Most Clashlike Mats/PW song

[headlightbeams]

PW never owned up to owing them anything, or even liking them, but what PW or Mats song sounds the most like the Clash?

I say "Stain Yer Blood"

[GoddamnJob290]

"Sorry Ma" is the American equivalent of the first Clash record and twice as good. Of course, that's just my twisted opinion.

Somehow once told me that "Bent Out of Shape" sounded like the Clash and I can see that a bit.

Funnily enough, Joe Strummer was said to have not been much of a Replacements fan either.

I think Paul copped to liking "London Calling" once (the song, not the whole album).

[headlightbeams]

I think I can see "Bent Out of Shape" too, the lead guitar going all over the place throughout the song might be something Mick Jones'd do. Your recollection is right on too:

"After this we discussed reggae, Latin music, the Replacements (he wasn't a fan) ..."
—Anthony Roman, lead singer for Radio 4, on a conversation with Joe Strummer, maybe around 1990, in the book "Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer"

"Maybe their best. My younger sister was realy into them and I would listen to London Calling through her bedroom wall. I went to see them on a triple bill with David Johansen and The Undertones. The sound was awful but they came on and it was probably the perfect thing I needed to see. It was before i was in The Replacements and was still listening to hippie music. I went to see them and everything changed overnight. I was right up front in a big crush of people. I liked the aggression of their music but I didn't give a damn what they were talking about because it didn't relate to my life and by Sandinista! I had no use for any of that crap. But I thought they looked very cool and they were a very capable rock band, more than they were a punk band."
—Paul Westerberg, on the song "London Calling," in an all-star poll of rock n roll people on the Clash's 30 best songs, in the Dec. 2003 issue of Uncut

[DaveinDK]

I always thought Favorite Thing sounded a bit "Clashy".

[timsch]

I was a huuuuuuuuge Clash fan. Bought all the imports, drove 430 miles to see them, you know the drill. Obsessed..... My younger brother actually bought Hootenanny when it came out and to be candid, with the exception of "You Lose" and "Run It" and maybe "Take me down to the hospital", I wasn't all that impressed. Couple of years go by and someone makes me a tape with Hayday and Nevermind and I couldn't believe it was the same band. I was completely blown away and figured this group is worth a second look. Been 20 years and I'm still obsessed only now its with The Replacements / Westy.
The Clash and basically the whole of the first wave of Punk Bands were revolutionary when you consider most folks of the time were listening to overblown crap music in the U.S. Just the idea that you could distill rock music back to its basics and make it rebellious and anti.........everything made it really exciting again.
The Replacements took that basic notion and added a genious songwriter wordsmith that the average teen/post teen male could completely relate to. There music was genuine and cut straight to the bone. Its still just three chords and a loud amp but oh what beautiful music they make..........the creatures of the night...

[hootenanny58]

This might sound odd at first, but "Asking Me Lies" reminds me somewhat of "Lost in the Supermarket" or "Rock the Casbah", or some of the other forrays into funk that the Clash would take on occasion.

In any event, I've long maintained that the easiest way to explain rock'n'roll to martians would be to play "London Calling" for them front to back. It had everything: The uncompromising punk of the title track; the rockabilly of "Brand New Cadillac"; the reggae of "Rudy Can't Fail"; the hard heavy clobber of "Clampdown"; the samba of "Revolution Rock"; and not to forget the Merseyside power pop of "Train in Vain."

Somehow, "London Calling" is all over the place, yet a tight piece of work at the same time. IMO, the greatest rock album ever - raw, ragged, gutsy, adventurous, politically savvy, intellectually challenging, but always fresh every time I give it a spin. I wanna bust up my Fender bass everytime I hear it.

[timsch]

I can completely relate. but what about give'em enough rope. That's the one that blew my bose out.

[scoOter]

hootenanny58 said:

This might sound odd at first, but "Asking Me Lies" reminds me somewhat of "Lost in the Supermarket" or "Rock the Casbah", or some of the other forrays into funk that the Clash would take on occasion.

In any event, I've long maintained that the easiest way to explain rock'n'roll to martians would be to play "London Calling" for them front to back. It had everything: The uncompromising punk of the title track; the rockabilly of "Brand New Cadillac"; the reggae of "Rudy Can't Fail"; the hard heavy clobber of "Clampdown"; the samba of "Revolution Rock"; and not to forget the Merseyside power pop of "Train in Vain."

Somehow, "London Calling" is all over the place, yet a tight piece of work at the same time. IMO, the greatest rock album ever - raw, ragged, gutsy, adventurous, politically savvy, intellectually challenging, but always fresh every time I give it a spin. I wanna bust up my Fender bass everytime I hear it.

amen!