The Clash - Lost in the Supermarket

[REIworker]

I was once lost in a supermarket.

[Supaduck0]

@REIworker Me too. I got lost in one when I was about 4. I got scared and hid behind a clothes rack. Luckily some nice supermarket lady found me and made an announcement over the tannoy for my Mum to come get me.

[TheTheMorg]

Whoever that 1 dislike is......you're going to hell.

[Alonsitiko]

@TheTheMorg straight to hell, to be more accurate.

[TheMeatand2veg]

some poor soul seems to be lost in the supermarket

[LucyyxLillian95]

This is one of those songs i just completley get what they're on about <3

[deadpool759]

I'm all lost in the supermarket

I can no longer shop happily

I came in here for that special offer

A guaranteed personality

[loudrockacdc]

Awesome song, especially when I'm feeling lonely.

[XXpunkrockwarlordXX]

this song touches like it could no other except for maybe another clash fan

[RAMSASS]

I guess one person has never been Lost in the Supermarket

[AriadnesThreadx]

So slow and sweet. So unlike normal Clash.

[islommer]

The first 12 seconds always makes me think of Sonic Youth.

[ElectroFreakshow]

One of my favorite songs of all time among other such as Gary Numan - Stormtrooper In Drag, The Human League - Blind Youth, and David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust.

[sammullins963258741]

@ElectroFreakshow The Human League? Dear god...

[ElectroFreakshow]

@sammullins963258741 Oh dear god someone has a different taste in music! Gimme a break...

[charlieshady1]

This was playing in my head when i was lost in morrisons the othe day!

[usernamebada42]

London Calling is one of my favorite albums of all time

[HaroldAFowls]

Is this sung my Joe or Mick? It sounds more like Mick.

[Apanzon]

@HaroldAFowls It's Mick. You can hear Joe near the end.

[NorwegianGodofRock69]

They should seriously play this on the loud speakers at actual supermarkets. Suburban loneliness is all too common.

[misterpeaky]

@NorwegianGodofRock69 You are sooooo right!

[illestvillian123]

favorite song ever

[gauss650]

i love mick's voice

[flemmy]

i cringe at the bass near the end, but what an awesome song.

[cpharlan]

no dislike cool a song we can all agree on punk is awesome

[ColdOasisU2]

they are in the same league with Lou Reed, Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan and their prophetical rock

[Angrykitty19]

This is the only song that has the lyrics 'I save coupons from packets of tea' and can still be emotional and beautiful.

[ParrinFloyd2112]

No one is hating (Y)

[itsalittleturtle22]

This song gets stuck in my head so does spanish bombs. Now that I think about it they have a bunch of songs that if I hear them they are stuck in my head for at least a day.

[silverideas]

They describe the world truthfully and prophetically.

[christiansurf12]

I work in a super market I really feel this song

[StraightOutaPortland]

this song scared me when i was little

[Burleism]

NEW YEARS EVE 1980........



[PhoeFira]

Blasting this at 4AM, dancing like a douche and not giving a fuck.<3

[rutaloot]

@PhoeFira haha I thought I was the only one that had done that :)

[paeganmushroom]

And the silence makes me lonely.

[myFISTwavesHELLO]

probably my favorite clash song. ever.

[supermegaowner]

I'm 16 and i bought London Calling the other week and this has to be their best song and one of my personal favorites of all time.

[nonamebrand0]

anything off London Calling is amazing, best album EVER.

[huskerrock1]

@nonamebrand0 i agree better than the beatles white album

[Iamafatkid1]

This most likely my favorite clash song, no questions about it.

[QueerChickenGurl]

this was playing in starbucks the other day :) x

[OakRidgePunk777]

I'm sorry, don't be offended by my lack of understanding (some people get like that), I understand the song is about loneliness, but can someone explain why to me?

[Mattylce]

best clash song ever

[piudi1]

I love this song

[666dmn]

Great song from a brilliant album. My big brother bought me the album for my birthday (must be 30 years ago now at least !!). Still in its plastic wrapping, never been opened. (Only because my sister bought me it too ! haha - I opened the one she bought me !!). The vinyl is wearing thin now !!. Great band with some brilliant songs.

[jukka4president]

won't find a musical gem like this on MTV...and for all intents and purposes, i'm going to spell it out. MUSIC television. not reality shows, not degenerate shows like skins, not even shows about in the closet guidos and slutty guidettes. M-U-S-I-C! anyway, great song lol

[0624ize]

@jukka4president

DAMN STRAIGHT, could not agree more. MTV blows donkey d1ck.  I do not even know why it is called MTV, just a bunch of realityy shows portraying americans as a bunch of douchey RUBES. Just know there are some still good yanks left that appreciate good music and are greatful for great rock n roll musicians like the clash, strummer, pistols, stone roses, oasis, zeppelin, trex,etc. Thanks as always to the brits for leading the way years ahead of the time with awesome music.

[gunsnroses0000]

@0624ize Oh relax. You're MTV hatred is nothing special; aside from angsty teen girls I don't know anyone who sticks up for MTV anyway.

Most of those bands you listed are overplayed and boring anyways. American music is just as good as British, plus American rap blows British rap out of the water

[dingorooo]

Still true after all these years!

[persevere4]

I have read that this the favorite of some listeners, purchased the album when it first came out I was a big Clash fan, I always kind of partial to this song though I like others too but this one I always would return to and then I have seen at least two say this is their favorite of the double Sandinista issue I feel vindicated I knew this was a way Coooool Song. yeah and I have been lost in many a supermarket I hate to shop have to eat so down the aisles I wander lost in the super market

[JESSESEIBEL]

Sorry for sounding like a music nerd in which everyone hates because it looks like Star Trek to jocks, but E MAJOR IS THE BEST KEY!!!

[beatlesbugmcsporran]

This song is amazing!! I remember wandering around TESCO one day listening to my i-pod and I stopped to talk to my friend. When I left, I discovered my family had disappeared and I searched the whole shop getting really panicked and what song should come onto my I-POd but this!! it was quite ironic really!! And it turns out my mum and brother had walked away home without me, thinking that I'd already gone home!!

[DevoDevoT]

This album was perfect, there's not a clunker on it.

[perrydear]

God bless Joe Strummer!

[handsomedevil98]

@perrydear Nice comment! but dose'nt Mick Jones sing this?

[wellesradio]

@handsomedevil98 Yes. But he didn't write it. Strummer wrote this from the point of view of Mick and then gave him the song to sing. Joe was such a great songwriter.

[SrTonyClifton]

@perrydear - And god bless Mick Jones!

[chadmerritt1]

@perrydear God is lucky to have Joe there with him. Can you imagine what it's like there with Joe Strummer, Johnny Cash, and Bob Marley in the same place at the same time.

[seangavin123]

@perrydear John Graham Mellor

[fastsnake]

So right...

[hardcoresugarfan]

love love love love love love love

[Switchblade47]

I love the clash so much, but i still consider this song a guilty pleasure.

[Lariekoekje]

Favourite Clash song ever, I think. This is never going to leave my mind. It leaves a beautiful impression of a very usual loneliness. It's good to stop and realize just how common it is.

[2d165]

@Lariekoekje It's about consumerism, you know that right.

It protrudes very well in modern society.

[DavidfromBA]

@2d165 They're not mutually exclusive. The consumerism you allude to can lead to alienation and loneliness for a lot of us, or at least be a significant contributing factor. My roundabout way of saying I think you and Lariekoekje are both right, actually.

[ajarnba]

@DavidfromBA totally



[HurricaneTBag]

@2d165 The analogy is about consumerism, but it's such an extremely brilliant analogy. There's a lot more there than just what Joe Strummer wrote about.

[PartyBoy64]

@HurricaneTBag

Mick Jones wrote it. 

[johnnyrocket566]

@Lariekoekje your psychic arnt you.

[Zeokoz]

@Lariekoekje

oooh,I like that - a very usual loneliness. too too true...

[riccam1994]

love the clash

[AntonioDR88]

hahaha pinkperson4ever