The Clash - Clampdown

[deadpool759]

Best purchase ever only $7.99 at walmart

[ArraTonks]

Wow...no dislikes as of January 14 2012....I love this song.

[canalla90]

the strokes made a cover of this song! hey :D

[porterhall27]

I just cannot believe the staggering level of ignorance displayed by some people on here...and you have google and wikipedia too you morons! Joe Strummer was very far left in his politics, end of discussion

[handsomedevil98]

This is my fave double album along with the White album!

[MiniKirk]

@handsomedevil98 Great choice!

[DelStrainComedy]

PMSL Pete Doherty could roll Joes loint never mind lace his boots..What has he acheived apart from needs a bath 2011 Cmon man No one can fill void Joe had are you nuts Pete Doherty please..Wannabee needs a bath and gives Junkies a bad name.

[louderpowder]

Joe was an inlightened individual.

Dont try to belittle him with your human concepts about communism.

[vernin822]

GO JOE! .... YOU - of the "younger" generation; PAY ATTENTION .... they said what was coming before it GOT HERE .... you used to like to make fun of US ... we're not so far off, now ARE WE? ....

[DelStrainComedy]

Fuck the Strokes its a Clash song..Disrepectfull as fuck.

[voltsfabian]

@DelStrainComedy How is it disrespectful to cover a band that you love and is a huge influence on you. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. If there's a band that could remotely do justice to The Clash, its The Strokes.

[DelStrainComedy]

You grow up and you calm down! Youre working for the Clampdown !! Im 44 and have did what i want when i want everyday the Clash are my moral compass and im so glad i grew up when i did.Thanks Joe-Paul-Mick and Topper you gave me the answers at 12 what most people dont get until their 50...Best years of youre life they want to steal. RIP Joe Strummer Thank you .

[gattuzh8xd]

meeedio tema!! tambien me gusta el cover que hace "The Strokes".. wenisima cancion (L)

[ayala54]

The voices in your head are calling

Stop wasting your time, there's nothing coming

Only a fool would think someone could save you

The men at the factory are old and cunning

You don't owe nothing, so boy get runnin'

It's the best years of your life they want to steal

[ThunderHeart1231]

Great song. Right up there with Rock the Casbah!

[OroborusFMA]

First 2:30 is sheer brilliance. A song like this shouldn't end in a fadeout though - Complete Control got it right.

[BenHughesLlan]

London Calling, the best album ever recorded. FACT

[dsdontsurf]

3:10 "gitalong, gitalong" these are the little gems that I find in many Clash songs that just push them to the next plateau. Imagine those 2 little words sum up the song more than some of the verses do. Gotta love the Joe.

[DaveS12382]

@dsdontsurf I think Mick came up with that bit.

[hippiepsycopathz]

this record really is worth all the hype! If you do musical homework... buy this album!

[owy75]

The only band in the world that matters

[jtminutisme1]

To the CLASH.....you are greatly missed

[ilovetogofast88]

Workin for the clampdown

RIP JOE

[nottippinem]

ha get along get along....great song

[CounterphitSkateTeam]

Who cares, I listen to the song because it makes me feel good. You listen to make you look and think your cool.

[jtminutisme1]

"whatta we gonna do, now?" Excellent!

[chanceie12]

All i no is that Joe was on the left , and when the clash were about the conservertives were in power and there on the right ... and lets say the 70's , 80's wernt to great for political reason in britain , only good thing was the music aka the clash.

[1778owen]

more relevant now than ever...expose the clampdown one and all

[77droog77]

what are we gonna do now ?

[FascheezyO]

This is an unbelievable arguement. Joe Strummer was a leftist, and this is undeniable. Clampdown is about anti pakistani/south asian violence "taking of his turban you say is this man a jew?" which was common in england in the 70s and 80s. The reference to blue and brown is exactly a reference to the facist attire of the national front party which pushed anti-immigrant politics. The song also has many references to the national front's efforts to recruit blue collar workers over issues of pay.

[K7vn]

The Clash have so many great songs, it's hard to choose a favourite.

[ScreenFlavour]

what are we gonna do now......without the clash :(

[darapperr]

Best songs from LC are Hateful and Clampdown imo

[NightRanger77]

@darapperr All of LC is amazing.

[dannyzee4]

i think the song washington bullets makes it pretty clear what Joe supported politically. And he supported the RAF and Red Brigades.

[OmegaBunny]

@dannyzee4

I don't think Joe liked or supported the R.A.F. He said he hated them in the song Career Opportunities... "I hate the Army and I hate the R.A.F., I don't want to go fighting in the tropical heat".

[dannyzee4]

@OmegaBunny Yeh I think that's the Royal Air Force, whereas I meant the Red Army Faction.

[carlos7217]

we need another Joe Strummer to save the sorry fkn state of rock'n'roll

R.I.P JOE

[Hunsruck]

@carlos7217 AMEN !!!

[DaveS12382]

@carlos7217 Agreed. I'm not saying Pete Doherty fills the void of the likes of a Joe Strummer, but I think he's the most interesting talented music artist of today. And the Libertines just reunited!! Lets pray for a U.S. tour. I know the perfect girl to interview them.

[voltsfabian]

@DaveS12382 They only reunited for the Reading and Leeds festival. But yeah those two from the Libs are great songwritters. The Libertines actually remind me a lot of The Clash.

[plasmidsheep]

@carlos7217 Nobody can replace Joe Strummer, son.

[handsomedevil98]

@plasmidsheep Our 90's generation had their own greats but your right too! ;-)

[Shinzu92]

@carlos7217 I am joe strummer, I like to strum my joe.

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[simplyAle77]

la mia canzone preferita dei mitici Clash!!!!

[tomk773]

Simply great..

[veritas138]

Ur a fkn retard wyoraider86. I dont know about 3 Mile, but Rob Fear is completely right with his lyrical reference. Look around the 3 min mark. If ur gonna say dumb shit to try make urself feel better about how much of a loser u r, at least check ur shit. If I knew who you were I'd King Edward II you, you moron.

[AcuteSchizophrenia]

Might be my favorite Clash song. As I write this I am within 3 miles of TMI. Have worked there on 2 occasions. And no i don't glow in the dark or shoot blanks.

[wyoraider86]

@ Alexm799: No it doesn't you are thinking of the title track "London Calling"--"a nuclear era but I have no fear" If you are gonna repeat what you heard somewhere in a vain attempt to sound knowledgable at least reference the right song

[Alexm799]

lol what are you talking about? if your talking about the three mile island reference it wasnt me that said it lol xD

[wyoraider86]

oops your right my bad...it is RobFear who is the douche bag lol

[xlaleclx]

@wyoraider86 Actually you're wrong... "Working hard in Harrisburg" Stop trying to be a tough e-thug.

[RobFear]

This song makes direct reference to 3 Mile Island

[Alexm799]

what is 3 mile island?

[RobFear]

3 Mile Island is a nuclear power plant installation in Pennsylvania just south of Harrisburg. They had a partial meltdown there. In the last verse there is a reference to "working hard in Harrisburg" and "waiting to be melted down"

[scoopjive71]

@Alexm799 LOL you dont know what 3 Mile Island incident was? I find it interesting that you would think that "blue and brown" is a reference to capitalism. Wow! People over analyze the meaning of art all the time. Blue and Brown could easily mean the government of any kind, the police or Nazi brown shirts. Thanks for the upload but socialism = communism and the punk movement was and is anti-government. Please don't drink the Kool-Aide. Great song!

[Agreenego33]

@scoopjive71

regardless of whatever your current political leanings make you want to believe. Joe Strummer was an active and vocal Socialist ( he said this on many, many occasions) which, if you researched it at all, does not make him a supporter of Communism at all. I do agree that the guy who uploaded the video overanalyzed the hell out of it, Clampdown is nothing more than a song about goverment opression of any kind, not related to any specific form of goverment.

[mwells219]

@Agreenego33 actually if you listen to it it's about the fat prosperous few who work behinds the scenes to hoard all the wealth for themselves and make the rest of us their indentured servants.

[TheElasticJesus]

@Agreenego33

Well said.

At the ripe old age of 45 and having followed the Clash most of my life I can safely say that although dual meanings do exist in Clampdown the brunt of the song is about being stuck in a dead end factory job.

Blue eyed boy is a phrase often used by Brits to denote the arselicker who sucks up to management.

Blue & brown = collar workers.

Most of the song is self-explanatory.

You're right - U can over analyse until u lose sight of the obvious.

[scoopjive71]

@Agreenego33 I love the song and I guess Joe will not be able to clarify the meaning of this song . I'll look into it and would appreciate any info you can supply to support the "many occasions" where Joe Strummer was a vocal socialist.

[biffo9966]

@scoopjive71 : You must know how to use google. Just google 'Joe Strummer' and 'politics' and you will see that he was a devoted leftist and self identified as a marxist. The meaning of the song is very clear and written about at length in various bios of Joe and the Clash. Bottom line - clash = leftist, not opinion, fact and there is no shortage of references which you can find yourself

[chanceie12]

@biffo9966 Exacly what i said , Joe was on the left which every person should be on for a calm world.

[Lmaox94]

@Agreenego33 Socialism and communism are the same thing, I think you mean to say Joe would not be a supporter of Stalinism.

I love London Calling, The Clash rocks my bedroom.

[Kraftysot]

@scoopjive71 No? Many punk rockers are pro-government, and even republican/conservative. Jello Biafra is a libertarian, Lee Ving is a republican, Greg Geffen is a libertarian, Jimmy Gestapo is a republican, Vinnie Stigma is a republican. The punk movement is anti STATUS QUO, not anti government. Though there were many anti-government bands. I dont think you could say Ian Stuart from Skrewdriver was anti government. He was national socialist.

[Kraftysot]

@Kraftysot And look for Conservative Punk Magazine online. There are alot of conservative punk rockers. Communists are pro-government as well.

[bastapane1]

@Alexm799 anyway "3 mile island"is a nuclear power station in U.S.A. desert. In seventy they had an incident, luckily without consequences.

[OmegaBunny]

@bastapane1

Three mile island is no where near the desert. It is in the state of Pennsylvania!

[JoeDeceiver]

@Alexm799 Three Mile Island is a nuclear facility in Pennsylvania that famously had a partial meltdown in 1979, releasing unknown, but fairly infinitesimal (nearly untraceable, even) amounts of radioactive material. Nobody was harmed, there were no long term effects, and nothing was destroyed, nevertheless the event spurned further anti-nuke protests and is considered to be a large part of the reason that the 'nuclear power' concept has all but been abandoned in the US.

[curlwhirl]

@Alexm799 Darling, do a google search. A close call with an American nuclear power generator.

[erikbear9]

@Alexm799 Three mile island was the first major nuclear meltdown in the US. In Harrisburg, PA... it was in April 1979. It released far more radiation than they said. My best friend's dad worked for the NRC. Every herd of cattle within 50 miles was destroyed, my friend's dad, who was on the scene, developed breast cancer20 years later. google it for more info.

[tripletrio3]

@Alexm799 I don't know

[LJfromIB]

@Alexm799 really......

[louderpowder]

@RobFear three mile island.

A great example of why nuclear fission is a bad idea.

[CK3890]

@louderpowder It's not a bad idea. Lots of great technologys have come from it. It is a bad idea to let just anybody work in nuclear reactors though.

[hunchybunker]

What are we gonna do now?

[rodramo]

we will teach our twisted speech to the young believers

[generationx1966]

We will teach our twisted speak to the unbelievers

[XxxrubberduckiexxX]

:) good song

[Thomas199217]

Awsome Song (Can Somebody email this through to me if yes let me know)

[FlatSpottingFun]

Email this through to me?

What exactly do you mean?

[TinyDancer500]

Bravo! For the song and the info, this album owned my youth.

[BenHughesLlan]

great tune

[bccidy]

Great song. Thanks for posting.