Relationship TalkTHE CLASH!How Important is their legacy in Rock Music?
by admin on Saturday, January 23rd, 2010 | 7 Comments
To me personally are top 3 with Smiths and Doors but this is totally personal!
i know Groups like Zepellin or Beatles or Stones are more important in the rock music!
But if we see it fair with no personal “passion ” lol
do the Clash belong in top 10-15 important Rock Artists ever??
I think they do,Joe was a genius!
ROCK THE GASBAH;)
The doors???
I’d put them (the Clash) up with the Beatles and Rolling Stones.
I just don’t like the Doors.
You have to rate the Clash up there ,the Beatles no1,without them pushing the boundries of studio production,then we wouldn’t have the others,remembering that 60′s “pop” music was looked down on at the time.I rate the Clash more so than the Sex Pistols from that era.
Simple answer to this one the Clash are everything U2 wishes they could be.
I think the clash rank way up there…I mean they didn’t start punk per se but they are the cream of the crop….the lyrics are not just hateful, anarchist b.s., its insightful…their concerts were so positive, even though they had a riot at one of their concerts in england? I wouldn’t even compare them to the likes of the sex pistols…they did music perfectly….
P.s.
The smiths are great but I feel only cuz marr wrote the music…look what happened when morrisey went solo…yuck
The Clash were an amazing band one of my favourites of all time like the Stranglers , and the Jam . They were in the punk era but these were musicians that made some fantastic tracks (seen them a few times) and i still listen to them regular and its hard to say what my fave track is . Did see Joe Strummer playing with the Pogues once and he was terrible (trying to do a Sean Mcgowan) . But yes his writings with the Clash were superb .
Stones
Beatles
Zep
In that order my friend Zep were that good you would think they were British !
It amazes me how kind (and deservedly so) the passing time has been to The Clash. I was just 18 when the final version of the band ran out of steam without Jones and Headon and in the mid 80′s I was convinced we’d just lost a band like no other. As indie music took over followed by the Manchester/Madchester dance scene by the time the 90′s began it was like The Clash never happened and few people I knew saw the band as much more than a footnote, the punk band that made it.
Then the amazing gradual but titanic reversal of opinion over the last 15 years meant music fans both old and young realised that The Clash really were quite an amazing thing. The fury of the early records replenished by experimentation that was largely brilliant resulted in 5 albums that stand up to anyone’s. Even though I was ‘there’ from the second album onwards what I appreciate most as I’ve aged it just how much music they made in such a short period of time. It was all over within 6 years or so – and now bands will wait that long between albums.
For me, there will never be another band quite like them – and that’s alright with me.
Tim
so far they have an audience almost as well sussed as us! Anyway please lend your thoughts after reviewing the post. It amazes me how kind (and deservedly so) the passing time has been to The Clash. I was just 18