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	London Calling (song) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		"London Calling" is the hit song off the album of the same name (London Calling, 1979) by the U.K. punk/rock band The Clash; it is also the album's first track.
		The song is in a minor key — something The Clash had rarely used before — and the inherent dirge-like, apocalyptic feel is intensified by Topper Headon's martial drumming without backbeat, in perfect synchrony with staccato guitar chords; the group's deliberate, mid-tempo pace; and Strummer's icy lyrics and baleful delivery.
		"London Calling" was released as the only single in the UK from the album and reached #11 in the charts in December 1979.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/London_Calling_(song) (992 words)

	London Calling by The Clash Songfacts
		Also it says "London Calling to the underworld come out of the cupboard u boys and girls" this is talking about the citizins of London would hide undergroud in the subway to get away from the bombings in London and often people would put their little "boys and girls" in the subway.
		The lines "London Calling, at the top of the dial, and after all this, won't you give me a smile?" means to me that doomsday is all over the news, that you can't escape it, and Strummer seems to be ironically asking people to keep smiling after the apocalypse.
		The song can be interpreted on several levels, as being against authority, or possibly just mocking the fact that the world's end is constantly hypothesized in the news.
	www.songfacts.com /detail.php?id=2527 (1812 words)

	Amardeep Singh: Homage to London: Songs and Poems
		The funniest London song I know is Adam Kay and Suman Biswas's "London Underground," which is a kind of comedic cover of "Going Underground," the classic song by the Jam (lyrics).
		I was looking over Daniel Davies' (aka "dsquared") post with the lyrics to Noel Coward's "London Pride," and I thought I would run through some London songs and poems that have been in my head, from the Clash and the Mekons...
		The most famous would probably have to be Blake's "London" from the "Songs of Experience" section of Songs of Innocence and Experience.
	www.lehigh.edu /~amsp/2005/07/homage-to-london-songs-and-poems.html (1143 words)

	BBC - Radio 2 - Sold On Song - London Calling
		London Calling is the anthem of an era.
		London Calling ties in with punk and anarchy but this is no half-baked attempt at protest.
		But London Calling is not a lament to a country in crisis.
	www.bbc.co.uk /radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/londoncalling.shtml (316 words)

	Independent, The (London): Strummer calling
		Among the cases and bags were notes on at least six of the tracks from the London Calling album, which is being re-released this year on its 25th anniversary.
		It was here that Strummer and some of his fellow squatters formed a band called The 101ers, who have acquired cult status among music fans as one of the bands that paved the way for punk.
		The tapes, which were recorded at Vanilla Studios in Pimlico, central London, were made in 1979 when The Clash were at the height of their creative powers.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20040820/ai_n12806429 (1568 words)

	The Clash: London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition: Pitchfork Review
		As an instruction manual, the 25th anniversary edition of London Calling offers up bits of helpful, ordinary wisdom (he who fucks nuns will later join the church, no one gets their shit for free-- and "Balls to you, big daddy!" is an infallible exit line), but the album's biggest lesson is still spiritual.
		The 25th anniversary reissue of The Clash's London Calling is satisfyingly thick and protected by a thin plastic sleeve.
		As always, London Calling's title track holds steady as the record's cosmic lynchpin: Horrifyingly apocalyptic, "London Calling" is riddled with weird werewolf howls and big, prophetic hollers, Mick Jones' punchy guitar bursts tapping little nails into our skulls, pushing hard for total lunacy.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/c/clash/london-calling.shtml (876 words)

	Amazon.com: London Calling: Music: The Clash
		With "London Calling" the cornerstone of their legacy, I don't see any reason why the Clash can't be considered just as relevant and timeless as any of those bands, and this album proves you don't have to like raw, dirty, two chord punk rock snottiness to appreciate what the Clash have to offer.
		The Clash's London Calling is with out a doubt one of the all time best albums ever made, It's more then a punk, rock, regea, or ska album it's a melting pot for all that is good in those genras of music.
		"London Calling" manages the rare feat of being everything to everyone; there are an almost maniacal variety of musical genres been played off of here, and not a single one is brought off in anything less than triumphant fashion.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002Y4TZG?v=glance (2112 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: Musical Events
		On “London Calling,” Strummer remakes his major points: the police are on the wrong side, wage labor will crush your soul, and sometimes people need to destroy property to be heard.
		A song like the massive “Clampdown” shifts naturally through three sections: the four huge, descending chords big enough to open a season at Bayreuth; the dancing, pendulous rock of the verses; and the taunting funk of the bridge.
		The song fades away in a vamp that sounds like disco, so light you might get the impression the band had forgotten everything they’d just sung about: institutional racism, political brainwashing, and the creeping compromise of working life.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/music?041101crmu_music (1277 words)

	SALON: The Clash
		"London Calling" was personal and political, loud and soft; it was made up of rockabilly and pop, reggae and ballads, indignation and romance.
		The title track began with a comically animated guitar-and-bass introduction that quickly lost its sense of humor; it was followed by a dizzying song cycle that remains giddy and fractious to this day.
		"London Calling" was the first sprawling, extravagant, unquestionably great punk record.
	www.salon.com /weekly/clash960617.html (350 words)

	The Commercial Clash
		A few weeks ago on the MTV Video Music Awards, Rudy Giuliani made his entrance to the chorus from ''Rudie Can't Fail,'' yet another Clash number from ''London Calling.'' Those words by themselves sounded right, but as the spelling suggests, the song is actually a not-very-flattering meditation on Jamaican ''rude boys,'' slang for swaggering troublemakers.
		And ''London Calling'' itself also surfaces in the recent French film ''My Wife Is An Actress.'' When the heroine Charlotte Gainsbourg takes the chunnel trip from Paris to London, the tune plays, and seems meant to suggest that London is an exciting place where she will be sorely tempted to have an affair.
		In Jaguar's case, the fancy car-maker and its agency had already settled on a summer-long US ad campaign underscoring the brand's Britishness and revolving around the words ''London calling,'' before the question of music was even addressed, according to Simon Sproule, vice president of communications for the company.
	robwalker.net /html_docs/clash.html (1019 words)

	ART FOR A CHANGE - London Calling
		In the "London Calling" television advertisement there are images of a quaint London that reinforce a tourist's perception of British heritage...
		When the CLASH released "London Calling"in 1979, my L.A. punk friends and I swooned over the menacing sound ("London calling to the faraway towns, now that war is declared-and battle come down").
		Joe wrote some of the greatest Rock 'n Roll songs of all time, and his politically militant stance helped make the early punk rock movement the threat it was.
	www.art-for-a-change.com /News/clash.htm (1233 words)

	fav. clash song in london calling? - Music & Musician Forums
		off london calling my favorite is guns of brixton, the clash is my favorite band, my favorite song of theirs is "radio clash", my favorite cd of theirs is their us title release
		I find the flow of the songs of the us release easier mostly because that was the first one I heard.
		I like london calling, spanish bombs, and I like the lyrics in the guns of brixton.
	www.musicianforums.com /forums/showthread.php?t=73963 (352 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Arts Arts features Ray Davies on why he's come home to London
		There's a remix of London Song, "a black tourist guide with macabre imagery and a bit of rap", while Yours Truly, Confused N10 ("which I actually wrote for my daughter's punk band, and they turned it down") chronicles the arrival of the get-rich-quick society in the area where he was brought up.
		It's Saturday night in North London, and the workaholic is perched on a stool, holding a guitar, and telling stories about the Kinks, the problems of finding a new band, and the songs that he'll be playing on tour.
		I took the view in the song that I'd be the affluent tourist walking around eating cheaply while the impoverished people are around me. There's no mention of me being shot, but there's an atmosphere of foreboding.
	arts.guardian.co.uk /features/story/0,11710,1583362,00.html (1068 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: London Calling: Music
		London Calling is one of the greatest double albums ever, from the cover shot of Paul Simenon destroying his bass and the Pink and Green lettering shamelessly stolen from Elvis Presleys first album to the infectious Bo Diddley groove of "Hateful".
		When it's brilliant it's up there with the very best - "london calling" (obviously), "spanish bombs" (why wasnt this on essential clash?), "the guns of brixton", the extremely catchy "koka kola", "the card cheat" and the outstanding but very un-punk-like "train in vain".
		For every traditional rabble-rouser like "Rudie Can't Fail" or "Revolution Rock", though, there was a starker truth to London Calling found in "Guns Of Brixton", or a shred of poignancy in "Lost In The Supermarket" that confirmed The Clash's ideological importance to a generation.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00002MVQO (795 words)

	London Calling
		Angry Punk tunes as before were highlighted by some beautiful, heartfelt songs and a confidence in them to know that they could mix any style of music and still call it Clash.
		By 1979 Joe and Mick’s song writing was incredible.
		This was a turning point for The Clash.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /keri.flynn/london_calling.htm (49 words)

	Aromanian Vlachs: The Vanishing Tribes
		foreword (in fact a clear statement of intentions) to the above mentioned collection of Vlach song lyrics, is quite important given the author's unambiguous rejection of the 'Greeknes' of the Vlachs.
		Like in London or elsewhere, where the ‘cabbie’ is an accurate scale of the intensity of the political pulse of the place, the Greek taxi driver offers a sample of popular prejudice which is nevertheless immensely valuable not least because of its sheer sincerity, uncensored bluntness:
		In his recent book ‘The Fourth Crusaders’ (Pearson Longman London, 2003, p.144), Michael Angold, who is probably the most prestigious scholar of Byzantine studies alive, does not hesitate to nervously point the finger at the Vlachs whom he more or less accuses of gruesome murders.
	www.vlachophiles.net (11119 words)

	The Clash: London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition - PopMatters Music Review
		In May and June of 1979, before they headed to London's Wessex Studios to record the album with producer Guy Stevens, the band holed themselves up in a former rubber factory in Pimlico, London, called "Vanilla" to fine-tune their new songs and tighten up as a band.
		Overall, London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition is a terrific package; like Pennie Smith's now legendary cover shot, The Clash caught lightning in a bottle in 1979, and a quarter century later, the electricity is more palpable than ever.
		Many listeners will be surprised at how weak the song seems, as the band sounds hesitant, almost robotic, and Strummer goes for a more detached tone in his voice, sounding more enigmatic than passionate.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/c/clash-londoncalling2004.shtml (1372 words)

	Ilyka Damen: The Deal with London Calling
		In that sense, I think London Calling is a poor choice for top album of the 80s--because there's nothing that attempts to reach OUT, nothing on it that attempts to embrace the early 80s rock audience, save maybe the last (hidden) track that went to, oh my, number 39 on the American billboard charts.
		So after Give 'Em Enough Rope The Clash did London Calling, and, supposedly, the genius of London Calling is that The Clash, subsequently older and wiser from their Sludge-O-Matic sound experience with La Perlman, got this washed-up alcoholic Brit producer, Guy Stevens, to produce it.
		He was saying he was horrified, that he coulcn't stand it, because his grandmother was grooving around to the London Calling album in his flat.
	ilyka.mu.nu /archives/078820.html (2222 words)

	Londonist
		Blair's lapdog, and EU Trade Commissioner, Peter Mandelson, has called for the issue of the EU constitution to be revisited.
		The London Cab Drivers Club are hoping to get a publicity shot of the local media personalities in the back of a cab.
		Apparently, the Camden traffic wardens are so over-zealous that cabbies are too scared to stop to pick up a wheelchair-bound person, as the extra time it takes to get their fare into the taxi would allow the wardens to pounce.
	www.londonist.com (4072 words)

	Tsui Design & Research Inc. In The Media
		Recently, inspired by a person in the office, he wrote and recorded a hip-hop song which caught the ear of a local recording producer and is being refined.
		He calls his view, “evolutionary”, in that he is learning the lessons of design that nature has practiced for over 4 billion years and then applies these time tested lessons to designs for human beings.
		This community, called Telos (a Latin word for purposefulness, or, the final purpose), is a group of dedicated, diverse individuals, is being planned and will begin construction in 2004.
	www.tdrinc.com /media.html (7924 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books By genre London calling
		Henry Bolingbroke's star is rising and Clarice, a mad nun born and raised in the tunnels underneath a Clerkenwell convent, is prophesying Richard's downfall.
		There is a section at the back called "The Author's Tale", although it's really not much more than a collection of endnotes, and the same chords are sounded again and again: "underground tunnels can still be seen"; "a tree still grows"; "that fog still returns".
		Meanwhile an obscure sect called the Predestined Men is causing fires and explosions in churches.
	books.guardian.co.uk /reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1019528,00.html (690 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books By genre London calling
		The Lambs of London, to be published next month, weaves together two stories, those of 19th-century critic and writer Charles Lamb and William Ireland, a 17-year-old antiquarian and bookseller, into a Shakespearean literary mystery: "I just wanted to combine them to see what happens," he says laconically.
		Hawksmoor, which picked up the Whitbread and Guardian fiction prizes in 1985, is a historical detective novel that flits in alternating chapters between the 18th and the 20th centuries, while Chatterton, which was shortlisted for the Booker in 1987, takes on the unlikely milieu of 18th-century poetry plagiarism.
		At Cambridge, Ackroyd cut a rather unobtrusive figure, but was particularly active in poetry circles, dominated at the time by a group of teachers and students led by JH Prynne and highly influenced by the modernism of New York School poets such as John Ashbery.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1252722,00.html (3509 words)

	The Clash : London Calling - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		While many of the songs -- particularly "London Calling," "Spanish Bombs," and "The Guns of Brixton" -- are explicitly political, by acknowledging no boundaries the music itself is political and revolutionary.
		Before, the Clash had experimented with reggae, but that was no preparation for the dizzying array of styles on London Calling.
		Give 'Em Enough Rope, for all of its many attributes, was essentially a holding pattern for the Clash, but the double-album London Calling is a remarkable leap forward, incorporating the punk aesthetic into rock & roll mythology and roots music.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,65743,00.html (364 words)

	Steven Rubio's Online Life: london calling
		It starts with the classic anthem "London Calling," followed by a cover of a British rockabilly song.
		They certainly mattered to me. London Calling, along with Darkness on the Edge of Town, got me through a lot of bad times working at the factory.
		and there's still half a dozen songs to go, along with the originally-hidden "Train in Vain" that was a pop hit for the band.
	begonias.typepad.com /srubio/2005/06/london_calling.html (973 words)

	Cool River Cafe, Austin Live Entertainment
		Comprised of former members of stalwart groups such as The Newsboyz, The Grooves, Diamondback and London Calling, this group of seasoned professionals combines the high-energy, versatile song list and non-stop audience interaction that will motivate the entire crowd into a dancing frenzy, with a touch of class and polish.
		London Calling combines all the great dance favorites you have grown to expect here at Cool River Café with one BIG twist, their THIRD SET!
		Coming to us all the way from Los Angeles Ca, SFF is bringing their unbelievable song list of nearly 200 songs to Texas for the very first time.
	www.coolrivercafe.com /Austin/austin_ENTERTAINMENT.htm (1184 words)

	Blogcritics.org: London Calling?
		With the possible exception of a song like "Lust for Life" (where its placement in a cruise line ad was so off-the-mark, it might've been broadcast in Bizarro World), most ad placement puts an overlay on a song that for a time, at least, changes our listening experience.
		The song's message was already weakened by the passage of the years.
		The extreme viewpoint is that the song should not belong to the band at all, but to the public:
	blogcritics.org /archives/2002/09/06/165638.php (1483 words)

	London Calling
		Led Zeppelin May 25th 1975 London, UK Earl's Court
	home.mchsi.com /~night_flight1/Video/Led_Zeppelin_Video/London_Calling.htm (9 words)

	Manxbands.co.uk
		The Best Original Song category will be run in conjunction with the Best Original Band, with each band entering announcing one of their songs in their set as their entry for Best Original Song.
		All of this makes for an unparalleled summer of great local music, whether your taste be original songs or covers, and covers the whole spectrum of music.
		The winners of each heat will then go through to the semi-finals, which are likely to take place at the beginning of September at the Traf, with the final taking place at large Douglas club, The Venue on the 14th September.
	www.manxbands.co.uk /news/news_item.asp?NewsID=53 (942 words)

	Records International catalogue October 1998
		Novák was always renowed in his own country as a fine song composer and now, with this release and the Classico release (05-002) of his op.
		Butler's Capistrano Song uses a tape part to expand the timbral explorations inherent in the music.
		The sonata is better-known, a Schumannian outpouring of vigorous music; new to CD is the 1882 set of variations on a melancholy folk song which is finely crafted and more individual than the other works here.
	www.recordsinternational.com /RICatalogOct98.html (11710 words)

	london calling // RYONAN.ORG
		^^ Oh, and the lyrics are of course from The Clash's mythical song, London Calling.
		XD This layout features a nifty photo of a London bus, taken from Getty Images (as one does!), contrasted and tweaked to death with Adobe Photoshop CS2.
		It's hard to believe, but it is actually one of my more complex ones, and the coding took me longer than any other version.
	ryonan.org /version.html (220 words)

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