Best CLASH number

Anybody replying with Other votes for "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?" or "Rock the Casbah" needs to slap themselves. (Kidding! Kidding! Don't beat me!)

Too many to choose from, although I'm currently leaning toward "Clampdown" from your list, because I am coming to terms, at 36, that "I grew up and I calmed down, I started wearing blue and brown".

I think my absolute favourite is "The Card Cheat", from London Calling.

(the ones that never knock).

also, train in vain is not may favorite, but i'm surprised it didn't make the list.

An impossible poll.

Like the chips, you can't have just one. :loveya:

cause that was the epitome of the insanity of viet nam

Voted for 'Stay Free'. 'Lost in the Supermarket' is another.


I love to crank up 'Safe European Home'.

from disc 1 of Sandinista!

"and Number Three. . .
You have the right to free speech;
as long as you're not dumb enough
to actually try it..."

:evilfrown:

Best Clash song, no contest (and I've been to Hammersmith Palais!)

I love the Clash!

If so, I sure as hell can't think of it.

And thought I voted for "I'm So Bored," I'd like to give an honorable mention to "This Is England."

I also saw them on the tour for the post-Mick album that never got released. You know, before the replacement guys had actually learned their instruments. Bad bad bad, but still a good time. "This one's for Margaret 'Billygoat' Thatcher!" Thank you Joe...

Breakin' rocks in the hot sun
I fought the law and the law won (twice)
I needed money 'cause I had none
I fought the law and the law won (twice)

I left my baby and it feels so bad
Guess my race is run
She's the best girl that I ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the

Robbin' people with a six-gun
I fought the law and the law won (twice)
I lost my girl and I lost my fun
I fought the law and the law won (twice)

I left my baby and it feels so bad
Guess my race is run
She's the best girl that I ever had
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the

I fought the law and the law won (7 times)
I fought the law and the

damn, they were one cool-looking band.

I fixed that.

Also think "The Call-Up" should be on the list too. Oh wait, how about
"I'm Not Down", or "Magnificent Seven", or...
Now I need to get out those albums and listen to them again!

Still catchy as hell after all these years.

I always think of John Ashcroft and the Patriot Act when I hear it.

When they kick down your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands upon your head?
Or on the trigger of a gun?

Guns of Brixton is a great one and will always be relevant - unlike the Clash themselves, how punk can you be to sell a tune to Jaguar for a commercial. I know Strummer made a big thing about how the band members didn't make a lot of money back in the ol' days but really couldn't they just have released a "best of"????

Absolutely.

But I'm glad to see that everyone else hates London Calling ;-)
Edit: didn't read the thread properly....oops.

yeah, I know it's a cover, but they had such a commanding grip on the groove in that one, while still retaining their energy.

Hell, it's hard to pick one Clash song; I pretty much love all of em (except everything on Cuth the Crap). This was a decision worthy of King Solomon.

And, hey, all, the last Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros album is coming out soon!