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[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Tell me about a record that you're not sure whether you like or not?

(erm, that you've actually heard)

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The Clash - London Calling

[mackromackro.livejournal.com]

..the album.

I've heard this album since my early teens. There was a core of songs I loved, a core of songs I purposely skipped over, and a core of songs I would let play after the song I really liked finished. (I discovered The Clash via U.S. Pop radio in 1980 - "Train In Vain" was a huge hit here.)

Over time, the core of songs I let play melded into the songs I loved. And the core of songs I skipped over melded into the songs I would let play out.

Still though, after all this time, I feel this album is way too sprawly.

London Calling should have been a single album, and the rest should have been good EP or B-side fodder. Granted, I now appreciate the dub/reggae they were eager to explore which I initially despised in my teen years, so I wouldn't rewrite history.

Still though, London Calling should have been a single, solid album. Then I could understand the over-canonization.

Re: The Clash - London Calling

[blue-russian.livejournal.com]

see, i think there's just the right amount of sprawl - none of this white album/sandanista scale nonsense