Last POLL in Town: The Clash GIVE 'EM ENOUGH ROPE

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Underappreciated sophomore set, overproduced mishmash, or both?

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Poll Results

Option	Votes
Safe European Home	9
Stay Free	5
English Civil War	2
Tommy Gun	2
Cheapskates	2
Drug-Stabbing Time	1
Guns on the Roof	1
Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad	1
Last Gang in Town	0
All the Young Punks (New Boots and Contracts)	0

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:48 (fifteen years ago)

i love pretty much the whole first side. second side is spottier, but obv. there's "stay free." and "all the young punks." and "guns on the roof." ok, the second side's good too.

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:50 (fifteen years ago)

"Cheapskates". Tho "Safe European Home" is objectively better.

― Tom A. (Tom B.) (Tom C.) (Tom D.), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:54 (fifteen years ago)

love this, totally prefigures the new orleans rhythms they got further into on london calling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rFaAeNR-kI

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Friday, 17 September 2010 14:55 (fifteen years ago)

"Safe European Homes" over "Stay Free." Safe choices, sure. The production gets on my nerves: it's relentless in an obnoxious way.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 17 September 2010 15:02 (fifteen years ago)

My second favorite Clash album, after the debut. Going with "Safe European Home," but on a different day I might vote for almost any other track on the record.

― xhuxk, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

"Tommy Gun" because it is the only song my brother-in-law has ever performed at karaoke, and he was magnificent.

― EZ Snappin, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:06 (fifteen years ago)

The production gets on my nerves: it's relentless in an obnoxious way.

i think the production works on the first 3 tracks, it really muscles them up -- "safe european home" especially sounds huge, in a good way. but it's gloppy in a lot of other places, for sure.

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Friday, 17 September 2010 15:15 (fifteen years ago)

Tommy Gun

― some dude, Friday, 17 September 2010 15:18 (fifteen years ago)

The production gets on my nerves: it's relentless in an obnoxious way.

xxpost: also, the remaster job from the late 1990's is the way to go over the original cd issue. instruments have some separation and it breathes more

― ....some kind of psychedelic wallflower (outdoor_miner), Friday, 17 September 2010 17:19 (fifteen years ago)

Stay Free. Predictable maybe, but it still gets me, you know, right there, after all these years

― Nano McPhee (admrl), Friday, 17 September 2010 17:32 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Monday, 20 September 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

cheapskates!

dig this album by the way even though it's a little bit of a bumpy ride.

― charlie h, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:48 (fifteen years ago)

Although I prefer The Clash (in whatever edition), the first half, especially "Safe European Homes" and "Guns On the Roof" feel and sound more apocalyptic than a lot of punk. Here's where the obnoxious production helps.

― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 00:50 (fifteen years ago)

Whenever I think I hate the Clash, I listen to 'Stay Free' and realize that I am wrong.

― Fruitless and Pansy Free (Dr. Joseph A. Ofalt), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 01:44 (fifteen years ago)

It's my least favorite Clash and still so great, much funnier and subtler than I realized as a kid. The bartender played it in its entirety between sets at my band's final show, at the late 24 Bar in Minneapolis, and the slickness really works in a club.

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:48 (fifteen years ago)

McNulty to Omar: "Stay free."

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 03:49 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Tuesday, 21 September 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

i'm glad drug-stabbing time got a vote, even though it wasn't from me.

― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 03:44 (fifteen years ago)

Missed this but would've voted Tommy Gun

― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 22 September 2010 09:19 (fifteen years ago)

Who hid the radio under the stairs?

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 15:04 (fifteen years ago)

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