The Clash London Calling

Ranked #1 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey.
Ranked #1 in Rolling Stone's "100 Best Albums Of The Eighties" survey.
5 stars out of 5 - "[The album] sounds crucial right now because of righteous blasts such as the title track."
Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums".
Ranked #4 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"
5 stars out of 5 - "...19-track, filler-free double album....the best Clash album and therefore among the very best albums ever recorded..."
Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums".
Ranked #4 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"
5 stars out of 5 - "...19-track, filler-free double album....the best Clash album and therefore among the very best albums ever recorded..."
5 stars out of 5 - "LONDON CALLING engages soul riffs, reggae beats and vintage rock'n'roll as a band of true blood brothers define their battle-scarred universe. As remarkable now as it was 25 years ago."
Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums".
4 out of 5 - "...This is a definitive album in rock's pantheon, and surely a WHITE ALBUM for the sub-generation lost between hippie idealism and MTV digitalism..."
Included in AP's "10 Essential '80s Albums".
4 out of 5 - "...This is a definitive album in rock's pantheon, and surely a WHITE ALBUM for the sub-generation lost between hippie idealism and MTV digitalism..."
"Big, arena-friendly anthems, infectious blue-beat winners and punch-drunk, New Orleans-style R&B workouts....[S]imply one of the era's landmark records."
"Big, arena-friendly anthems, infectious blue-beat winners and punch-drunk, New Orleans-style R&B workouts....[S]imply one of the era's landmark records."
Ranked #3 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1980".
Ranked #3 in CMJ's "Top 20 Most-Played Albums of 1980".
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century
Ranked #22 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "...The iconic sleeve shot of a bass-shredding Paul Simonon is well matched by the music..."
Ranked #22 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "...The iconic sleeve shot of a bass-shredding Paul Simonon is well matched by the music..."
5 stars out of 5 - "The Clash demonstrated beyond any doubt that they had grown beyond their apocalyptic but parochial West London horizons to become a world-class band with a world-wide vision."
Ranked #6 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - "...To hear a group blam away so fluently is a joy..."
Ranked #6 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - "...To hear a group blam away so fluently is a joy..."