Son of Mr Greengenes didn't last very long.
wonder why?

I'm actually supprised London Calling (which is great) is ahead of The Clash which is IMO one of best albums ever.

London Calling for me. It's pretty amazing that a double album could be released that goes in so many divergent directions and yet everything works. Death and Glory is one of my Clash favs.

london calling? maybe?

Bump.

Other than someone else that posted in this thread, why am I the only one that feels the love for Give Em Enough Rope? It's fantastic, and at this point, I'd say it's better than their debut. London Calling is obviously the best, but damn, some great songs on GEER.

London Calling hands down. The rest is inconsistant

I quite like Give 'Em Enough Rope. You can't ask for a better opening three tracks and Cheapskates is a pretty underrated track IMO. The only song that annoys me is Guns on the Roof because it sounds suspiciously like a certain song by the Who.

Yeah, I noticed that. I still like the song, but it is a blatant Who ripoff.

And I agree about the first three tracks thing, those are some of their best songs. Another awesome one on that album is Stay Free.

Ever heard Clash City Rockers? Or What The F*** by Mick's band Carbon/Silicon? Two more with the same riff. Not to mention C/S's new album is gonna include a blatant rip of My Generation. Oh well, we still love you Mick.

But I actually tend to dislike GEER. Nothing against the songs on it, but the production is horrid. It's the kind of album I only listen to in the background, while driving etc. because if I listen closely the production starts to annoy me enough that I don't enjoy the album.

I like the production better than the debut, to be honest.

But then again, I like the whole album better.

sandinista pour moi

idk i like ivan and gi joe alot

Hitsville UK has become one of my favorite Clash songs.

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 . . .

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.

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

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.

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;)

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

Either Combat Rock or the debut album for me.

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

London Calling. One of the best albums ever imo.

Heh. No question, London Calling.

Can we close this and instead start "Best Clash Album Other Than London Calling"? That would be a more interesting poll.

I prefer the debut much more

I concur. I enjoy it for its raw punk feel. They were good about meshing other musical styles into their sound as well, but I like the undistilled, punk sound best of all.

Their debut, even if it's only for White Riot. That album probably has more plays than the rest of my collection combined.

London Calling. A little played out but still the best.

The debut for me.

"I fought the law" and "Police & thieves" are my two favourite clash tracks, and the first 6 off this album are closely behind them.

1. The Clash
2. Give Em' Enough Rope
3. London Calling
4. Combat Rock

Haven't listened to the others yet.

"Combat Rock" makes my life.

London Calling for me, but The Clash is great also

How is this even a contest, London Calling without a doubt.

It's gotta be London Calling, though Sandanista! really expanded their sound in fantastic ways.

London Calling - Hands down, the best Clash album. I'd probably even put London Calling in my top 10 albums of all time.

...even though it's not their best album, stay free has a lot of sentimental value for me, so "give em enough rope".

Sandinista was amazing, Super Black Market Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope... but I love them all very much. I don't know if I could choose.

Combat Rock

London Calling. I think its one of the best albums in history.

London Calling, definitely. The Clash were never good at playing punk, so the debut is patchy as hell. Haven't heard much of Give Em..., and I don't really care to listen to the rest of it. Sandinista is overlong and plagued with awful attempts at everything, and Combat Rock is merely good.

Really, if you take London Calling out of their discography, it's surprising how flakey the Clash seem.

Janie Jones on it's own says you're wrong.

:)

Or, alternatively...if you take out their flakey stuff, it's surprising how brilliant they were too.

First one