Bearing in my mind my poor track record of predicting poll results I'm going to say White Man #1, Train in Vain #2 and Guns of Brixton #3. A nice Joe/Mick/Paul Top 3.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
My guess would be "Complete Control," but I'm off on a lot of these too.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:08 (ten years ago) link
Complete Control was my #1, iirc. Didn't vote Train. Or Guns, I don't think!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:19 (ten years ago) link
We're taking it to the top, then.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
My 100% track record of wrong predictions looks safe.
― Deafening silence (DL), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:07 (ten years ago) link
All three of predicted top 3 are in my top 10, but Complete Control is my #1. TO THE TOP!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:09 (ten years ago) link
*DL's predicted top 3
I don't even know how this is being scored - songs with eight votes scoring near double the total of songs with fourteen votes makes me think this might all look a bit weird up top.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:37 (ten years ago) link
I downloaded a vinyl rip of "Sandinista!" that breaks the album down into side by side blocks. It is a better way to listen than the double-CD, by far!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 16:41 (ten years ago) link
20. Bankrobber/Robberdub - 399 pts - 21 votes - 1 #1
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7004/h92d.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:19 (ten years ago) link
19. Career Opportunities - 406 pts - 26 votes
http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/6566/sewu.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:38 (ten years ago) link
Promising start to the top 20 so far.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:40 (ten years ago) link
Nice. I was never a huge fan of "Bankrobber" but it is widely beloved enough to be Top 20. "Career Opportunities, on the other hand, kicks ass and should be higher.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:41 (ten years ago) link
If there was one track that pushed me into liking dub, it was "Bankrobber". I love it.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
Thought "Career Opportunities" might place higher.
"Bankrobber" was Top 5 for me, so glad it got a #1 vote. And since no one commented on it at the start of the thread....OMG @ that TOTP clip!
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:42 (ten years ago) link
So far 14 of mine have placed.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
And yeah I would have thought CO would have placed higher too. It was my #4.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
Same here, including half of my top ten.
― Three Word Username, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:54 (ten years ago) link
15 of mine have placed so far. CO wasn't in my top 10, but I assumed it was a lock for the top 10.
― Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses? (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
clash are one of those bands where there are 15-20 locks for the top 10 tho
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:56 (ten years ago) link
Only two of my top 10 have placed - CO and I'm Not Down.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:57 (ten years ago) link
MY NUMBER ONE BETTER BE THE NUMBER ONE BECAUSE IT IS THE BEST SONG EVER PERIOD.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
18. Rock the Casbah - 441 pts - 25 votes
http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/1607/5ply.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
some big names being taken in the high teens
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:03 (ten years ago) link
Cool. Does that include votes for "Mustapha Dance"?
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:04 (ten years ago) link
and "Look Here."
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:07 (ten years ago) link
That does not include "Mustapha Dance", which got 18 pts. Wouldn't have affected the ranking.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:09 (ten years ago) link
no.18 ffs
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:10 (ten years ago) link
17. This is Radio Clash - 463 pts - 23 votes - 1 #1
http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/5534/yd6x.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:18 (ten years ago) link
Too low! I still hold the 12-inch of this as some kind of mysterious 2001-like object. Mick really picked up what was going on in New York dance production around that moment and went nuts with it.
Thought I'd take a moment to marvel again at the list of openers for their Bonds residency: the Slits, Funkapolitan, the Equators, Grandmaster Flash and the Treacherous Three, the Sirens, the Sugarhill Gang, Lee Perry, Joe Ely, the Nitecaps, Miller Miller Miller & Sloane, Kraut, the Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, the Fall, the Bloods, ESG, and the Brattles (a high-school aged band).
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:33 (ten years ago) link
that's a ridonculous line-up
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:34 (ten years ago) link
16. Lost in the Supermarket - 465 pts - 25 votes
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/2899/1dhf.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:35 (ten years ago) link
idg why Lost In the Supermarket is so high...I mostly skip it (sorry Mick)
Career Opportunities is such a jam. and it always get me fired up! ...even though I've been gainfully employed for 10 yrs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
THIS IS RADIO CLASH AT #17? THIS IS INSANITY.
For reals, I thought it had a great shot at winning, but definitely going top 5.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:38 (ten years ago) link
see I *like* Radio Clash, but I don't rate it in the top 10
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:39 (ten years ago) link
Btw that's "This is Radio Clash" and "Radio Clash" combined.
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:40 (ten years ago) link
Hmmm I dislike "Radio Clash."
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:46 (ten years ago) link
Mick really picked up what was going on in New York dance production around that moment and went nuts with it.
otm. That was a top 10 pick for me, still sounds so urgent and funky and freaked-out.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
acts' big singles do usually get the shaft in these polls, but none more unfairly than Rock The Casbah imo
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
15. Spanish Bombs - 476 pts - 26 votes
http://img839.imageshack.us/img839/5830/rvhi.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
"Lost in the Supermarket," besides the great hook, has some of Joe's best writing ever. The thing about "the people who lived on the ceiling" screaming and fighting and "hearing that noise was my first ever feeling" -- and "long distance callers make long distance calls/and the silence makes me lonely" -- I mean, lots and lots of people have done middle-class anomie, but not many have made so plaintive and identifiable. He empties a bottle, he feels a bit free, he puts on his giant-hit discotheque album, the pipes in the walls make him noises for company. It could have been a novelty song, but instead it's a Raymond Carver story.
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
I once saw Spanish Bombs as an audio exhibit at the Imperial War Museum, alongside some period propaganda and a book of Lorca
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:52 (ten years ago) link
Love all the old Austin, Texas stuff in the Casbah vid...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ9r8LMU9bQ
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
did This Is Radio Clash leave a legacy? I'm not aware of it having been sampled, or becoming a club classic or anything
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:53 (ten years ago) link
xp Joe's haircut in that video is so now
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
I love Spanish bombs
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:55 (ten years ago) link
I do know the Clash rarely get name checked as early hip-hop adopters, unlike Blondie, say. Sandinista! came out like a month after Autoamerican.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:57 (ten years ago) link
I love Lost in the Supermarket - it made my top ten and Spanish Bombs almost did but came in at #11 for me.
― Airwrecka Bliptrap Blapmantis (ENBB), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 18:59 (ten years ago) link
"Magnificent Seven" was used in some early hip hop songs, no? xpost
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
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Pardon my ignorance, but how much Clash stuff has been sampled in the post-clearance era? I guess it could be alot, and I'm probably forgetting something, but I seem to recall an interview w/Garbage after their debut wherein they allude to paying an arm & a leg by a major act to clear a sample, which had to be "Train In Vain" on "Stupid Girl" because The Clash were easily the biggest act of the three or four samples on that album.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 19:01 (ten years ago) link