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

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

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/1261/zqer.jpg

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

http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/3875/5bzk.jpg

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.

police on my back was my #1, it's everything the clash were about

I thought that was IFTL

― Mark G, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 3:35 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Nah, they picked that one up off a jukebox at bar near a studio.

fair enough

huh i never rated funkified clash that highly, tho i like it. i even love overpowered by funk with futura. whoever wrote that they just kept piling more shit on top with it is otm (at least i think someone wrote that around here).

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

Pretty clear what's left in store here, but the order may be a surprise.

I have forgotten all of them on purpose.

(except one)

First time I've ever heard the original--excellent. Had the Clash #2.

7. Rudie Can't Fail - 564 pts - 28 votes - 2 #1

http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6285/hrd5.jpg

Gah! My no.1

Total jam.

What a track, it's as good as rock gets, so many hooks

So many nutty vocal/lyrical asides in this.

no way is the Clash "I Fought The Law" better than the Bobby Fuller version

I thought I was alone about RDF.

Then you people and your Grosse Pointe Blank discovered it.

When I was in high school I entered some Daughters of Democracy contest or something, because I knew there was an open slot so I was guaranteed to win something. And I wrote a boilerplate speech about democracy and patriotism and sent in a tape of myself reciting it. And I made sure to have, for some reason, "Rudie Can't Fail" playing faintly in the background. I came in second. Won $50.

magnificent

i think i had this 4th but it could easily have been higher. joyous.

Topper is brilliant on this again, switching between beats, and those little double-snares before each verse and chorus are a lovely touch

Is it just coincidence that both The Clash and The Specials had Rudi(e) songs?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_boy

6. Train in Vain - 568 pts - 27 votes - 2 #1

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3228/ukv9.jpg

confession: first version I hears was Annie Lennox's.

Ouch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcs3iEhWX3c

I like Dwight's version.