The Clash
 

Been reading Joe Strummer's biography and it's very good.

So I've been listening to a lot of Clash records and I thought I'd do yet another best album poll.

London Calling is one of the greatest albums of all time!

NeverMind The Sex Pistols, Here's The Clash!

The Clash get on my nerves. As do the sex pistols.

I think its that accent.

More and more I like Give em enough rope. London Calling is great, but it's a very obvious and lazy choice, so I went with the less popular pick.

Lazy pick? I've done my research! I'm not gonna pick a different album just becasue I know everyone else is gonna pick London Calling. n00b.

I've been told my musical preferences are lazy and obvious so I'm trying to expand.

Your pick is not lazy if you don't think it is.

I actually like GEER quite a bit. People bash this one, mostly for the production, but I never got that. Maybe it's just because it's the first Clash I ever bought (got it when it came out), but to me it rocks pretty hard and the writing is on target.

yeah, whatever, you know...

sandinista!

^ Yeah, I can't believe I don't have that in my collection yet! It's a good one. Black Market Clash is okay, too.

Actually, there's not much I don't like by the Clash. I even like Combat Rock.

It's between London Calling and Sandanista for me. Whilst the former has a great first half (especially the awesome Guns of Brixton), I have to say that I've never enjoyed the second half anywhere near as much.

Sandanista, on the other hand, combines a genuinely impresssive scope with what is for me a better standard overall.

The Clash bore me.

I haven't listened to them so therefore I am not voting.

Static! Why the name change?

I chose London Calling...

Got bored of the other one.

Indeed


Me too. It was always my least favourite Clash LP, but in recent years I've liked it more and more.


This record blew me away when I bought it in 1980. It got absolutely blasted by the music press at the time, but was like nothing I'd ever heard before. So it probably gets my vote as well.

London Calling...pure brilliance! Definitely one of the greatest rock albums ever and the best thing the Clash ever did. Although their self titled is a close second. And I like Give 'em Enough Rope but it really has that 'debut album leftovers' vibe.

I know a lot of people will hate me for saying this, but while I like Sandinista, I think it would have been much better if they cut it down to a single disc (or double LP instead of the triple). The album as it is is way too long and has tons of throw-away tracks in the midst of some pretty brilliant ones. Anyways, after Sandinista, they pretty much went downhill.

I voted for the debut. Great album. Although, it is the only Clash album I own, so I am a little biased. I saw Give 'Em Enough Rope on vinyl secondhand this year sometime, went back to buy it another day and it was gone :(

I Fought the Law is a classic. One of the best songs ever Written. It's one of them songs that I loved when I was a little kid, but didn't know who it was or even cared who it was, until I was older and then went "Ahh, so that's the Clash".

London Calling, The White Album and Daydream Nation to me are all in a special class of album. I'm still waiting for the 4th.

Like the Black Flag poll, I realized there isn't an entire album I like as a whole from either band. London Calling has a large amount of songs I really like over all the other ones though.

Sandanista for me hands down. Tripple album with all good songs and some of the most experimental "punk" music ever made.

Self titled.....then Black Market Clash because it always makes me want to dance.

i met a guy once who frequented alot of the world music clubs that joe strummer went to and had met him a couple of times

There is so much raw fury on that first one. Fuck I fough the Law. The Police and Theives cover took some balls. Janie Jones is a lengendary rock figure. Career Oppertunities? I must have sung that while looking through the help wanted section a billion times. Easily one of the best (and best sounding) bits of agit-prop the era produced.

Listen to the Sandinista version of Career as see how they had become a totally different band. When we're talking about the PUNK band The Clash, there's only the debut. Everything else seems like an experimental stab at everything BUT punk music, with widly variying results. Admit it: you skip a few tracks on London and especially Sandinista. Personally, I skip damn near all of them.

Hardly. I listen to Sandanista from start to finish. I think it's one of the best rock albums ever put to wax.

Mind, I do love the first one, but I'm glad they didn't just do it over and over. They were too good for that. Though I don't like how they ended up of course. Sort of like Bowie, too much cocaine and then you have to do a total pop album to pay for it all, and then everything after that is complete shit.

Okay. Fair enough. People like all of Sandinista. I'll accept that.

But then...what's wrong with Combat Rock? You've got the weird dub stuff, jazzy stuff, funk, etc. It always struck me as a more compact Sandinista.

Interesting question. I'm not sure why those songs don't stick with me the way the ones on Sandanista do. And then there are the highly mediocre and way played to death hits. I think the thing is for me, on Sandanista, much of the experimentation and pop happens at the same time (though I love the full on Revolution #9ish mindfuckery too) while on Combat Rock the pop is completely pulled into the hits. Also, I just feel like it's a lot like Bowie's Lets Dance - a potentially great album consciously dumbed down to mass appeal.

No votes for Cut The Crap?

I voted for the first one, out of sheer love for some of the songs: Police And Thieves... Garageland... What's My Name...

Is that a vote?

You can only vote once.

I agree with gmku. A lazy choice by a lazy poster.

Also going with Give 'Em Enough Rope.

no votes for black market clash? of course it's just a comp... but a good one!

E=MC2 is a fucking classic. No '80s compliation should be without it.

What rock star is our Patsy shagging these days, I wonder?

You really don't like generalizations, do you? :) I'm talking about the sort of '80s "school disco" type compilations that seem to take up at least two racks in every High Street record shop. The ones for reminiscing about snogging Mandy from the year above and copping a crafty feel, and wondering where it all went wrong after that.

Nostalgia sells. That's why the friends reunited thing got so successful too.

I wasn't talking to you! Why must you always be the centre of attention, eh??? It's always me, me, me, isn't it? Eh? Eh?

No. I just like stating the obvious sometimes.

Your shoelace is undone.