The Clash - Essential Clash
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Clash : The Essential Clash
They did it all...
Without The Clash , NME would be a much drabber place. No Clash = no Nirvana , no Manics , no REM , no U2 , no Libertines , no Radio 4 , no anyone. Like a punk Marquis Of Queensbury, The Clash set the rules by which all indie/alt bands since have played by. This was a band that fused self-righteous ire and left-leaning political idealism with Mick Jones' love of...
- Mar 21, 2003
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The Clash - Essential Clash Lyrics
The Clash - White Riot Single Version Lyrics
White riot I wanna riot
White riot a riot of my own
White riot I wanna riot
White riot a riot of my own
The Clash - London Calling Lyrics
London calling to the faraway towns
Now war is declared and battle come down
London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
The Clash - Guns of Brixton Lyrics
When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come?
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun
The Clash - London's Burning Lyrics
London's burning!
London's burning!
All across the town, all across the night
The Clash - Clampdown Lyrics
Jimmyâs outside
But you canât take him back in drama of design
They hit him in the back
And see the long arm dropped over the school cuisines
The Clash - Complete Control Lyrics
They said, "Release remote control"
But we didn't want it on the label
They said, "Fly to Amsterdam"
And people laughed and the press went mad
The Clash - Clash City Rockers Lyrics
An' I wanna move the town to the clash city rockers
You need a little jump of electrical shockers
You better leave town if you only wanna knock us
Nothing stands the pressure of the clash city rockers
The Clash - Rudie Can't Fail Lyrics
Well sing Michael sing on the route of the 19 bus we hear them sayin'
How you get a rude and a reckless?
Don't you be so crude and a feckless
The Clash - I'm So Bored With The Usa Lyrics
Yankee soldier, he wanna shoot some skag
He met it in Cambodia but now he can't afford a bag
Yankee dollar talk to the dictators of the world
In fact it's giving orders an' they can't afford to miss a word
The Clash - Lost In The Supermarket Lyrics
I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for the special offer
Guaranteed personality
The Clash - Jimmy Jazz Lyrics
The police walked in for Jimmy Jazz
I said, "He ain't here, but he sure went past"
Oh, you're looking for
Jimmy Jazz and they said
The Clash - Career Opportunities Lyrics
They offered me the office, offered me the shop
They said I'd better take anything they'd got
Do you wanna make tea at the BBC?
Do you wanna be, do you really wanna be a cop?
The Clash - Train in Vain Lyrics
You say you stand by your man
Tell me something, I don't understand
You said you loved me and that's a fact
And then you left me, said you felt trapped
The Clash - Hate And War Lyrics
Hate and war
The only things we got today
An' if I close my eyes
The Clash - Bankrobber Lyrics
My daddy was a bankrobber
But he never hurt nobody
He just loved to live that way
And he loved to steal your money
The Clash - Cheat Lyrics
I get violent when I'm fucked up
I get silent when I'm drugged up
Want excitement, don't get none, I go wild
The Clash - The Magnificent Seven Lyrics
The magnificent seven
Ring, ring, it's 7:00 A.M.
Move yourself to go again
The Clash - Police And Thieves Lyrics
Police and thieves in the streets, oh yeah
Scaring the nation with their guns and ammunition
Police and thieves in the street, oh yeah
Fighting the nation with their guns and ammunition
The Clash - Ivan Meets G.I. Joe Lyrics
So you're on the floor, at 54
Think you can last at the palace
Does your body go to the to and fro?
Tonight's the night, oh didn't you know
The Clash - Janie Jones Lyrics
Heâs in love with rock nâ roll, woah
Heâs in love with getting stoned, woah
Heâs in love with Janie Jones, woah
He donât like his boring job, no
The Clash - Garageland Lyrics
Back in the garage with my bullshit detector
Carbon Monoxide makin' sure it's effective
People ringin' up makin' offers for my life
But I just wanna stay in the garage all night
The Clash - Police On My Back Lyrics
Well I'm running, police on my back
I've been hiding, police on my back
There was a shooting, police on my back
And the victim well he won't come back
The Clash - Capital Radio One Lyrics
Yes, itâs time for the Dr. Gobbles Show
Thereâs this tower in the heart of London
With a radio station right at the top
The Clash - Stop the World Lyrics
The panorama of the city is wrong
In fact the city seems to be gone
Burning rubber burning smoke in my eyes
There's a flat burning junkheap for twenty square miles
The Clash - White Man In Hammersmith Palais Lyrics
One two, one two three four
Midnight to six man
For the first time from Jamaica
The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered Lyrics
Someone lights a cigarette while riding in a car
Some ol' guy takes a swig and passes back the jar
But where they were last night no one can remember
Somebody got murdered, goodbye, for keeps, forever
The Clash - English Civil War Lyrics
When Johnny comes marching home again, hurrah, tala
He's coming by bus or underground, hurrah, tala
A woman's eye will shed a tear
To see his face so beaten in fear
The Clash - The Street Parade Lyrics
When I was waiting for your phone call
The one that never came
Like a man about to burst
I was dying of thirst
The Clash - Tommy Gun Lyrics
Tommy gun
You ain't happy unless you got one
Tommy gun
Ain't gonna shoot the place up just for fun
The Clash - This Is Radio Clash Lyrics
Interrupting all programs
This is Radio Clash from Pirate Satellite
Orbiting your living room, cashing in the bill of rights
The Clash - Ghetto Defendant Lyrics
Starved in metropolis
Hooked in nicrapolis
Addict of metropolis
Do the worm on the Accropolis
The Clash - Safe European Home Lyrics
Well, I just got back anâ I wish I never leave now
(Whereâd you go?)
Who that Martian arrival at the airport, yeah?
(Whereâd you go?)
The Clash - Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad Lyrics
It's Lucy in the sky and all kinds of apple pie
She giggle at the screen 'cos it looks so green
There's carpets on the pavement and feathers in her eye
But sooner or later, her new friends will realize
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The Clash - Rock The Casbah Lyrics
Now the King told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin' to the top
The Clash - Stay Free Lyrics
We met when we were at school
Never took no shit from no one, we weren't fools
The teacher says we're dumb, we're only having fun
You know we piss on everyone in the classroom
The Clash - Straight To Hell Lyrics
If you can play on the fiddle
How's about a British jig and reel?
Speaking King's English in quotation
As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust
The Clash - Groovy Times Lyrics
The high street shops are boarded up
An' the terrace it is fenced in
See through shields are walled across
The way that you came in
The Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go? Lyrics
Darling you got to let me know
Should I stay or should I go?
If you say that you are mine
I'll be here till the end of time
The Clash - This Is England Lyrics
I hear a gang fire on a human factory farm
Are they howling out or doing somebody harm
On a catwalk jungle somebody grabbed my arm
A voice spoke so cold, it matched the weapon in her palm
The Clash - I Fought the Law Lyrics
Breakin' rocks in the hot sun
I fought the law and the law won
I fought the law and the law won
I needed money 'cause I had none
