Best song from London Calling...
 

What are your favorite songs from the remarkable Clash 1979 album London Calling.

PLEASE SELECT NO MORE THEN THREE


I'll take Card Cheat, Clampdown and Rudy Can't Fail

London Calling, Rudie Can't Fail, Brand I'm Not Down, and Wrong Em' Boyo.

If I had to pick just one though, it'd be London Calling. It was the song that got me into punk.

Spanish Bombs is my favorite, Jimmy Jazz and Rudy Can't Fail rank right up up there too..

London calling, Spanish Bombs & Lost in the Supermarket here.

London Calling, Guns of Brixton and Jimmy Jazz or Lost in the Supermarket.

It's really an impossible pick though - the album is godly. And I'll never understand why Should I Stay or Should I Go garners so much attention when just about every song on London Calling is superior.

Another great song.. I should have added that one to my list..

Not one person will agree with my choice and musically it is nothing special: Hateful. Lyrically brilliant and musically simple yet effective.

Wow Jackhammer has differing tastes then others related to music. Write this moment in history down...Hateful is a great song in my top 5 from the album.

What were your other two choices?

Hateful, Death Or Glory, and The Card Cheat for me. Even though I'm not a big fan of the album, those tracks are really something.

London Calling, Hateful, and The Card Cheat.

Great first post! All three tied for first place.

Sarcasm does not become you.

Hateful.
Straight To Hell.
Mustapha Dance.

Some of my favourite tracks.

London Calling. Am I the only one that finds the rest painfully cheesy?

Train in Vain, Lost in the Supermarket and Guns of Brixton I guess.

London Calling is pretty cheesy itself.

Yeah, I like that one too.

It is, but not painfully.

I find it destroys the integrity of an album to place emphasis on certain songs. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with having favorites, but I've always been against the purposeful division of an album into singles and filler tracks. Anyways, London Calling is a great record. Too difficult for me to pick out what I like when all of it is so solid.

Spanish Bombs, Clampdown, and Death or Glory.

I don't bloody know.

I went with Hateful, Rudy Can't Fail and Guns of Brixton. I think Rudy Can't Fail is my favourite but the other 2 could cahnge at any time.

brand new cadillac, Guns of Brixton, Clampdown

Four Horsemen isn't a bad song.

Lol. My other two choices are:

Death Or Glory
The Card Cheat

London Calling, The Right Profile and Clampdown.

Only voted for one track; Guns of Brixton is far above the rest.

I went with 'London Calling', 'Brand New Cadillac', and 'Guns of Brixton', with 'Guns of Brixton' being my favorite...

The Card Cheat, Lost In The Supermarket and I'm Not Down.

You're all on bloody drugs, everyone knows the best 3 songs are "Rudie Can't Fail", "Spanish Bombs" and "Train in Vain".

I agree with 2/3rds of this statement, Jimmy Jazz made my list.

solid choices, these all rank high for me

Argh. This is hard. really hard.

Maybe Lost in the Supermarket, Spanish Bombs and Rudie Can't Fail. Maybe.

Great song, too, what's it replace?

Had to oust Train In Vain, the other two are my favorite songs on the album.

Death or Glory by far, one of favorite Clash songs in general.

Hateful, Rudie Can't Fail and the Card Cheat.

And if I ever hear the title track again it'll probably be a gazillion years too soon.

I don't know if I ever really hear that song on the radio or anything, to be honest...

My favorites are "Guns of Brixton," because of its ominous guitar melodies; "Brand New Cadillac," since I love punkabilly; and "Death or Glory," for its fast, catchy vocals.

voted The Card Cheat and Train in Vain - forgot to tick Wrong 'Em Boyo. But I like virtually all of them.

My three:

"Spanish Bombs"
"The Guns of Brixton"
"Lost in the Supermarket"

"Spanish Bombs" because I absolutely loved the lyrics, "The Guns of Brixton" because of the rhythm and quirkiness of the song, and "Lost in the Supermarket" because I was a whiny 13-year old when I first heard that album and I felt like the song spoke to my raging emotions or something.

I basically love everything on the album, except for a couple of songs in the last third like "Koka Kola" and "The Card Cheat," which are still alright. They just don't match the ridiculously high quality of the other songs on the album. I went with the title track, "Lost In The Supermarket" and "Death Or Glory," but it was tough.