The Clash

Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.114) - Ranked #77 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Youthful ambition bursts through the Clash's debut, a machine-gun blast of songs about unemployment, race, and the Clash themselves..." Rolling Stone (6/20/02, p.87) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...both a party and protest...The tunes still detonate as the group still insists justice must prevail..." Rolling Stone (12/11/03, p.114) - Ranked #77 in Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums Of All Time" - "...Youthful ambition bursts through the Clash's debut, a machine-gun blast of songs about unemployment, race, and the Clash themselves..." Spin (5/01, p.108) - Ranked #3 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Punk as alienated rage, as anticorporate blather, as joyous racial confusion, as evangelic outreach and white knuckles and haywire impulses..." Q (6/00, p.70) - Ranked #48 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums" Q (5/02 SE, p.135) - 5 stars out of 5 - Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums". Q (12/99, pp.152-3) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...[They] would never sound so punk as they did on 1977's self-titled debut....Lyrically intricate...it still howled with anger..." Q (10/02, p.136) - Indispensable - "...Unsurpassed for its concentrated anger and rebel bravado..." Alternative Press (3/00, pp.74-5) - 5 out of 5 - "...the eternal punk album....the blueprint for the pantomime of 'punkier' rock acts....for all of its forced politics and angst, THE CLASH continues to sound crucial..." Alternative Press (3/00, pp.74-5) - 5 out of 5 - "...the eternal punk album....the blueprint for the pantomime of 'punkier' rock acts....for all of its forced politics and angst, THE CLASH continues to sound crucial..." Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #2 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "...The ultimate punk protest album....Searingly evocative of dreary late '70s Britain, but still timelessly inspiring..." Mojo (Publisher) (3/03, p.76) - Ranked #2 in Mojo's "Top 50 Punk Albums" - "...The ultimate punk protest album....Searingly evocative of dreary late '70s Britain, but still timelessly inspiring..." NME (Magazine) - Ranked #3 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums Of The '70s - "...The speed-freaked brain of punk set to the tinniest, most frantic guitars ever trapped on vinyl. Lives were changed beyond recognition by it..." NME (Magazine) (10/2/93, p.29) - Ranked #13 in NME's list of the 'Greatest Albums Of All Time.'