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The most well-known lineup of the Clash post breakup. Top: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones; Bottom: Paul Simonon, Topper Headon. This is a comprehensive list of songs recorded by the English punk rock band the Clash that have been officially released. The list includes songs that have been performed by the band. Other side projects are not included in ...
The Clash's first official recording was the single for "White Riot", released by CBS Records in March 1977. In April, CBS released their self-titled debut album, The Clash, in the United Kingdom, but refused to release it in the United States, saying that the sound was not "radio friendly". [1]
NME readers voted Give 'Em Enough Rope the second-best album of 1978 and the Clash were voted the best group in the same end-of-year poll. [78] In the US, the album peaked at number 128 on the Billboard chart. [citation needed] "Tommy Gun", the album's first UK single, peaked at number 19, the highest chart position for a Clash single to date.
The Clash is the debut studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash, released on 8 April 1977 through CBS Records.Recorded and mixed over three weeks in February 1977 for £4,000, it would go on to reach No. 12 on the UK charts, and has been included on many retrospective rankings as one of the greatest punk albums of all time.
Topics about The Clash albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories This category contains albums by The Clash . See also: Category:The Clash songs , Category:The Clash album covers , and Category:The Clash members
It should only contain pages that are The Clash songs or lists of The Clash songs, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about The Clash songs in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
However, the album was influential in the punk rock movement with its experimental sound and was voted best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop critics poll in The Village Voice. In 2020 it was ranked number 323 on the Rolling Stone list of " The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time " and Slant Magazine listed the album at number 85 on its "Best ...
Over 20,000 items were stored in the Joe Strummer archive and on 28 September 2018, a 32-song compilation album titled Joe Strummer 001 was released. The album, which was overseen by Strummer's widow, Lucinda, and producer Robert Gordon McHarg III, features 32 songs, 12 of which had never been released.