#21

Man, I love Rudie Can’t Fail. Saw Joe Strummer live at the Liquid Room shortly before he died. He started the gig with a few solo songs which received a muted response then yelled “ON THE ROUTE OF THE 19 BUS!” and it was a mental atmosphere from then on. Bah… Great gig.

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#22

Combat Rock is a real ‘what-if’. From reading biographies I think Mick wanted it to go in some really interesting-sounding directions but the rest of the band pushed back. Know Your Rights is a disaster of an opening track.

#23

The Future Is Unwritten is a brilliant documentary on Joe btw. Well worth a watch.

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#24

Just reading about Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg now…and the ‘Londonderry’ bootleg

such rarities that I can’t even stream them, might have to investigate

#25

Important band and huge respect for what they did but their music just doesn’t grab me. Don’t think it’d bad but it just never hooked me
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#26

Genuinely think they’re terrible. 1/5.

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#27

For some reason, when I made this thread, I thought fleetingly ‘I bet Kallgeese hates The Clash’, and I don’t know why. I didn’t want it to be true, obviously, but here we are. What a ridiculous opinion, I feel nothing but sorrow for you :wink:

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#28

Clampdown is probably in my top 10 songs of all time.

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#29

The Clash are crap

(Wish these threads were back in the Social board)

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#30

I don’t mind moving them back, just don’t want to annoy anyone now I’m doing the food one too.

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#31

Coincidentally, I spent most of Friday listening to The Clash after reading this article…

So many great songs. One of the all time greatest bands :+1:

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#32

Absolutely baffling why anyone likes this band.
I remember getting London Calling when I was a teenager (early 90’s) and being excited that it was going to be punk as fuck or something and all I got was dad music.

Their existence still annoys me.

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#33

it confused your mind and that actually is punk as fuck

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#34

Punk should be less boring then?

#35

4/5. I’m glad I’ve never heard any other punk bands because I think punk is only really good for about 1 album

#36

They were only punk for the first album really. They were widely mocked as well by the punk scene once they signed to CBS or whatever it was. The punk label does them a disservice ultimately, they always had a wider view.
London Calling isn’t my favourite of theirs, it’s become one of those ‘proscribed’ (edit:proscribed? prescribed!) albums but there’s an amazing run of tracks in the first half in particular. Can see why it might have an air of staidness to it from a certain perspective.
I’d dig deeper into Sandanista/Super Black Market if you’re still inclined to give them a chance -
there’s some haunting narrative-cinematic-type stuff on the former and some of their best off-the-cuff experiments on both

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#37

Solid 4, love the early stuff but the later stuff lost its way a bit imo. Still good though. Favourite track is hard to call, but I have safe European home in my head so let’s call it that. Could be WMIPH, Rudie Can’t Fail, Police on my Back, Lost in the supermarket, Police and Thieves and countless others. Love the clash

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#38

5/5. Voted for Bankrobber as favourite, even though it’s actually Death or Glory, just because I heard it so much on Skate 2 or 3 or a Tony Hawk’s game. Dunno. Great bunch of lads and songs.

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#39

Love From Here to Eternity.

“Il y a une white man dans le Palais dans Hamersmeeth… One, two. One, two, three, four!”

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#40

Really like:
Guns of Brixton
London Calling
Train in Vain

Can’t be arsed with:
Everything else

Fight me. I’ll see you and your own hot takes in :musical_note: How Good Are They Really :musical_note: Primus

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