Top 10 Clash Songs
Top 10 Clash Songs
I am giving my list of the top 10 all-time best Clash songs. I could’ve very easily turned this into a top 50, but I wanted to keep this short and sweet. Don’t agree? Give me your top ten. Or better yet, what’s your top 5 favorite tracks from The Beatles White Album?
10. Rudie Can’t Fail (London Calling)
9. Janie Jones (The Clash)
8. Career Opportunities (The Clash)
7. London Calling (London Calling)
6. Clampdown (London Calling)
5. Death or Glory (London Calling)
4. Train in Vain (London Calling)
3. Bankrobber (Bankrobber single)
2. Police on My Back (Sandinista!)
1. 1-2 Crush on You (b-side Tommy Gun single)
Currently:
Reading: Ask The Dust by John Fante
Listening: Dear Landlord – Dream Homes
Watching: Death Race directed by Paul WS Anderson
Free & legal download of the week: Dropkick Murphys – The Warriors Code: http://www.epitaph.com/media/download/audio/124
You are so fucking wrong! How could you say that Janie Jones is in the top 10??? How could you??? No way!! I will never read your post again…dude, you have irked me. Rock the Casbah should have been there too. What is your problem?? I am never coming back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You sure do have a way with pissing people off!!!
November 29th, 2009 at 1:32 pmHahahahaha…now, that was funny!!!
November 29th, 2009 at 1:38 pm1)Capital Radio
2}Stay Free
3)All the young Punks
4) Spanish Bombs
5)Hateful
6)Gates of the west
7)1,2 I got a crush on you
8)Police on my back
9)Death or glory
10)Washington bullets
11}all Clash tunes except for Rock the Casbah
theonlytruepunk – I thought you turned on me too!
I like your list. It’s hard to narrow it down to ten. – Mike E.
November 29th, 2009 at 5:43 pmDamn Mike, like your list and TOTP’s list as well. Bankrobber was always my tune. Even though I never robbed banks, during my criminal days that tune was my anthem. Funny, I don’t have one piece of vinyl by these guys, everything is on tape or the hard drive. Must remedy that.
November 30th, 2009 at 12:03 pm1. Dear Prudence (although I like Siouxsie’s version better)
2. I’m So tired
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Happines Is A Warm Gun
5. Julia
justin – Thanks for writing in. My first piece of Clash vinyl was a bootleg I bought of theirs at the old Capitol Records swap meet. It was set-up in the Capitol Records parking lot. Once a month on Saturdays (I think). And they mainly had bootlegs, I found this one with all kinds of outtakes, and unreleased tunes. And I played the hell out of it, before discovering Black Flag. – Mike E.
November 30th, 2009 at 4:44 pmTop 5 Clash songs:
November 30th, 2009 at 5:29 pm1. Rock of Ages
2. Foolin’
3. Photograph
4. Armageddon It
5. Pour Some Sugar On Me
6. Anything from “Cut The Crap”
I want…and I need…Animal. Def Leppard were so great…at absolutely nothing. Lyrically and musically lame. The drummer played the same with one arm, as he did with two…he still sucked!
November 30th, 2009 at 9:33 pmI must be shorter than I thought, because this crap just went right over my head.
November 30th, 2009 at 10:12 pmThat Jim guy loves Def Leppard and I was letting him know how lame the band was/is…the worst.
December 1st, 2009 at 10:43 pmGotcha . . .
December 2nd, 2009 at 1:12 amYou are so fucking right!!
December 2nd, 2009 at 4:13 pmcongratulations jaja.
Hi Mike,
I often check the site (which I like a lot) but never get around to commenting. Probably a lot of people do the same (no excuses). Here’s my list:
1. Stay Free
2.All The Young Punks (New Boots & Contracts)
3.(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
4.Bankrobber
5.Remote Control
6.Jail Guitar Doors
7.Complete Control
8.Last Gang In Town
9.City Of The Dead
10. Tommy Gun /1-2 Crush On You, 45
(Glad to see 1-2 Crush On You in the other lists. Had the Tommy Gun single for my 14th birthday in November 1978, been playing it ever since…).
Most over-rated song: London Calling
Most over-rated album: London Calling. (From the way people talk about it now you’d think everyone loved it in the day. Here in England, everyone didn’t… most thought it a bit weak & patchy, but with some classics… I didn’t listen to it properly for years – I was put off by the opening few songs, which I am lukewarm about to this day…)
Most under-rated album: Give’ Em Enough Rope
Best album: Give’ Em Enough Rope
Worst album: Combat Rock
Album that shouldn’t have been called a Clash album: Cut the Crap (This is England is pretty decent tho’)
How about a Damned top 10, a US hardcore top 10, & a B-movie top 10?… Now I’ve broken the ice I need to comment again. By the way I really enjoy your personal punk rock stories from “the day”. Cheers from London!
December 2nd, 2009 at 5:06 pmGuillermo & James – Thanks a million for writing in. James, you’ve given me a bunch of new ideas for future articles. Of all the Clash songs Bankrobber seems to be the only one that pretty much everyone agrees on. – Mike E.
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:56 pm