Best CLASH number

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: 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!)

[CanuckAmok]

1. Name a bad Clash song--I can't.

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.

[unblock]

2. career opportunities

(the ones that never knock).

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

[GOPEC]

3. Know your rights? Magnificent Seven? Career Opportunities?

An impossible poll.

[Athletic Grrl]

9. I second that.

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

[speckledgator]

4. straight to hell...

cause that was the epitome of the insanity of viet nam

[peekaloo]

5. I tend to favor Mick Jones on vocals

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


I love to crank up 'Safe European Home'.

[Barad Simith]

6. "Hitsville U.K."

from disc 1 of Sandinista!

[DinahMoeHum]

7. "Know Your Rights" comes to my mind these days. . .

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

:evilfrown:

[mr blur]

8. White Man In Hammersmith Palais

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

[Kathy in Cambridge]

19. Their cover of 'Police and Thieves' is pretty good too

I love the Clash!

[NightTrain]

10. Did the Clash ever do a lousy song?

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."

[Bossy Monkey]

17. Wow! The other person who bought "Cut the Crap"!

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...

[AntiCoup2K4]

11. They didn't write this one, but they OWN it anyway....

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

[oustemnow]

21. thanks for that pic, Anti

damn, they were one cool-looking band.

[BrewerJohn]

12. No votes for "Death or Glory" yet?

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!

[Seneca]

13. Train In Vain

Still catchy as hell after all these years.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. The Guns of Brixton

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?

[Djinn]

15. Me too

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"????

[BigDaddyLove]

22. Guns of Brixton..................

Absolutely.

[HEyHEY]

16. I saw a person dissing "career oppurtunities" that's a good TUNE!

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

[Red_Storm]

18. Radio Clash, I Fought The Law, Stay Free,

[oustemnow]

20. Other; "Police & Thieves"

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!