Quelle peche !!!! il n'y a plus ça à l'hure actuelle, on entend que des molassons pré-pubères (je respecte; il faut de tout, mais trop c'est trop) alors que les années 80 ofraient une certaine fougue !!!
The Clash was so far ahead of its time they still make 99% of the bands out there today look like little kids trying to rock but not getting it done...
For all you Joe fans take a look on youtube at "4 tribute to joe strummer 14th june 2003 ".
Its in 2 parts & its well worth a watch....less than a thousand views combined & I'm 50 of them.
The live version of English civil war on a kids show in the 1st part & an incredible frenetic performance of Bhindi Bhaji at the 100 club in the 2nd part are pure gold.
"You're only as good as your drummer". One of the last great rock bands when they had Topper Headon on the drum throne. I saw them live with and without him.....there was no comparison and Jonesy knew it. Then Joe fired Jonesy (which was like firing Jimmy Page from Zeppelin for God's sake) it was all over. Such a loss. But we still have this MAGNIFICENCE.
We got to say their ain't no way to eat a budgie whole they say, until now, when we have heard what makes phonebooth stuffing seem absurd. Magnificent.
I don't get it; because Kurt Cobain didn't like an album, that means no one else with a free-thinking brain can't like it? Bullshit! Cobain was a great artist; but still just a man. Get your own opinion and level of likes and dislikes; nobody else should tell you to like or not like something.
I can imagine if you heard about punk & then your 1st album was sandinista you'd be hard pushed to reconcile the two..but he was pretty selective about all his influences..he reckons it was all black flag etc. but his first gigs were some awful prog rock bands.. journey & foreigner ...people get sidetracked by the great god of punk..there always has been and always will be just good music and shit music, the genre is irrelevant
@jaytv777 also Sandinista much more replicates the music Joe was doing with his "comeback" band,
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros; which I thought was a superior band that Joe could have played with for many years to come. Only 50 years old and had so much more music to give us!
@ThrowntoReality For fun, time to time, I've tried to construct a hypothetical 2 LP, or even 1 LP "Version" of Sandinista! Then I realize that there's just too many songs I dig. I can't pick. (Well ok I could lose most of the dub remixes, except "Silicone on Sapphire." That kicks ass.)
Joe is very much missed. We need more Joe Strummers in this world. Great album. Their best days were in this extended stay in NYC. They went from hating the US because of our govt. and empire to really engaging with and getting it. Best eulogy I read of Strummer came from Joe Ely of the Flatlanders in the mag No Depression.
@MisterBloodyMojo Sandy Pearlman called him the human drum machine when he worked with him on Give 'Em Enough Rope. Second only to Bonham IMO and Bonham had a great bass player in his rhythm section which Topper clearly did not.
I listened a long time to Rihanna and Keri Hilson, but when I went with my Father to a second hand CD shop, he bought the Clash CDs and David Bowie CDs.
Then I thought, why didnt i know about this music before?
And now, every schoolday morning my fathers mobile phone clock rings and says:
I am proud to say i loved SANDINISTA! It had such a wide range of styles. My fav's are look here, charlie don't surf, and If music could talk. let's not forget somebody got murdered and call up, rebel waltz, washington bullets, hitsville UK, and broadway (i feel asleep to that song so many times). I thought they showed ambition and wanted to break from the punk norm even before this album. They achieved it. "hot get along, get along!"
This was so WAY ahead of the curve at the time, just raw genius! first exposed to Sandinista in the 80's - It still gives me goosebumps. It's to 1980 what Exile on Main St was to the 70's. Mindblowing raw genius - The Clash at its best.
@willylowman99 Cobain trashed Sandinista!, saying that record was why he didn't get into punk rock much sooner. Which really makes you wonder what sort of guy tackles that monster before I dunno, the Sex Pistols or the Ramones or whatever. Fascinating enough, Cobain was ripping Sandinista! in his recommendation for Combat Rock. A very good record, but a little too safe compared to the Clash's previous albums.
@Eqr36P where did he say that? Nirvana is cool dont get me wrong but If the clash went toe to toe with Kurt well....come on now i think strummer would show him what it takes to be a real man. 40 songs in 3 months verses Nevermind?
@jtballnuts i dont think u know what your talking about. nirvanas music is alot more simple then the clash. Nirvana was just somthing different that was needed at that time in the early 90's the clash's time was when they competed with everyone. who was good when nirvana played?? MC Hammer? On recored sales sure nirvana wins in talent obvously the clash. Cobain wasnt that special he didnt even like his music that much he just gave in to what people wanted to hear.
@coolconfuzer yeah mc hammer and also a number 1 michael jackson album knocked off the top. yeah nirvanas music is more simple, but they're very short and catchy, cobain didnt need big songs, but thats what grunge is about. you cant say someone has no talent just because their songs sound simple. and cobain didnt give in to the people, the last studio album in utero was what cobain wanted to make, and even that is a good album.
@jtballnuts You just said that Nirvana was more popular, so they were better. I can't buy that. Nirvana was the right band at the right time, and if they had lasted longer they might have come up with a pair of albums as good as "London Calling" and "Sandinista", but they didn't. "Sandinista" could be hard to get into, being a three-record set, but it was three records of awesome, and this is why we don't need to hang on to every word that came out of Cobain's mouth. He missed it on this one.
but nirvana had 2 albums as good as them? i am not going to argue because at the end of the day i am probably wrong anyway. ive grown up listening to nirvana. but have been a clash fan for a few years and born and raised just outside of london. so really i should be backing you
@jtballnuts Nirvana's albums compare well to the first 2 or last 2 Clash albums, but I'd be a lot more impressed if they covered anything approaching the range of styles that are done well on "LC" and "Sandinista". Plus, that's a double and a triple album, so you'd need FIVE albums for a real oranges-to-oranges comparison. Of the thousands of bands all-time, the ones that have had a run of five albums like that...you can count on your fingers. Tony Iommi could count them on his fingers.
Funny people in comments keep bringing up Beatles, since The Clash really were the Beatles of the late 70s/80s in their love for exploring musical diversity. If the Fab Four were still around by that time, don't be shocked if they had too dabbled in rap.
For me Sandinista was one of their best albums along with london calling, it just doesn't fit with the taste of most Clash listeners because too different (reggae and dub)
SANDINISTA! is a mess, but what a wonderful, rewarding mess on many plays. Sad how even many Clash fans don't bother with it, because you could argue it was their best "Clash" record.
I don't give a crap that Kurt Cobain hated it, he married Courtney Love. That alone lets anyone question his opinions.
@Eqr36P They played this track at the Paradise Garage. I doubt in retrospect they would ever have given Kurt Cobain the time of day. The Clash look like they are from the street. Kurt Cobain looked like a church organist.
@Eqr36P There's absolutely some good shit on there. Somebody got murdered is one of their best songs. The problem is it swings back and forth between REALLY REALLY good, and what seems like them just fucking with you so it's hard to go "I'm gonna sit down and listen to Sandinistas". Heh.
@abortedlord Clash were purely experimenting (some work, some not) since they were trying to fill out a 3 LP album. So why not? Go for broke with something you wouldn't expect from a commercial release, not even from a supposed "anti-commercial" act.
I realized something recently: You know how recent albums/singles now have many official "Remixes"? Clash were probably just creating filler at the time, but inadvertedly in retrospect they've been revealed to be pioneering in the Remixing game.
@Eqr36P That's a really interesting take on it that never really occurred to me. I always took it as them taking the piss out of their record label; but now that you mention it none of the songs really seem "maliciously" bad. I think you're on to something there.
@Eqr36P These days I'd rather listen to Sandanista then London Calling. Sandanista went beyond, and it's such a rich collection of songs. If you married the two albums I think it would be on the same level as Quadrophenia and Exile on Main St.
Stayed up way past my bedtime to catch this when it first aired and haven't seen it since - still brilliant. Also recall Snyder's interview with them being a lot of fun - is it up on the Tube somewhere?
Yet another reason to love the Clash: their original records always sold for less than any other ones (new or reissued), with the 3LP Sandinista priced lower than double albums. At the time, I heard the band took a royalties cut to make that happen.
It's not as simple as saying Gaga sucks or Bieber and Kanye suck. It's that they are all puppets of the Music BUSINESS ! It's saccharine for the masses. No one even comes close these days in making any kind of social commentary or for that matter standing up for global injustice. Those days can never be again, everyone has been pacified. So sit down and take your medicine.
P.S. Although the sound the Clash made was nice the lyrics are often overlooked, same holds true for Rage and SOAD.
@zenbikesjohn No, you are wrong, gaga, bieber, kanye, spears, rhianna, the list is enormous, all complete cunts. Hip Hop used to have something to say back in the day though. The Clash, unstoppable missile!
@ 3012989 - The Clash invented the genera of "talking out" the lyric with music, rather than just singing and it was others that ripped it off coining the term "rap." The Clash rocks as original punk!
@Jacubjt Good observation...actually in several interviews Joe & Mick said they were into the "New Hip-Hop" movement coming out of NY at the time... In fact Punk at this time merged a lot of "Underground and Non Mainstream Elements" to make it standout from the CRAP on the radio...so you got Reggae, Ska, Boogie, Blues, Country...anything off the radar incorporated into the music...making it stand up even today+
@Jacubjt I love the Clash but this song was written in 1980, which almost 10 years after the NY hiphop scene started. "MCing" is the original term for "rap" which was coined in 1974. Old reggae singers also "talked" lyrics long before 1980. I think that The Clash was heavily influenced by these communities, and not the other way around, IMHO.
@bufon63 To true, im only here because this music is so bad. Christ Mick Jones is by far the worst guitar player of all time, i hate his white LP custom, and they sooooo were not one of the most influential band OF ALL TIME you fucker...your mum is a cum guzzling slut
@PBANDSNOW I love The Clash but Jones didn't seem to be able to get through one song live without hitting some awful bum note or wrong chord, that delay on the guitar too it's just a wall of shit unfortunately can understand why they gave him the boot.
I totally disagree, yes he played sometimes wrong notes ,chords in a detuned guitar but this is punk my friend and like Mick said, left the perfection for the records and the energy for the concerts.....I prefer seeing someone improvising and running and jumping over the scene without loose his power that the mythical ones that seem to be screwed to the stage and play the same concerts over and over again....
@PBANDSNOW aw god, another tosser, another intellect. your mother likes facials by dossers shes just met. you're a waste of world resources too, fuck off and die
1:48 Cheeeseboiga ftw
lockwyn 3 days ago
" FUCKING LONG INNIT" R.I.P Joe.
MegaOsaro 1 week ago
Quelle peche !!!! il n'y a plus ça à l'hure actuelle, on entend que des molassons pré-pubères (je respecte; il faut de tout, mais trop c'est trop) alors que les années 80 ofraient une certaine fougue !!!
SuperScand 2 weeks ago
Topper, WOW!
de132 2 weeks ago
The Clash was so far ahead of its time they still make 99% of the bands out there today look like little kids trying to rock but not getting it done...
Bigalrev 2 weeks ago
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For all you Joe fans take a look on youtube at "4 tribute to joe strummer 14th june 2003 ".
Its in 2 parts & its well worth a watch....less than a thousand views combined & I'm 50 of them.
The live version of English civil war on a kids show in the 1st part & an incredible frenetic performance of Bhindi Bhaji at the 100 club in the 2nd part are pure gold.
Treat yourself & enjoy!
ECCENTRICERIC69 1 month ago
Listening to King Crimson i can understand Robert Fripp. Feeling shame is the first step to a better self.
bratseth2 1 month ago
Now I understand why Robert Fripp from 'King Crimson' said "He was embarrassed to be part of this musical generation."
zscheuch 1 month ago
Incredible frenetic performance of a great song....Mick on fire .... Topper is well just tops ... Joe mesmeric ...Paul doing his thing.
Its criminal they cut short the explosive jam at the end.
Maybe they were worried Joe would do his immortal line at the end "fuckin' long innit"
Total class!!!
ECCENTRICERIC69 1 month ago
There will never be another like you Joe. RIP.
itsallgroovy 1 month ago 3
<3 rip joe
mssquidvicious 1 month ago
So great that one of the first ever recorded rap songs was done by an English punk band!
bennyg44 1 month ago
"You're only as good as your drummer". One of the last great rock bands when they had Topper Headon on the drum throne. I saw them live with and without him.....there was no comparison and Jonesy knew it. Then Joe fired Jonesy (which was like firing Jimmy Page from Zeppelin for God's sake) it was all over. Such a loss. But we still have this MAGNIFICENCE.
streetparade 1 month ago 2
We got to say their ain't no way to eat a budgie whole they say, until now, when we have heard what makes phonebooth stuffing seem absurd. Magnificent.
Lieu3C4 1 month ago
Super great band! I'm fortunate to have seen them play live. Joe never disappointed.
sodapapa 1 month ago
One day there was a band called The Clash, and they wrote a song called 'The Magnificent Seven'. And life was never the same again...
sharomanet 1 month ago
lol tell me your fantasies
LRodgersCharlotteLRo 2 months ago
holy reverb mick jones
speedballink00 2 months ago 16
Give it up for Tom Snyder putting the Clash on and letting them wail out the full long play version of Magnificent 7.
jellyhelm 2 months ago 4
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wantsomecake328 2 months ago
what a great choice! one of my favs of favs of the Clash
21centurygirl2011 2 months ago
they're definitely not playing it fast enough......
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ratstompmusic 2 months ago
hehe I am sweet charming
myanggeilbabe67 2 months ago
estoooooo es una banda
damn!
tupastroke 2 months ago
amazing that Joe could remember all them words aint it!!!!
crowhurst1000 3 months ago
a melhor banda de todos os tempos!!!! Esse som então, nem se fala!! Show!!!!
rlsouza2004 3 months ago 2
'what have we got for entertainment? Cops kicking gypsies on the pavement'...Talk about this music still being relevent today.
sum1stolemyideas 3 months ago 2
who gives a fuck if Kurt Cobain liked it or not? better than anything he ever did? I think it's one of their best albums.
lindseyfan94 3 months ago
TURN THE BLOODY BASS UP
Orgonagon 3 months ago
The Magnificent Four
MrBrianlangton 3 months ago 2
CHEESEBOIGAH! bblblbllblblblbblbbbllbbblbbblbbllllabaaaaaaggghhhh
iwantcompletecontrol 3 months ago
OKAY BOYS LETS PLAY IT 4 TIMES FASTER
thehardonsyeah 3 months ago
the album this is off of sandanista is brill
dugydip2662 3 months ago
great stuff..they were on fire at this point..sad thing is in 2011 no one seems to be filling these boots..
jaytv777 4 months ago
cool cute girl waiting to be discovered
PhuongOdellrj96 4 months ago
This is the most thoughful song written by the Clash.
feindhortmit 4 months ago
The first white hip hopers :)
referenti 4 months ago
I don't get it; because Kurt Cobain didn't like an album, that means no one else with a free-thinking brain can't like it? Bullshit! Cobain was a great artist; but still just a man. Get your own opinion and level of likes and dislikes; nobody else should tell you to like or not like something.
casbah1982 4 months ago
@casbah1982agreed... fucking kurt loved the exploited..go figure..
I can imagine if you heard about punk & then your 1st album was sandinista you'd be hard pushed to reconcile the two..but he was pretty selective about all his influences..he reckons it was all black flag etc. but his first gigs were some awful prog rock bands.. journey & foreigner ...people get sidetracked by the great god of punk..there always has been and always will be just good music and shit music, the genre is irrelevant
jaytv777 4 months ago
@jaytv777 also Sandinista much more replicates the music Joe was doing with his "comeback" band,
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros; which I thought was a superior band that Joe could have played with for many years to come. Only 50 years old and had so much more music to give us!
casbah1982 4 months ago
Elvis or the Beatles on Sullivan -not the greatest performance ever on TV no sir, it was the Clash on Snyder. Wave bu-bye.
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romancostalotta 4 months ago
I don't think Sandinista! is bad, but it's a mess, and there's just too much to inhale in one listen. Yeah, that's it... It's simply too much.
ThrowntoReality 5 months ago
@ThrowntoReality For fun, time to time, I've tried to construct a hypothetical 2 LP, or even 1 LP "Version" of Sandinista! Then I realize that there's just too many songs I dig. I can't pick. (Well ok I could lose most of the dub remixes, except "Silicone on Sapphire." That kicks ass.)
Eqr36P 4 months ago
This has to be the best live performance of any in history, it is incredible.
justgetsome 5 months ago
I agree. 6 sides of music, but my favorite of their albums.
econolibrarian 5 months ago
Joe is very much missed. We need more Joe Strummers in this world. Great album. Their best days were in this extended stay in NYC. They went from hating the US because of our govt. and empire to really engaging with and getting it. Best eulogy I read of Strummer came from Joe Ely of the Flatlanders in the mag No Depression.
econolibrarian 5 months ago
Listen to Sandinista! as a tripple lp and it's amazing. If you listen to it as a double cd it's nowhere near as good.
remixedremix 5 months ago
I miss Joe Strummer!!!
Rockey427 5 months ago
Give it up for Topper Headon. He was among the most underrated drummers in all of rock 'n' roll.
miggon 5 months ago 42
@miggon "The Human Drum Machine"
ThrowntoReality 3 months ago
@miggon In my opinion Topper was THE BEST drummer in rock and roll!
MisterBloodyMojo 1 month ago 2
@MisterBloodyMojo Sandy Pearlman called him the human drum machine when he worked with him on Give 'Em Enough Rope. Second only to Bonham IMO and Bonham had a great bass player in his rhythm section which Topper clearly did not.
MagickZoso 1 week ago
@miggon Damn straight. Had the subtlety of Pick Withers (Dire Straits).
rawdonwaller 3 weeks ago
Nothing better ever than the Clash. Period. End of story. Greatest Band that ever was and is> Cheeseburger! Ring ring seven AM.
shakejunt666 5 months ago
<3 Joe
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I listened a long time to Rihanna and Keri Hilson, but when I went with my Father to a second hand CD shop, he bought the Clash CDs and David Bowie CDs.
Then I thought, why didnt i know about this music before?
And now, every schoolday morning my fathers mobile phone clock rings and says:
Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.!
Move y'self to go again
Cold water in the face
Brings you back to this awful place
MimiLove200 5 months ago
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MimiLove200 5 months ago
stop!!with stupid fight like Nirvana or The Clash are better....both of them are excellent bands in their own time... ://
sickpoola 5 months ago in playlist The Clash
Im happy Strummer and Jones were able to get on for that short period of time thats why we have The Clash
brak54321 6 months ago
@itballnuts @GuySperanza Will you stop fighting?
R.I.P Joe...
Donkeyn00b 6 months ago in playlist The Clash
@Donkeyn00b :) I didn't see anything unfriendly in any of our posts. Don't be thin-skinned.
GuySperanza 5 months ago
I am proud to say i loved SANDINISTA! It had such a wide range of styles. My fav's are look here, charlie don't surf, and If music could talk. let's not forget somebody got murdered and call up, rebel waltz, washington bullets, hitsville UK, and broadway (i feel asleep to that song so many times). I thought they showed ambition and wanted to break from the punk norm even before this album. They achieved it. "hot get along, get along!"
GuitariTales 6 months ago
I was A Punk back then, now i'm Tom Snyder, What the F happened...Life Sux...Lol
Howls8 6 months ago 2
Listening to them on album was amazing, but them live is just magnificent.
MrsBrendanUrie18 6 months ago
Fuck Cobain! He was so terrible that he couldn't even live with himself! Nirvana is pure shit!
besni91 6 months ago 2
I love this song and it's so much better live :)
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ratstompmusic 6 months ago
Cheeseboygarr indeed, Joe. A lengendary band at the top of their game........Magnificent!!!
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jamestargetedindiv 6 months ago
This never gets old. I was thrilled by it then, and I still am. Joe is missed.
chief007nwfdn 6 months ago 26
the live version is so different from the studio version. i personally like this, the live version, better
Olekrok 6 months ago 3
3:57! let it rip!!!
coolconfuzer 7 months ago
feel the energy
daneeehhhh 7 months ago
bad ass drummer
Olekrok 7 months ago
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICK!!!
PBANDSNOW 7 months ago
Sandinista is far and away my favourite Clash album!
craigwithington 7 months ago
Magnificent!
kbratton2 7 months ago
what a drum sound ,, topper - the best think these guys were in practice/?// fuckin ay ay
bicklesby1 7 months ago
what a drum sound ,, topper - the best
bicklesby1 7 months ago
Pfunk.
AZIDZA 7 months ago 3
This was so WAY ahead of the curve at the time, just raw genius! first exposed to Sandinista in the 80's - It still gives me goosebumps. It's to 1980 what Exile on Main St was to the 70's. Mindblowing raw genius - The Clash at its best.
andresboulton 7 months ago 2
@andresboulton Ahead of the curve, behind Grotesque and Slates.
LiveAtReykjavik 6 months ago
What does Kurt Cobain have to do with the Clash?
willylowman99 7 months ago
@willylowman99 Cobain trashed Sandinista!, saying that record was why he didn't get into punk rock much sooner. Which really makes you wonder what sort of guy tackles that monster before I dunno, the Sex Pistols or the Ramones or whatever. Fascinating enough, Cobain was ripping Sandinista! in his recommendation for Combat Rock. A very good record, but a little too safe compared to the Clash's previous albums.
Eqr36P 7 months ago
@Eqr36P where did he say that? Nirvana is cool dont get me wrong but If the clash went toe to toe with Kurt well....come on now i think strummer would show him what it takes to be a real man. 40 songs in 3 months verses Nevermind?
coolconfuzer 7 months ago
@coolconfuzer
a worldwide platinum album within 3 months, nirvana will win hands down, sorry
jtballnuts 6 months ago
@jtballnuts i dont think u know what your talking about. nirvanas music is alot more simple then the clash. Nirvana was just somthing different that was needed at that time in the early 90's the clash's time was when they competed with everyone. who was good when nirvana played?? MC Hammer? On recored sales sure nirvana wins in talent obvously the clash. Cobain wasnt that special he didnt even like his music that much he just gave in to what people wanted to hear.
coolconfuzer 6 months ago
@coolconfuzer yeah mc hammer and also a number 1 michael jackson album knocked off the top. yeah nirvanas music is more simple, but they're very short and catchy, cobain didnt need big songs, but thats what grunge is about. you cant say someone has no talent just because their songs sound simple. and cobain didnt give in to the people, the last studio album in utero was what cobain wanted to make, and even that is a good album.
jtballnuts 6 months ago
@jtballnuts You just said that Nirvana was more popular, so they were better. I can't buy that. Nirvana was the right band at the right time, and if they had lasted longer they might have come up with a pair of albums as good as "London Calling" and "Sandinista", but they didn't. "Sandinista" could be hard to get into, being a three-record set, but it was three records of awesome, and this is why we don't need to hang on to every word that came out of Cobain's mouth. He missed it on this one.
GuySperanza 6 months ago
@GuySperanza
but nirvana had 2 albums as good as them? i am not going to argue because at the end of the day i am probably wrong anyway. ive grown up listening to nirvana. but have been a clash fan for a few years and born and raised just outside of london. so really i should be backing you
jtballnuts 6 months ago
@jtballnuts Nirvana's albums compare well to the first 2 or last 2 Clash albums, but I'd be a lot more impressed if they covered anything approaching the range of styles that are done well on "LC" and "Sandinista". Plus, that's a double and a triple album, so you'd need FIVE albums for a real oranges-to-oranges comparison. Of the thousands of bands all-time, the ones that have had a run of five albums like that...you can count on your fingers. Tony Iommi could count them on his fingers.
GuySperanza 6 months ago
The only band that matters....the rest are Posers
TheClashUSA 7 months ago
I've watched this video at least once a week for the past three years
and I'm still NOT tired of it! Watching clips of The Clash only confirms
to me how awful music is today and how much I miss The Clash and
most of the music of the late 1970's and early 1980's.
GAK62 7 months ago
i think this song is better live than recorded!
aliciayeahtotally 7 months ago
Cocaine is a hell of a drug!
chopklop 7 months ago
What actual fucking legends!!!
jimjimtrains 8 months ago
the bassline is enough. but the words my god! used to hum this everyday at work just to keep me going.
f0ggy92 8 months ago
Raw Punk!
THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS!
LonMoer 8 months ago
@LonMoer This is rap, actualy.
MrEua666 8 months ago 2
Funny people in comments keep bringing up Beatles, since The Clash really were the Beatles of the late 70s/80s in their love for exploring musical diversity. If the Fab Four were still around by that time, don't be shocked if they had too dabbled in rap.
Eqr36P 8 months ago
They don't make em like that anymore.
mermaidbra999 8 months ago
THE ONLY BAND THAT MATTERS!
Soundfreedom 8 months ago 3
Been said before.
Gotta say ti again.
The only band that matters.
ch1nmuzak 8 months ago
MAG FKNNN NIFICENT > GOTTA LOVE THE CLASH
nycbren64 8 months ago
For me Sandinista was one of their best albums along with london calling, it just doesn't fit with the taste of most Clash listeners because too different (reggae and dub)
fredlesson 8 months ago 2
The album version is pretty boring, but this performance is fantastic. Don't miss it !
matsdarwin 8 months ago
Gaga comes up AGAIN..Fuck,, I was watching Kate Bush and various other artists and that name comes up on ALL of them What the???
This is THE CLASH people!!! A little respect.xx
ozdonz 8 months ago
SANDINISTA! is a mess, but what a wonderful, rewarding mess on many plays. Sad how even many Clash fans don't bother with it, because you could argue it was their best "Clash" record.
I don't give a crap that Kurt Cobain hated it, he married Courtney Love. That alone lets anyone question his opinions.
Eqr36P 9 months ago 59
@Eqr36P I agree
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MarPWful 8 months ago
@Eqr36P I agree!
MarPWful 8 months ago
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@Eqr36P I agree!
MarPWful 8 months ago
@Eqr36P They played this track at the Paradise Garage. I doubt in retrospect they would ever have given Kurt Cobain the time of day. The Clash look like they are from the street. Kurt Cobain looked like a church organist.
PurplePunisher69 7 months ago 2
@Eqr36P Absolutely agree. I love the process they took to make Sandinista. Just so radically absurd, I love it!
BizManBasso 7 months ago
@Eqr36P There's absolutely some good shit on there. Somebody got murdered is one of their best songs. The problem is it swings back and forth between REALLY REALLY good, and what seems like them just fucking with you so it's hard to go "I'm gonna sit down and listen to Sandinistas". Heh.
abortedlord 5 months ago
@abortedlord Clash were purely experimenting (some work, some not) since they were trying to fill out a 3 LP album. So why not? Go for broke with something you wouldn't expect from a commercial release, not even from a supposed "anti-commercial" act.
I realized something recently: You know how recent albums/singles now have many official "Remixes"? Clash were probably just creating filler at the time, but inadvertedly in retrospect they've been revealed to be pioneering in the Remixing game.
Eqr36P 5 months ago
@Eqr36P That's a really interesting take on it that never really occurred to me. I always took it as them taking the piss out of their record label; but now that you mention it none of the songs really seem "maliciously" bad. I think you're on to something there.
I'll have to dig out my copy and let it play.
abortedlord 5 months ago
@Eqr36P oh really, suspicion didnt have u at him shooting himself in the face?
carlo88moe 4 months ago in playlist Liked
@carlo88moe Personally I always thought he was murdered by you know who.
Eqr36P 4 months ago
@carlo88moe Fun Fact: Police never questioned Eddie Vedder. Just saying.
Eqr36P 4 months ago
@Eqr36P bwhahahah, he probably did, that gargley voiced motherfucker
carlo88moe 4 months ago
@Eqr36P These days I'd rather listen to Sandanista then London Calling. Sandanista went beyond, and it's such a rich collection of songs. If you married the two albums I think it would be on the same level as Quadrophenia and Exile on Main St.
TheTestingGrounds 4 months ago
I don't understand the Sandinista hatred....
It's not their best....but when do the clash ever suck?
Never.
deathbypowerglove 9 months ago
who the fuck compared gaga with The Clash?
what an insult
that gaga is a talentless piece of corporate crap, aw , but she most be magic cos when she falls on stage somehow she keeps singing while she falls!
taniaarthur 9 months ago 2
i loved the clash ..they where a real life band. Anyone who grew up in inner city England in the late 70s will know what i mean
1975BIKER 9 months ago
The Clash are needed more than ever in this world we live in.
bakedzale 9 months ago
@bakedzale So true... I miss them, a lot ..
Haeliny 9 months ago
ahh mick you play great everytime ;D
TheEilisXD 9 months ago
The music industry climaxed with this performance. All you other fakers might as well give up and fuck right off!
discodisco2012 9 months ago
Fucking hell. Outstanding.
Joe should still be here, performing, writing, and continuing to amaze generations of people from all walks of life.
The Clash are a band open to everyone. They're boisterous, energetic and fucking amazing.
R.I.P Joe - sadly missed in music today.
ScottMcDonald27 9 months ago 3
fucing awesome did not get any better then this
Bobbyb9331 9 months ago
I remember running home after school so I can watch this
CLASH = WINNING!
DrEuthanasia 9 months ago
Stayed up way past my bedtime to catch this when it first aired and haven't seen it since - still brilliant. Also recall Snyder's interview with them being a lot of fun - is it up on the Tube somewhere?
Yet another reason to love the Clash: their original records always sold for less than any other ones (new or reissued), with the 3LP Sandinista priced lower than double albums. At the time, I heard the band took a royalties cut to make that happen.
MrFreako2010 9 months ago
@MrFreako2010 Yeah, the interview with Tom Snyder is on here. Just search for "The Clash Tom Snyder".
petelabeat 9 months ago
i wanna hear that dank bass line more clearly!
thedroogfulable 10 months ago
@thedroogfulable If you look up the song The Magnificent Dance, that's just the instrumentals all the way through :)
TheGudZeBadAnDaFozzy 9 months ago
It's not as simple as saying Gaga sucks or Bieber and Kanye suck. It's that they are all puppets of the Music BUSINESS ! It's saccharine for the masses. No one even comes close these days in making any kind of social commentary or for that matter standing up for global injustice. Those days can never be again, everyone has been pacified. So sit down and take your medicine.
P.S. Although the sound the Clash made was nice the lyrics are often overlooked, same holds true for Rage and SOAD.
JK
zenbikesjohn 10 months ago 4
@zenbikesjohn No, you are wrong, gaga, bieber, kanye, spears, rhianna, the list is enormous, all complete cunts. Hip Hop used to have something to say back in the day though. The Clash, unstoppable missile!
discodisco2012 9 months ago
DITTO
pv2lima 10 months ago
YOU LOT!!!!!!!!!!!!
wreyoG 10 months ago
Love their jam at the end. What a great performance and kudos to Tom Snyder for booking them.
DandyLion662 10 months ago
toppppppppp album,
ferryman1960 10 months ago
Thank whoever had the sense to film this that they did. FUCKING GLORIOUS.
prgvidiot 10 months ago
@prgvidiot Than thank Tom Snyder, This was on his tv talk show, I saw it that night, it was mind blowing!!!
162berto 9 months ago
now this is what you call music.
xocazbabes 11 months ago
1:47 does he say "Cheeseboigah?"
Theeriuth 11 months ago 3
@Theeriuth indeed he does.
discodisco2012 9 months ago
Simonon is so fucking boss.
TEEN1DOL 11 months ago
DISCO STILL SUCKS!!!
MrSchmitza 11 months ago
thats REAL rap
thecurrenshow 11 months ago
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bassmanjoe 11 months ago
@ 3012989 - The Clash invented the genera of "talking out" the lyric with music, rather than just singing and it was others that ripped it off coining the term "rap." The Clash rocks as original punk!
Jacubjt 11 months ago
@Jacubjt Good observation...actually in several interviews Joe & Mick said they were into the "New Hip-Hop" movement coming out of NY at the time... In fact Punk at this time merged a lot of "Underground and Non Mainstream Elements" to make it standout from the CRAP on the radio...so you got Reggae, Ska, Boogie, Blues, Country...anything off the radar incorporated into the music...making it stand up even today+
goldcoastmm 11 months ago 3
@Jacubjt I love the Clash but this song was written in 1980, which almost 10 years after the NY hiphop scene started. "MCing" is the original term for "rap" which was coined in 1974. Old reggae singers also "talked" lyrics long before 1980. I think that The Clash was heavily influenced by these communities, and not the other way around, IMHO.
sumgirl79 6 months ago 2
Cool, I remember watching this. Tom Snyder was the god of late night.
larkstoungeinaspic 11 months ago
I usually hate rap (I think it's shit), but this song is great.
The Clash is the best
3012989 11 months ago
this performance is ace. friggen joe strummer.....
bigwerds 11 months ago
un.fucking. believable.
slanche 11 months ago
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skinnymolink 11 months ago
The best rock video of all time and of all venues... The Tom Snyder Show? Go figure.
majorwasmydog 11 months ago
Sandinista! is their masterpiece!! No doubt.
BillGates999 11 months ago 3
what!!!!!!! totally!!!! no words!!!!
bolsoverderbys 1 year ago
I forgot the law and... I forget who won...
TheKingOfSkiffle 1 year ago
punk dub! brilliant!!!
blekdeni 1 year ago
geniuous
xXneleTHEkreleXx 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
An embarrassing bunch of poseurs. Absolute garbage.
bufon63 1 year ago
@bufon63 fuck off your mum is a cum guzzling slut
zimmermandylan1 1 year ago
@zimmermandylan1 your mum is whore :)
bufon63 1 year ago
@bufon63 your mum is a man ;)
zimmermandylan1 1 year ago
@zimmermandylan1 Have a great day :)
bufon63 1 year ago
@bufon63 one of the all time dumbass posts, congrats moron
TXpunx138 1 year ago
@TXpunx138 hey intellect, pleasure :)
bufon63 1 year ago
@bufon63 To true, im only here because this music is so bad. Christ Mick Jones is by far the worst guitar player of all time, i hate his white LP custom, and they sooooo were not one of the most influential band OF ALL TIME you fucker...your mum is a cum guzzling slut
PBANDSNOW 1 year ago
@PBANDSNOW I love The Clash but Jones didn't seem to be able to get through one song live without hitting some awful bum note or wrong chord, that delay on the guitar too it's just a wall of shit unfortunately can understand why they gave him the boot.
ogdroadsong 1 year ago
@ogdroadsong
I totally disagree, yes he played sometimes wrong notes ,chords in a detuned guitar but this is punk my friend and like Mick said, left the perfection for the records and the energy for the concerts.....I prefer seeing someone improvising and running and jumping over the scene without loose his power that the mythical ones that seem to be screwed to the stage and play the same concerts over and over again....
reallytheblues 11 months ago 3
@ogdroadsong
And yes they gave him the boot but it was the biggest mistake on Joe life.
reallytheblues 11 months ago
@PBANDSNOW aw god, another tosser, another intellect. your mother likes facials by dossers shes just met. you're a waste of world resources too, fuck off and die
bufon63 1 year ago