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The Clash London Calling Category: Music Author: David L. Ulin Price: £5.49  Product Description London Calling is the great album to emerge from the 1970s British punk scene a record that transcends its place and time to become a universal expression of both rage and hope. A deeply political record (Kick over the wall / cause governments to fall) it is also a profound musical statement in which the Clash shed their status as noisy punkers and quite literally explode outward trying on a variety of forms and genres from 1950s style R & B to rockabilly reggae and anthemic rock. What's so astonishing about London Calling is its aura of possibility the way we can feel at nearly every instant the propulsive tension of a band pushing beyond its own parameters exploring the limits of creativity and control. It is this that makes the album sound so urgent nearly a quarter century after its original release. This book focuses on the album's coherent vision which melds references to Montgomery Clift the Spanish Civil War Madison Avenue advertising culture neo-fascism and British racial politics as well as the quiet desperation embodied by songs like Lost in the Supermarket Hateful and Train in Vain.Coming out of what was by any standard an insular culture - first generation British punk - built on shock value and adolescent rebellion London Calling remains a strikingly mature declaration of allegiance to a more extensive bohemian ethos in which punk becomes one part of a continuum rather than the literal end of everything the No future of Johnny Rotten rants. This is an album with roots in other words with a sense of place of interaction a record made by grown-ups who understand more than a little something of their place within the world. |
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