>Punk rockers write incredible songs
>This is consider bad by punk fans

It goes so beyond being a normally good punk album that even normies can enjoy it. This enrages le trve cvl t punk fan.

>>127122179 (OP)

>>127122179 (OP)
Gay wannabe Springsteen fest

>>127122179 (OP)
>some genrefags don't like thing in genre
>make pointless thread about it

I've never met a punk who didn't like the Clash. This hatred must be a burger thing.

>>127122853
Nobody outside of the UK likes these faggots.

>>127123681
'fraid so

>>127123681
Yet they still outsold the Sex Pistols and Ramones combined.

>>127122853
If the Clash had been around in the sizzling summer of 1992 I'm fairly certain that Joe Strummer would have been brutally raped by a pack of young black gentlemen.

Yes, yes, everyone hates the Clash.

>>127122179 (OP)
I don't want to sound racist, but I always found them too preachy

>>127123681
I listen to them. They’re my favorite British punk band.
t. burger

>>127123781
why would that be racist, retard?

>>127122179 (OP)
Holy cow - youve got to be kidding. This band was without doubt the most spineless and lamest of 'punk' acts. They sound exactly like they were - pub-rock Bandwagon jumpers. The debut was a tinny, cowardly super-fake sack of tripe - this album was where they tried to get all arty and break away from the 'punk' label (which they never were in the first place) and thus is a mish-mash of styles including pure pop, rock and roll, doo-wop, reggae and god knows what else. Nice idea, but the clash were just too talentless to pull it off. I saw this band way back in late 76 and thought then what a bunch of fake poseurs they were - Joe strummer the upper middle class voice of the working class! what a laugh. This band were so fake its just unbelivable that anyone bought into it at all. But then again, people read the sun newspaper, vote for politicians, watch eastenders, eat in mcdonalds etc. Talk about the great rock and roll swindle - this is it kids!

>>127123777
That's 'cause they make pop music, of course they will outsell non-mainstream artists. Green Day sold more than 75 million albums. If you want to argue that makes them more punk rock than the Clash go for it. You can talk shit about punks all you want but at least they value their local scenes and don't like sellouts.

>>127122179 (OP)
I find it hard to believe most punks in 2025 wouldn't be praising the clash's london calling as a milestone in punk.
The album does get bloated by the last 5 songs, there are some forgettable songs in the 3rd and 4th side but overall it is an interesting album and strong punk album

>>127124247
London Calling isn't Punk.

>>127124279
Why is it not punk? Is it because it doesn't sound like the ramones? Or what disqualifies it from being punk?
T. Not taking this seriously, honest question.
>Inb4 heated internet argument

>>127122179 (OP)
One of those albums that when you start listening to it, you can't wait for it to end.

>>127124375
The only good songs on it are Train in Vain and Lost in the Supermarket

>>127124279

>>127122179 (OP)
well it's not punk

>>127124245
>. If you want to argue that makes them more punk rock than the Clash go for it.

No one was arguing this, you fucking retard. Someone said no one likes the Clash, that's it. It's obviously bollocks.

Holy fuck...

I will never take a person seriously who claims The Clash aren't punk. I'm hiding this thread now, because it will inevitably be flooded with idiots.

Joe Strummer was a businessman. Punk was his business. That's still a pretty good album, tho

>>127122179 (OP)
>London Calling
It's good but there's nothing punk about it. Their first album is a bit more punk, but if you want real punk from that era, listen to The Damned.

>>127122255
thank you for doing the improvement to the music cover very good sir

>>127124482
Kys all the songs are good

I THINK SPANISH BOMBS IS A PRETTY GOOD SONG
I THINK TRAIN IN VAIN IS A GREAT SONG

>>127123681
That's a very good pop-rock album with a few filter songs when they tried too hard too reference too many genre.

>>127124482
You may want to add The Card Cheat

Most overrated album ever. People only hold it in high esteem because the song that bookend it are somewhat decent. Everything in between is just awful rockabilly shite.

>>127122179 (OP)
trust fund pop-punk

>>127122179 (OP)

the Diplomat's Son only jumped on the punk bandwagon to ride the wave, and became sick of it by Give Em Enough Rope. he was always a rock and roll fan foremost.

Niche communities in music always have a stick up their ass about good songwriting. It has to be a little shitty for them to like it and feel like they're not like the other girls. See metal, goth, and industrial

>>127126158
Nah

>>127122179 (OP)
The Clash? More like The Cringe, they were completely mogged by all their contemporaries and one gets the sense that "you had to be there" when listening to them now

>>127122179 (OP)
>most important punk album ever
>50 minutes of reggae rocksteady ska
what