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[@lpluva1]

The Clash is one of those bands that influenced so many people that it's impossible to imagine what modern music would sound like without them.

[@cup_cuppy_cuppers5817]

You're so full of sh*t. The Clash influenced nothing; THEY were influenced. Punk did NOT start with them; they didn't create a new genre. So, no, it's not hard to imagine what music would sound like without them.

[@jessicaleblanc-nh1yl]

The Clash are their very own. There is only one. Their music, their sounds - So, intelligent, gratie, hard & beautiful! Some of the best of their time. Politically aware, with a bit of wise humor tucked in, as well. Thanks for sharing.

[@marlew6629]

The only fucking band that matters with one of the greatest albums of all time.

[@stevetanner3019]

One of the greatest albums of that time.

[@randallpetersen9164]

With probably THE greatest live rock photo of all time on the cover. And to think the photographer didn't want them to use it at first.

[@SandsDolphin]

And an Iconic photograph for the album cover, taken at a live show, in Hammersmith's Odeon in London, hell yeah, I live by the River, the video was filmed on a barge, on the River Thames!

[@lpluva1]

Joe chose Strummer for his stage name because he could only strum chords. He "didn't go in for all the fiddly bits." which is how he referred to lead playing.

[@AP-gb3eh]

The Clash was such a startling breath of air . The band was great and Joe Strummer was just a sincere character so charismatic. Taken way too soon, he truly wanted people to wake up

[@alchemy-oi8xf]

Yep, the intro makes you sit up and listen. The Clash managed to retain their punk angst sound, even while incorporating various other genres--reggae, funk, etc.--into their music

[@stephenreiner1523]

The Clash is one of those bands that did it their way.

[@shawnk7832]

I wanna point out that its cool that the real punk is now found. IMHO this band is the Top Of The Top in Punk. This is best of Punk.

[@helenchristie6530]

Should I stay or should I go is an absolute banger!

[@caros4734]

The legend that is The Clash.

[@ckayuha2351]

Throw out your expectations when it comes to The Clash. They take from many different genres

[@sipesthebest128]

Full album should be next guys... it's literally one of the best of all-time.

[@MattB-h3n]

The argument could be made that The Clash helped form the punk sound but they weren't defined by it. As others have pointed out, the band performed songs from a number of different genres, which could be seen as "punk" in itself as so many bands and artists were tied to a specific sound. Truly a unique, groundbreaking, and legendary group.

[@RachelEarlingHopson]

On this amazing album from 1979, my favourite is Brand new Cadillac. Love this band!

[@randallpetersen9164]

So this song addresses some actual concerns of the time. Like possible risk of climate cooling before we realized it was actually tilting the opposite way. News reports about what areas of London were at risk from the River Thames flooding. Recent 3 Mile Island nuclear accident in the US. Also the song title and the beep beep beep semaphore at the end harken back to the dangerous days of the German Blitz in WWII.

[@DrStrangelove3891]

Every song The Clash does is punk, even if it's reggae, funk, rap, pop, disco or 50s rock 'n roll. Punk is an attitude. By the way, The Clash was called The Only Band That Matters because they wrote about things that matter. They only have 2 songs about relationships, everything else is political.

[@williamweiss6128]

Great band at the perfect time. Love that era, so many bands, The Jam, Elvis, Gang Of Four, Buzzcocks, Specials, Jackson, etc.....

[@stevetanner3019]

Believe it or not this was the “B” side of the lead single “Train In Vain (Stand By Me)”from this fantastic double album. “Train In Vain” was added to the album late (not even on the original liner notes it was so late), after the record company said they didn’t hear a single.

[@philipm06]

In WW2 the BBC broadcasts always began with "This is London calling".

[@lena-mariaglouis-charles7036]

"TRAIN IN VAIN" and "ROCK THE CASBAH" are two tracks by this band that are also absolute musts!

[@scottjones758]

The crowing always gets me

[@jimmysmith-xb7vm]

One of the best unknown songs is Guns of Brixton🔥🔥

[@marygoodson4920]

The Clash were AWESOME! You need to listen to an equally iconic and AWESOME but not as well known band. The L.A. band X. AMAZING! Listen to their songs "Los Angeles," "Sex and Dying in High Society," Blue Spark," "Hungry Wolf." Incredible guitar, vocals, lyrics. I saw X and The Clash live...those were the days!!! Love your channel!❤

[@wordygirlandco]

❤The Clash! Such a great sound and very timeless for me. Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now is🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mynameispaul0530]

This band had such a unique sound.

[@alejandrobojorquez6181]

THE CLASH - " ROCK THE CASBAH " this is the jam! You guys gonna dig this 1980s Classic

[@UpstateGirl]

Should I Stay or Should I Go

[@frozenharold]

Saw them when I was in high school and they opened for The Who at Shea Stadium. Great show.

[@marygoodson4920]

X was produced by Ray Mazareck, the keyboardist for The Doors. Other great punk bands are Ian Dury and the Blockheads, "Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick," "Sex and Drugs and Rovk and Roll," The Sex Pistols. "No Future," "God Save the Queen." Punk began as socio-political movement in England. Unemployment was sky high. Social services were cut by the Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. It was a very grim time.

[@missrachelreads]

Ray Manzarek, just sayin' ; )

[@gswithen]

I Fought the Law The Magnificent Seven This Is the Clash

[@steveprinty7759]

Anything of this album is pure gold! Working for the Clampdown or Death or Glory should be your next song

[@JamesJoyce12]

1975-1979 may be the greatest era of musical development and diversity in history - Disco - Punk - Reggae - Ska - Classic Rock - Progressive - Meatloaf.

[@Embur12]

I was never super into punk, more new wave, but i absolutely love this song as it transports me back to the 80's. A top 100 track of that era...

[@wpollock1]

There is a great live tribute of this song for Joe Strummer at their Hall of Fame induction with Elvis Costello, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Grohl and others. Fire!

[@marygoodson4920]

I listened to it and they couldn't compare to The Clash! The Clash were really great musicians, most people don't give them enough credit.🎉

[@cindyjennings5976]

Great pick! Even an old dead head like me likes The Clash. They transcend the punk genre during to their talent.

[@davep8361]

That 'Big' electric guitar is the Rhythm guitar.

[@danlrusso]

Do ROCK THE CASBAH !!!!

[@sarahzentexas]

That album cover is iconic af.

[@anthonyv6962]

It's a direct copy of an Elvis record

[@joanbecenti8938]

Punk, for the most part, is a mentality. It wasn't meant to be a caricature that most people think of. Great band and song.

[@davefost]

Definite difference between US and UK punk. UK Punk is boiling over with street anger... anger at the status quo and a penchant for anarchy turned to 11. Violence in the streets. Pick any punk club in the UK at this time and there would be a stream of people who could use hospital attention on any given night. I always felt The Clash did a masterful job of always having a couple of songs on their albums that bridged hard-core punk into something that was more appealing to the mainstream and in my mind, that was their genious. I have a few friends that found The Clash (and the Sex Pistols) to be like aural gateway drugs to hard-core punk as a result.

[@stevechurch4728]

classic clash punk would be complete control, clash city rockers, White riot, London's burning or Tommy gun, this song is the clash evolving towards their combat rock style of later years.

[@sirhoopalot1]

You can hear the Clash’s influence in early U2 songs … listen to U2’s “Two Hearts Beat As One” is “Sunday Bloody Sunday” or “Like A Song”

[@wowtuninglancs]

You are correct, punk started and evolved and took people with it. Within this genre many bands became more thoughtful, political and meaningful.

[@SnowDogisVictorious]

Rule of thumb for UK imports from '75 to '85: New Wave => Angsty whinging. Punk => Disconsolate anger.

[@filifolia]

😆

[@marygoodson4920]

Ryan, that big guitar you were wondering about is a semi-hollowbody electric guitar, partially open/partially closed.

[@sephuris5555]

There was a snip it of this song in 007: die another day.

[@Bekka_Noyb]

♥ The Clash!

[@heatherturner6955]

This is one of Timmy's favorite bands. I was going to o say that the creator of Gilmore Girls must love them too. 1) the band, Hep Alien, in the show sang this song. 2) Lorelei mourned Joe Strummer's passing, someone gave her his jacket for her birthday. The Cadence in the song is so strong! Love his voice. Their songs are different from the others. That is another reason I like them.

[@bobbyj5375]

Listened to this band a lot in 80's , considered punk, but as time goes on fits many styles of music. When I first heard CCR I thought they were country and also as rock later.

[@wowtuninglancs]

Global warming is alluded to in this song, rising sea levels - ' And I live by the river'.

[@RonaldBeffert]

THEY WERE LISTED AS THE ONLY BAND THAT REALLY MATTERED. THEY WERE A UNIQUE BAND AND QUICKLY MOVED ON FROM THEIR PUNK BEGINNINGS AND ADVANCED THEIR SOUND. SHAME THEY WERE NOT HERE FOR VERY LONG.

[@lindastafford9548]

Very influential band, great sound , should I stay or should I go worth a listen.

[@puladavid]

punk is also about anti establishment, an fu to authority

[@myratatano9530]

From the New Wave era check out Turning Japanese by The Vapors

[@RockChick63174]

Still love that song.

[@MarchMeadow]

Nice bit of Morse code right at the end. Great video guys!

[@deanhaight7258]

I saw them "The Clash" on the Vassar college campus "Walker Field House" in 1984. Actor Matt Dillon was there and me and my bud hung out with him for a bit. (Rock theCasbah) is a must listen guys. The Lyrics in this song guys? Do a background

[@lennartforsberg1519]

The title alludes to the BBC World Service's station identification: "This is London calling ...", which was used during World War II, often in broadcasts to occupied countries.

[@ambiecutler3263]

In the late 70s and early 80s there was a feeling " free for all" "somthing out there" something in the future" it could be WW3 or technology type of feeling .

[@naweedkhan4360]

Just coming across this and one thing that I learned when I first discovered the Clash, regarding Punk - I discovered punk via american bands laike nofx and rancid, and found myselft then discovering the clash and the sex pistols, something that I learned was that punk was less the sound style but more just a movement to turnaway from the social norms and open yourself to anythhning and be expoeriental and not make souds that please the masses, ie do u hafe to be the BEatles or Rolling stones, no u can no ands just make your music hacve fun make art, and dont let anntyhing or opion kill that expression… and. Stand by that, punk may have become a sound that has different offshoots and styles, but with the clash, they kinda took sounds reggae and just told stories and more than just relationships and universal ideas which will always have a place, but that was their vibe to me

[@eggy1962]

Uk Subs - Kids On The Street…is a banger…..also…. Stiff Little Fingers - Alternative Ulster……punk/new wave era

[@tuckgraph]

Punk is kind of like country, you can hear the influences on so many songs that the labels become pointless. Strummer's vocals remind me of Mark Knopfler with a harder edge, that working Brit casual delivery.

[@knuckledragger9322]

This is by far the greatest punk album of all time, but that didn't stop the morons at Rolling Stone magazine from leaving it off their list of the greatest punk albums.

[@marygoodson4920]

Wtf???!!!😮

[@BengtLofqvist]

This song still got it.

[@danmayberry1185]

If Ryan watches a football chant compilation, he might pick up a punk ingredient.

[@sheilathailand1903]

Oh yeah, cranked it!

[@linkloudenback8359]

This is more post punk or early new wave. For early punk rock The Sex Pistols or the Ramons are the better examples. Not that The Clash isn’t punk but this is more post punk or early new wave.

[@spooley]

Some Beatles inspiration with the blend of backwards lead guitar solo. They loved the Beatles despite the phony beatlemania line, not a shot at the real Fabs.

[@lokisan100]

Rock thae casbah is also a good one by the clash! This one rocks!

[@patrickholt2270]

AC/DC use a big thick guitar like that too. It's doubtless a deliberate choice for reasons of tone or something. Also The Cult. To my knowledge, the areas in London which are by the river are either incredibly upmarket and the central business and government district, or incredibly poor, because they are where the docks used to be, and therefore where the dockworkers lived. That's a whole piece of London's political geography that isn't directly relevant, but it plays a role in the origin of British punk in London, because it was poor neighbourhoods in London where a lot of the early punks came from, and why they were so angry, and likewise with the skinhead subculture which began in London and was mostly about working class anger and defiance, which you still get in Oi! music, which is the skinhead offshoot of punk.

[@illiamdeebe7579]

Tommy Gun, Police on my Back, Stay Free... so many great songs, too many to list.

[@spawn4582]

Short punk, I like it, it's a classic, I watched it on MTV a long time ago, everyone who hasn't been to London yet, go check it out!

[@SallyVetter-s1c]

you need to do Rock the Casbah!

[@anthonyv6962]

Punk is in the attitude.

[@fjmoralesv1]

Clash are great!! Please do Gang of Four…What we all want, To hell with Poverty, Damaged Goods, etc

[@leemiracle6840]

That is a hollowbody electric guitar.

[@kyleturner1359]

PLEASE check out Guns of Brixton and White Man in Hammersmith Palais.

[@danmayberry1185]

Clash City Rockers was tough to follow, IMO, but they evolved rather well!

[@tbd407]

clash funky tho for punk. drummer is fire

[@Zane1962]

Train In Vain and Should I Stay Or Should I Go are a MUST!

[@robinakym2356]

I think Ryan is a little confused about what punk actually is, which is fair. Most people will think of The Sex Pistols which just a more extreme corner of the punk genre. The Clash, The Ramones, Blondie, Black Flag etc are all different forms of punk

[@angelinaramon]

The guy on the right sounds like Stone Cold Steve Austin.

[@SnowDogisVictorious]

You cannot get more punk than early Clash. Try the A side of this single, Train in Vain. Awesome tune. Strummer's post-Clash work is also great.

[@DustinHawke]

UK Subs - Warhead

[@mlg4035]

Next up: Rockin' the Casbah, please!!

[@KrazyKatLadyx2]

Earphones take this to another level

[@shawnk7832]

Do Guns Of Brixton next. 😁

[@RockChick63174]

You definitely haven't heard enough punk, Ryan.

[@cup_cuppy_cuppers5817]

You might wat to check out The Clash's song - Straight to H*ll. Viet Nam song.

[@notabritperse]

"London Calling" is an all-time gateway album: a gateway to punk for newcomers and, more importantly, a gateway FROM punk for punk fans, leading them into reggae, ska, R&B, new wave, arena rock, etc.

[@tonytony5380]

I think Ryan would like to Brand new Cadillac from this album That's punk

[@ragulper]

If you are going punk, try Sex Pistols, Sham 69, Toy Dolls, Dead Kennedys and more.

[@amandathibodeau4996]

I consider this punk rock.

[@richg0404]

The Clash's first 2 albums were more punk than this one. They evolved very quickly.

[@kajuken]

Metallica has punk influences

[@eamonquinn5188]

Wire maybe?

[@ecshredder]

Train in vain 🔥

[@brandonjones1349]

Nice f n pik☘️

[@shawnk7832]

Yah this Shite is Epic.😂

[@eamonquinn5188]

Come on you prats, you have to do the Sex Pistols and The Ruts, and more Clash

[@guichogf5636]

They weren't really punk. They did all sorts of genres and always sounded like nobody else but themselves. Personal favorite, Straight to Hell.

[@aladindelic]

This song is awesome, but I think their best song is "Know your rights". "London calling" is about propaganda, in music and media especially, with bogus and empty bands like the Beatles or bogus and unimportant news like he mentioned in chorus, while London's is under water and he lives by the river (has his own and real problems).

[@jenniebirchfield7218]

I only know one song by this group, Rock the Cosbah. They are good but not my sound.