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The Clash
sketchyjoe:
Streetcore is a good album. Get Down Moses is a really great song.
The Redemption Song cover with Johnny Cash is amazing.
Inlander:
Interestingly, "Train in Vain", the most radio-friendly song the Clash ever wrote, wasn't even originally listed on the sleeve of London Calling because the band thought it was too commercial sounding.
blindsuperhero:
Okay, I'll give you Should I Stay Or Should I Go and Rock The Casbah. London Calling is as radio-friendly or otherwise as any rock song ever, no more, no less. I definitely wouldn't call it a 'pop hit' though.
However...
The whole first album is pretty much the exact opposite of radio-friendly. You talk about abrasive, well, this is it. To describe The Clash as radio-friendly makes me suspect that you haven't really listened to this album, which I consider their best, and also most indicative of their true nature as a band (in Westway To The World, both Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, I think, say they like this album the most).
London Calling has some pop-type songs (mostly due to Mick Jones, I believe), but the majority of it is well-produced rock, like London Calling. I wouldn't call it radio-friendly, as the musical and lyrical nature of the songs are for the most part far too challenging to earn that epithet. And Sandinista is such a crazy mash-up of styles and genres that most of it is way off the radar of pop sensibility.
sketchyjoe:
Sandinista could have been a great 14 track album.
a pack of wolves:
The first album's the self-titled one right? That's the only one I still have, and it did get quite a few listens back in the day. When I said 'pop' I should have clarified since I meant it in the sense of commercially successful and appealling to a large audience, not the genre. 'Sandinista' I'm unfamiliar with, but even on the first album the music's very catchy and palatable and the lyrical content isn't in my opinion anything which would bar them from a mass audience, which it hasn't seemed to.
But perhaps my ears are jaded from too much music coming from the fringes. Like I mentioned earlier, I'm much keener on Crass for 70s UK punk and they really were radio-unfriendly.
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