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The Clash
Artist Icon London Calling (1979)
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London Calling es el tercer álbum de estudio de la banda británica de punk The Clash, lanzado el 14 de diciembre de 1979, por CBS Records en el Reino Unido y en enero de 1980 por Epic Records en Estados Unidos. El álbum representó un cambio en el estilo musical de The Clash, incluyendo estilos como el ska, pop, soul, rockabilly y reggae, que no habían sido utilizados por la banda anteriormente. El álbum habla sobre temas como el desempleo, los conflictos raciales, el uso de drogas, y las responsabilidades de los adultos.

El álbum recibió críticas positivas y en 2003 fue posicionado en el número ocho en la lista de los 500 mejores álbumes de todos los tiempos por la revista musical Rolling Stone. London Calling fue un top ten en el Reino Unido, y su principal sencillo "London Calling" fue un éxito en las listas. Vendió cerca de dos millones de copias alrededor del mundo, y fue certificado platino por la RIAA en los Estados Unidos.
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If music-loving aliens land and you find yourself, at laser-point, searching for one single example of how rock is supposed to be rolled, then you are strongly advised to recommend London Calling. Because this epic double album, from its iconic sleeve to its wildly eclectic mash-up of styles, is surely the quintessential rock album.
So good in fact that Rolling Stone magazine voted it the best album of the 1980s, even though it actually came out in 1979. This was when The Clash came of age, progressing from the brilliant-but-limited punk rock ire of their first two albums to the stage where they could turn their hand to reggae, ska, rockabilly and pretty much anything else they fancied.
Yet the record never lacks focus and Strummer and Jones' willingness to experiment is never let down by a lack of great songs. Pick from straight-up punk like "Death Or Glory", sweet pop like "Lost In The Supermarket" or dub like the Paul Simenon-penned "Guns of Brixton". They're even confident enough to leave possibly the best song of all, "Train In Vain", un-credited on the sleeve when any other band would be screaming its presence from the rooftops.
Truly, a record so brilliant you'd have to be from another planet not to love it.


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