In memory of Shenk1 & those for who music existed before the 1990s. I'm confused by a couple of orderings here, but it's generally a stunning 40 track greatest hits from a 5/6 album career, where most bands would struggle for 10.. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/jan/09/the-clash-40-greatest-songs-ranked
Depending on how I feel I could write a different top 40 Clash songs every day for a year. Although, to be fair, WMIHP would usually end up at No 1. I don't know if I knew Shenk. I'd be surprised if I didn't but my useless memory for names is sometimes crippling.
Always loved hitsville uk. Fantastic lyrics but to be honest as an 80s ish music fan there’s no bad clash songs. Skenk 1 gave me tips in 2019 when we went to fortuna and you could feel he had a great love of German football and the fan experience. I share that unfortunately not fortuna for me but Augsburg but I understand his love of the German experience. By the way we are back in Düsseldorf next May but going to monchenglabach to watch the fuggerstadt, Augsburg. always go after our season bricking it in case we get in the play offs will mean an early Sunday flight back to London.
Will change overtime the question is asked. Had the pleasure of seeing them a few times live and also having a few beers with them one time. So here goes... 1. White Man in Hammersmith Palais 2. Train in Vain 3. Stay Free 4. London Calling 5. Guns of Brixton 6. Janie Jones 7. Somebody Got Murdered 8. Spanish Bombs 9. Hitsville UK 10. White Riot
I spent 5 years living in London from 1979 to 1984 and spent most of the time living in Notting Hill Gate, an area members of the band knew well. The references to the area in the lyrics to London's Burning still evoke warm memories. Early Clash with the fusion of rock and reggae were evocative of an area where the Caribbean community was based as well as various members of Hawkwind, Lemmy was often to be found playing on a video game in the Princess Alexandria pub on Potobello Road. I can remember picking up a copy of the influential roots reggae album Two Sevens Clash by Culture at Notting Hill Gate's Record & Tape Exchange and musing if that album might have been on the Clash's radar when they first got together in 1976 (probably not as the album wasn't released until 1977 and the Clash were already up and running by then). A flatmate of mine had tickets for the 2 dates The Clash were performing at the Electric Ballroom in Camden Town in 1980 and he bailed out after the first citing the atmosphere that pervaded the audience.
Indeed he was. A girlfriend at the time painted the Overkill album cover on the back of my leather jacket and I was stood at the bar when a huge hand was placed on my shoulder and a gruff voice boomed out saying "That's a fine jacket you're wearing!" It was Mr Kilmister!! I was never sure why Lemmy chose to drink there. He was known to hang out with the Hells Angels who often used to meet at The Elgin on Ladbroke Grove although by 1981 it had changed to the Frog and Firkin and was attracting a different clientele. Lemmy lived on Talbot Road, just off Portobello Road. Further down Portobello Road was the Portobello Star pub which was more of a punk pub where Paul Cook and Steve Jones of the Pistols were often to be found. The Clash's White Riot was inspired by the Notting Hill riot of 1976 which took place when the police arrested a pickpocket just off Portobello Road.
