Additional InformationThe Only Band That Matters debut with a blast of raised fists, working class anger, and tight melodic chops.
ReviewsRanked #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...", Indispensable-"...Unsurpassed for Its Concentrated Anger and Rebel Bravado...", 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...", 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...", 5 Stars Out of 5-Included in Q's "100 Best Punk Albums"., Ranked #13 in Nme's List of the 'greatest Albums of All Time.', 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...", 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...", Ranked #48 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums", 5 stars out of 5 - "...both a party and protest...The tunes still detonate as the group still insists justice must prevail...", 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..."
VocalsMick Jones, Joe Strummer
DrumsTory Crimes, Terry Chimes, Topper Headon