Super Black Market Clash is a great comp, starting out with the straight up punk rock of 1977 and ending up with a dub version of Rock the Casbah. Amazing band.
Add in the clothes, the slogans, the sneers, the lyrics and the everything else and they’re simply untouchable.
I wouldn’t be a huge fan of the Clash. I don’t know why - I have the London Calling album and while there are a couple of very good songs on there I wouldn’t be rushing out to buy all their albums.
Joe Strummer’s comments about Shane MacGowan make him a thoroughly alright sort though in my book.
[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 887770, member: 24”]I wouldn’t be a huge fan of the Clash. I don’t know why - I have the London Calling album and while there are a couple of very good songs on there I wouldn’t be rushing out to buy all their albums.
Joe Strummer’s comments about Shane MacGowan make him a thoroughly alright sort though in my book.[/quote]
You don’t need to buy them mate, you can listen free on Spotify.
Didn’t Joe sing with the Pogues for a while??
[quote=“farmerinthecity, post: 887770, member: 24”]I wouldn’t be a huge fan of the Clash. I don’t know why - I have the London Calling album and while there are a couple of very good songs on there I wouldn’t be rushing out to buy all their albums.
Joe Strummer’s comments about Shane MacGowan make him a thoroughly alright sort though in my book.[/quote]
Ever see joe singing with the pogues? Pretty cool. Also, my respect for your taste in music has taken a hit after that post.
Im more of a Jethro Tull man myself.
They released a best of compilation around 1988. Think it was The Essential Clash.
Anyway, the liner notes were written by Strummer under the guise of Albert Transom, an invented “valet”. One of the most brilliant pieces you’ll ever read outlining the career from start to finish.
One of the better quotes: "What’s the worst city to play in? Vienna - it means nothing to me!
London Calling was always my favourite but Combat Rock has Straight to Hell and Ghetto Defendant on it. Two of their greatest (along with the underrated Car Jamming).
Sandinista is sprawling and as @Thrawneen said contains a lot of filler. Contains a lot of class tunes too though.
I have Sandinista on triple vinyl. I also have the first and second LPs on vinyl. And the Cost of Living EP. And a couple of singles.
If my young lad ever accuses me of being a square these will all be brought out. The malignant little bastard.
The immigrants and remnants of all the glory years
Are clusters round the bar again for another round of beers…
Brilliant song.
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It’s got everything you want in a rock song- everything!
It’s hard to argue with Strummer who always maintained that the pinnacle of his writing were the lyrics for Straight to Hell. A truly beautiful song.
I grew up loving the first two albums and the real punky feel to them - tracks like Janey Jones, Garageland, Codex Blue, Safe European Home. Favourite tracks of this era were White Man in Hammersmith Palais (already mentioned by @Thrawneen) and Complete Control, which was a single release in the UK and made a onto the US version of their debut. As always, a great story behind the song.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=JeTw_p_WglY
When I was finally mature enough to appreciate London Calling, it blew me away. So many great songs - Lost in the Supermarket, Clampdown, Rudie Can’t Fail, Train in Vain. For me though, it has to be Death or Glory.
“And every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock 'n roll,
Grabs the mike to tell us he’ll die before he’s sold,
But I believe in this and it’s been tested by research,
He, who fucks nuns, will later join the church.”
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Winner…
Combat Rock is my own favourite, it’s got a little of everything on board- Know your rights has got all the anger you expect from them and typical punk cords. There is a whiff of pop off it with Should I stay and Rock the Casbah but they are stone cold classics… But Straight to Hell, Sean Flynn and Ghetto Defendant are the sounds of a band on the march and evolving.