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

went #1 in England in the early nineties too..as a jeans advert, nO?

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Yep, with "Rush" by B.A.D II as the b-side!

rush for a change of atmospheeeeeewhereeeehuwheeereeeughwweeeeerrreeeeeeee

Should I Stay was playing in the sandwich shop the other day and 50% of the people in there were tapping their feet to it. Which made me like, wow this is a really well-liked song by lots of non-Clash-liking people...and simultaneously thinking that it's a really fucking annoying song

come sit by me

Chart succession
Preceded by
"Do the Bartman" by The Simpsons

UK number-one single
9 - 16 March 1991 (2 weeks)

Succeeded by
"The Stonk" by Hale and Pace

yeah, i fully expect to see a lot of 'should i stay' hate in this poll -- i'm pretty indifferent to it personally. hoping not to see any hate for 'rock the casbah' which is awesome.

They're both wonderful, but Rock The Casbah is better by miles.

Alfred: Are you thinking of Too Much Joy ("Any great band should be shot / before they make their Combat Rock")?

btw if you want to compare US vs UK reactions to the Clash, check out the comments in Tom's Popular entry for "Should I Stay"

http://freakytrigger.co.uk/popular/2011/03/the-clash-should-i-stay-or-should-i-go/?cp=0

"Should I Stay" is garage-rock royalty, but I'll wait for it to show up to mount a proper defense.

Didn't vote for it, but I like it. I am a little surprised that there were Clash fans at the time that didn't hear it as a fun piss-take.

I remember being indignant at the time that it was getting much more radio attention than the far superior Straight to Hell on a AA side, and even made me (very briefly) a bit anti-Mick. But I like it fine these days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w50RblItq4E

Combat Rock is awesome. Nothing wrong with that record. And it's not like the alternate "Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg" version reveals some crazy alternate "Combat Rock" universe. Basically more of the same. Also good.

There was talk last year about releasing a 30th anniversary Combat Rock with the original Rat Patrol mixes/tracks/running order. Supposedly the reason it got nixed was that Mick felt it would be wrong to release something Joe disliked at the time and wasn't around to approve/disapprove.

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

Etc.

alright, sorry for the delay.

6. Give 'Em Enough Rope - 93pts

http://www.musicshop.com.au/media/catalog/product/4/9/4962462_3.jpg

wow. that's terrible. guess I should be thankful it beat out Super Black Market Clash but damn!

and probably only because of my number one vote

Absurd!!

I should say I just assigned points from 8-1 on these.

Lets fight like hell and stop this great and disgusting injustice! The world is laughing at us.

then yeah, I saved Give 'Em Enough Rope from total humiliation. still, this is some extreme revisionism

5. The Clash (UK Version) - 104 pts

http://24.media.tumblr.com/5f7ec67511c4ce13bd112b5f00e9e8a7/tumblr_mofb3vpFXG1soyk8ho1_500.jpg

I like this album, but with the glorious exception of "Stay Free," the back half is pretty weak. At least by their standards.

Whoops, that was about Rope.

I ranked Rope #5 out of 5 on my ballot. I like it fine, but I was never able to connect with it as much as their other records.

i voted for all of the second half of rope in the trax, so i'm gonna just say i disagree that the back half is pretty weak

no 4 out of 5 i guess

4. Combat Rock - 107 pts

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5xktxUiVR1r19b3po1_500.jpg

Rope was my number one. it's one of the greats for me. love that Greil Marcus review that links it with Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed and Never Mind the Bollocks. the great "defeated" albums I would call them (all four of those in my top 10-20 all time), and The Clash were the only ones who were actually fighting in the first place. anyway, the U.K. version of the debut is their "fighting" album and it's glorious. it was number two on my list.

I've never warmed to Rope outside of a few tracks.

yeah it's not my favorite

I love Rope, so many bangin' tracks

3. The Clash (US Version) - 133 pts

http://image.lyricspond.com/image/t/artist-the-clash/album-the-clash-us-version/cd-cover.jpg

Alright, here's the top 2.

i had a feeling it would be the top 2 now

Oh weird, I thought US version might win.

Now I think it's Sandanista.

Sandinista is their best record so I'd be cool with that.

2. Sandinista! - 168 pts

http://images.gibson.com/Lifestyle/English/aaFeaturesImages2010/clash_sandinista.jpg

1. London Calling - 196 pts

http://www.abortmag.com/abortpegs/lcalling.jpg

boo!

sandinista coming 2nd is ilm enough w/out straying into self-parody

tbf London Calling does have a buttload* of good songs.

*within +/- 3 butts.

Sandanista and the US s/t were tied for the most number one votes, but London Calling had soo many #2 votes.

Totally fair. Everyone (myself included) thinks London Calling is a good record. It's just not their best.

i can appreciate the wackiness of "sandinista" but its 3/4 shite tbh

If you said 1/4, I'd let it lie...

I would've voted for something other than London Calling at no.1, were it not complete insanity to do so

I even rep for most of the weirdo-dub shit. "Silicone on Sapphire" is awes.

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.

if memory serves it was a major chart hit over here and yeah it is crushingly dull

Phony Clashmania has bitten the dust!.

Nice work! But it's Safe European Home, not Homes

it's the Sumner-ite in me.

Ha!

Where would you put Black Market Clash? That was a big one for me, the record (or more accurately, $5.98 cassette) that made me an obsessive. They padded it out for the CD era as Super Black Market Clash, which inexplicably replaced the original Bankrobber with a dub version that goes on twice as long, but it half as good.

just scanned through the results thread and I have no idea what I would've picked for #1 (this poll pre-dated my ILM posting by a few months--pretty sure I registered to ILM so I could vote in the Elvis Costello poll)--there were at least 12 candidates just looking at the songs that made the list

inexplicably replaced the original Bankrobber with a dub version that goes on twice as long, but it half as good.

it's explicable! and also the original Black Market Clash edited Bankrobber and Robber Dub together, so the Super version is the one that's half as long.

I bought the triple 10" version, that's a different thing!

how so? https://www.discogs.com/The-Clash-Black-Market-Clash/release/103078 vs https://www.discogs.com/The-Clash-Black-Market-Clash/release/2987143

I had never seen that before. It adds the tracks that were left off the US debut.

https://www.discogs.com/The-Clash-Super-Black-Market-Clash/release/420020

Yes, side one is those tracks, plus "Listen" without the interview, which are all from those sessions.

Two = b-side tracks from "give them enough rope" era

three = the "Cost of Living" e.p. without "I fought the law" and the "ad" but with "Time Is Tight" instead.

four = Armagideon Time 12" dubs and Bankrobber dub

five = Mostly "Combat Rock" b-sides along with "Cool Out"

Six = Whatever's left: Casbah Dub / Mag7 dub / "This Is Radio Clash" (the a-side?)

So, basically pick yr side, it's like having 6 ep's

oh derp, I missed "triple"