Best Clash song?

[Shizuoka Dolphin]

Does it really get any better than Rock The Casbah?

You decide.

 

[Dunkstar]

London Calling.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

'Police And Thieves' - immaculate punk/reggae fusion

 

[Lush]

Janie Jones

 

[The Laughing Bluebird]

I shall have to nominate 2, although I could suggest 22.....

"(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"

and

"Armagideon Time"

 

[London Calling]

All fine.


Complete Control really summed it up.

Spanish Bombs was perhaps the best ever no war/tradegy song.

And of course London Burning....

Police on my Back....



LC1

 

[London Calling]

CLAMPDOWN WITH ITS CLASSIC OPENING TAKING THE P*SS LYRICS

LC1

 

[cheshunt seagull]

A tie for first place

White Man in Hammersmith Palais
Complete Control

 

[El Presidente]

White Man

Complete control

 

[London Calling]

I FEEL A POLL IS BECKONING

AND THE WORST CLASH (JONES/STRUMMER) SONG?

I SUGGEST
LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET

LC1

 

[Dover]

London Calling.

God bless Topper. He walks his dog. Has the occasional orange juice in the Loius Armstrong, Dover, his home town.

 

[Bob!]

White Man in Hammersmith palais
White Riot
Straight to Hell

 

[Hiney]

White Riot
Janie Jones

 

[Legend]

London Calling

 

[Seagull's Return]

What about Bank Robber, and Stay Free... too many to choose one from, really.

 

[London Irish]

White riot

 

[Raphael Meade]

a tie for me between white man.. and rock the casbah

 

[Lush]

I FEEL A POLL IS BECKONING

AND THE WORST CLASH (JONES/STRUMMER) SONG?

I SUGGEST
LOST IN THE SUPERMARKET

LC1

Agree re Lost in the Supermarket. The Clash should just not be using the word "happileee".

BTW can anyone explain the thinking behind Rock the Casbah? It sounds a bit anti-Muslim on the face of it but I can't believe that the Clash meant that!

Rock the Casbah:

Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The sheik he drove his Cadillac
He went a' cruisnin' down the ville
The muezzin was a' standing
On the radiator grille
CHORUS
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah
The shareef don't like it
Rockin' the Casbah
Rock the Casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy Casbah sound
But the Bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail
CHORUS
Now over at the temple
Oh! They really pack 'em in
The in crowd say it's cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy Casbah jive
CHORUS
The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the Casbah way
As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare
As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed
CHORUS
He thinks it's not kosher
Fundamentally he can't take it.
You know he really hates it

 

[Gordon the Gopher]

Punky.....I'm so bored with the USA
Later.......Train in Vain

ps: Apparently Paul Simomon's dad lives in Brighton!

 

[WhitleyDennis]

White Riot
London's Burning
Bankrobber