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  • Strummer-Jones best songwriting duo EVER (sorry John&Paul)

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  • In the album booklet it says Lee Perry is a producer. Very good track.

  • The only band that matters.

  • @MrRightNow469 I bet you can add 10 more...like Gang of Four...Stranglers....etc....yo­u can't like the clash and not like anything else as relevant. Strummer would have put his toe up your ass.! LOL.... Honor his smarts and tell us who else you like! ;-)

  • i add one like for you thero........

    Good song thanks England for this treasure,THE CLASH.

    Merci.

  • one of the greatest bands this country has produced,they changed the face of music and will

    still be one of the greatest in 50 years time.

  • u love the 'whoo whoo' n little bits he did more than Strummer? not avin a pop by the way!

  • God, I just love Mick's voice. <3

  • 9 years, shit :(

  • R.I.P. Joe.

    9 years today.

  • perfection

    

  • It's "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais." I have OCD.

  • Still 20 dislikes? Bitches...

  • I heard this between midnight to six for the first time in Jamica

  • probably my fave song of their's.

  • "Asking for some wealth distribution" The Clash saw Obama's bullshit coming ...

  • @AlwaysRecording LMAO you obviously don't understand this song or what the Clash were about.

  • :)

  • "If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway."

  • For some reason this song always seems to kind of choke me up....

  • The Clash were never 'sell outs', but they may have had to 'sleep with the devil' to get their message out there to the masses.

    Most groups unfortunately have to do this as the moguls in the music industry just wanna make money out of ANY band and ANY person with talent.

    But the band kept hold of  their political and ethical ideals regardless of bowing to 'the man' when they had no other choice but to do so.

  • @u2mixer the clash never sold out !! they did there thing from the early days to the last !! the only white band that could play reggae like a black man !! i come from a place where its multicultral and we listen to the clash in the blues as much as we listen to reggae !! big up to the mighty clash !! from THE BARTON HILL MASSIVE !!

  • Why doesnt this song have more views??

    Spread it guys!

  • love this song so much

  • I love the reggae/ska sounds the clash put into some of their songs, the bass lines always work really well with the guitar

  • This is music, this is passion, these are lyrics that mean something- it is so sad that most kids today see only shallow, hyped 'stars' and think the x factor is their route to stardom and money- and of course every one of them is gonna make it!!! We are all in this life together so let us all move together to make the world better for every single person. Thanks Joe, love ya xx

  • My stepdad loves this song!

  • 23 years listening to this song (and all of the clashes) and still getting gooze bumps everytime I listen to them. I love 'em!!!

  • one of the greatest fkin tunes ever written .as for the lyrics...

  • 21 dislikes? fuuuuck off! !!

  • another fkin classic by a band that will live 4ever..

  • the first Clash bassline I learned.

  • fuck maggie thatcher, fuck david cameron, infact... FUCK THE TORIES SCUM

  • Heave Ho Vevo!

  • SIMPLE. CLASH 2 U DIE

    

  • Joe Strummer playing it live in Bologna, Italy (1999) on my channel

  • fuckin great, spit da true in our faces & we say we love the clash but we still fighting (each others) for a good place under the lighthing, it´s a shame.

  • @burroughsification well said..........Peace

  • My favourite Clash song ever, and i was lucky and old enough to have watched them live in 1980,,,, oh the memories.......r.i.p. joe.

  • If i say "i wish i was older" people reply with "don't wish your life away" but i would gladly do so to see The Clash live!

  • @SirSpanna me being one of them, id much rather listen to the clash, the damned, the stranglers than biebr, jls or any x factor crap

  • Best Clash song ever.

  • @kotreez for me theres to many great songs to pick a favourite

  • @SirSpanna Telling me to fuck off? Really mature.. I don't know loads of kids who listen to punk, and i was making a point. There's really no need for you to get involved because i stated my age, is there.?

  • @kaleidoscopeofhope

    As far as odd music for someone to listen to goes, one of the most famous punk bands ever really isn't very unique. There are plenty of thirteen-year-olds out there who like this stuff, you're not special.

  • @cornishpastie9 talking about people -i- know.

  • @cornishpastie9 talking about people -i- know.

  • @SirSpanna

    I wasnt looking for special points? I was stating my age, because it was relevant to my point, which is that i'd have loved to have watched them live, and i obviously cant, theyre my favourite band, and it was the first music i ever listened to (my father was a huge fan..) and most people my age think its weird to listen to this.

  • Yeah, saw 'em live in Birmingham Top Rank, twice 1977/78 aged 14/15. Blew my mind, best live gigs I've ever been to.

  • hey whats the distinction of :"hammersmith palais"? im not english, but im a huge clash fan. rip joe.

  • My husband worked at Oxford Circus underground station in about 1983, he was in the Argyll pub on his lunch break. Started talking to the bloke next to him at that the bar it was Jo. They talked for about half an hour about everything and nothing which is the great thing about people in pubs. I used to love the Palais 1976-79 over 27 nights on Wednesday when I was 19.

  • im 13.

    and these guys are my all time favourite, and this is one of my favourite of their songs.

    i just hate the fact i'll never be able to see them live,

    and people laugh when i listen to this music. but honestly, i prefer this over the mainstream crap they only listen to because its in the charts.

    freaking enjoy the music...<3

  • @kaleidoscopeofhope no one cares

  • I managed to crash a soundcheck in either 1980 or 1981 at the Coventry Locarno and asked Mick Jones if I could have his autograph. "Do you want it ?" he asked sneeringly, seeing I was dressed in my office suit. "Yes", I said truthfully. So he signed the back of my business card,"to Ian, from Mick Jones (GTR.) I still have it after 30 years and I can still remember the gig which was fucking great. They began the set with "I fought the law". What a fucking band.

  • The only band that matters

  • aw man. joe is dead. what a fkn loss. a legend. forever and ever for years to come. never to be forgotten. a little guy with a big voice and big statements for the 99% of us little guys. gonna miss u , joe.

  • Dont understand how there can be 17 dislikes for this,are they crazy???

  • One of the best songs ever~!

  • I dont think its about if the Pistols or Clash are better at heart they were two different styles with the same message, the Clash clearly had the bigger catalog and many many amazing songs, at the same take the Pistols had one true album with many decent songs, both are amazing acts. The Clash a bit more so due to the longevity.

  • my fave clash song evah!

  • Saw the Clash at the Manchester Apollo on their '16 Tons' tour 9long time ago). Brilliant, they played for more than 2 hours without even stopping for breath.

  • Is there any justice in this world - if there is can anyone explain why then the Sex Pistols are more famous than the Clash? - even though at best they only wrote 4 decent songs (and one over-fondly remembered debut album)?

  • song about punk culture being the thing it hates - senseless and about money. i havent come across a single music subculture that hasn't turned out to be for suburban kids to spend their parents money and stand out fashionably. makes me depressed. at least theres a song about it. after the depression of this realization, comes a wave of energy from the depths of the soul to DO SOMETHING

  • I played this song for my newborn nephew as the first song he ever listened to out of the womb.

    Hopefully the seed I planted will grow.

  • @AStrummerNamedJoe You have the awesomest user name ever!

  • This is quite simply one of the greatest and most important British songs ever made. Its a piece of British musical history.

  • another clash classic,,rip joe ...miss you

  • now thats a tale to tell :D

  • This isn't my favourite Clash song musically, but lyrically it blows me away.

  • Cara, eu curto muito THE CLASH.

    Música obrigatória para salvar sua noite fria...\o/

  • I'm so glad I was introduced to the Clash, they're genuinely one of the best bands ever, and this is coming from a 13 year old girl xD

  • @emilysedgwickk I have some faith in the younger generations now. :)

  • @emilysedgwickk are 13 year olds even allowed to have a YouTube? naughty, naughty

  • @emilysedgwickk I'm sorry kid. Not to put you down. But the clash were sellouts. That's an historical fact. But they were legends and part of the first wave of punk movement nevertheless.

  • @omerta0414 so if you're a writer and your books become famous and you sell more, are you being a sellout even if your books are still the same style and have the same message?

  • @aNxello Ok. First of all, your explanation made absolutely no sense. The clash were sell outs because they signed up to a major record company. And Joe Strummer was a socialist. He gave up his ideas just to earn more bucks and gain more fans. Not to stereotype punks. But those are the rules. They're like modern green day. And yeah. They still have liberal messages in their songs but so did green day and RATM. They're all sellouts. No offense to the fans.

  • @omerta0414 "Complete Control" is pretty clear about how the Clash felt about singing to a major label. They never realized that the record company would own their soul, so the best they could do was make sure the fans never got a raw deal. If the Clash wanted to "earn more bucks" they had MANY chances. Could've sold double & triple albums for double & triple price, or played 7 Bonds shows & skipped town, or reunited for million$ of dollar$, or done butter commercials. Naive? Yes. Sell-outs? No.

  • @iwantcompletecontrol *signing lol

  • @iwantcompletecontrol the problem with signing to small labels is they cant always distribute the records i mean the buzzcocks would never had made it big if they had`nt signed to UA

  • @omerta0414 You are so wrong.

  • @omerta0414 Please explain to me how the Clash were sellouts.

  • @omerta0414 "Not to put you down." but address em' as kid? A weak attempt to belittle there. Before you start stating more "historical facts" you should first entail what a sellout is because last time I checked, popularity and record sales does not define the ridiculous and ambiguous notion, that is 'sellout.' The Clash were a band ahead of their time, they took stands against racism and government/police brutality in an era of ignorance and should never be associated with the word sellout. 

  • lovin this playlist

  • If Adolf Hitler flew in today, they'd send a limousine anyway.

  • my fave record of all time, cheers for uplaoding

  • I once sang,"I'm only..looking for fun." and opened my microwave and there were cupcakes piled high.

    Moral of the story? Sing the Clash if ya want cupcakes.

    I dunno...I love the Clash

  • I always sing "Nothin' but porkchops all night"....I dunno why.

    Love the Clash,btw xP

  • Best song ever written.

  • today's music got nothing on the clash 

  • this song was sung to me when i was born

  • Fan-tas-tic lyrics, and an amazing delivery. Hands down.

  • Joe Strummer is an absolute legend. His blending of rock and reggae was sheer genius. This is simply the best song ever!

  • Every Lyric in this song is brilliant.... baggining on the London Reggae, racial disharmony, politics and especially disdain for their fellow punk rockers turning rebellion into money...

  • i dont care what they say but the clash made punk or music more dynamic and express full no other bands like the Sex Pistols and Ramones , added organ, piano, keyboards, harmonica, acoustic guitar, saxophones and HORNS!!!! make music more tastier and more enjoyable not for only punks but in human beings.

  • such a great song about a great scene. it disturbs me when people on utube trash music that isn't punk or metal or rap or pop. this was a scene where race and background didn't matter. this song is a tribute to the greats of reggae and ska from the time period. Marley did his own tribute with punky reggae, in which he praises punk music,including the clash and the damned. it is sad to see that music has become as segregated as it has these days. wish there were bands like this today. rip joe s

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  • the clash played dublin cork belfast etc when plenty didn't.strummer proved you didn't have to be a dead ender to be a half decent punk.some geezer,some band.

  • What a brilliant band, too bad I was too young to ever see them live. Have all the albums and a bunch of vinyls from my dad :D Love The Clash so much

  • more than 30 years i love it , the Crash.

  • I had a chance to see Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros in 1999 - but I had an audition for faackn Dawsons Creek the next day - so I stayed home and studied. Didnt get the part. Missed Joe Strummer. WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE.

  • isn't the song actually called "(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais"?

  • greatest rock n roll band the world ever saw the most sadly missed front man in the history of the world joe i will never forget you you were an inspiration to a generation and you were the sountrack to my youth love you still and always will R.I.P

  • One of THE great bands.

  • The Clash rules.

  • BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!

  • All over people changing there votes along with there overcoats , if Adolf Hitler flew in today they'd send a Limousine anyway!

    I'm so glad that I lived to see the Punk era & to know Jo Strummer & the clash !!!!

  • Amazing song

  • Liked the clip from Rude boy more...

  • This is a quality track.

  • god i love this song and this band!!! <3

  • Paul is laying down some AMAZING bass lines...

  • long live THE CLASH......real music......unlike the manufactured SHIT what is being produced today

  • RIP Joe indeed! Best band ever!

  • it pisses me off that rolling stone would do a huge clash article and put that throw-away, no-talent, pissed-pants, little worm justin bieber on the cover in a leather jacket with studs. Isn't the clash a little more important than a passing fad among adolescent american girls?

  • @TheFarnation yes.

  • I remember being in my little nip nop, fudgeing my huggies and my Daddy was playing this on the radio as he worked his fingers to the bone and I stole his Lime Pickle sandwhich :) Love my Doi

  • This is my favourite song of all time.

  • @panca00 I dont care about signing to record companys thats away to get you music heard . i just dont like the sex pistols and johnny rotten. i also just remmeberd he went on that shit tv show, im a celebrity get me out of here or im a hasbin get me back in the public eye ??

  • @panca00 yeah but they didnt have to do a reunion tour and johnny rotten doent have to advertise butter. sell outs!

  • @joshjs667 The butter commercial did make me cringe. Johnny Rotten, at least, seems to have a desire for fame these days and when the Sex Pistols stood for so much anti establishment and you see him doing such commercialised stuff, it kind of makes you wonder whether it was all an act.

  • Turning rebellion into money *Cough* Sex pistols *cough* *cough*

  • best bass line ever

    

  • Massive clash fan and wudda given my left nut to meet Joe

  • listin to this song everyday to get me up and pumped!!!

  • Searching for the Clash on Youtube, and Sony keeps telling me that their music is blocked in my country. I'm sitting in fucking North London, about ten miles away from the real Hammersmith Palais, and it's fucking blocked here.

  • @Useless2112 that is BULLSHIT check out lifehacker channel on youtube he will show u how do get rid of that annoyance

  • @Useless2112 Hahahahaha, I have the same problem some times and think the same thing, 'im living just a few miles away from where this shit was made and your telling me its blocked in my country' loooool. Glad Im not the only frustrated one

  • @Useless2112 yeah well it`s possible that you are actually living in an alternate reality with no Clash in England? Maybe ,in your reality someone else got the Clash ,say, Kazahstan ?

  • @SRKIKI902 Hey, I hope so. That means there's still a Clash out there somewhere!

  • @Useless2112 its North fucking London :P xD

  • This song makes the hairs on my neck stand up

  • I'm lucky enough to have seen the Clash...I wanna share a great memory. Me and a mate had travelled to Manchester and managed to blag in for the soundcheck. As it went only Topper and Paul were rechecking drum and bass sound. Bouncers tried to chuck me and my mate out and Topper jumped over his kit and siad "Leave em alone, they're fuckin with me". I was 15. Same night we ended up backstage, cos now we're Topper's mates, Strummer hands me a Coke can with rum in. Memories forever!

  • @TheMARKELA1 lol epic, story my friend.

  • @TheMARKELA1 I too was about 15 when I saw them but with no Mick Jones :(

  • @TheMARKELA1 Thanks for sharing that memory, The Clash will live forever. Great to hear that they were as cool in person as their music.

  • @TheMARKELA1 I would shoot my mother to be you man. Well almost. Lucky man!

  • @TheMARKELA1 Lucky you man i would ALMOST shoot my mother to be you!

  • @TheMARKELA1 Nice one!! A memory to be treasured!!

  • @TheMARKELA1 That is fucking awesome. I would give just about everything I have to trade you that.

  • @TheMARKELA1

    thats going to live with your for ever strummer is defo the best

  • @TheMARKELA1 You have no idea how jealous i am of you, being able to have such a close encounter with god!

  • @TheMARKELA1 - That might the coolest story Ive ever heard... I read once that ,I think , it was Howard Devoto, who was waiting outside the studio in manchester when they were recording Bankrobber, and they let him in while the session went on

  • @TheMARKELA1 those guys were the most approachable band ever. I had to pass just 2 guys to get to them in Rome in 1982, 1 guy in 1979 in London. They were true to their words, they were really just like the rest of us

  • @TheMARKELA1 You lucky S. O . B. Never got the chance, but I've been a fan for many, many year's. Thank's for the story. They were alway's like that with there fan's. How was the show? What year was the show?. You know if Joe was with us now we might have been able to see them now. I 'm glad you got to see them .

  • @TheMARKELA1 incredible

  • @TheMARKELA1 Was that the London Calling tour, around 1982 by any chance?

  • @TheMARKELA1 that is so fucking cool it's unreal.

  • @TheMARKELA1 Fair fuckin' play man.

  • @TheMARKELA1 that must have been a kick ass night man THE CLASH FOREVER

  • @TheMARKELA1 I think you're the luckiest man ever! Seriously, I regret not to have seen them on stage.

  • @TheMARKELA1

    You Lucky Man!!!

  • @TheMARKELA1 the greatest comment i ever read posted on this website. thanks for sharing.

  • @TheMARKELA1 magic stuff thanks for sharing

  • Me and a mate stole a car and followed The Clash all over the country back in 78, happy happy days! : )

  • Joe I LOVE YOU!!!

  • It's a punky reggae party!

  • @AmericanPowerBase yea but name a good punk band that was formed in the last 11 years? I was talking to a guy about starting a band and me and him play guitar and he said "i`ll be lead guitar and you can be rhytm" I said that is fine as I jus wanna play guitar,then he replied with "really, haha that means ill be more famous than you cause lead is more famous" I just said WTF and walked away. It seems to be a thing now of being more famous and rich then making great music with this generation .

  • turning rebellion into money!

  • LAST TRAIN TO SCARSDALE!!!! LAST TRAIN TO.......SCARSDALE!!!!!

  • @AmericanPowerBase I would put Rancid, Bad Religion, and Gorilla Biscuits before MXPX

  • @AmericanPowerBase Yuh what? "yot snarp"? Eh? You can buy my Clash Collection. But I'll tell you now Son: it won't be cheap.Amen!

  • Joe Strummer. Fucking Legend

  • the clash will live forever but christ will outlast them

  • Joe Strummer I want you back <3

  • funnily enuff Baildoggg the nxt one i'm playin is Capitol Radio 2

  • turning rebellion into money 

  • umm..... wow

  • wish i was around to see them live

  • just phone up Robin Hood

  • RIP Joe Strummer

  • Reggae/Punk Rock

    Gran Rolaa!

  • kuddos to airdrie2007 he seems to know the REAL truth

  • only time will tell

  • The Clash were/are actually real, whereas "Jesus" is a fictitious fairy tale used to scare children and those who are scared of death.

  • from the heart boys,,,from the heart...

  • how can you compare the clash with jesus