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| The Clash albums ranked Revisit
My favorite band of all time, I love their combination of experimentation while sticking true to delivering inspirational, life-changing messages through their songs that make you question and ponder on society, economics, and world issues. Plus they helped bring appreciation to other styles alongside helping reggae and other genres get more recognition! | | 1 |  | The Clash
London Calling
This is an excellent record. Definitely a must own for any rock fan and an absolute must-listen. Features on multiple best of all time lists for a reason!
The Clash's third album decided to expand their horizons and do something more than just punk rock, (which they did great at.) although at the same time not completely letting go of their origins and incorporating punk still!
Often listed as one of the greatest albums of all time, Joe Strummer and Mick Jones have some of their absolute best writing here.
The band creatively blends musical genres such as reggae with other styles and creates amazing songs such as “Revolution Rock” (A cover but still a good example), or “The Guns of Brixton”.
They experiment with many different types of rock here too all on one album where every track is incredible almost. The only real let down in my opinion is “Lover's Rock” which is a boring song that sounds half-assed and barely changes.
5/5 | | 2 |  | The Clash
The Clash
This is another great album by the band and is listed as one of the best punk rock albums of all time and albums in general of all time by multiple publications, and arguably is in fact the best of the original wave of punk albums.
Joe Strummer and Mick Jones really strike it amazing with their songwriting, incredible for a debut. The guitar in songs like “White Riot”, “What’s My Name”, “Deny”, and “London’s Burning” is absolutely incredible and sounds amazing. They protest issues such as racism, Power abuse, and issues in society in the 70's of London and you can really feel the anger and rebellion of the 70s here and it's a perfect example of that!
This album really has a lot of energy and the songs all have that great punk power to them as well, “Janie Jones” is a perfect start to the album and hooks you in for a great listening experience. “Police and Thieves” is kind of a look into the experimentation they would go with later on following albums.
5/5 | | 3 |  | The Clash
Give 'Em Enough Rope
nother great album, produced by Sandy Pearlman of CBS, who is also known for being one of the members of the band "Blue Oyster Cult" this album ROCKS.
This was The Clash's second album (Although the first released outside of the U.K) this has The Clash doing hard rock while still having similar energy as their first album and punk ideologies like their debut as well such as in “Guns On The Roof” which protests guns and the violence that comes with using them. Topper Headon, who replaces original drummer Terry Chimes (Or as he was referred to on the first album Tory Crimes) contributes to the song “Tommy Gun” creatively doing a drumbeat that sounds like a machine gun which is pretty impressive and fitting. and “Safe European Home” is an incredible album opener full of raw energy.
“Julie's Been Working For The Drug Squad" is a fantastic song along with the ballad "Stay Free" which showcases some evolution in the band from their debut album and their skills in other styles!
5/5 | | 4 |  | The Clash
Combat Rock
This album may not be as consistently good as the others, but when it hits it really hits. This album is seen by some as a "Sell-out" point simply due to the fact the band wanted to write a classic in "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" and "Rock The Casbah" was played by the U.S airforce and made their biggest hits. This is really a dumb reason to look past this album.
The album is basically as weird and experimental as "Sandinista!" except trims the fat to make it a single record. Initially this was going to be a double-LP like their magnum opus, but was edited down which sadly cut good songs like "The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too" and "Idle In Kangaroo Court" (totally worth a checkout if you dig this band as much as I.) There's a few misses, sure but this has some of Joe's best lyrics and some of their best arrangements.
4/5 | | 5 |  | The Clash
Sandinista!
There's a decent amount of good here, but also quite a lot of filler and pointless songs where the experimentation doesn't work. This album is very overrated and I fail to this day to see why some consider it one of the best of all time. It has enough to work perfect as a single album, and decently as a double.
It's funny seeing the boys troll their record label as this was made as a 3-LP to screw with CBS for being upset about London Calling being a double album, but yeah it's a very uneven, plain decent record.
3/5 | | 6 |  | The Clash
Cut the Crap
I think Bernie Rhoades is officially my least favorite person in Punk music history. One of the worst albums to ever be put on the planet.
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DadKungFu
06.28.24 | You've done Sandinista a grave injustice sir | DistantDylann
07.01.24 | Sandinista! has great moments but it goes on way too long, and is stuffed to the brim with half-baked ideas and filler. It has enough to be a fantastic single album, or a good double album. Combat Rock perfected the experimentation and weirdness of Sandinista!. | DadKungFu
07.01.24 | 6 is genuinely one of the worst albums ever though and top 3 are top 3 | DistantDylann
07.01.24 | It is ranked from best to worst, top 3 are indeed top 3 and I gave them all 5/5s |
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