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

Ah, got it.

xp: By 1990 "This Is Radio Clash" was still getting regular play as a video/track in Danceteria-type clubs like the 9:30 in D.C. and First Avenue in Minneapolis, a perfect bridge for mixing rap, house, industrial, punk, etc. And it got regular play on MTV well past it's release, like into '84 at least. That's an amazing afterlife, when you think about it. The Clash coming out on CD in '88 must have helped.

Samples aren't always the best chart of influence, but I do wonder if ESG playing that Bonds gig the same month as their release of "UFO" helped make that the most sampled punk record of all time.

12. Clampdown - 521 pts - 25 votes - 1 #1

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so good! who is not voting for clampdown? savages

My #1.

Love the Vanilla Tapes version of "Clampdown," and the Indigo Girls':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0oai2wAj4Q

I stuck "Clampdown" and "London Calling" at the very end of my ballot because I wanted to throw some weight behind other tracks. They're both amazing though and I felt compelled to include them.

i have cranked out this tune before but a pox on any kind of tactical voting in these polls imo

It became tactical when there were 50+ deserving songs. Top 15 in order, and then the rest fall as they may.

No vote from me for Clampdown. Probably my least-favourite on the album, never gets going for me.

11. I Fought the Law - 522 pts - 23 votes

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TOP TEN, PEOPLE. WE'RE TO THE TOP TEN!

Never thought this cover was anything special. They did much better covers than "I Fought The Law"

if 20-11 had been their top 10 tracks the clash would have every reason to be delighted with themselves. but there are still ten more tracks to come, and another mile of height atop this precarious punk tower of babel.

i think i fought the law is their best cover, and probably the only one i would say beats the original. the energy of that recording is insane.

but i didn't vote for any covers, seemed wrong

Yeah, I'm probably partial to The Clash's version of I Fought The Law because it was the first band I heard do the song. Other versions (including the original) sound good. The Clash's sounds great.

Energetic, yes, but doesn't add anything to the Bobby Fuller version's sneer. It doesn't feel like a Clash song the way some of the other covers fit them.

i think i fought the law is their best cover, and probably the only one i would say beats the original. the energy of that recording is insane.

― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 4:06 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^this. I *think* the opening drums (which go from "oh, this'll be fun" to "OH SHIT I better duck") are doubled, but on the live versions, Topper's sound is just as charging and heavy.

I couldn't love I Fought The Law any more than I do, yet it's still only my no.3

white riot should be higher imo

no.4 even, what a band

10. The Guns of Brixton - 540 pts - 24 votes - 1 #1

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YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESS

GO PAUL GO

nice.

oh! london calling poll winner iirc so expected higher but feels like a good spot for it.

I forgot it won that poll. It's the highest ranking London Calling track on my ballot so I'm good with it.

Best use of Velcro in music?

TS: The Guns of Brixton vs Belle and Sebastian's "Expectations"

Simonon was SO HOT.

Sometimes I envy the band's energy, but then I think about the copious amount of speed they and every punk band was doing and I don't feel so bad.

"Spanish Bombs" boasts the best mangled Spanish I've ever heard, and it took months before the Internet to decipher it.

I do appreciate the fact that he sings with a Barcelona accent. It's Spanish-Spanish!

9. Police on My Back - 541 pts - 26 votes - 1 #1

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That's one of the better covers.

reward for all those that did not bail out of Sandinista!

love this, i thought maybe it had missed out by this point

I think my #1 missed out. :(

I like the story from the box set about how they had somebody dig up Joe's copy of POMB and ship it to the studio in New York because nobody they talked to over here knew the song or who The Equals were.

I thought that was IFTL

8. The Magnificent Seven - 548 pts - 28 votes - 1 #1

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loooove the version on From Here to Eternity.

magnificent 8

Oh good!

should have been 1 higher...

you lot! wot?

Guessing "Midnight Log" won't make it :-(

don' stop..

SEVEN!

loooove the version on From Here to Eternity.

Ha, that version -- or, more accurately, Chimes' playing on it -- actually makes me angry. He removed Topper's swing and replaced it with plod.