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  • Man England had some cool clothes in the 70's

  • so did they just go on stage and play this with no words?

  • May I recommend the book 'An Essential Guide To Music In The 1970s' by Johnny Zero. The author is a big fan of this fine instrumental.

  • best band in the fucking WORLD

  • honky tonk meets PUNK great idea!

  • This is just pure class. All im gonna say.

  • lovely, just lovely, punks not dead man......

    i think

  • The Clash has the best sound ever, really it is kick ass!

  • 1656 hours Saturday, February 13, 2010 One of the Best Punk Rock Instrumentals Ever! (( If you want to listen to "listen" tens or hundreds of times in a row, you can use Greasemonkey —Loopy for YouTube. ))

  • Nice instrumental song. Nice bass figure too... I've got it right now, let's play it.

  • 1630 Sunday, January 24, 2010 Bass progression —right?

  • 1529 Sunday, January 24, 2010 Hey people: I'm gonna tell you a secret: Please listen to "Hold Me" by Fleetwood Mac (1982) and when the chorus arrives you'll discover the "Listen" infectious chord progression! —Long Live The Clash! (( I know other similar secrets. ))

  • This was on the NME single with Capitol Radio

    Great instrumental

    Their lyrics were really powerful, but this proves that their music was just as powerful, original version or not

  • This is however, not the full original single version of the song.

  • @pwyndam

    'not the full original single version of the song'

    I don't think so. Do you have a link to the 'original' one?

  • @pwyndam

    there isn't a full original song .... ''we had this instrumental''...

    from Joe's very own mouth

  • @mrbassman25 When they remastered this song for the 'Super Black Market Clash' CD the producers found the need for whatever reason to edited down the original vinyl 45 inch record of 'Listen'. Perhaps they needed space on the CD and had to cut some of the end of the song off. Have you heard the vinyl version? If not, try to find a copy. Very rare. I used to have it until it got stolen. There is like 10-15 seconds of the outro of the song that is not included on the CD version on SBMC.

  • Yeah, this is fuckin a great instrumental song. So raw, infectious and just so fucking rockin. Great progression and then the end Mick Jones solo is so expressive goin off and wailing. Beautiful!

  • just...listen

  • does anyone know where i can find accurate tabs for this? it think the music is just infectious

  • I believe I figured out the begining on bass. It just goes (on the A string) from 11-133-355-577-799-99-911(G string)11-119(A)9-911(G)11-119­9 and so forth. kinda hard to explain on here

  • Love the song and great picture you choose

  • Thank you Sir and may I have another. The best at their best.

  • Great tune!

    Used to open a show on WFMU.Can´t remember which...But what a great opener!

  • anybody seen westway to the world where they say paul kept getting higher and higher at the beginning and they didnt know when to come in ha ha!

  • i that!

    lol

    thats actually why i wanted to hear this song

    i can soo imagine them doing that!hehe

  • @track8fodderstompf that was at their first gig supporting the pistols johnny rotten said they 'were'nt very good'. i think a little later they (the pistols) felt a bit threatened by the clash.

  • @1960unclemort clash had better tunes,listen,,oh and more albums

  • @calboy64 true i don`t think the pistols could have done a 2nd album especially after they kicked matlock out.

  • @track8fodderstompf ahhhh yes, hahaha

  • Hehe, this song actually inspired me to leanr bass, which I now have. Thank you Paul.

  • mick wrote the bassline! he wrote basiclaly everything on the 1st album and this song was written b4 the 1st album was!

  • Interesting, was wondering which one wrote this great piece of music.

    In one of the documentaries Joe tells about them playing this very early and Paul being so nervous he got the entire intro wrong. Not a great start to a gig.

  • yeh im pretty sure it was mick in the same documentary paulw as talking about how mick used to tell him wat notes to play and wen him and mick wud be fighting joes wud be walking back ard forward between them getting the notes off mick and telling them to paul hahahaha!

  • haha... That is so much like them. Pretty funny

  • exactly the same for me

    I'm sat here now with my bass i bought yesterday learning to play it!!

  • Amazing freaking music. One of their very earliest recordings.

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