With our 9th selection, BF & the BFFs are proud to bring into the fold one of the great rock records of our time, recorded by one of the great bands of our time... An album whose anger, power, epic scope and brilliance still resonate today, almost 30 years after its release... An album that marked the high point of pure punk rock, both musically as well as intellectually, and has served as the standard every since... The Clash's magnum opus, 19 songs that hold together and propel the listener to the type of heights only the most important works of Rock 'N Roll art are capable of....
London Calling (1979)!!!!!
Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All-Time:
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Recorded in 1979 in London, which was then wrenched by surging unemployment and drug addiction, and released in America in January 1980, the dawn of an uncertain decade, London Calling is nineteen songs of apocalypse fueled by an unbending faith in rock & roll to beat back the darkness. Produced with no-surrender energy by legendary Sixties studio madman Guy Stevens, the Clash's third album sounds like a free-form radio broadcast from the end of the world, skidding from bleak punk ("London Calling") to rampaging ska ("Wrong 'Em Boyo") and disco resignation ("Lost in the Supermarket"). The album was made in dire straits, too. The band was heavily in debt; singer-guitarists Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, the Clash's Lennon and McCartney, wrote together in Jones' grandmother's flat, where he was living for lack of dough. But the Clash also cranked up the hope. The album ends with "Train in Vain," a rousing song of fidelity (originally unlisted on the back cover) that became the sound of triumph: the Clash's first Top Thirty single in the U.S.
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