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The year of the tank was filled with disks. This is quite normal, since between the awakening of sexuality, nascent friendships and leap into the unknown after a few summer months, it's decision time: to be the new small shark or s 'persist in not grow, take advantage of any opportunity to dress or suit of charge. The opening to the world and the affirmation, self-definition, often decide during this pivotal period. As binder social order which groups / types / musical movements befit us best is therefore paramount. So we listened to a lot of records before and during the baccalaureate. And even more after.

The previous year we découvriions The Police in depth. There, it was The Clash, via a double best of fairly complete. The ingenuity of these years I miss. Desperate, we were not indoctrinated as hard fans or new-wave fans. We were nothing, or former believers changing (long hair that is has-been big) and no words frightened us, not even the word punk. It was time to drop Dire Straits and Phil Collins, it was time to catch a consciousness, a row, a global direction.

Unlike their precursors the Sex Pistols, The Clash provide consistent positivism, taking reggae, writing bridges (air / suspended) clear and not skimping on vocals. And from their first album, The Clash. Joyful and rabid punks, but take position against the ambient social misery, far from the primal cry of rage of the Sex Pistols.

The Clash wanted a revolution, delete the Stones and the Beatles from the top of the podium. Beautiful idealists. For even if this first album is perfect from start to finish (and I advise you to provide you with two versions, US and UK, as it is not less than five additional titles offered the US version, including the classic I Fought The Law. Or do you find a good compile), punk is just a phase for these four London. Based on the same chords as their elders, the rock revolution will not be a total transformation rather a reinterpretation, an update. On their second album Give 'Em Enough Rope, The Clash will expand its sound, multiply genres, which will lead to their incredible double album London Calling, which combines rockabilly, reggae, rock, pop.

I do realize it very late but the bass Paul Simonon has clearly influenced my own vision of this instrument. And I never told myself that these guys could not play. Punk was he really that ignorant played only upset and protest, simple standards and 1977 fashion postures? Did they really want to destroy all or get a place in the sun with a big scam like this?

The Clash belongs to the great reach of children The Who (perhaps the first true punk band The Stooges before). Their first album is their best: this is the coolest of their careers, actually believing in a social revolution and trying to erase superficial differences; reggae is also a combat music. It avoids the second bidding Sonic, the perfection of the third, the overflow their fourth album and triple. This is the album of a garage band, where there are "five singers but only one micro" (Garageland), a photograph of a time when everything seemed possible. The Clash - Album - rings and still sound like major holidays between the tank and college.