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tdoc210 12-22-2008 10:52 PM

sandinista pour moi

idk i like ivan and gi joe alot

Alfred 12-22-2008 10:54 PM

Hitsville UK has become one of my favorite Clash songs.

empty cup 01-04-2009 03:44 PM

London Calling is monumental. i have the 25th anniversary edition and love the 2nd disc as well. i think i own this album in some form or other about 4 times over.

other than that, i do have a soft spot for Rockers Galore . . .

oh hell, i love it all . . .

Gavin B. 01-08-2009 05:51 AM

Nearly every song on London Calling is a jewel. The album was controversial among a few punk rockers because the Clash's quest for new musical horizons was regarded as a sell-out by some of the Clash's hardcore fans. I thought London Calling was freakin' brilliant and spent endless hours in drunken debates with fellow punk fans defending the Clash's musical integrity.

The Black Market Clash EP was well conceived dub experiment with Mikey Dread at the controls. The Black Market album cover of the lone dread sufferer confronting a batillion of London bobbies during the Brixton uprising is the most striking album cover I've ever seen. The album cover is a sublime political statement that all captures the turbulent mood and social disorder of the Thatcher era in a single dramatic photograph.

The Clash really lost me with Sandinista because much of the album's material is threadbare filler that took the ecclecticism of London Calling to ridiculous extremes. There's hardly enough good songs on Sandinista for a single album let alone a three volume package.

After London Calling on the Clash lost their creative disipline but managed to maintain their political integrity to the bitter end. Like many of the bands of punk era the Clash had a difficult time confronting the internal contradictions of being anti-capitalist band in a hyper-capitalist music business and a hyper-capitalist society.

I think a lot of younger fans of the Clash don't understand how bold and revolutionary the Clash's musical and political approach really was. By the time Nirvana came along, political anger and social deviation was downright fashionable.

SuspectDevice 01-13-2009 07:26 PM

I Like the experimental ****, but the self-titled is the only one I can listen to all the way through; over and over again.

Shihad 01-14-2009 11:16 PM

As expected London Calling dominates this poll, and so it should. By far the greatest Clash album and one of the greatest albums of all time. Death Or Glory, Guns Of Brixton, Train In Vain all amazing tracks.

Nick The Stripper 01-15-2009 11:51 PM

The debut album for me. White Man and Complete Control are the Clash's two best two songs (IMO) and they are both on the first LP, and that's good enough for me. Not that London Calling or Rope for that matter aren't good;)

Roemilca 01-24-2009 05:15 PM

London Calling, followed by two albums that I can't decide on being better than the other, the self-titled and Sandinista!.

MartyDuffy 02-07-2009 09:17 AM

Either Combat Rock or the debut album for me.

heart_jenny792 02-13-2009 11:56 PM

London calling definately....i love the clash but when i heard this i was like holy sh*t


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