43 years ago today …

[Hermes]

If you took Jimmy Jazz off London Calling, I think it is the perfect album. I really don't like Jimmy Jazz.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

fork it! We'll do it live!

1. The Card Cheat
2. Spanish Bombs
3. Train in Vain
4. White Man in Hammersmith Palais
5. Clash City Rockers
6. Lost in the Supermarket (although I prefer the Afghan Whigs version)
7. London Calling
8. Straight to heck
9. Magnificent Seven
10. Police on My Back

Off the top of my head...

1. Train in Vain
2. Somebody Got Murdered
3. Death or Glory
4. White Man in Hammersmith Palais
5. London Calling
6. Career Opportunities
7. Should I Stay or Should I Go
8. I'm So Bored with the USA
9. Police on My Back
10. Clampdown

 

[Jake from State Farm]

When the Clash made it to the States, they hit Fridays, which gave them four songs
Brixton/Clampdown
London Calling/Train in Vain

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Clampdown
Police on my Back
Spanish Bombs
The Right Profile
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Death or Glory
This is Radio Clash
Washington Bullets
Somebody Got Murdered
London Calling

 

[Slacker]

Police & Thieves
Guns of Brixton
Clampdown
Hammersmith Palais
Ghetto Defendant
Straight to heck
The Call Up
Train in Vain
London Calling
Somebody Got Murdered

 

[Twirling Time]

Hardly anyone mentions "Rock the Casbah," which was their most commercial song and biggest U.S. charting single but was hot garbage.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

Hardly anyone mentions "Rock the Casbah," which was their most commercial song and biggest U.S. charting single but was hot garbage.

It sure sounds like they say fork the casbah on some of those refrains

 

[swingline]

I thought they were saying "rush the cash bar."

Hmm.

 

[Huggy]

White Man (In Hammersmith Palais)
Police on my Back
Complete Control
Hitsville UK
Somebody Got Murdered
The Card Cheat
Police and Thieves
Bankrobber
Stay Free
The Prisoner

 

[Jake from State Farm]

A song yet to be mentioned