The Clash - POX

Rock The Casbah
Train In Vain
Guns Of Brixton
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
London Calling
The Magnificent Seven (great bassline, less great lyrics)
Rebel Waltz
The Call-Up
I'm So Bored With The USA
Bank Robber

(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
Janie Jones
Safe European Home
Rudie Can't Fail
Bankrobber
What's My Name
Complete Control
Washington Bullets
Lost in the Supermarket
Magnificent Seven

Rock The Casbah
Train In Vain
London Calling
White Man In Hammersmith Palais
Armagideon Time

That's it.

Still, five Clash songs I like! Who knew??!

White Riot
London’ Burning
Garageland
Stay Free
Clash City Rockers
White Man (In Hammersmith Palais)
Armagideon Time
Hateful
Spanish Bombs
Lost In The Supermarket
Train In Vain
Long Time Jerk

The Street Parade
Janie Jones
Rock the Casbah
This Is Radio Clash
London Calling
The Guns of Brixton
Lost in the Supermarket
White Man In Hammersmith Palais
Hate and War
Death or Glory

1. London Calling
2. Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
3. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
4. I'm So Bored With The USA
5. Safe European Home
6. Rock The Casbah
7. Car Jamming
8. The Guns Of Brixton
9. Hitsville UK
10. Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Police and Thieves
Hateful
(White man)In Hammersmith palais
Revolution Rock
Ghetto Defendant
Bank Robber
The Right Profile
London Calling
Rock the Casbah
The Street Parade/Lover's Rock

'rock the casbah' is great bcz its: 1) great and 2) bcz you can use it as a stick to beat 'real' clash fans with. It amuses me.

Aaaaaanyhow:

"Complete Control"
"What's My Name"
"Stay Free"
"Tommy Gun"
"Bankrobber"
"Spanish Bombs"
"The Card Cheat"
"Magnificent Seven"
"The Call Up"
"Straight to Hell"

1. "Complete Control"
2. "Clash City Rockers"
3. "Police on My Back"
4. "London Calling"
5. "Magnificent Seven"
6. "Armagiddeon Time"
7. "Janie Jones"
8. "Know Your Rights" (live version from ..Eternity)
9. "This is Radio Clash"
10. "Innoculated City"

1. Garageland
2. Stay Free
3. Safe European Home
4. Jail Guitar Doors
5. Police On My Back
6. Police & Thieves
7. Washington Bullets
8. Straight to Hell
9. Lost in the Supermarket
10. London Calling

What a woefully inadequate list.

Coulda been, but I still think it's a pretty cool track. So did Norman Cook.

1. The Clash
2. London's Calling
3. Give 'em Enough Rope

...oh, wait. You mean songs? Sorry, impossible.

Armagideon Time
Straight To Hell
Hateful
White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Janie Jones
Complete Control
Rock the Casbah
Career Opportunities
Train in Vain
This Is Radio Clash

1. The Clash (American edition)
2. The Clash (British edition)
3. Give Em Enough Rope
4. Black Market Clash (any version)
5. London Calling
6. Sandinista!
7. Everything the 101ers ever did
8. Cut the Crap
9. Whatever Crap they did after Cut the Crap
10. Joe Strummer's post-Clash solo career
11. Big Audio Dynamite

7.5: Combat Rock

And *Oi! The Album* would be 7.25, I guess.

Cheater. Guess I'll just never convince you Yanks that's not a proper album and more a compilation. I get the same snooty feeling when I see The Buzzcocks "Going Steady" cited as one of the greatest albums ever made.

Well, I'd switch the US and UK versions of The Clash (US better cut for cut, but UK better as an album) and I do think you underrate London's Calling but what the hell...

This is by no way definitive. Straight away I realise I missed off "Janie Jones", "Career Opportunities", "Groovy Times", "The Magnificant Seven" etc. I hate myself for this and this may develop into some sort of long-term mental health issue for me. Merry Christmas, ILM.

1. Safe European Home (Jones/Strummer) - 3:50
2. English Civil War (Jones/Strummer/Traditional) - 2:35
3. Tommy Gun (Jones/Strummer) - 3:17
4. Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad (Jones/Strummer) - 3:03
5. Last Gang in Town (Jones/Strummer) - 5:14
7. Drug-Stabbing Time (Jones/Strummer) - 3:43
8. Stay Free (Jones/Strummer) - 3:40
10. All the Young Punks (New Boots and... (Jones/Strummer) - 4:55

Never was a huge "Guns on the Roof" or "Cheapskates" fan, I guess.

Capital Radio One
The Prisoner
This Is England
I Fought the Law
Wrong 'em Boyo
Remote Control
Charlie Don't Surf
Justice Tonight/Kick It Over
City of the Dead
I'm Not Down

Pressure Drop
Brand New Cadillac
Junco Partner
Midnight Log
Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
1-2 Crush on You
Are You Red...Y?
The Cool Out (someone needs to mash this with House of Jealous Lovers -- "House of Cool Lovers" -- it would sound great)
Protex Blue
Stop the World
Somebody Got Murdered

I think my personal preference for "Combat Rock" over "Give 'Em Enough Rope" and "Sandinista!" probably has a lot to do with the circumstances under which those records came into my life. "Combat Rock" was the first Clash recording that I owned -- I bought it in the fall of '92, when I was a senior in high school, and I listened to it all the time. It wound up being the opening of the floodgates to all sorts of music that I had missed -- I bought "London Calling" a couple of months later, that Rhino "UK Pop: 1976-79" a couple of months after that, and the two-disc Mott The Hoople set a couple of months after that. With "Give 'Em Enough Rope" and "Sandinista!", I didn't get to explore the records at length until I bought the reissues in 2000. I liked them fine, but they just didn't have the same life-changing impact. Of course, it's fairly easy to conclude that my preferences would be reversed if one or both of "Give 'Em Enough Rope" and "Sandinista!" had been my intros.

The Clash is probably still my all-time favorite band, but I can see why people would hate them. Their idealism seems to annoy a lot of people. But what's fascinating about ILM Clash-hate is that it doesn't come from the usual suspects (prog/Malmsteen virtuosity-fetishists and kneejerk anti-canonists/guitar-haters) - Dave Q and Mark S and Norman Phay all seem to dislike them from wildly disparate angles (I still don't get Mark S's "the clash = not punk" thing - dude, neither is your mom!). And I'm completely baffled by charges that they can't rock (cf. Joe Carducci) and that they were clueless about reggae (just compare their "Armagideon Time" to the original).

Also, I'm thrilled to bits that Tom has found 5 Clash songs he likes, and agreeably surprised that Jess is a fan.

And despite "Rock The Casbah" and "Straight to Hell", Cut The Crap > Combat Rock.

"Complete Control"
"Washington Bullets"
"Cheat"
"London's Burning"
"Train in Vain"
"Spanish Bombs"
"Revolution Rock"
"White Riot"
"Rudie Can't Fail"
"This is Radio Clash"

1. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
2. Death Or Glory
3. London Calling
4. Armagideon Time
5. Straight To Hell
6. Jimmy Jazz
7. The Guns Of Brixton
8. Clampdown
9. Revolution Rock
10.Clash City Rockers

I was watching the Weather Channel the other day when there were tornadoes heading our way, and the bed music for the local forecast cutaway was the Clash cover of "Time Is Tight."

Much as I love many Strummer/Jones songs, a great proportion of my picks are their covers, like Police on My Back, Armagideon Time, etc...

This is on near Covent Garden until the 22nd if anyone fancies it:

https://www.rocknrollpl.com/about

Really neat concept, basically an exhibition of Mick Jones' stuff - records, CDs, comics, books, old VHS tapes (many of them self recorded).

One great aspect of it is that with a few exceptions (including, understandably enough, an issue of Action with the "kids rule ok" cover) you're allowed to interact, rifle through his records (I was amused by the amount of MOJO free cds), dip into the books, investigate what Mick has taped off the telly.

It's free too.

Anybody know if Mick makes any music these days?
Seems to have an incredibly low profile for an artist of his stature... and doesn't appear to have done much in the way of writing/recording since the BAD reunion.