Pick ONE song by The Clash.

[Pogue Mahone]

London Calling - any other suggestion is merely somebody trying to be clever and showing off.

End of thread.

Wrong. London Calling is a good song, but nowhere near their best. It never was, never will be.

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

Bizarre, I know, but I always liked Sean Flynn off Combat Rock. Conjures up images of Platoon.

But it has to be Stay Free with Safe European Home and Complete Control not far behind.

 

[BrianWade4]

London Calling. Get it out the way early.

Done. End of.

 

[Titanic]

My daddy was a bank robber

but he never hurt nobody

 

[studio150]

Shows how good Bankrobber is that it actually charted on a Dutch import before CBS got round to giving a full UK release as a single.

 

[BN9 BHA]

London Calling - any other suggestion is merely somebody trying to be clever and showing off.

End of thread.

You obviously haven't listened to many Clash songs.

 

[The Auditor]

Wrong. London Calling is a good song, but nowhere near their best. It never was, never will be.

this ... For me its ...Complete Control .... Deny ... groovy times

 

[smudge]

White Man in Hammersmith Palais. (PPF's favourite back in the day I believe).

 

[Tarpon]

Bizarre, I know, but I always liked Sean Flynn off Combat Rock. Conjures up images of Platoon.

But it has to be Stay Free with Safe European Home and Complete Control not far behind.

Yep. Chose Ghetto Defendant above but could easily have been Sean Flynn. Half of Combat Rock is simply stunning.

 

[basque seagull]

White Man (in Hammersmith Palais)

This!

 

[Bring back Bryan wade!!]

Rudie can't fail

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

seems very apt at the moment

Hate & War

 

[wallyback]

seems very apt at the moment

Hate & War

May be it was my ears but when I used to hear Hate & War back in 77 it would always sound like they were singing "Peter Ward!"

No one has mention Garageland yet

 

[Simgull]

straight to hell on record.

Safe European Home live

 

[Pogue Mahone]

May be it was my ears but when I used to hear Hate & War back in 77 it would always sound like they were singing "Peter Ward!"

No one has mention Garageland yet

I think bn9 did.

The Magnificent 7...I used to play this over and over.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

was 1977 the b side of CCR?

used to play that a fair bit for a b side

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

I remember listening to London Calling when I was 14 for the first time. Until then I had literally no idea you were allowed to have more than one genre on an album. Took me months to really 'get' it.

I'll have a go with Safe European Home.

Riffy, fast, melodic and upbeat.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

was 1977 the b side of CCR?

used to play that a fair bit for a b side

Jail guitar Doors. 1977 was the b side of White Riot.

I used to play The Prisoner a lot, b side of White Man.

 

[Phat Baz 68]

Rock The Casbah

 

[Godstar]

i refuse to pander to your constraints, therefore i give you (in no particular order) my five favourites TONIGHT!!
Career Opportunities
I Fought the Law
Brand New Cadillac
White Riot
Death or Glory
Truthfully, i can't pick just one, as a matter of fact i may swap these five for…oh,what is the point, i've got probably 30 favourites.