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

MY BALLOT:

1. Stay Free
2. Janie Jones
3. White Man In Hammersmith Palais
4. 1977
5. White Riot
6. Safe European Home
7. Guns on the Roof
8. All the Young Punks
9. Train In Vain
10. Armagideon Time
11. Bankrobber
12. Remote Control
13. The Magnificent Seven
14. Jail Guitar Doors
15. Hate and War
16. Atom Tan
17. The City of the Dead
18. Clash City Rockers
19. I’m So Bored with the USA
20. I’m not down
21. Julie’s Been Working for the Drug Squad
22. Gates of the West
23. London Calling
24. Rock the Casbah
25. Hitsville UK
26. Straight To Hell
27. Rudy Can’t Fail
28. Spanish Bombs
29. The Prisoner
30. I Fought the Law

ALBUMS:

1. Give Em Enough Rope
2. The Clash (US version)
3. The Clash (UK version)
4. London Calling
5. Sandinista

Tracks:

1. The Right Profile
2. Clampdown
3. I'm So Bored With The USA
4. English Civil War
5. Rudie Can't Fail
6. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
7. Midnight Log
8. Complete Control
9. Janie Jones
10. Lose This Skin
11. Straight To Hell
12. Clash City Rockers
13. What's My Name
14. I Fought The Law
15. Stay Free
16. The Call Up
17. Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad
18. Death or glory
19. Know Your Rights
20. Jail Guitar Doors
21. The Equaliser
22. Police and Thieves
23. Wrong 'Em Boyo
24. Junco Partner
25. Something About England
26. Protex Blue
27. 48 Hours
28. This Is England
29. Rock The Casbah
30. Broadway

Albums:

1. The Clash (US)
2. Sandinista!
3. London Calling
4. Super Black Market Clash
5. Give 'Em Enough Rope

Here is my ballot (with bonus Simonon because aaggggh I have to get it out of my system)

1. The Right Profile
2. Guns of Brixton
3. Safe European Home
4. Rudie Can't Fail
5. Hateful
6. Janie Jones
7. Know Your Rights
8. White Man in Hammersmith Palais
9. Police and Thieves
10. Career Opportunities
11. Armagideon Time
12. White Riot
13. I Fought the Law
14. Julie’s Been Working For The Drug Squad
15. Tommy Gun
16. London's Burning
17. Complete Control
18. Lover's Rock
19. All The Young Punks
20. Police on My Back
21. I'm So Bored With The USA
22. Spanish Bombs
23. Magnificent Seven
24. Bankrobber
25. This Is Radio Clash
26. Rock The Casbah
27. Pressure Drop (Clash On Broadway)
28. London Calling
29. Train in Vain
30. Straight To Hell

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not ecstatic about my ballot but am happy "bankrobber" was my no. 1. such a freaking amazing (and unusual) tune for a band that was still considered "punk" in 1978. thank you poll operator!

Totally surprised about the top ten! Whoever said this poll would have the widest spread of #1s was OTM. Here's me list:

ALBUMS

1 Combat Rock
2 Black Market Clash
3 Sandinista
4 London Calling
5 S/T (UK)

SONGS

1 Radio Clash
2 Magnificent Seven
3 Know Your Rights
4 The Call Up
5 Cool Confusion
6 London Calling
7 Version City
8 What's My Name
9 Hateful
10 First Night Back in London
11 Rock the Casbah
12 Career Opportunities
13 Armagideon Time
14 I Fought the Law
15 I'm So Bored with the USA
16 Rudie Can't Fail
17 Should I Stay or Should I Go
18 Atom Tan
19 Up in Heaven
20 Guns of Brixton
21 Clampdown
22 Safe European Home
23 The Leader
24 White Man in the Hammersmith Palais
25 Koka Kola
26 Long Time Jerk
27 Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad
28 Four Horsemen
29 Lightning Strikes
30 Death is a Star

Missed the final roll-out, but I can't complain about the results. Who could, really? You could reorder the top 20 any way you wanted and I wouldn't bitch too much. My 1-2 was Rudie Can't Fail and White Man, both of which for me fall into that small category of songs so perfect and so disorderly that I can't quite believe human beings made them happen on purpose. Which is pretty much how I feel about their music as a whole.

My 30:

Rudie Can't Fail
White Man in the Hammersmith Palais
Safe European Home
Car Jamming
I'm So Bored With the USA
This Is Radio Clash
Stay Free
The Guns of Brixton
Train in Vain
Police and Thieves
The Prisoner
Clash City Rockers
Should I Stay or Should I Go?
This Is England
Straight to Hell
Police On My Back
Four Horsemen
Hateful
Complete Control
The Magnificent Seven
Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad
Spanish Bombs
The Card Cheat
The Sound of the Sinners
Ghetto Defendant
Hitsville U.K.
Wrong Em Boyo
Bankrobber/Robber Dub
Lost in the Supermarket
Remote Control

oh yeah and HUGE thank yous to Gukbe for running the poll and for the rad images, awesome job dude!

My ballot:

Top albums:
1) Combat Rock
2) Sandinista
3) London Calling
4) The Clash
5) Give 'Em Enough Rope

Top Tracks:
1) Train in Vain
2) Straight to Hell
3) This is Radio Clash
4) The Magnificent Seven
5) Guns of Brixton
6) Stay Free
7) Remote Control
8) Rock the Casbah
9) Know Your Rights
10) Lost in the Supermarket
11) I'm Not Down
12) Charlie Don't Surf
13) Police and Thieves
14) Safe European Home
15) London Calling
16) Inoculated City
17) Gates of the West
18) Rebel Waltz
19) All the Young Punks
20) Janie Jones
21) Somebody Got Murdered
22) White Riot
23) Should I Stay or Should I Go
24) The Call Up
25) Death or Glory
26) Cheapskate
27) Pressure Drop
28) Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
29) Long Time Jerk
30) Career Opportunities

Great poll and rollout.

Yeah, thanks for the poll! Lots of fun.

The poll is righter than my ballot about Give 'Em Enough Rope, which you've rekindled my love for even if it pales next to everything else for me. But then the poll leaves out "The Crooked Beat":

Ballot Part One - Top 30 Clash songs (ranked):

The Street Parade
This Is Radio Clash
Janie Jones
London Calling
Straight to Hell
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
Broadway
Lost in the Supermarket
Rock the Casbah
The Magnificent Seven
The Guns of Brixton
Armagideon Time
The Crooked Beat
Hate & War
Ghetto Defendant
Something About England
Sean Flynn
Career Opportunities
Somebody Got Murdered
Death or Glory
I'm So Bored with the U.S.A.
Complete Control
Police & Thieves
Clampdown
Bank Robber
Rudie Can't Fail
Hateful
Corner Soul
White Riot
Kill Time

Ballot Part Two - Top 4 Clash Albums (ranked)

Sandinista!
The Clash (UK version)
London Calling
Combat Rock

I'm bummed I couldn't follow this poll in real time. Many thanks to Mr. Gukbe for running it. It will always hold a special place in the Shepherd's Delight of my heart.

Here is my ballot:

Complete Control
Death Or Glory
Janie Jones
Hateful
Safe European Home
The Card Cheat
Somebody Got Murdered
The Street Parade
Lost In The Supermarket
Spanish Bombs
Groovy Times
Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
London Calling
Four Horsemen
I’m Not Down
Train In Vain
The Prisoner
Bankrobber
Car Jamming
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
Police On My Back
Broadway
Tommy Gun
Pressure Drop
Something About England
One More Time
Rock The Casbah
Stay Free
Charlie Don’t Surf

Oh yeah, The Equalizer wuz robbed! We don't need no gang boss!!!!!!!

The Equaliser->Call Up transition is A+. subsiding laughs into the alarm sounds.

Thought "Broadway" would do better tbh.

most regret not voting for 'the right profile.'

That's a weird ass top ten.

I'm So Bored with the USA
Complete Control
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
Straight to Hell
Lost in the Supermarket
Police & Thieves
Jimmy Jazz
Rock the Casbah
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Rudie Can't Fail
White Riot
London's Burning
Remote Control
Spanish Bombs
I Fought the Law
Clash City Rockers
Hateful
Death or Glory
Clampdown
Garageland
Janie Jones
The Card Cheat
The Magnificent Seven
Safe European Home
Somebody Got Murdered
Junco Partner
1977
Lose This Skin
Pressure Drop
Guns of Brixton

My ballot. On my old cassette "copy" (from the vinyl) of Sandinista, I sequenced Maria Gallagher becoming tired of singing straight into the intro of "Police On My Back", hence the ordering below. So I'm quietly satisfied that the official results also (sort of) back this up.

01. Armagideon Time
02. Complete Control
03. Police on My Back
04. The Guns of Brixton (Sandinista! version)
05. This Is Radio Clash
06. I Fought the Law
07. Bankrobber
08. Capital Radio
09. London Calling
10. Janie Jones

11. White Riot
12. Junco Partner / Version Pardner
13. (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
14. Junkie Slip
15. Somebody Got Murdered
16. The Call Up
17. Police & Thieves
18. The Magnificent Seven
19. Rock the Casbah
20. 1977

21. Train in Vain
22. Charlie Don't Surf
23. Straight To Hell
24. Corner Soul
25. Look Here
26. London's Burning
27. Career Opportunities (Sandinista! version)
28. I'm So Bored with the USA
29. Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
30. Hitsville U.K.

That must be the least London Calling ballot in this thing

Never heard it, is why.

it's alright

Big thanks for this, this poll has meant I've spent the last 2 weeks with the Clash, which is great.

since everyone's posting their lists, I'll jump in-I guess I love their covers, I have 3 in my top 10. I guess the surprise for me is all the antipathy towards 'Should I Stay', though I think for me and other voters Combat Rock has aged well. A lot of talk about that album, but I remember pretty clearly at the time it was no secret that it was probably the last Clash album, and probably viewed more as a last gasp than a sell-out. Anyway, my top 10.

1 (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
2 Train in Vain (Stand by Me)
3 I Fought the Law
4 Brand New Cadillac
5 Police & Thieves
6 Should I Stay or Should I Go
7 Rudie Can't Fail
8 London Calling
9 Straight to Hell
10 Complete Control

My ballot:

Clampdown
Complete Control
I Fought The Law
Clash City Rockers
I'm So Bored With The U.S.A.
This Is Radio Clash
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
Brand New Cadillac
Rudie Can't Fail
White Riot (single/US debut version)
London Calling
Washington Bullets
The Magnificent Seven
Train In Vain
Career Opportunities
Spanish Bombs
1977
Jail Guitar Doors
Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
Straight To Hell
Lost In The Supermarket
Safe European Home
Rock The Casbah
I'm Not Down
Somebody Got Murdered
Know Your Rights
Kingston Advice
The Call Up
Atom Tan
Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)

top live:

1. Clampdown (official video...can't find info on where/when it was filmed, though)
2. I'm So Bored With The U.S.A. (Chicago, 9/14/79)
3. Capital Radio (From Here To Eternity)
4. London's Burning (fhte)
5. Train In Vain (fhte)

albums:

1. The Clash (US)
2. London Calling
3. Sandinista!
4. Combat Rock
5. Give 'Em Enough Rope

Thanks for doing this, Gukbe! Great rollout!

hey gukbe, no rush obviously, but i hope you are still intending to post the full list of trax and votes. thx!

I'm glad there was so much Topper appreciation in the pre- and poll discussion. Sort of a cliche to say he's underrated, and maybe that's not even true anymore. But these days when I listen to the Clash (at least, to anything from the Topper era), I find myself listening to the drums as much as anything.

Topper's beats on the Bonds version of Street Parade at the top of the thread were really doing it for me this morning

I was listening to Combat Rock this morning and holy fuck, he came up with some bizarre/brilliant parts ("Red Angel Dragnet," "Straight To Hell").

hey gukbe, no rush obviously, but i hope you are still intending to post the full list of trax and votes. thx!

― Roberto Spiralli, Friday, July 19, 2013 9:30 AM (1 week ago)

^^^

^^^^^

BBC's Front Row, half-hour special:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b037vb11

Consider this a bump for the full list of trax and votes and to ask if any of you are buying the super overpriced Sound System box. I've been listening to the remasters and they did an amazing job. But I don't have $200. I am gonna plonk down for the 5 album set, but it's missing all the crucial singles including our poll winner. Argh. Wish they would have included the single A-Sides at least in that lower end box but no such luck.

I'm still annoyed there's no proper live album from the classic lineup. It's like they included those 3 songs from the Lyceum show just to taunt me.

As for the remasters themselves, I only listened to self-titled and the Cost of Living EP. Self-titled was hugely improved. Harder to spot any changes on Cost of Living.

On headphones the details pop like a motherfucker. I checked versus the 90s remasters and it's pretty easy to hear the improvement all through the catalog.

I agree on the live stuff. This quote Mick gave Rolling Stone breaks my heart:

There's not a ton of live music on this set. Are you thinking about releasing more Clash concerts in the future?
Not really. Years ago, before even the Internet, there were places where you could send off blank tapes and get nearly every concert. This fantastic exchange was going on. They wouldn't even charge you money. I know fans want to get their hands on everything, but it's already out there. So there's no plans to release any concerts now. I'm not even thinking about any more Clash releases. This is it for me, and I say that with an exclamation mark.

That's such a PR circuit quote that I don't lend it much credibility.

Hmmmm. I believe it.

So, the 'albums only' set has LC and S as 2 and 3 cd sets respectively

.. And you can get it for £30 or thereabouts.

So, 3cds of rarities, a DVD, and a whole bunch of silly will cost you an additional £70 up.

(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais - 999 37 3
Complete Control - 924 34 7
Straight to Hell - 687 34
Janie Jones - 662 23
Safe European Home - 658 29 3
Train in Vain - 568 27 2
Rudie Can't Fail - 564 28 2
The Magnificent Seven - 548 28 1
Police on My Back - 541 26 1
Guns of Brixton - 540 24 1
I Fought the Law - 522 23
Clampdown - 521 25 1
White Riot - 494 29
London Calling - 477 27 2
Spanish Bombs - 476 26
Lost in the Supermarket - 465 25
This is Radio Clash - 463 23 1
Rock the Casbah - 441 25
Career Opportunities - 406 26
Bankrobber - 399 21 1
Police & Thieves - 396 23 1
I'm So Bored with the USA - 369 19 1
Death or Glory - 356 24 1
Armagideon Time - (2 for Justice Tonight/36) 339 17 3
Somebody Got Murdered - 325 24
Know Your Rights - 310 19
Stay Free - 299 17 1
Hateful - 298 15
Tommy Gun - 291 17 2
The Call Up - 290 19
Should I Stay or Should I Go - 280 19
The Card Cheat - 278 15 1
Clash City Rockers - 277 18
I'm Not Down - 226 15
London's Burning - 220 14
Brand New Cadillac - 190 8
Washington Bullets - 174 10
Lose this Skin - 173 9 1
The Right Profile - 168 8 2
The Street Parade - 162 8 1
Hitsville UK - 157 12
The Prisoner - 151 8
This is England - 148 10
What's My Name - 145 10
Charlie Don't Surf - 142 12
Wrong 'Em Boyo - 140 10
Garageland - 138 9
Jimmy Jazz - 136 8
Groovy Times - 136 8
1977 - 131 10
Gates of the West - 127 6 1
Remote Control - 126 9
Capital Radio - (one = 50 two= 74) 124 7
Jail Guitar Doors - 122 11
Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad - 113 11
Up in Heaven (Not Only Here) - 111 10
Ghetto Defendant - 106 10
Pressure Drop - 104 10
Car Jamming - 104 7
Hate and War - 96 6
The City of the Dead - 94 8
Rebel Waltz - 92 6
English Civil War - 90 5
All the Young Punks - 88 6
Broadway - 87 6 1
Revolution Rock - 82 2
Cheapskates - 81 6
Sean Flynn - 78 5
One More Time - 76 6
Four Horsemen - 74 6
Last Gang in Town - 71 4
Sound of Sinners - 70 6
The Equaliser - 69 4
Ivan Meets GI Joe - 64 5
Koka Kola - 61 5
Junco Partner - 61 6
The Leader - 59 3
Corner Soul - 58 5
The Cool Out - 53 3 1
Something About England - 53 6
Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice) - 48 6
Inoculated City - 48 3
Deny - 44 3
Protex Blue - 35 4
The Crooked Beat - 34 2
Death is a Star - 33 3
Guns on the Roof - 32 3
Overpowered by Funk - 30 4
Guns of Brixton (Sandanista) - 30 1
Lover's Rock - 29 3
Cool Confusion - 28 1
Atom Tan - 27 3
Let's Go Crazy - 26 3
Version City - 25 1
Midnight Log - 25 1
In the Pouring Rain - 24 2
Mensforth Hill - 22 1
First Night Back in London - 22 1
Junkie Slip - 20 2
Mustapha Dance - 18 1
Midnight to Stevens - 15 1
Career Opportunities (Sandanista) = 12 2
Long Time Jerk - 9 2
Listen - 8 1
We are the Clash - 7 1
Look Here - 7 1
The Magnificent Dance - 5 1
Kingston Advice - 5 1
How Can I Understand the Flies? - 5 1
48 Hours - 5 1
Time is Tight - 3 1
Shepherd's Delight - 2 1
Kill Time - 2 1
Drug-Stabbing Time - 2 1

apologies for the ugly formatting. first number is points, second number of votes, and if there's a third, that's the number of #1s.

thx!

Thanks sir!

Thanks, gukbe! Cool to see at least one vote for "Mensforth Hill."

Thanks for the totals!

On the remasters, did they at least fix the screw-up at the beginning of "Koka Cola" from the last round of reissues? I'm one of those oddballs who thinks the circa-'99 remaster of London Calling was bad all around--the first try was much closer to the record.

I've read that the bell no longer sounds all goofy (as it did on the "legacy edition"), and the elevator sound is back.

Yes. It's fixed.

I wanna note that this poll inspired me to finally pick up a vinyl copy of Give 'Em Enough Rope to replace the one I traded in maybe 25 years ago. Much better than I remembered!

Tell you what, I'd forgotten how great the 'Capital Radio' remake is!

There's a documentary that was produced to coincide with the box set. Not revelatory so far, but nice to see the guys together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-WktpcHpI

Mick and Paul are on reddit answering some questions. Some of these redditors make some lame questions so if you have an actual Clash fan question you want answered here you go:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1msew6/this_is_mick_and_paul_from_the_clash_ask_us/

For the holidays, a two-hour This Is Radio Clash program, with bizarre Bernie Rhodes cameos in Chipmunks speed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mjl04

I still can't stand a certain minor chart hit.