Favourite Clash Song?

[Itisfootballnotsoccer]

It's so difficult to choose. Joe Strummer was god! Not many have even come close to how amazing The Clash were! If I had to pick then definitely Bankrobber, Rudie Can't Fail, Lost in the Supermarket, I'm not down, and Spanish Bombs would be up there! But every song is awesome, really hits home how shit 'music' is today!

 

[Gangsta]

Spanish Bombs

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Voted elsewhere, but gotta love the tinkly opening to Rock The Casbah tho eh?

 

[Garage_Doors]

White Riot

 

[Southy]

White Riot

Single or album version?

 

[Joe Nobody]

Saw them on Hastings Pier in 78 and love the early stuff. But Straight to Hell ....

 

[albionalbino]

Straight To Hell just shades it over Complete Control.

 

[super-seagulls]

Bank robber, is my favourite.
The Clash were class.

 

[Superphil]

having abit of a clash night on youtube,tough choice this

white man in hammersmith palais
tommy gun
white riot
police & thieves
rock the casbah
london calling

reckon i used to play this the most

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Your first choice gets my vote, was listening to it in the car yesterday, one of my all time favourite songs

 

[Pinkie Brown]

Saw them on Hastings Pier in 78 and love the early stuff. But Straight to Hell ....

I was there that night. I thought it was 1977 though? Then again, my 'state' that night, I probably couldn't remember what year it was?!

 

[Garage_Doors]

Single or album version?

Good point, Single i think.

 

[loz]

Even though at lot of Clash fans would say this is not the "proper" Clash...this is right up there...this is the live version. But what cracking lyrics.



Patriots of the wasteland torching two hundred years
Dragging my spirit back into the dungeon again
Bring back crucification cry the moral death's head legion
Using steel nails manufactured by the slaves in Asia

You wont fall for that law and order is a baton in the rib
You wont fall for that just like your mummy & your daddy did

Blood inside a fountain pen wrote you out of life again
& who knows any better than to kick and scratch under English weather
From a chain gang to the mill. The mill that sits on top of the hill
The fog drowned towns arr gonna have to fade
The wrong side of the a scissor blade

You wont fall for that law and order is a baton in the rib
You wont fall for that just like your mummy & your daddy did
I'll eat my hat I'm gonna be sick
They own the pack while we play the three card trick

Dont you remember the place
Where we hid the ace?
Yeah not thick but slick
Now we all gotta play the three card trick

 

[JOHNNYCRUMPLIN]

I met Mick Jones in the Zap club one night.I couldn't resist the opening line of "Your'e my guitar Hero" .He replied "f*** off mate,I'm trying to pull this bird" .Top Man.

 

[Mutts Nuts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijiazWlawUY

 

[Mutts Nuts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bL0CCphgmZ8

 

[Mutts Nuts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn1Ca8izXto

 

[Poyetry In Motion]

Rock the Casbah - every time

 

[PFJ]

Very very hard.All the first album and probably Give 'em Enough Rope, not forgetting ,Complete Control ,Clash City Rockers ,1977,Jail Guitar Doors ,City Of the Dead and White Man in Hammersmith Palais.Then probably sides 1 and 2 from London Calling.
Stand out tracks
White Riot(single version)
Police and Thieves
Complete Control
Safe European Home
Tommy Gun
Drug Stabbing Time
Brand New Cadillac
Guns of Brixton

Didn't buy Sandinista did not immediatly like Combat Rock , although has grown on me over the years especially Know your Rights and straight To Hell. Like the the extended version of Black Market Clash ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Cut The Crap.......enough said.

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

they did some absolute TUNES but the bassline on guns of brixton is f***ing out of this world

paul simonon is just cool as f***

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Police on my back.