The Clash - London Calling
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Free Music Review: .....I Don't Get It
Hit: 3 Stars
Actually 3 1/2 stars .The Clash' third album London Calling is possibly the most overated album of all time . I understand if you're into punk you want a claim in rock and roll history , but most of the songs on this album are hardly punk . The bulk of the album is reggae or reggae influenced . The title song is great , Brand New Cadillac ( a cover of a Vince Taylor song ) is great too . Ditto for Lost In A Supermarket , a song that sounds like something from Genesis' Duke period . Spanish Bombs , Hateful and Clampdown are good too . There are 18 tracks on this album .What are the other standout songs ? I don't hear 'em . I would think that " one of the great albums of all time " would be solid from top to bottom . The bulk of this album is mediocre pop/ reggae songs . Where's the edge ? I don't hear it . This is one of those albums like Exile On Main Street that's cool too like ... possibly because the critics say so ?Free Music Review: Masterpiece
Hit: 5 Stars
I was a big fan of the Clash as a kid in the early 80s, but kind of forgot about them as my tastes grew and became more diverse. Then for the hell of it I bought this CD about a year ago, and I haven't stopped listening to it. It is truly a masterpiece, especially if you consider the era when it was recorded. Buy one for yourself and buy one for a teenager - yours or someone elses. Tell them to listen to it a couple of times. This is what music should be. 99.9% of what is out there today will pale in comparison.Free Music Review: Not As Good As Their First, but...
Hit: 4 Stars
I don't wanna brag about my punk rock "bona fides", but, well, just to brag a little, I was acutally at the Clash concert where the cover picture for this album was taken (at the old New York Palladium, since demolished for a NYU dormitory!). Of course, this album hadn't come out yet, but at that concert, the Clash did many of the songs that were featured on this album, as well as the then better known songs from their first album.
London Calling became a classic and is rightly considered so today. Still, I don't know if i'd call it "punk". The Clash were already becoming poppier by this time, which is OK. This record showed a great variety of styles (as well as a good deal of pretensiousness that overcame a lot of punk groups as they got past their first album). The Clash could pull it off, tho, unlike many of their contemporaries.
The Clash was the first punk group I ever really "got into". I found their first record, when it was still available as an import-only, in the Discomat store in Grand Central Station way back in 1978, and, along with the Stooges "Funhouse" (then also only available as an import) changed my whole way of thinking about rock & roll music. I had finally found something in the whole wretched mess of 1970s music that I could listen to. While everyone else I knew was listening to Styx, Foreigner, Toto, Boston, ELP, Yes (!!!), and I was holding my nose and trying not to puke, along came The Clash and eventually that whole long-haired mascara stained music scene went crashing into well deserved oblivion.
Eventually, I came to like other groups (Wire, Gang of Four, Joy Division, Flipper, Mission of Burma and, especially, The Fall) better than the Clash, it WAS the Clash that showed me the true path. I still consider the import version of their first album their true masterpiece. London Calling was very good, and for a while I listened to it constantly, and it is well worth buying. It is a studio album, but in a way it is such a summing up of that period, that it is almost like being there in person at a live event. Tho it is not dated, and it stands the test of time, it will still take you back to your teen age years (if you were a teenager in 1979).
BTW, the tickets for those historic Clash concerts at the Palladium cost about 10 bucks--including the teletron charges. I bought the tickets at the teletron at J&R Music world when it was still only a basement record shop, years before it became the super mega electronics and computer store it is today.
Free Music Review: Cool Album
Hit: 5 Stars
Really enjoyed the diversity yet intensity. These guys can rock hard without screaming their way to lung cancer. Well done! Recomeneded for any flexible classic punk fan. Not all punk is served raw powerful and full of oi! Free Music Review: This is too good to be a punk album
Hit: 5 Stars
I really don't understand why this is called a punk album. It is too diverse to be called punk. The only song that could be called punk is "Death or Glory", but that one is one of the best songs on the album. This one bounces all over the place, from hard rock, to rockabilly, to reggae, to ska, to pop. It was also orginally a double album, which is surprising, considering that it is so consistant. There is only one filler track, "Lover's Rock", but that can be excused, since every other song is so great. This is recommended to anyone!