Kevin's Watch

wahts your fave clash song/album?

my fave song would probably have to be Tommy Gun(greatest intro to a song ever)

best album.......... London Callling

btw just look at the songs on london calling:- london calling, spanish bombs, lost in the supermarket, clampdown, guns of brixton and it ends with another great, train in vain!! (and there's more)

combat rock comes pretty close as well though!! why are there no bands like them any more?? why??

why are there no bands like them any more?? why??


because there was only one Joe Strummer.

I voted for Sandinista! Ok everyone jump on me now!

London Calling clearly, but Sandinista! is awesome.

London Calling as best.

but Straight To Hell is my favorite song.

best opening though...

"every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world, ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl, love and hate tatooed across the knuckles of his hands, as he slaps his kids around they don't understand how death and glory become just another story..."

I'm with you Danlo, I voted for Sandinista! as well.

oh... i forgot to vote....London Calling

no votes for the clash(the album ofcourse). i though the yanks would go for that.

London Calling as a collection is my favorite album.
Favorite single: Safe European Home.

ahhh...Safe European Home...good stuff!

London Calling was my favorite. How come there are no more bands like them? I think that has as much to do with us as it has to do with the Clash....my boy seems to like Green Day as much as I liked the Clash when I was his age; but only time will tell if he'll still like them when he's my age. Of course, GD seems to only have the anger of the Clash; I don't really see the wealth of influences like I do with the Clash...certainly not Reggae, at least.

The Clash wasn't a punk band anymore than they were a reggae band, or a ska band, or a funk band. The Clash just were.

The Clash were punk.

They drew on a lot of different influences, sure, but they were punk.

Yeah, the Clash were definitely punk. + 1 to Mhoram's post.

Calling The Clash a punk band is (to me) dismissing their talent. The Ramones were a punk band. The Pistols were a punk band. The Clash was so much more.

i agree with Cail. they started as a punk band but became a fushion of all sorts from London Calling onwards. both musically and in terms of their message they were vastly different from the Pistols and the Ramones.

Exactly my point Tazz.

You're talking like Punk was an invalid art form. I agree that the Clash was one of the most talented Punk bands, and I definitely prefer them to the Sex pistols and the Ramones, but they were, by their own admission, a punk band.

There were a lot of good UK punk bands. Stiff Little Fingers, 999, Buzzcocks, the Jam, Generation X, Adam Ant.....I liked the Clash best of them all.

Well I'm not at all dismissing their talent. But if you have to place them into a category, it's punk.

I've always preferred post-punk myself. Today, all punk is dead.