Clash White Songs Irish Favourites
Being asked to nominate the best song from the exalted canon of The Clash, is a task befitting the wise and, ideally, those who weren’t wearing nappies at the time those songs were originally released.
And so in today’s Guardian - hey, it’s Sunday, relax, read the paper, have a cup of tea - two non Irish-born Irishmen are among those who proffer their favourites. Shane MacGowan and The Edge both play the race card as they list White Riot and (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais as their choices.
I’m probably with Steve Jones of the Sex Pistols and London Calling, but the first album is riddled with options, and I’ve always, like Ian Brown of The Stone Roses it turns out, had a soft spot for Bankrobber.
The most famous Irish drummer in the world even gets to offer some worldly wisdom:
The Clash were the best group in the world and they would have been bigger than U2 without a doubt. For a long time, they were who we measured ourselves against
Would have been? If what?
See Also:
• U2, 1979 & 1987: A Tribute To You Fran
• The Fall
• The Pogues in America: A Review
Eolaí gan Fhéile:
Those U2 people have completely lost any sense of perspective. We here in Ireland hate them all, and will probably eventually have to dismember them, or boil them or use harsh language. Or something. Anything to get them off our TV screens. One good way of getting rid of the hypocrites completely would be to make them pay taxes like the rest of us.
Back on topic, any votes for “Working for the Clampdown”?
Now Bock, ná bac. Ya wouldn’t want to clamp down on the source of continuous humour U2 provide would ya? They’ve like puppets, with all four of them being funny. They’ve been going longer than The Den even. Puppets with a sense of perspective - who want that?