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

.. 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.

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"