I think 'The Clash' are the best over all band I have ever heard. Their music was simple but better?

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than anything else you can throw in front of it. And it has the best message. Anti wars, hate and following the herd. How can the Beatle's singing about a submarine and how Geezus doesn't sell as many LP's compare to them?

Love for Dead Zepplin will go ignored.

Kidjack, please give your reasons.

Answer 1

One of the worst Comparastion of all time right here!
There is no Fu(king way you could compare the Beatles with the Clash! They might've had a simlar message....but there is a reason why the beatles are and still are one of the best out there....but the Clash doesnt even come close to what the beatles did!


BTW: Zepplin might be dead....but there music lives and will live longer then any music the clash comes up with!

Answer 2

Some simple observations from a music fan.

My mother had the Beatles albums, I listened to them when I was young. Many of their songs are overplayed on commercial radio. I like several of their songs (Taxman, Paperback Writer), but I have never owned a Beatles LP/CD, and I never plan to. Ringo has to be one of the most mediocre drummers I have ever heard in rock/pop music.

I started listening to the Clash in 1978. I bought their first LP shortly after I bought the Sex Pistols 'Nevermind the B-ollocks'. Then I bought 'Give 'Em Enough Rope' , and all the others until 'Sandinista'. Today I still have the first CD (British and American), 'Give 'Em Enough Rope', and 'Black Market Clash'. To this day I do not hear the Clash being overplayed on commerical radio. If you do hear their song(s) - it is from 'London Calling' or later. Terry Chimes was a very creative drummer, and Topper Headon was a solid beat master.

I can watch 'Yellow Sumarine' and listen to it, but given the choice I would take 'Rude Boy' first. "The only band that matters" was a nice catch phrase, but I will say this - Joe Strummer did matter to me more than John, Paul, George, or Ringo did.

Answer 3

Preach it! The Clash is one of the most influencle band that have ever made a record. Joe Strummer on vocals, is there and thing on this earth that is any sweeter than that. Every record they released was simply the greatest record of the time. When they released their self-tilted, there was nothing else like that, sure the sex pistols where a good band, but they weren't as talented as The Clash, or as smart. I don't think there was or has been a band that could take a political undertone to almost every song they had, Joe Strummer mentioned the radio in alot of his song because he knew that it was the best way the get your message across. I'm with you, I think The Clash is the greatest band that I have ever heard too.

Answer 4

The Clash was my favorite band until I saw U2 in 1983.
I saw the Clash at an amazing punk show at Kezar pavillion in 1979, just before London Calling came out, with the Cramps and the Dead Kennedys.
I saw the Clash with the English Beat in 1982, also in S.F., great show because I know all their songs and loved them-but it didn't have the raw energy of the '79 show.
London Calling is the greatest Rock N' Roll album ever!

Answer 5

I like The Clash but I really like the Beatles, they were a very good band and they did a lot of good in the world, they were not just all about Yellow Submarines and you really don't know a lot if you think they were.
Take John Lennon- from the Beatles- he was anti war and his song "Imagine" was very meaningful and true to that cause.#
George Harrisson also reached out to all ethnic backrounds and embraced them.
I don't get why you are comparing The Clash to the Beatles anyway, they are very different in their approach to music and they were also from different times.
I do like The clash, but I don't know that they are better than the Beatles- you would have to be absolutely wonderful to beat the Beatles, sorry but that's just my opinion.

Answer 6

Beatles were great, but the Clash are more dear to my heart...they broke all genres of music by incorporating not only punk, but reggae, rockabilly, dub, funk, even rap (on the song 'The Magnificent Seven').
Try and go see the Joe Strummer documentary 'The Future is Unwritten', coming out soon (if you are in L.A., it's next Saturday :)

Answer 7

I am continually amazed at the fact how much more I like The Clash over the years. I have their Clash on Broadway CD set, and I just regret they weren't able to stay around longer to provide more music. They may have some simple and very rough songs, but that is what Punk is. I never tire of them.

Answer 8

The Clash was a great band, but the Beatles transcended rock and roll.
No other band is identified as their "favorite" band by so many disparate people.
Heavy metal fans like them, country music fans like them, classical music fans like them, they are unique in this almost universal appreciation of their music.
Classical music scholars study their music and are impressed by the brilliant use of chords, and compare their music to the great classical masters, while at the same time, being "catchy" pop tunes.
For every "Yellow Submarine" there is an "In My Life" or "Eleanor Rigby".

Answer 9

So you take a *Single* Beatle song & it undermines the rest of their *entire* catalogue (not to mention what they did for pop culture itself, huh?)

Your comparsion is horrible.

I have no idea what you're trying to say when you mention "Geezus". If you're refering to that statement Lennon made, then it's clear you haven't done much research on that topic.

The Clash were a great, important band, but anyone who denies the importance of the Beatles is a fool.

(& they didn't "dumb down" their music. Quite the opposite, in fact as they progressed to the late 60s)

Answer 10

You're right. U2 and The Clash were true pioneers. I recall listening to their songs London Calling and Rock the Casbah and thinking I will never hear music like this again. And I didn't.