The Clash - Stay Free

The Clash sing Stay Free

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• Stay
• Free
• The
• Clash

[AbbeyRoadkill1]

The Clash aren't one of the best British punk bands ever. They are THE GREATEST PUNK BAND OF ALL-TIME, PERIOD. They're the ONLY band that matters. Bands like the Ramones, the Sex Pistols, and Nirvana are special, but The Clash were simply on another level. They could play any kind of music (not just punk) and absolutely KILL IT! Long live The Clash!

[nightgrip]

No one mentions the awesome and creative bass line throughout this whole song.......so brilliant.

[ytoshi10]

親友と呼べるヤツが（俺が思ってるだけ？)2人いる。

そのウチの1人を思い出す。

若かかりし頃...泣きそうになるけど

[SNemo13]

@nightgrip It is what makes the song!

[FlorenceGrin]

@thewhochilipepperU22 i ask myself that aswell

[thewhochilipepperU22]

Music now days is just shit. What happened to rock? Why did it die off?

[ahhhitsrob]

@AbbeyRoadkill1 Alright, I can't argue with that because we'd never know. We've moved a bit from our original point but overall I do agree with you. Thank you for this conversation, it was very informative.

[AbbeyRoadkill1]

@ahhhitsrob Obviously, being from Seattle, Nirvana hold a special place in my heart. That being said, I don't think they were as great as The Clash (although if Kurt Cobain had lived they would have had a chance to be). I just think The Clash were a very, very, very special band that put out many mind-blowing albums, something that Nirvana wasn't able to do because they weren't around long enough.

[AbbeyRoadkill1]

@ahhhitsrob I was 17 in 1991, living in Seattle, and saw the tsunami that was Nirvana up close and personal. They literally wiped out everything in their path-- and as a result anyone who didn't sound like them had a hard time making money during that time. In my experience, they really did unite punks and metalheads under one banner for those few short years they were around. Nirvana CALLED THEMSELVES a punk band because their 'musical ethics' were rooted in punk music much more than in metal.

[ahhhitsrob]

@AbbeyRoadkill1 I'm not going to question that, seeing as you were there and knowing one of my favorite metal bands, Nevermore, were forced to break their former band due to their label wanting them to sound more like Nirvana. All I can speak for is all my peers and their rents who were around back then, were metalheads and didn't appreciate punk and call Nirvana metal. Maybe in other places it's different but I think you living there, you're the one who saw it that way, not the mainstream.

[AbbeyRoadkill1]

@ahhhitsrob The cool thing that Nirvana did was-- for a short time in the early 1990's-- they managed to unite punk music and metal music into one thing. That a pretty impressive feat if you think about it. I was born and raised in Seattle and all the Nirvana fans I know absolutely despise Korn and are 'lukewarm,' at best, when it comes to Metallica.

[ahhhitsrob]

@AbbeyRoadkill1 Nirvana didn't revive punk (in my opinion) for one reason, their fans. Their fans were the people who liked heavy metal more than punk and when Nirvana disband, those people went back to Metallica and found new artists like Korn who have nothing to do with punk. Nirvana did have the punk edge without a doubt but to the mainstream audience, they didn't see the punk in most cases.