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

53. Capital Radio - 124 pts - 7 votes

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"Capital Radio" got 50 pts, "Capital Radio Two" got 74 pts. I combined them because afaik they re-recorded it and released it because people were spending a lot of money to get the oop original version.

Two wins for me for "Hey Jonesy!! "yeah whut"

52. Remote Control - 126 pts - 9 votes

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(typo on the image re: number of votes)

51. Gates of the West - 127 pts - 6 votes - 1 #1

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My Number 1 btw

this band, they had an awful lot of good songs

lol that's very Grudenesque.

"the immigrants and remnants of all the glory years are huddled 'round the bar again for another round of beers. Little Richard's in the kitchen playing spoons and plates he's telling the waitress he's great"

lol JF. this band, the clash! they might be one of the best pure punk rock bands in the charts today. i love watching these guys play.

50. 1977 - 131 pts - 10 votes

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For anyone that loves "Gates of the west" : You have to track down "Ooh Baby Ooh (It's not over)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ig9cibn4gY4

49. Groovy Times - 136 pts - 8 votes

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lool nice Grudenism, Spiralli :D

48. (TIE) Groovy Times - 136 pts - 8 votes

rather

TOOOOOO LOOWWWWWWWW

48. (TIE) Jimmy Jazz - 136 points - 8 votes

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Didn't vote for many of these, could have voted for all of these.

47. Garageland - 138 pts - 9 votes

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gotta love the lyric i read about at least a dozen times before i actually got to hear it sung:

NO ELVIS BEATLES OR THE ROLLING STONES
IN 1977!!!!!

There was Elvis for most of 1977 tho...

Jimmy Jazz is so neat

46. Wrong 'Em Boyo - 140 pts - 10 votes

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gotta head out in a bit so i'm gonna move this along

is everything on london calling going to place then?

Jimmy Jazz! love love love. And Wrong em Boyo is fkn neat as hell

45. Charlie Don't Surf - 142 pts - 12 votes

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44. What's My Name - 145 pts - 10 votes

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'jimmy jazz' just barely made it onto my poll on the strength of strummer's wonderful vocal -- i love the moments where he doesn't even sound like he's singing words, just making random guttural noises.

43. This is England - 148 pts - 10 votes

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^^^ in my top ten. As a last gasp it's glorious.

I didn't vote for it but kinda regretting that now. Great stuff

Strummer surveying the wreckage of Thatcher's England over the synths that have invaded the marketplace -- and it doesn't sound reactionary. It's like good Mekons.

43. The Prisoner - 151 pts - 8 votes

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"Jimmy Jazz" was a late cut. Almost made it for being the first song played on their first Chicago show, with Mick sneering, "So, Chicago, this is the home of the blues, right?"

Last one for today...

41. Hitsville U.K. - 157 pts - 12 votes

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Nice! Thought this was one of my weird picks, so wasn't sure it'd place (though apparently it was a single).

Hitsville UK is terrible! I like This Is England though.

i have always been baffled by the appeal of hitsville uk

I gave Hitsville a big bump -- top 5 for me.

It didn't make my ballot, but I can definitely see the appeal. Probably the sweetest-sounding song they ever did.

First time I heard it was on the radio, and I didn't immediately recognize it as the Clash, but the drumming tipped me off. In addition to his many other talents, Topper had such a great and disctinctive sound on the kit.

Yes -- one of my favorite drummers of all time.

Hitsville's pretty yuk to me, I have a hard time listening very hard at all beyond just generally recoiling

Mick has this thing where the more he's involved in a song, the more he scrubs off all the stuff that makes you like the Clash and you're left with this sheeny stuff that *sort of* sounds like the Clash, that you kinda tolerate because aw it's Mick innit

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

Hitsville, it makes me nauseous

"Hitsville" is initially attractive but sounds rather coy, thanks to Ellen Foley's non-vocal and the arrangement.

i'll cop to having hitsville at the bottom of my ballot. i just remember putting on sandinista and being amazed and appalled and then more amazed. like how did this band make this song and put it on this record. so, y'know, kudos for just not giving a fuck what anyone thinks. punk rock.

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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