This is a CLASH POLL service announcement...WITH RESULTS!!!!!! ILX Artist Poll #41

like, young rogermexico learned a valuable lesson that day about what it really means to be punk as fuck.

Isn't that exactly the kind of *people's vocal* that was prominent in the music they're praising in the song, though? I don't find it coy.

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but I can't praise it for its intentions

I'll praise it for its execution, actually, which I think is fine. It's an aesthetic of charm in just regular humanity, I think.

I think my problem with "Hitsville" is it thinks good music can exist without "smarmy eels" and "slimy deals," and Foley's vocal is precisely what I don't want to hear on a hit.

And, you know, creativity over athletic gifts or accomplishments.

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Foley's vocal makes the sentiment sound affectless, which is even more damaging. I don't know what Strummer would've done with the lyric tbh

I love Hitsville, voted for it somewhere in the 20s. I think it's funny, and meant to be.

I like that he's trying to nod to Motown but uggggggggggggggggh

TS: "Hitsville UK" vs. "A Town Called Malice"

TS: mouth vs marblemouth

I like the misguided romance and sonic clatter of "Hitsville" more than anything placing so far off the Cost of Living EP ("Groovy Times," "Gates of the West," "Capital Radio 2"), where they make fun of disco and Chic's "Good Times." That they embraced both on London Calling and Sandinista! (by way of "Rapper's Delight") a small span of months later is one more thing to love about them.

These graphics are awesome.

Though I gotta clear this up: Is Joe screaming, "I'm the one that I want" at the end of "Capital Radio 2," 'cause that's hilarious.

I've had 8 place so far, with "Car Jamming" in my top 5 and "The Prisoner" falling just outside my top 10. "Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad" is the song off Rope that most obviously points to London Calling -- the raucous New Orleans rhythm, the sense it was recorded at a shouty basement party.

yeah, going to read this thread now.

I didn't vote in this, but I'm enjoying the hell out of this thread; thanks for doing it guys.

I think for every song result so far I've lit up and went "I love this song!" Images are cool, too. It's easy to forget, because I hardly ever listen to them these days, but I love this band so fucking much.

xxxp i always assumed that's what he said

It's like good Mekons

So OTM.

This is a band I love so much I've almost by design not dug beneath the surface. LIke, I haven't learned the lyrics, or tracked down live shows, or looked for clips and stuff. I've lived with these albums for decades now, and they often still feel like the first time when I put them on.

yeah I'm the same way

I really got into them in my late teens and read books/tracked bootlegs down etc (most of which I don't remember now). What's been really great these past few weeks is paying attention to the lyrics for the first time in so long. I don't think it clicked just how global Sandinista! (yeah, the name, i know i know) and, really, just how good they are.

I like how much of the Ramones I can hear in their first album now that I am listening to it with more ~context~

yeah, 'janie jones' and 'career opportunities' in particular sound pretty ramones-y to me.

totally!

One thing that's neat about Sandinista is when there's a great song buried in the muck someplace. I forgot "Up In Heaven" and "Corner Soul" even existed until a couple years ago. I keep discovering things in that record. I still remember when Street Parade jumped out at me as being a great song. It just happened one day.

And Give 'Em Enough Rope got cheated, but Safe European Home is their best album opener and All The Young Punks is their best album closer. Wish all their albums sounded like it too. Production is great.

Rope gets short shrift for some reason and I've never really worked out why

Give 'Em Enough Rope sounds fantastic blasting loudly in a bar.

i want to go to that bar right now

i vote we move this poll to that bar & finish it there, all in favor

aye

are you guys still at the bar?!?

Give 'em enough soap.

40. The Street Parade - 162 pts - 8 votes - 1 #1

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39. The Right Profile - 168 pts - 8 votes - 2 #1

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how much do I love that "the right profile" snagged two #1 votes? a lot. this is going to be a great rollout.

Glad to see "The Prisoner" yesterday; thought "This Is England" and "Garageland" might have finished higher.

38. Lose This Skin - 173 pts - 9 votes - 1 #1

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A #1 vote for "Lose This Skin?!" I didn't even expect that anyone else would have it on their ballot!

Well liked in certain corners. I'm in that corner, obv.

i suspected there would be a good spread of #1s. this is great. right profile and street parade near misses for me.

My highest rated Sandinista! track.

("Lose This Skin" that is)

"The Right Profile" was on my shortlist of things that didn't quite make the cut, but I love it to pieces. Especially the breakdown where the song is sort of falling apart the same way Monty is, but then Topper and the horns pull it all back together and lurch unsteadily toward the exit.

The "Lose This Skin" number one was mine. It's a fantastic song, very free and inspiring and the idea of the Clash being super awesome on a friend's song is very touching in a very Clash way to me.

37. Washington Bullets - 174 pts - 10 votes

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From Kosmo Vinyl's Clash on Broadway liner notes:

A long time after 'Washington Bullets' came out, I asked Joe if he'd known that there was a basketball team called the Washington Bullets, and he said that he didn't, and that if he'd known at the time he wrote it, he would have given the song a different title.

see now here's a case of Jones-Strummer harmonizing well

A #1 vote for "Lose This Skin?!" I didn't even expect that anyone else would have it on their ballot!

― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:00 PM (22 minutes ago)

Well liked in certain corners. I'm in that corner, obv.

― Gukbe, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:03 PM (19 minutes ago)

i suspected there would be a good spread of #1s. this is great. right profile and street parade near misses for me.

― Roberto Spiralli, Tuesday, July 16, 2013 12:05 PM (17 minutes ago)

It wouldn't surprise me if the Clash get the highest # of different #1s of these artist polls. (Fewest -- probably Led Zeppelin?)

"The Right Profile" was on my shortlist of things that didn't quite make the cut, but I love it to pieces. Especially the breakdown where the song is sort of falling apart the same way Monty is, but then Topper and the horns pull it all back together and lurch unsteadily toward the exit.

― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, July 16, 2013 1:07 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It's got my favorite Joe noise: ughgg...ugghghgchhgyughbugh...grrrblblbrlbrlbrl

otm

36. Brand New Cadillac - 190 pts - 8 votes

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By the way, Gukbe, GREAT photos!