Ooh Ooh Ooh, Complete CLASH POLL (that's a laugh) - ILX Artist Poll #41 (?) - Voting Ends July 9th at Midnight (EST)

Okay, I lied and picked two songs and their dub counterparts. I love dub Clash!

so a propos of this thread I heard "I fought the law" on of all things sf drivetime radio a couple days ago. clearly summoned by this thread. still had just incredible stopping power. urgency, immediacy, all that cliche stuff. but and this is what makes the clash stand out wrt the punk/noise convo upthread this incredible clarity too.

and that's sandwiched between modern brickwalled-for-radio stuff. glad I haven't sent in a ballot yet bc this track clearly needs to be higher than I had it.

Nobody forget to vote for:

Stay Free
One More Time
Washington Bullets

I voted for one of those, and another was a one of my very last cuts.

I voted for one too.

Two of them in my top ten so far, no worries.

one of those songs is my no.2

sent my ballot!

mine too

I'm slightly bummed that I'm going to be out of town for a week and will be following the rollout in snatched moments during my Chicago trip.

I Fought The Law xp - totally agree that there's a mysterious power to that track. I was iirc the first to nominate for our 20th century poll and that was one of the first things that immediately leapt to mind - which I can't explain at all, it was never more than a ditty to me at that point.

also obv the sweet percussion action on "robbing people with a - pop pop pop pop pop pop pop pop - six gun" but yeah that alone doesn't explain what they drew out of that old chestnut.

They give it oomph and danger? I love the original, but it is quaint.

Washington Bullets would have made my list if we went to 40.

hope i'm not the only one voting the shit out of Give'Em Enough Rope.

Gukbe, are you sending confirmation mails?

i will be voting tonight :D

no you weren't!

xpost

I'll be doing it in the morning, promise

I'm a big believer in the Clash mythology, but I don't think Bobby Fuller is quaint. (Sorry if that's just semantic nitpicking.)

I'm slightly bummed that I'm going to be out of town for a week and will be following the rollout in snatched moments during my Chicago trip.

dude I'm still bummed that I can't even do a ballot due to travelling, let alone follow any of the rollout

disco poll is going to be worse though

Bobby Fuller isn't quaint, per se. But the Clash version takes that song and pretty much owns it.

This is practically (for obvious reasons) Buddy Holly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPXnoLAEUSQ

Of course, Buddy Holly is one of the few acts I may love more than the Clash. Quaint ain't the same thing as bad!

Gukbe, are you sending confirmation mails?

― g simmel, Monday, July 8, 2013 10:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

I was but I've been slacking. i'll get on it.

btw I'm not sure when the rollout will commence. I put the deadline on a Tuesday night because of the holidays, but I loathe stopping a rollout on a weekend. I guess it'll come down to how fast I can tabulate the results, which I won't be able to get to until Wednesday afternoon (US Time).

They pretty much OWN "Police on My Back" as well!

Sent!

notable that when the Mescaleroes started, Joe was playing a huge amount of Clash songs and solo material in their sets -- but within a couple of years, he'd quietly dropped all Strummer/Jones originals and was only playing Mescaleroes stuff and covers that the Clash had done

I want to say when I saw Strummer tour in I think 2001, he really only played a couple, like "London Calling" and "White Man in Hammersmith," Then at the end, he had the audience vote which one they wanted to hear a second time.

so glad I have until tomorrow, I have a bunch of songs but no real order yet

They own all their covers in a way, but the Equals' "Police on My Back" is a thing of unsurpassed beauty.

JiC - the show I saw had four encores and ended up with him doing a 1989 solo b-side acapella because they'd ran out of songs the band knew. But that was January 2000 and the band only existed from 1999-2002!

<3 Bobby Fuller's drummer, hunched over on the bottom bunk. He does the pop pop pop pop pop pop as well.

Guys, this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxcYa_6_HM8

It's a lot of things, quaint it aint!

Voted. No sensible way to separate anything after about no.15 tbh. Normally that means the band have run out of gas - but not The Clash, they have so much good stuff.

Any failure by this poll to place Rudie Can't Fail in the top 10 will erode my faith in humanity.

Need someone for a savior?

First I'll have to cure my temper.

voted!

Any failure by this poll to place Rudie Can't Fail in the top 10 will erode my faith in humanity.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 9 July 2013

cf Death or Glory imo. expect it'll tank in this poll due to antirockist bias but to my ear it's nothing short of a complete musical and spiritual triumph and kinda encapsulates everything i love about the band. it rocks, it rags, it rages and it's wise enough not to exclude itself from criticism. catalogs tyrannies of class and commerce on its way to a long hard look in the mirror at the subtle tyranny of narrative and the personal cost of punk mythmaking.

man... the bridge alone is better than a lot of bands ever get. gonna raise trouble, gonna raise hell, gonna fight you brother, gonna fight til you lose.

I really want to poll Overpowered By Funk vs The Crunge

I really want I'm Not Down to be the big sleeper LC hit, but fear it'll be getting overlooked instead

xpost i'm on a roll here hell just the intro even i mean come on. like muscles rippling under a tiger's skin, set to explode at any moment...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwzMuuGOsVI

can't hear that second verse anymore without thinking of c0bian tbqh

I think the idea is to not give away too much of what we voted for til the results start rolling out, but I will say that I had 11 LC tracks on my ballot.

Me too! Pretty certain that comfortably outscores any other album in any of my previous ballots.

though Sandinista! did pretty well too

I really tried to rein in the LC love too, but I know I was lying to myself. I also tried to excise some of their singles, 'til I realised that was just being stupid.

I tried to not let Sandinista dominate my ballot

My album breakdown (at least as I define "album")

The Clash (US): 6
Rope: 3
Black Market: 2
London: 9
Sandinista: 4
Combat: 4
Crap: 1
Non-album: 1