If you give Sandinista a listen, it can help fill the gap to BAD and shows where Mick Jones was trying to take The Clash

I’ll have to give lunacy a listen I’ve never heard it

Pearl Jam is fucking amazing. I was introduced to them way later than I would of liked :/

Jesus 😂😂😂

There's so many ways to look at it. It's as bloated or overstuffed as any classic rock double album (if not more), and songs like Hitsville definitely are very commercial. Almost like a distant cousin to The Who Sell Out.

I wonder if it were released today that its dub/reggae elements would be accused of blackface or cultural appropriation. We'll never know.

The theme song to the Exorcist movie and my son was terrified of the Jaws soundtrack. I had to check his bathwater for sharks before he'd get into the tub. He was 6 yrs old.

I've tried going back to it, and I always come out with the feeling that it's, "We're the Clash, baby, yeah! Dig it!" I think I was overly swayed by a documentary that made them look like a bunch of bellends. Surrounded by sycophants, believed they were divine, emperor's new clothes and all that.

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He’s a cool guy for sure!

100% solid recommendation on The Pouges. “If I fall from grace with god” is an amazing record.

You didn’t listen to enough classic rock radio growing up?

I'm obsessed with Walls.

As an artist myself with no technical background, he is a personal hero of mine

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Eminem - Kim

That’s how I remember it. It was a hidden track on the album I had when it first came out.

Lunacy by Swans gives me the creeps. As does most of their stuff honestly.

You don't know The Clash? Oh my, to be young again and hear London Calling for the first time.

It’s easy to overlook The Clash being that pop culture for its hooks in them multiple times over the years, but both London Calling and Combat Rock are SOLID punk records.

Here's a Clash deep cut: anyone ever hear of the 1981 album by actor/singer Ellen Foley (of Meatloaf's "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and the early-80's tv show, "Night Court" fame), Spirit of St. Louis?

The album was recorded in the same studio as Sandinista (Wessex Studios), was made several weeks after Sandinista, using the same engineers, produced by her then-boyfriend, Mick Jones, and the backing band was The Clash?

Joe Strummer and Jones wrote 6 of the 12 songs.

How is it? Well, similar mindset as Sandinista: kind of all over the place.

Ms. Foley’s singing is 80% Kate Bush breathlessness which seems either oddly natural or weirdly affected. The 20% is reminiscent of her Meat Loaf-era power belting.

The band sounds like a pretty good Clash cover band; full of guitar runs/strums and Topper Headon’s kit-slapping borrowed almost directly from “London Calling” but turned down a few notches in every respect. Like really good elevator music covers. Pretty dang surreal.

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Give 'em Enough Rope and London Calling are both amazing albums. Dive in! Enjoy. The Clash were an incredible band.

I'm pretty sure Spotify took it down at least a year ago. I remember trying to look for it to relisten and couldn't find it anywhere. It was great though

That song was released as a radio single.

If I should fall from grace of god is a tremendous heartfelt album from start to finish.