London Calling

[ceejay]

I recently heard NBC using the title song from this album in the promos for their coverage. I would've never imagined that in 1979.

I know that many will disagree, but for my money, this is the best rock 'n roll album of all time.

[Tom]

Lord Sutch and his heavy friends?

Agree - one of the best.

[PhantomOnTour]

Lord Scarman was the man !

Great song, great album, great band.

[DJofSD]

I'd like this song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MRu8N2K0NY&feature=related) better (turn it up, clear your throat).

[Tom]

Ahhhh oooooooooooooooooo!
Ahhhh oooooooooooooooooo!


We got thrown out of more than one bar for singing that song!

[DJofSD]

Ahhhh oooooooooooooooooo!
Ahhhh oooooooooooooooooo!


We got thrown out of more than one bar for singing that song!
Yep, that, and conga lines.

[bigmack]

Who had more urgency to their vocal quality than Joey Strummer? Few.

I paid little attention to LeClash in '79 as that fell in my jazz period.

What strikes me about that LP, London Calling, is the production. They called in a cat, Guy Stevens, who also worked with Procul Harum & the mildly objectionable, Mott the Hoople. Both, he named.

Quite a force he was as it's reported he ran around the studio throwing chairs against walls & what not to create an "atmosphere." My kind of bloke.

Can you say irony? Here's how he died:

Stevens died on 29 August 1981, at the age of 38 years old, having overdosed on the prescription drugs he was taking to reduce his alcohol dependency.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ULIjsUgrwGM/TZi1gQCPsaI/AAAAAAAANjM/7MHFcYFfFso/s1600/Guy%2BStevens.jpg

[DJofSD]

Oops. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200947/Man-dead-street-Heathrow-flight-path-illegal-immigrant-stowaway.html)