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Tag Archives: The Clash
7894. The Clash – The Call Up
^The Clash reference Prince Far I in the lyrics of ‘Clash City Rockers’…
7627. The Clash – Lose This Skin
^ Fur grows out of skin…
7569. The Clash – Hitsville UK
^ From Somerville to Hitsville…
7127. The Clash – Rebel Waltz
^ from Modern Dance to Waltz…
7087. The Clash – Jimmy Jazz
^A calling link: Jimmy Jazz was on their 1979 album ‘London Calling’…
6609. The Clash – Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
^ Van is short for Ivan…
6150. The Clash – Capital Radio
^ Belfast is the capital of Northern Ireland, so to…
5480. The Clash – Brand New Cadillac
^ If you’re burning rubber, you might be in a Cadillac…
5153. The Clash – Red Angel Dragnet
^ Travis is mentioned in the lyrics to…
4922. The Clash – Lover’s Rock
^ From Modern Lovers to Lover’s Rock…
4762. The Clash – Straight To Hell
^ From heaven to hell…
4722. The Clash – Remote Control
A zappa/zapper is another name for a remote control…
4313. Clash – Lost in the Supermarket
You can shop around in a supermarket (albeit in the sense of shopping for groceries rather than shagging around as per the last song)…
4197. The Clash – Career Opportunities
The last track was from the album ‘Employment’ to a track about being offered awful jobs…
4109. The Clash – This is Radio Clash
From radioactivity to radio…
3271. The Clash – Police on my Back
The last track was ‘1234’, which is a sequence of numbers. Another song with a sequence, in this case days of the week, is…
2695. The Clash – Police And Thieves
From Roxy Music to the Roxy club, where The Clash famously played…
2549. The Clash – The Magnificent Seven
The last track was on the album ‘Guerrilla’…guerrilla group could be used to describe the Sandanista political group, so to a song from The Clash’s Sandanista album…
2447. The Clash – Complete Control
From Turkish to Turkey which was the birthplace of The Clash’s Joe Strummer…
1977. The Clash – 1977
Martha My Dear is a song by The Beatles, who are one of the artists namechecked in the next song…
1906. The Clash – Safe European Home
Ceilings can be found in homes…
1865. The Clash – White Riot
Riots usually happen during a Revolution…and also ‘Revolution’ was on The Beatles’ White Album…
1700. The Clash – Armagideon Time
From ‘time’ to ‘time’
1689. The Clash – Should I Stay Or Should I Go
The last song contains the lyrics ‘I probably won’t fly down to Rio, but then again, I just might.’ So, to another song with indecisive lyrics…
1502. The Clash – I’m So Bored With The U.s.a.
And staying with the American theme, but becoming rather weary of it…
1401. The Clash – Janie Jones
From one Jane to another…
1323. The Clash – Guns Of Brixton
From Paul Simon to The Clash’s Paul Simonon…
1270. The Clash – London Calling
R.E.M. are from Athens, Georgia. The first Olympics were held in Athens and the next Olympics will be in London. Hence…
983. The Clash – Train In Vain
From one train to another…
742. The Clash – Bankrobber
Or maybe a…
645. The Clash – I Fought The Law
From criminals…to the law….
474. The Clash – Rock The Casbah
Whole Lotta Love’ was on Led Zep II, which Glyn Johns produced (although this was disputed by Jimmy Page). Glyn Johns also produced the 1982 album ‘Combat Rock’ by the Clash, which featured this song…
426. The Clash – Tommy Gun
From Tommy Ramone to…
329. The Clash – English Civil War
Sandy Pearlman produced ‘Don’t Fear the Reaper’, and he also produced:
307. The Clash – White Man In Hammersmith Palais
Damon Album is in The Good the Bad & the Queen. So is Paul Simenon from the Clash…
186. The Clash – The Four Horsemen
The end of the world is the Apocalypse. There are four horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Book of Revelation so…
147. The Clash – Spanish Bombs
From Andalucia – keeping the Spanish connection going…