The best punk album, and it's not even close

The best punk album, and it's not even close.

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close to wot

There's literally not one punk sounding song on there

sex pistols is best punk album. all others were inferior knock offs

Elvis sucks

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>post punk

*blocks ur path* nothin personnel kid

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I hate this backward-looking pile of shit so much. It makes me so angry thinking of what an opportunity they wasted. 1979/1980 was a pivotal period in rock/pop/punk music. The original punk wave had died, new synthesizer technologies were starting to become commercially available after the success of bands like Kraftwerk, and rock bands had a unique opportunity to take the corpse of the genre into brand new territories. The Clash’s contemporaries like PiL started making obtuse music that was unrecognizable as rock or punk and, though it confused the hell out of fans at the time, is still relevant and influential today.

The Clash, on the other hand, took the safest route possible and went back to their ska, rocksteady, and old-time rock n roll “roots”. The result is a critically acclaimed turd full of 4 chord verse-chorus-verse ditties and major key melodies that challenges and offends nobody and could just as easily have been made in 1969 as 1979. They weren’t a bad band, so to speak. They could have done literally ANYTHING at this point in rock history and still had an audience. The tragedy is that they made the conscious decision to go “back to basics” which is the the ultimate cop-out for a rock band. Joe Strummer can suck my dick.

Assumed this to be a copypasta but actually valid critique. As much as I like this album its about as far away from punk as they could have got.

Its actually a pretty soft listen, but for me its fun if you get into the spirit of it as a bunch of fun, timeless rockabilly numbers. In terms of influence, it must be close to nil but I really like the little tales told on The Right Profile, Lost in the Supermarket.

Not a pasta. I just typed this shit out by hand nigger. I HATE THE FUCKING CLASH GOD DAMN IT!

based and PiLpilled

AINT NO CRIME IF THERE AINT NO LAWS

the only thing punk about this album is the edgy cover photo (disregarding the Elvis parody font which is just gay) and I’m half convinced it’s meant to be ironic given how tame the actual music is
this guy gets it

The Ramones and Wire were better.

One of the better posts on Yas Forums right now.

and out come the wolves is better than most shit punk. you're going to call me a normie now but it's a solid album.

That album is good unironically

Yeah it is good

London Calling was not even the best punk album to come out in 1979, never mind the best punk album of all time. The Clash really hit their peak with their self-titled debut, which has the same themes and messages without all the unnecessary weight pulling it down. While there are good songs on London Calling like the title track and Lost in the Supermarket, there is also unnecessary filler like Four Horsemen and Lover's Rock which begs the question: Did it really need to be a double album? Was the extra disc of material at all necessary? I am sure The Clash could have put out a more consistent single LP with some of the better songs on the album. Also, the more polished production quality makes them sound like a swank New York New Wave band, rather than a working class punk band.

If you want to hear the greatest punk rock albums listen to:

>Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
>Husker Du - Zen Arcade
>Germs - (GI)
>Black Flag - My War

All albums which I would say are better punk albums than London Calling.

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It ain't the Ramones, that's for sure. Fucking overdriven boy band sounding mfs.

Just good songs, no extra jerkoff bullshit. What punk have always been.

based

>The Clash
Fuck off with this Ska garbage trying its hardest to be Punk. The clash is the most unauthentic """""punk""""" band ever. Poser magnetic.

It's not even a punk album, really.

Amazing album. I don't really listen to anything else by Rancid though, except maybe a few Rancid 2000 jams.

Based.
And Strummer sounds like "estrume", which means manure in Portuguese.

This is a great album with a great set of songs. Who the fuck cares they didnt go some obtuse post punk route. This is better than if they had done and has real song. What is the fucking difference between a bunch of obtuse rock bands that sound the same and ska bands that sound the same. Neither is better than the other. This was the more authentic route for the clash. This was the natural route for them because they were a band telling stories about people, playing music of the people and this is a warm sentiment to that. It was natural fot John Lydon to go the other route because he is a misanthropic nihilistic scumbag. Maybe at the time PiL was forward thinking. But looking back on it all no one fucking cares aslong as its a good record.

are there punk bands anymore? seems like it all died off, which is a shame.

>What is the fucking difference between a bunch of obtuse rock bands that sound the same and ska bands that sound the same

The whole argument is that these other bands DIDN'T sound the same for once. They didn't sound like each other and they definitely didn't sound like anything that had come before. The late 70s was one of the rare periods in rock history where bands could get away with taking risks and making new and challenging styles of music while still somehow maintaining an audience. This is because the punk movement gave the rock scene a hard reset at the same time that the development of electronic instruments started to really flourish.

You seem to have no understanding just how precious and rare the musical climate was in 1979. This was a once in a lifetime opportunity for bands to explore new territory that had never even EXISTED before, and many bands did, not least among them PiL (whose guitarist/synth player was an original member of the Clash btw). The field was open wider than it had been at any point since then, and maybe ever will be again. And what did the Clash do? They took the safe route like the pussies they are. They squandered an extremely precious opportunity to truly break new ground and instead decided to focus on political, working class LARP ska garbage that was a decade or more behind its time. I don't care how much you or any individual likes the songs on it. It is an objectively regressive album that was a tragic waste of talent and resources.

Fucking well said