Items 176 - 200 of 1390. THE CLASH SANDINISTA TRIPLE LP RED VINYL PUNK SEX PISTOLS JOE STRUMMER DAMNED 2015-01-25. THE CLASH SANDINISTA 3-DISC NM VINYL UK TRIPLE LP LYRICS INSERT 1980 CBS FSLN1 2017-02. The Clash Sandinista Triple LP with insert EX+ RARE punk New wave. Super Black Market Clash is a 1993 compilation album released by the English punk rock band The Clash. It contains B-sides and rare tracks not available on the group.

• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Website Past members Classic lineup Other The Clash were an English band formed in London in 1976 as part of the original wave of British. Along with punk rock, the Clash also have played music genres such as,, and and their music often also incorporated elements of,,, and. For most of their recording career the Clash consisted of (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), (lead guitar, lead vocals), (, vocals) and (drums, percussion). Headon left the group in 1982, and internal friction led to Jones' departure the following year. The group continued with new members, but finally disbanded in early 1986. The Clash achieved commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their self-titled debut album,, in 1977. Their third album,, released in the UK in December 1979, earned them popularity in the United States when it was released there the following month.

It was declared the best album of the 1980s a decade later. In 1982 they reached new heights of success with the release of, which spawned the US top 10 hit ', helping the album to achieve a 2× Platinum certification there. Their final album,, was released in 1985. The Clash's politicized lyrics, musical experimentation, and rebellious attitude had a far-reaching influence on rock, and in particular. They became widely referred to as 'The Only Band That Matters', originally a promotional slogan introduced by the group's record label,. In January 2003, shortly after the death of Joe Strummer, the band—including original drummer —were inducted into the.

In 2004, Rolling Stone Magazine ranked the Clash number 28 on its. Critic Sean Egan wrote that the Clash were exceptional because: They were a group whose music was, and is, special to their audience because that music insisted on addressing the conditions of poverty, petty injustice, and mundane life experienced by the people who bought their records. Moreover, although their rebel stances were often no more than posturing, from the Clash's stubborn principles came a fundamental change in the perception of what is possible in the music industry, from subject matter to authenticity to quality control to price ceilings. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • History [ ] Origins: 1974–76 [ ] Before the Clash's founding, the band's future members were active in different parts of the London music scene. Sang and played rhythm guitar in the act, which formed in 1974. By the time the Clash came together two years later, he had already abandoned his original stage name, 'Woody' Mellor, in favour of 'Joe Strummer', a reference to his rudimentary strumming skills on the ukulele as a in the.

Played guitar in band, which rehearsed for much of 1975 without ever playing a live show and recording only a single demo. London SS was managed by, a sometime associate of impresario and a friend of the members of the McLaren-managed band, the. Jones and his bandmates became friendly with Sex Pistols and, who would assist them as they tried out potential new members.

Among those who auditioned for London SS without making the cut were, who tried out as a vocalist, and drummer. Drummed with the band for a week, then quit. After London SS broke up in early 1976, Rhodes continued as Jones's manager. In February, Jones saw the Sex Pistols perform for the first time: 'You knew straight away that was it, and this was what it was going to be like from now on. It was a new scene, new values—so different from what had happened before. A bit dangerous.' At the instigation of Rhodes, Jones contacted Simonon in March, suggesting he learn an instrument so he could join the new band Jones was organising.

Soon Jones, Simonon on bass, on guitar and 'whoever we could find really to play the drums' were rehearsing. Chimes was asked to audition for the new band and got the job, although he soon quit. The band was still searching for a lead singer.

Chimes recalls one Billy Watts (who 'seemed to be, like, nineteen or eighteen then, as we all were') handling the duties for a time. Rhodes had his eye on Strummer, with whom he made exploratory contact. Jones and Levene had both seen him perform and were impressed as well. Strummer, for his part, was primed to make the switch.

In April, he had taken in the opening act for one of his band's gigs—the Sex Pistols. Strummer later explained: I knew something was up, so I went out in the crowd which was fairly sparse. And I saw the future—with a snotty handkerchief—right in front of me. It was immediately clear. Pub rock was, 'Hello, you bunch of drunks, I'm gonna play these boogies and I hope you like them.' The Pistols came out that Tuesday evening and their attitude was, 'Here's our tunes, and we couldn't give a flying fuck whether you like them or not.

In fact, we're gonna play them even if you fucking hate them.' On 30 May, Rhodes and Levene met surreptitiously with Strummer after a 101'ers gig. Strummer was invited to meet up at the band's rehearsal location on Davis Road. After Strummer turned up, Levene grabbed his guitar, stood several inches away from Strummer, looked him in the eye and then began playing 'Keys to Your Heart', one of Strummer's own tunes. Rhodes gave him 48 hours to decide whether he wanted to join the new band that would 'rival the Pistols'. Within 24 hours, Strummer agreed. Simonon later remarked, 'Once we had Joe on board it all started to come together.'

Strummer introduced the band to his old school friend Pablo LaBritain, who sat in on drums during Strummer's first few rehearsals with the group. LaBritain's stint with the band did not last long (he subsequently joined ), and Terry Chimes—whom Jones later referred to as 'one of the best drummers' in their circle—became the band's regular drummer. In Westway to the World, Jones also says, 'I don't think Terry was officially hired or anything. He had just been playing with us.' Chimes did not take to Strummer at first: 'He was like twenty-two or twenty-three or something that seemed 'old' to me then.

And he had these retro clothes and this croaky voice'. Simonon came up with the band's name after they had briefly dubbed themselves the Weak Heartdrops and the Psychotic Negatives. He later explained the name's origin: 'It really came to my head when I started reading the newspapers and a word that kept recurring was the word 'clash', so I thought 'the Clash, what about that,' to the others.

And they and Bernard, they went for it.' Early gigs and the growing scene: 1976 [ ] After rehearsing with Strummer for less than a month, the Clash made their debut on 4 July 1976, supporting the Sex Pistols at the Black Swan in.

The band apparently wanted to make it on-stage before their rivals in —another London SS spinoff—made their own scheduled debut two days later. The Clash would not play in front of an audience again for another five weeks. Levene was becoming disaffected with his position in the group. At the Black Swan, he approached the Sex Pistols' lead singer, (then going by Johnny Rotten), and suggested they form a band together if the Pistols broke up. The night after their debut, the band members along with most of the Sex Pistols and much of the rest of London's 'inner circle' of punks showed up at club to attend a concert by New York's leading punk rock band, the.

Afterward 'came the first example of the rivalry-induced squabbling that was to dog the punk scene and undermine any attempts to promote a spirit of unity among the bands involved.' Simonon got into a scuffle with, the bass player of. A slightly older band, the Stranglers were publicly identified with the punk scene, but were not part of the 'inner circle' centred on the Sex Pistols. With Rhodes insisting that the band not perform live again until they were much tighter, the Clash rehearsed intensely over the following month. Strummer later described how seriously the band devoted itself to forging a distinct identity: 'We were almost Stalinist in the way that you had to shed all your friends, or everything that you'd known, or every way that you'd played before.' Strummer and Jones shared most of the writing duties—'Joe would give me the words and I would make a song out of them', Jones later said. Sometimes they would meet in the office over their rehearsal studio to collaborate directly.

According to a later description of Strummer's, 'Bernie [Rhodes] would say, 'An issue, an issue. Don't write about love, write about what's affecting you, what's important.' Strummer took the lead vocals on the majority of songs; in some cases he and Jones shared the lead. Once the band began recording, Jones would rarely have a solo lead on more than one song per album, though he would be responsible for two of the group's biggest hits. On 13 August, the Clash—sporting a paint-spattered ' look—played before a small, invitation-only audience in their Camden studio.

Among those in attendance was critic. His review described the band as a 'runaway train. So powerful, they're the first new group to come along who can really scare the Sex Pistols shitless'. On 29 August, the Clash and Manchester's opened for the Sex Pistols at —the Clash's first public performance since 4 July. The triple bill is seen as pivotal to the British punk scene's crystallisation into a movement, though reviewer Charles Shaar Murray wrote, 'The Clash are the sort of garage band that should be speedily returned to the garage, preferably with the motor still running'. Strummer later credited Murray's comments with inspiring the band's composition.

In early September, Levene was fired from the Clash. Strummer would claim that Levene's dwindling interest in the band owed to his supposedly extravagant use of, a charge Levene has denied. Levene and Lydon would form in 1978. On 21 September, the Clash performed publicly for the first time without Levene at another seminal concert: the, sharing the bill with the Sex Pistols, and.

Chimes left in late November; he was briefly replaced by as the Clash toured in support of the Sex Pistols during December's Anarchy Tour. Punk outbreak and UK fame: 1977–79 [ ]. [S]igning that contract did bother me a lot.

I've been turning it over in my mind, but now I've come to terms with it. I've realised that all it boils down to is perhaps two-year's security. Before, all I could think about was my stomach. Now I feel free to think—and free to write down what I'm thinking about. And look—I've been fucked about for so long I'm not going to suddenly turn into Rod Stewart just because I get £25.00 a week. I'm much too far gone for that, I tell you.

—Joe Strummer, March 1977 By the turn of the year, punk had become a major media phenomenon in the UK. On 25 January 1977, the Clash signed to for £100,000, a remarkable amount for a band that had played a total of about thirty gigs and almost none as a headliner. As Clash historian Marcus Gray describes, the 'band members found themselves having to justify [the deal] to both the music press and to fans who picked up on the critics' muttered asides about the Clash having 'sold out' to the establishment.' , founder of the leading London punk periodical,, let loose with what he would later call his 'big quote': 'Punk died the day the Clash signed to CBS.' As one band associate described it, the deal 'was later used as a classic example of the kind of contract that no group should ever sign—the group had to pay for their own tours, recordings, remixes, artwork, expenses.'

Mickey Foote, who worked as a technician at their concerts, was hired to produce the Clash's debut album, and Terry Chimes was drafted back for the recording. The band's first single, ', was released in March 1977 and reached number 34. The album,, came out the following month. Filled with fiery punk tracks, it also presaged the many eclectic turns the band would take with its cover of the reggae song '. '[A]midst the Sex Pistols' inertia in the first half of 1977, the Clash found themselves as the flag-wavers of the punk rock consciousness', according to music journalist and former punk musician. Though the album charted well in the UK, climbing to number 12, CBS refused to give it a US release, believing that its raw, barely produced sound would make it unsalable in that market. A North American version of the album with a modified track listing was released in 1979, after the UK original became the best-selling import album of the year in the United States.

Chimes, whose career aspirations owed little to the punk ethos, had left the band again soon after the recording sessions. He later said, 'The point was I wanted one kind of life and they wanted another and, like, why are we working together, if we want completely different things?' As a result, only Simonon, Jones and Strummer were featured on the album's cover, and Chimes was credited as ' Crimes'. Strummer later described what followed: 'We must have tried every drummer that then had a kit.

I mean every drummer in London. I think we counted 205. And that's why we were lost until we found Topper Headon.'

Headon, who had played briefly with Jones's London SS, was nicknamed 'Topper' by Simonon, who felt he resembled the character. An excellent musician, Headon could also play piano, bass and guitar.

The day after he signed up, he declared, 'I really wanted to join the Clash. I want to give them even more energy than they've got—if that's possible'; interviewed over two decades later, he said his original plan was to stay briefly, gain a name for himself, and then move on to a better gig. In any event, Strummer later observed, 'Finding someone who not only had the chops, but the strength and the stamina to do it was just the breakthrough for us'. In May, the band set out on the White Riot Tour, headlining a punk package that included the Buzzcocks, Subway Sect, and.

The day after a Newcastle gig, Strummer and Headon were arrested for stealing pillowcases from their hotel room. That same month, CBS released ' as the debut LP's second single, defying the wishes of the band, who saw it as one of the album's weakest tracks. Headon's first recording with the band was the single ', which addressed the band's anger at their record label's behaviour.

It was co-produced by famed reggae artist, though Foote was summoned to 'ground things' a bit and the result was pure punk rock. Released in September 1977— noted how CBS allowed the group to 'bait their masters'—it rose to number 28 on the British chart and has gone on to be cited as one of punk's greatest singles. In February 1978, the band came out with the single '.

June saw the release of ', which surprised fans with its ska rhythm and arrangement. Before the Clash began recording their second album, CBS requested that they adopt a cleaner sound than its predecessor in order to reach American audiences., known for his work with, was hired to produce the record. Simonon later recalled, '[R]ecording that album was just the most boring situation ever.

It was just so nitpicking, such a contrast to the first album. It ruined any spontaneity.' Strummer agreed that 'it wasn't our easiest session.' Although some listeners complained about its relatively mainstream production style, received largely positive reviews upon its November release. It hit number 2 in the UK, but it was not the American breakthrough CBS had hoped for, reaching only number 128 on the. The album's first UK single, the hard rocking ', rose to number 19, the highest chart position for a Clash single to date. In support of the album, the band toured the UK supported by the Slits and.

The series of concerts—there were more than thirty, from Edinburgh to Portsmouth—was promoted as the Sort It Out Tour. The band subsequently undertook its first, largely successful tour of North America in February 1979. Changing style and US breakthrough: 1979–82 [ ]. The 'iconic' cover of London Calling In August and September 1979, the Clash recorded. Produced by, a former executive who had worked with and, the double album was a mix of punk rock, reggae, ska, rockabilly, traditional rock and roll and other elements possessed of an energy that had hardly flagged since the band's early days and more polished production. The title of the track also happened to be heavily influenced by the call signal and the panic that resulted in Three Mile Island nuclear scare.

It is regarded as one of the greatest rock albums ever recorded. Its final track, a relatively straightforward rock and roll number sung by Mick Jones called ', was included at the last minute and thus did not appear in the track listing on the cover.

It became their first US Top 40 hit, peaking at number 23 on the Billboard chart. In the UK, where 'Train in Vain' was not released as a single, London Calling's, stately in beat but unmistakably punk in message and tone, rose to number 11—the highest position any Clash single reached in the UK before the band's break-up. Released in December, London Calling hit number 9 on the British chart; in the United States, where it was issued in January 1980, it reached number 27. The cover of the album, based on the cover of 's self-titled, became one of the best known in the history of rock. Its image, by photographer, of Simonon smashing his bass guitar was later cited as the 'best rock 'n roll photograph of all time' by magazine. During this period, the Clash began to be regularly billed as 'The Only Band That Matters'. Musician, then employed by CBS Records' creative services department, claims to have coined the tagline.

The epithet was soon widely adopted by fans and music journalists. Around the turn of the year, the band members attended a special private screening of a new film,; part fiction, part, it tells the story of a Clash fan who leaves his job in a sex shop to become a roadie for the group. The movie—named after the subculture—includes footage of the band on tour, at a London concert, and in the studio recording Give 'Em Enough Rope. The band was so disenchanted with it that they had make buttons that declared 'I don't want RUDE BOY Clash Film'. On 27 February 1980, it premiered at the, where it won an honourable mention.

The Clash had planned to record and release a single every month in 1980. CBS balked at this idea, and the band came out with only one single—an original reggae tune, ', in August—before the December release of the 3-LP, 36-song The album again reflected a broad range of musical styles, including extended and the first forays into by a major rock band. Produced by the band members with the participation of Jamaican reggae artist, Sandinista! Was their most controversial album to date, both politically and musically. Critical opinion was divided, often within individual reviews. 's described half the album as 'great', half as 'nonsense' and worse. In the, argued, ' Sandinista!

Is nonsensically cluttered. Or rather seems nonsensically cluttered.

One of the Clash's principal concerns. Is to avoid being stereotyped.' The album fared well in America, charting at number 24. In 1981, the band came out with a single, ', that further demonstrated their ability to mix diverse influences such as dub and hip hop. They set to work on their fifth album in September, originally planning it as a 2-LP set with the title Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg.

Jones produced one cut, but the other members were dissatisfied. Production duties were handed to, and the album was reconceived as a single LP, and released as in May 1982. Though filled with offbeat songs, experiments with, and a spoken word vocal by poet, it contained two 'radio friendly' tracks. The leadoff single in the US was ', released in June 1982. Another Jones feature in a rock and roll style similar to 'Train in Vain', it received heavy airplay on stations. The follow-up, ', put lyrics addressing the Iranian clampdown on imports of Western music to a bouncy dance rhythm.

(The singles were released in the opposite order in the UK, where they were both preceded by '.) The music for 'Rock the Casbah' was composed by Headon, who performed not only the percussion but also the piano and bass heard on the recorded version. It was the band's biggest US hit ever, charting at number 8, and the video was put into heavy rotation by MTV. The album itself was the band's most successful, hitting number 2 in the UK and number 7 in the US. Disintegration and break up: 1982–86 [ ] After Combat Rock, the Clash began to disintegrate.

Headon was asked to leave the band just before the album's release because heroin addiction was damaging his health and drumming. Chimes was brought back to drum for the next few months.

The loss of Headon, well-liked by the others, exposed growing friction within the band. Jones and Strummer began to feud.

The band opened for on a leg of their final tour in the US, including a show at New York's. Though the Clash continued to tour, tension continued to increase. In early 1983, Chimes left the band after the Combat Rock Tour because of in-fighting and turmoil. He was replaced by Pete Howard for the in, which the Clash co-headlined, along with and. The band argued with the event's promoters over inflated ticket prices, threatening to pull out unless a large donation was made to a local charity. The group ultimately performed on 28 May, the festival's New Music Day, which drew a crowd of 140,000. After the show, members of the band brawled with security staff.

This was Jones' last appearance with the group: in September 1983, he was fired. Shortly thereafter, he became a founding member of, but left that band as they were recording their first album., formerly of the -based band, and were recruited as the Clash's new guitarists. Howard continued as the drummer. The reconstituted band played its first shows in January 1984 with a batch of new material and launched into the self-financed Out of Control Tour, travelling widely over the winter and into early summer. At a striking miners' benefit show ('Scargill's Christmas Party') in December 1984, they announced that a new album would be released early in the new year. The recording sessions for were chaotic, with manager Bernard Rhodes and Strummer working in.

Most of the music was played by studio musicians, with Sheppard and later White flying in to provide guitar parts. Struggling with Rhodes for control of the band, Strummer returned home. The band went on a busking tour of public spaces in cities throughout the UK, playing acoustic versions of their hits and popular cover tunes. After a concert in, Strummer went to Spain to clear his mind. While he was abroad, the first single from Cut the Crap, the mournful ', was released to mostly negative reviews. 'CBS had paid an advance for it so they had to put it out', Strummer later explained.

'I just went, 'Well fuck this', and fucked off to the mountains of Spain to sit sobbing under a palm tree, while Bernie had to deliver a record.' However, critic Dave Marsh later championed 'This Is England' as one of the top 1001 rock singles of all time. The single has also received retroactive praise from and others. 'This Is England', much like the rest of the album that came out later that year, had been drastically re-engineered by Rhodes, with synths and football-style chants added to Strummer's incomplete recordings. Although Howard was an adept drummer, drum machines were used for virtually all of the percussion tracks.

For the remainder of his life, Strummer largely disowned the album, although he did profess that 'I really like 'This Is England' [and album track] 'North and South' is a vibe.' In early 1986, the Clash disbanded. Strummer later described the group's end: 'When the Clash collapsed, we were tired. There had been a lot of intense activity in five years. Secondly, I felt we'd run out of idea gasoline. And thirdly, I wanted to shut up and let someone else have a go at it.' This period of disintegration which feature interviews with members of the Clash is the subject matter of Danny Garcia's book and film, The Rise and Fall of the Clash.

Collaborations and reunions: 1986–present [ ] After the break-up, Strummer contacted Jones in an effort to reform the Clash. Jones, however, had already formed a new band, (B.A.D.), that had released its debut late in 1985. The two did work together on their respective 1986 projects.

Jones helped out with the two songs Strummer wrote and performed for the soundtrack. Strummer, in turn, cowrote a number of the tracks on the second B.A.D. Album,, which he also co-produced. With Jones committed to B.A.D., Strummer moved on to various solo projects and screen acting work. Simonon formed a band called.

Headon recorded a, before once again spiraling into drug abuse. Chimes drummed with a succession of different acts. On 2 March 1991, a reissue of 'Should I Stay or Should I Go' gave the Clash its first and only number 1 UK single. That same year, Strummer reportedly cried when he learned that 'Rock the Casbah' had been adopted as a slogan by US bomber pilots in the.

In 1999, Strummer, Jones and Simonon cooperated in compiling of the live album and video documentary. On 7 November 2002, the announced that the Clash would be inducted the following March. On 15 November, Jones and Strummer shared the stage, performing three Clash songs during a London benefit show. Strummer, Jones and Headon wanted to play a reunion show to coincide with their induction into the Hall of Fame. Simonon did not want to participate because he believed that playing at the high-priced event would not have been in the spirit of the Clash.

Strummer's sudden death from a congenital heart defect on 22 December 2002 ended any possibility of a full reunion. In March 2003, the Hall of Fame induction took place; the band members inducted were Strummer, Jones, Simonon, Chimes and Headon. In early 2008,, a new band founded by Mick Jones and his former London SS bandmate, entered into a six-week residency at London's Inn on the Green. On opening night, 11 January, Headon joined the band for the Clash's 'Train in Vain'. An encore followed with Headon playing drums on 'Should I Stay or Should I Go'. This was the first time since 1982 that Headon and Jones had performed together on stage. Graffiti commemorating Joe Strummer Jones and Headon reunited in September 2009 to record the 1970s Clash B-side 'Jail Guitar Doors' with.

The song is the namesake of a charity founded by Bragg which gives musical instruments and lessons to prison inmates. Jones, Headon, and Bragg were backed by former inmates during the session, which was filmed for a documentary about the charity, 'Breaking Rocks.' Simonon and Jones were featured on the title track of the album in 2010. This reunion marked the first time the two performers had worked together in over twenty years.

They later joined Gorillaz on their for the remainder of 2010. In July 2012, Strummer's daughters, Jazz and Lola, gave a rare interview to discuss the upcoming tenth anniversary of their father's passing, his legacy and the possibility of a Clash reunion had their father lived.

Jazz said 'There was talk about the Clash reforming before he died. But there had been talk for years and years about them reforming. They had been offered stupid amounts of money to do it, but they were very good at keeping the moral high ground and saying no. But I think if Dad hadn't died, it would have happened. It felt like it was in the air.' The moment that best exemplifies the Clash. Took place in August 1977, at a music festival in Liege, Belgium.

The band was playing before 20,000 people and had been under fire from a crowd that was throwing bottles at the stage. But that wasn't what bothered lead singer Joe Strummer. What enraged him was a 10-foot-high barbed-wire fence strung between concrete posts and forming a barrier between the group and the audience. [He] jumped from the stage and attacked the fence, trying to pull it down.

The Clash were the only performers at the show who tried to do anything about the obstacle. They were more willing to run the risk of the crowd than to tolerate barbed wire that was meant to fend off that crowd. This is more or less what the Clash were about: fighting the good fight that few others would fight.

—Rock historian Their politics were made explicit in the lyrics of such early recordings as 'White Riot', which encouraged disaffected white youths to riot like their black counterparts; ', which addressed the alienation of low-paid, routinised jobs and discontent over the lack of alternatives; and 'London's Burning', about the bleakness and boredom of life in the inner city. Artist, who was associated with the punk scene, argued that '[t]hose tough, militaristic songs were what we needed as we went into '. The scope of the band's political interests widened on later recordings. The title of Sandinista!

Celebrated the who had recently overthrown Nicaraguan despot, and the album was filled with songs driven by other political issues extending far beyond British shores: ' addressed covert military operations around the globe, while 'The Call-Up' was a meditation on US draft policies. Combat Rock 's ' is described by scholars and Joy Press as an 'around-the-world-at-war-in-five-verses guided tour of hell-zones where boy-soldiers had languished.' The band's political sentiments were reflected in their resistance to the music industry's usual profit motivations; even at their peak, tickets to shows and souvenirs were reasonably priced. The group insisted that CBS sell their double and triple album sets London Calling and Sandinista! For the price of a single album each (then £5), succeeding with the former and compromising with the latter by agreeing to sell it for £5.99 and forfeit all their performance royalties on its first 200,000 sales.

These 'VFM' (value for money) principles meant that they were constantly in debt to CBS, and only started to break even around 1982. Musical style, legacy and influence [ ] The Clash are mainly described as punk rock. According to of, 'the Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers'. Later in the band's career, the Clash started to use elements of many genres of music, including,,, and. With their album London Calling, the Clash moved away from traditional punk rock and began playing.

The Clash also are known for playing and. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Clash number 28 on its, and in 2010, the band was ranked 22nd on VH1's 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. According to, the Clash's debut, alongside, is 'punk's definitive statement' and London Calling 'remains one of the most influential rock albums'. In Rolling Stone 's 2003 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, London Calling ranked number 8, the highest entry by a punk band. The Clash was number 77 and Sandinista! Was number 404. In the magazine's 2004 list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, 'London Calling' ranked number 15, again the highest for any song by a punk band.

Four other Clash songs made the list: 'Should I Stay Or Should I Go' (228), 'Train in Vain' (292), 'Complete Control' (361), and 'White Man in Hammersmith Palais' (430). 'London Calling' ranked number 48 in the magazine's 2008 list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time. Of, the first major punk band from Northern Ireland, explained the record's impact: [T]he big watershed was the Clash album—that was go out, cut your hair, stop mucking about time, y'know. Up to that point we'd still been singing about bowling down California highways. I mean, it meant nothing to me. Although the Damned and the Pistols were great, they were only exciting musically; lyrically, I couldn't really make out a lot if it.

[T]o realise that [the Clash] were actually singing about their own lives in West London was like a bolt out of the blue. The Clash also inspired many musicians who were only loosely associated, if at all, with punk.

The band Capuzzi Andante And Rondo Pdf Files. 's embrace of ska, reggae and England's Jamaican subculture helped provide the impetus for the movement that emerged amid the fallout of the punk explosion. Other musicians who began performing while the Clash were active and acknowledged their debt to the band include and. 's has compared the Clash's inspirational effect to that of the —both gave young rock musicians at large the 'sense that the door of possibility had swung open.'

He wrote, 'The Clash, more than any other group, kick-started a thousand garage bands across Ireland and the UK. [S]eeing them perform was a life-changing experience.' Has described the Clash as 'the greatest rock band. They wrote the rule book for U2.' In later years, the Clash's influence can be heard in American political punk bands such as,,,,, and as well as in the political hard rock of early. California's Rancid, in particular, are known as 'incurable Clash zealots'. The title track of the band's album proclaims, 'I'll keep listening to that great Joe Strummer!'

The Clash's involvement with Jamaican musical and production styles has inspired similar cross-cultural efforts by bands such as,,, and. They are credited with laying the groundwork for 's 'punk-funk'. Of lists London Calling as the record that 'changed his life'.

Bands identified with the of the late 1990s and 2000s such as Sweden's, Australia's, Britain's, and America's and evince the Clash's influence. Among the many latter-day British acts identified as having been inspired by the Clash are,, and. Before had an international hit in 2008 with ', which is built around a sample from 'Straight to Hell', she referenced 'London Calling' on 2003's '. A cover of ' by German punk band was released as a single in 2006.

A version by reggae legend with from was scheduled for release in November 2011. American-Irish punk band released a cover of the song on Anti Heroes vs Dropkick Murphys in 1997. In June 2009 Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band opened their concert in Hyde Park, London, with 'London Calling'.

The concert was later released on DVD as.,, and performed the same song at the in 2003 as a tribute to who died the year before. In 2009 Springsteen & the E Street Band even covered Strummer's 'Coma Girl' while in 2014 and along with, they opened some of their shows on the with '. The band has also had a notable impact on music in the Spanish-speaking world. In 1997, a Clash tribute album featuring performances by punk bands was released.

Many bands such as,,,,, and are indebted to the Clash. Argentina's covered 'Should stay or should I go!' , London Calling 's 'Revolution Rock' and 'The Guns of Brixton' and invited Mick Jones to sing on their song 'Mal Bicho'. The Clash's influence is similarly reflected in Paris-founded 's politicised lyrics and fusion of musical styles. The band's 1982 hit, 'Should I Stay or Should I Go', is featured in multiple episodes of the 2016 sci-fi drama series,, which is set in 1983.

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