Reviews
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...", 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..."
