The Clash
London Calling

THE REVIEW

"London Calling" was the breakthrough album of the legendary Clash. After their previous 2 albums, this masterpiece arrived, which millions of people, fans or just music experts, defined as one of the best albums ever. This album blends the classic sound of the Clash with new sounds, creating beautiful songs that are impossible to forget. Personally, a music CD with such great content rarely comes my way, and I swear that if you ever get the chance to listen to "London Calling", remember that you are about to listen to a work that will hardly have a successor. I'm not exaggerating, believe me, "London Calling", right from the cover, gets into your head, enters history and the hearts of those who love punk, rock, jazz, funk, and those who love music in general.

Right from the first track, the eponymous "London Calling", you understand the greatness of the work, even though the song is not the absolute best, it immediately sticks in your head and it's hard not to love it. From the second song, one begins to be amazed by the work of the Clash, "Brand New Cadillac" is a text that recalls rock of the '70s, for those who love rock, a very precious gem, just like "Jimmy Jazz" for those who love jazz. The Clash maneuver through two other excellent works, namely "Hateful" and "Rudie Can't Fail", until reaching "Spanish Bomb", a song that plunges into the Spanish war with a chorus partly in Spanish. The album continues relentlessly until reaching two masterpieces, first "Lost In The Supermarket", a sad, touching song that speaks of loneliness "Who calls from afar calls from afar And the silence leaves me alone" or the sadness and violence of the world that are now the only things that give us emotions "I heard the people upstairs Screaming and fighting horribly Hearing those noises was my first emotion That's what I had around me". The other masterpiece is "Clampdown", in my humble opinion one of the best tracks of the album, listen to believe. The Clash continue relentlessly with the Reggae of "The Guns of Brixton" and the beautiful "Death Or Glory". Other excellent episodes of the work are the Rock of "I'm Not Down", a song that makes one reflect a lot, the Reggae of "Revolution Rock" and the gem, initially discarded, "Train In Vain", one of the most beautiful pieces by the Clash, which closes this historic album.

In conclusion, what more is there to say? Buy and find this album as it is a very difficult venture, those who find it will be very fortunate, not bad for an album that when it was released made fans call the Clash "traitors" since they abandoned classic Punk... those fools didn't know what they had discarded. This is an incredible work that has rightfully entered the history of music.