quics1 (August 19, 2008 at 10:30 pm)

calm down.. all of their cd's are equally Great.. what changes is the styles (kinds of music)

codnose (August 18, 2008 at 12:50 am)

then you will love sandinista! when you get to know it. i hated it the first time i heard it and i was gonna take it back but my dad made me listen to it longer and now it's my favourite. GEER was the first one i got and for some reason it just bores me; Sandinista! is anything but boring. i like tommy gun though. they just came so close to becoming a charicature of themselves. saved by going in a diffrent direction.

marsharse (August 18, 2008 at 12:40 am)

Ah God I try not to think of Cut the Crap fuck Bernie Rhodes and fuck Joe for letting Bernie write songs. But thats my point it was punk but it was Clash punk it actually sounded good and had structure. Geer sounds nothing like old rock its a bit poppier with stuff like stay free but the songs are all about things that have happened to them. I never liked the album till I listened to it properly and I found alot of interesting little things in itjust the drums and bass little things mostly addup

codnose (August 18, 2008 at 12:36 am)

actually cut the crap is the worst and the clash peaked when they began to experiment (London Calling). GEER is so contrary to their message cos it sounds like led zeppelin and such like it's boring old hard rock again and the quality of the songs is awful and they have no depth, whereas sandinista has a lot of depth but the songs aren't good either. their first album is the best punk album but let's be honest, punk was a hugely important movement but the quality was very rarely good.

marsharse (August 18, 2008 at 12:27 am)

Well the Clash never did copy the pistols to a whole I mean ok both bands were about image mostly but the Clash actually had music to back them up the Pistols although good weren't as talented. But with The Clash although they were punk they didn't sound like other punk bands you can tell the difference right away because they always had their own sound and it did carry through every album but sandinista is by far their worst because they tried to do something they didn't know how too soon.

codnose (August 18, 2008 at 12:22 am)

Sandinista! is the clash creating their sound instead of (joe admits this himself) just copying the pistols. the songs carry the clashes powerful political views by mixing black and white music a beautiful piece of work as it has a unifying effect and fuck how they became popular! but i guess i love it because it helped me realise that rock music is not the only kind.Combat Rock is a very strange album every song is like each member of the band is playing a different song!

marsharse (August 18, 2008 at 12:05 am)

Well yes but The Clash became popular for being a punk band and give em enough rope sounds more like a punk album than sandinista plus the Clash had their own sound even then which you hear clearly on the first two albums. But with Sandinista they experimented more because they had just been to New York and heard alot of new stuff to them and they got interested and strayed from their original sound to try and form a new one which u later hear on combat rock and done much better than sandinista

codnose (August 18, 2008 at 12:01 am)

Buy it and learn to appreciate the boundries they were pushing even if the music isn't actually that great. it's like gin & tonic you have to learn to like it. give 'em enough rope is just very dodgey to me (or rather not dodgey enough) because it's a solid album but they take no risks which is what i love about the clash the fact that they are anything but safe.P.S. you cant say that that one clash song sounds more like the clash then another because surely they dictate what they sound like.

marsharse (August 17, 2008 at 11:50 pm)

See I like geer because it stil sounds like the Clash nothing added just what they had available gutair drums bass and vocals and there are good sounding catchy songs. But sandinista is full of alot of songs and in my pinions its mostly bad mixed with the ocasional good song. I actually think that if they took the good songs off Sandinista they would have had a good 10 track album but I havn't heard the album in so long I dunno what good songs are on it (I don't own it borrowed it)

codnose (August 17, 2008 at 11:37 pm)

london calling is just there best album undisputed. Youre the first person ive met who likes geer. i hate that album, they just sound so bored. sandinista has so much life in it they succeed in creating something totally original by using such an eclectic mix of influences that its hard to spot individual ones.