The Clash - London Calling
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Free Music Review: Allow me to cast my vote
Hit: 5 Stars
The best punk album ever. Period. Never Mind the Bollocks comes in a close second, and The Ramones third, I guess. This album is essential not only for punks, but for any fan of rock n' roll.Free Music Review: A Run Down
Hit: 5 Stars
First of all, I love the clash. Unlike nearly every other fan, though, this album was not the first I listened to of them. My first clash experience was actually "Combat Rock." A Friend finally lent me "London Calling" and it blew my world. Combat rock is a great CD, but this is pure Music Genius.
Here are my personal Favs:
1.) London Calling - Sets the Record off magnificently, Strong, Fast, and makes my stomach curl up every time i listen.
2.) Hateful - actually makes be dance every time
3.) Spanish Bombs - just great song.
4.) CLAMPDOWN - The best clash song ever made. period. "You Grow Up, and You Calm Down. Now Your Working For The Clampdown" makes me smile every time.
5.) Revolution rock - Just interesting for me, this is a major sign of the more raggae-orientated music to follow.
6.) Train in Vain - Yes, its their least punk song, but a great song never-the-less
Please, Buy this CD! In my opinion, not music collection is complete without this album.
Free Music Review: Too big a reputation for so mediocre an album
Hit: 2 Stars
This album is a favourite with people who think they're too cool to like the Beatles or Guns & Roses and want something more "real" to feel smug about. Somehow The Clash are meant to be a blow to all carefree bands writing songs in their ivory towers. People want *real* songs about suburban alienation! Songs that the common joe in the streets of Britain can relate to! Uh...supermarkets! Yeah!
Somehow this album has also gained popularity among North American university elitists who mistakenly think they have some empathy with the British working class and who tend to say things like "Did you read those Hunter S. Thompson and Jack Kerouac's I recommended?"
The album itself is just bland late 70s British new wave with moderately pointless reggae experiments.
Free Music Review: The Clash's best album!!!.
Hit: 5 Stars
O.K. first of all I'm not sure why Amazon wouldn't let me review this, they have done this before and its annoying and frustrating so I'm gonna write a short review, before The Clash has experimented with with reggae and ska mixed with punk but then on London Calling they tried a dizzying array of styles everything from punk to jazz can be found on this great album and it also shows how far ahead these guys were. You've got great songs like The guns of Brixton, Spanish bombs, Lost in the supermarket, London calling, brand new Cadillac ect. basically all the songs were brilliant except for Lover's rock which I can't stand. This album is so invigorating that every time you listen to it never gets boring and also happens to beat out any modern rock album out there especially nowadays with the truly pathetic music scene, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones have written some of the best and politically charged lyrics of all time and are anti-establishment which is typical punk only The Clash really mean it cause they came from poverty in the street of England unlike those fake wannabe punk groups that have no idea what they're talking about and their playing skills are usually sh**. I highly recomend this album to everyone and if you haven't gotten this yet then what are you waiting for GET THIS NOW!!!. Free Music Review: Clash City Shocker
Hit: 2 Stars
Just about the Clash's worst album, (I think the lumpen `Sandinista' is better because a} it has a whole lp more and b} it's got the fabulous `Somebody Got Murdered' on it.) `London Calling' is as bland and dreary as it's title suggests. I thought London was burning with boredom (Dial 99999!) but now it seems it's just...calling. Oh well.
It starts brilliantly with the title track but then it's downhill fast, with lack-luster forays into r+b and reggae, rockabilly and jazz. Drifting and meandering all over the place in a vain attempt to find some badly needed cohesion, some sort of direction in among the painfully forced `diversity'.
It's a well known rock truism that Strummer and Jones weren't getting on at the time this was recorded, and you can tell, it sounds like they were in different rooms! It's sad to watch this once-great song-writing team align against each other in such an obvious (and childish!) way. Strummer with his slurry `rocka' pose, and Jones with his toe-curling `Americanisms`.
Strummer didn't recover `til `Combat Rock', and before you start scoffing, compare `Straight to Hell' with ANYTHING on here, and it'll be the stronger song by streets.
Anything with the inexplicably awful `Guns of Brixton' on it, just HAS to suck a big one,(now THERE'S a song worth a giggle or two) along with `This Is Radio Clash', their poorest song in a frustratingly inconsistent canon. (if ever a group's output was justifiably labeled `peaks and troughs' it's the Clash`s.)
If only `London Calling' the album was as good as `London Calling' the song, we would indeed have something special on our hands. As it is, we've got something tired, a bit derivative, and really rather tatty.
`London Calling' was voted the best album of all time in a poll. It's not even the best Clash album.