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Reception and legacy THE CLASH LONDON CALLING

Accolades

London Calling has been considered by many critics to be one of the greatest rock albums of all time,including AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine, who said that it sounded more purposeful than "most albums, let alone double albums". According to Acclaimed Music, it is the 6th most ranked record on critics' lists of the all-time greatest albums.[65] In 1987, Robert Hilburn of the Los Angeles Times named it the fourth-best album of the previous 10 years and said while the Clash's debut was a punk masterpiece, London Callingmarked the genre's "coming of age" as the band led the way into "fertile post-punk territory". In 1989, Rolling Stone ranked it as the best album of the 1980s, despite its 1979 release date. In 1999, Q magazine named London Calling the fourth-greatest British album of all time,and wrote that it is "the best Clash album and therefore among the very best albums ever recorded".[54] In 2002, Q included it on its list of the 100 Best Punk Albums, and in 2003, Mojo ranked it twenty second on their list of the Top 50 Punk Albums,while British writer Colin Larkin named it the second-greatest punk album of all time.

London Calling was ranked as the sixth-greatest album of the 1970s by NME, and the second-best by Pitchfork Media, whose reviewer Amanda Petrusich said that it was the Clash's "creative apex" as a "rock band" rather than as a punk band.[74] In 2003, London Calling was ranked number eight on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. Entertainment Weekly's Tom Sinclair declared it the "Best Album of All Time" in his headline for a 2004 article on the album. In 2007, London Calling was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, a collection of recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance. The album was included in the BBC Radio 1 2009 Masterpieces Series, marking it as one of the most influential albums of all time, some thirty years after its original release. December 2010, the BBC reported that a film about the recording of London Calling was in the early stages of production. Mick Jones and Paul Simonon were executive producers for the film. The script was written by Jez Butterworth and shooting was planned to begin in 2011. Alison Owen and Paul Trijbits had been chosen as the producers.[78][79]

Track listing wikipedia

All tracks written by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, except where noted.

• On the original version of the album, "Train in Vain" was not listed on the sleeve, nor the label on the record itself, but an extraneous sticker indicating the track was affixed to the outer cellophane wrapper. It was also scratched into the vinyl in the run-off area on the fourth side of the album. Later editions included the song in the track listing. .***********************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************The The album's front cover features a photograph of bassist Paul Simonon smashing his Fender Precision Bass(on display at the Cleveland Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as of May 2009)[ against the stage at The Palladium in New York City on 20 September 1979 during the Clash Take the Fifth US tour.[33][34] Simonon explained in a 2011 interview with Fender that he smashed the bass out of frustration when he learned the bouncers at the concert would not let the audience members stand up out of their seats. Pennie Smith, who photographed the band for the album, originally did not want the photograph to be used. She thought that it was too out of focus, but Strummer and graphic designer Ray Lowry thought it would make a good album cover.[34][35] In 2002, Smith's photograph was named the best rock and roll photograph of all time by Qmagazine, commenting that "it captures the ultimate rock'n'roll moment – total loss of control".[36]

  The cover artwork was designed by Lowry and was an homage to the design of Elvis Presley's self-titled debut album, with pink letters down the left side and green text across the bottom.The cover was named the ninth best album cover of all time by Q magazine in 2001. In 1995, Big Audio Dynamite (a band fronted by former Clash member Mick Jones) used the same scheme for their F-Punk album. The album cover for London Calling was among the ten chosen by the Royal Mail for a set of "Classic Album Cover" postage stamps issued in January 2010.