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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:19 (ten years ago) link
"Spanish Bombs" boasts the best mangled Spanish I've ever heard, and it took months before the Internet to decipher it.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:21 (ten years ago) link
I do appreciate the fact that he sings with a Barcelona accent. It's Spanish-Spanish!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:22 (ten years ago) link
9. Police on My Back - 541 pts - 26 votes - 1 #1
http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/1261/zqer.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:25 (ten years ago) link
That's one of the better covers.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
reward for all those that did not bail out of Sandinista!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
love this, i thought maybe it had missed out by this point
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
I think my #1 missed out. :(
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:33 (ten years ago) link
I thought that was IFTL
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:35 (ten years ago) link
8. The Magnificent Seven - 548 pts - 28 votes - 1 #1
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/3875/5bzk.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:36 (ten years ago) link
loooove the version on From Here to Eternity.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
magnificent 8
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
Oh good!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:37 (ten years ago) link
should have been 1 higher...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
you lot! wot?
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
Guessing "Midnight Log" won't make it :-(
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
don' stop..
SEVEN!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
Ha, that version -- or, more accurately, Chimes' playing on it -- actually makes me angry. He removed Topper's swing and replaced it with plod.
― Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses? (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
police on my back was my #1, it's everything the clash were about
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:41 (ten years ago) link
I thought that was IFTL― Mark G, Wednesday, July 17, 2013 3:35 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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.
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
fair enough
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
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).
― a hand, palming an ilx face forever (Hunt3r), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXJxYNUoJKs
― Uncle Cyril O'Boogie (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:43 (ten years ago) link
Pretty clear what's left in store here, but the order may be a surprise.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:44 (ten years ago) link
I have forgotten all of them on purpose.
(except one)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:46 (ten years ago) link
First time I've ever heard the original--excellent. Had the Clash #2.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:47 (ten years ago) link
7. Rudie Can't Fail - 564 pts - 28 votes - 2 #1
http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/6285/hrd5.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Gah! My no.1
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
Total jam.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:50 (ten years ago) link
What a track, it's as good as rock gets, so many hooks
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:51 (ten years ago) link
So many nutty vocal/lyrical asides in this.
― Esperanto, why don't you come to your senses? (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
no way is the Clash "I Fought The Law" better than the Bobby Fuller version
― crüt, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
I thought I was alone about RDF.
Then you people and your Grosse Pointe Blank discovered it.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:53 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:55 (ten years ago) link
magnificent
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
i think i had this 4th but it could easily have been higher. joyous.
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
Topper is brilliant on this again, switching between beats, and those little double-snares before each verse and chorus are a lovely touch
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:58 (ten years ago) link
Is it just coincidence that both The Clash and The Specials had Rudi(e) songs?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_boy
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 20:59 (ten years ago) link
6. Train in Vain - 568 pts - 27 votes - 2 #1
http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/3228/ukv9.jpg
― Gukbe, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
confession: first version I hears was Annie Lennox's.
― first I think it's time I kick a little verse! (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Ouch.
― The Butthurt Locker (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:00 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcs3iEhWX3c
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:01 (ten years ago) link
I like Dwight's version.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
yeah me too, i only heard it recently but i was pleasantly surprised
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:03 (ten years ago) link
Was talking about the fad for hidden tracks on CDs the other day, and how they are mostly rubbish. Clash 'hide' a track on vinyl and it is an absolute gem
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
Someone recently posted a link to their review of Train In Vain, presumably somewhere on the voting thread. I liked the piece, I forgot to say.
― Ismael Klata, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
love the sound of the bass
― Roberto Spiralli, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:05 (ten years ago) link
I like that Lennox version! Never heard that, and dig that she didn't switch the gender.
― Pete Scholtes, Wednesday, 17 July 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link