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The Clash
Artist Icon London Calling (1979)
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Genre Icon Punk Rock

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London Calling est le troisième album du groupe britannique The Clash, édité par CBS Records et sorti le 14 décembre 1979 au Royaume-Uni puis en janvier 1980 aux États-Unis sous le label Epic Records.

Album rock de référence, ce disque polyvalent mêle de nombreux styles : ska, pop, new wave, rockabilly, jazz, soul et reggae. Les thèmes abordés et dénoncés à travers les morceaux sont le chômage, la consommation de drogues, les conflits raciaux, la politique ainsi que les responsabilités des adultes dans la société. Avec ce double album, le groupe souhaite alors se démarquer du mouvement punk qu'il juge sur le déclin.

Vendu à près de deux millions d'exemplaires dans le monde, l'album est certifié disque de platine aux États-Unis et permet aux Clash de sortir du microcosme punk.
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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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