Only really know London Calling but itās absolutely superb from beginning to end. Lost in the Supermarket is pretty much the best song ever written, donāt think anything has ever come as close to expressing how consumer culture makes me feel.
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Feel like I probably need to reappraise them/5
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helps with that one that the guy singing it isnāt very confident and doesnāt have a strong singing voice, adds to the theme
always forget how good Give Em Enough Rope is. Same energy as the s/t but darker and more muscular sound. Bet that stuff sounded great live. And then Stay Free is such a lovely nostalgia ballad from Mick Jones.
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someone pointed out before that Supermarket-Clampdown-Brixton is possibly the greatest run of tracks featuring three different lead vocalists
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Clash related. Really like this track
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Massive Attack probably have a decent shout on this e.g. Angel > Risingson > Teardrops
(though Iām not sure if guest vocalists count)
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Heh heh, The Clash are going to end up underneath The Supremes, arenāt they?
Iāve thought for a long time that punk is the wrong tag for them. Only the early stuff could be described as punk really. Theyāre mostly a rock band thatās very aware of whatās coming overground.
I might love some albums more for personal reasons but if I had to choose an album that was somehow āobjectivelyā the best, then London Calling would be right at the front of the pack for me. The range of ideas, styles, topics, the passion and energy, the depth of the production and still to be packed with so many catchy as hell tunes and only one dud (Loverās Rock) - pretty amazing achievement.
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There are some genuinely great songs on that album. Iāve got a real soft spot for this one:
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Guns Of Brixton should be the national anthem.
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if weāre doing mescalerosā¦
all three of their albums are good to great. Global A-Go-Go best front to back for me
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Also Straight to Hell > Paper Planes must be one of the all-time combos of brilliant original song and then equally great use of a sample
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Got to be Tom Tom Club/Mariah Carey for me Clive
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Vacuum cleaner sucks up budgie!
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Yeah calling any of The Clashās output post debut Punk Rock is silly. Might explain why so many people seem to be surprised/disappointed by what they end up hearing. They are just what would go on to be known as āIndie Rockā in the UK during the 00s, listening to London Calling and its amazing how contemporary a lot of it sounds still, hell it sounds a lot fresher than most āindie rockā we get these days
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Incidentally, it must have been round about the time of this gig that I first signed up on DiS. I was living in the Scottish Borders at the time, soā¦
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London Calling as a song somehow never loses an inch of its power, feels as righteous and angry as the first time I heard it - almost brings me to tears sometimes (Born in the USA does that too but Iām sure plenty of people are very bored by that one)
He said go out and get me my old movie stills!
Go out and get me another roll of pills!
There I go shaking, but I aināt got the chills!
UUGHHGHHHFJJKKTTJJJJJUHHH!
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5/5
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