COKE ADDS LIFE WHERE THERE ISN’T ANY
Jan. 6th, 2010 08:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the US release of The Clash’s London Calling album.
I confess I completely missed it when it first arrived. Like a lot of suburban Tennessee kids, my first exposure to the Clash was Combat Rock via "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" – and that was largely thanks to the invention of MTV. Naturally, by that time the Clash were already falling apart, and it wouldn’t be until I joined the Army and met The Right People that I started getting into them (with some help from Mr Cat Taylor, who also met The Right People and advised me via mixtapes what to seek out).
But anyway, London Calling is on regular rotation on the DefPod, and I'm still not tired of it. It's one of those albums that rightly deserves its rep not only as the definitive Clash album, but one of the best albums in rock history. Not everyone likes sociopolitical commentary in their music, I know. On the other hand, how many more love songs did we really need by 1980?
There’s lots of highlights I could select, but I’ll go with this love letter to Madison Avenue – with a bullet.
FUN FACT: The Palladium in New York City – where that iconic album cover photo was shot – doesn’t exist anymore. It was demolished in 1998, and has been replaced by a New York University dorm.
London calling to the zombies of death,
This is dF
I confess I completely missed it when it first arrived. Like a lot of suburban Tennessee kids, my first exposure to the Clash was Combat Rock via "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay Or Should I Go" – and that was largely thanks to the invention of MTV. Naturally, by that time the Clash were already falling apart, and it wouldn’t be until I joined the Army and met The Right People that I started getting into them (with some help from Mr Cat Taylor, who also met The Right People and advised me via mixtapes what to seek out).
But anyway, London Calling is on regular rotation on the DefPod, and I'm still not tired of it. It's one of those albums that rightly deserves its rep not only as the definitive Clash album, but one of the best albums in rock history. Not everyone likes sociopolitical commentary in their music, I know. On the other hand, how many more love songs did we really need by 1980?
There’s lots of highlights I could select, but I’ll go with this love letter to Madison Avenue – with a bullet.
FUN FACT: The Palladium in New York City – where that iconic album cover photo was shot – doesn’t exist anymore. It was demolished in 1998, and has been replaced by a New York University dorm.
London calling to the zombies of death,
This is dF
