Agreed. And sadly probably true.

Theirs plenty of Germans who would

He who fucks nuns will later join the church.

Classic line that , one of the best along with Elvis Costello watching the detectives she's filing her nails while they're dragging the lake .😂

@@L_87 plenty of UK politicians, too

The very best!!! nice one me friend :)

Certainly one of them. Up there as my favourite "punk" single,and along with 'Complete Control' my favourite Clash song.

Shouldn't that be possibly 'their' best song ever written? If you think that this is the pinnacle of musical expression, then you haven't heard much. I like The Clash, and love this song, but a little perspective please!

Brilliant tune, must have heard it through tens of thousands of times

I agree 👍

well said

and let's not forget the dub version of bankrobber with mickey dread at the production

It didn't get heavy rotation in my hometown, or on Muchmusic. And honestly, I think I came in late for them.

It was.

Only the Clash and the Who were capable of this sort of authenticity. The best British rock bands ever.

With the greatest of respect, brother, The Clash and SLF actually meant it.

Been to many SLF gigs at the Barras on Paddy’s Day. I was at the “last ever” SLF gig at the Glasgow Apollo in 1983. Burns, Cluney, McMordie and Dolphin Taylor.

That's an interesting story. We'll have to take a listen. We love music industry politics even more than regular politics.

Bit strong on Joe's part that. The Clash had lots of image changes. From punk dregs to slick rockabilly tough guys. The Jam had summat to say, but you can't beat the Clash. No sir.

@@martinotoole9959 The Jam beat The Clash on a lot of levels.

He was having a dig at weller on account of him saying the Jam would be voting Tory in the 1979 election. "Changing their votes along with their overcoats "

@kevin young Weller I believe was still to young to vote - Viva the Clash - f in loved the Jam.

@@jamescorlett5272 wasn't he 21 at the time of the 1979 election?

We were trying to find all the names that requested this song. I think we need a database.

You are a cool dad. I hope your son knows that.

@@hanierfamily my three boy's are everything to me I'm mixed race Maori Scott English Jew and my ex wife is dark skinned Maori my boy's are dark coffee coloured I'm white as snow apart from the punkrock green and red ink all over the place my second son who just turned 13 year's old is named after my uncle Sonny who was one of our (Aotearoa new zealands) best blues singers/ guitarist's SONNY DAY this gentle Maori Man just his spoken voice when i was a kid back in the seventies was like a warm blanket on a really cold night wrapping around you comforting warm and he could sing. And my little guy almost ten years old Kura is a chip off the old block I've got one of the highest RPMs in the history of the world RANTS PER MINUTE but KURA CAN GIVE ME A RUN FOR MY MONEY AND HE'S REALLY CUTE VERY INTELLIGENT ALL WAYS ASKING QUESTIONS. I BECAME A DAD AT THE VERY YOUNG AGE OF 36 😜 the most awesome thing in life holding your child for the first time and clicking THAT'S WHY I'M HERE LIFE CHANGING AND LIFE MEANING

@@heathcornbeef who cares about colour, in a cold violent world we have got to care for each other or we end up lost. I am sure your wife is beautiful and you are lucky to have her. Colour is just a vision, but your heart leads you by the hand when it's all said and done. If I'm wrong then I will accept your bollocking with as much dignity As I can muster! Just kidding brother ,love to you and your family .

@@martinotoole9959 kia ora hello Martin from Aotearoa new zealand hay please brother you have nothing to get dragged over hot coals your statement is spot on i wish people would just live and let live colour race sexual orientation religion who cares we all bleed red and belong to the same race THE HUMAN RACE . AT THE END OF THE DAY .... IT'S NIGHT TIME..... AND I'M PRETTY SURE 99.9 PERCENT OF THE WORLD'S POPULATION JUST WANT'S TO BE WARM FEED AND HEALTHY SAFE

Let me tell you about your blood bamboo kid, it aint coca cola, its rice There aint no need for you... God bless you Joe, Christ you could write.

Back in the garage with my bullshit detector. Carbon monoxide making sure its effective... Need I go on ? Probably the most underrated songwriter in the history of British music.

Marc , do you think that they would get it? It takes at least ten listens before the penny drops for anyone . Or maybe I am wrong.

@@martinotoole9959 I think it would be a good test of whether the Haniers appreciate the deeper elements of lyricism and music. Some KZfaq reactors don't but some display insightful critical faculties.

@@marcharley6465 I tip my hat to them for giving it a go, and they seem like lovely people. But to throw a curved ball like the song you mentioned is a little unfair on them. With the odd exception Combat Rock is an abstruse yet brilliant work , and does take a little bit of time and patience to feel all the nuances and raw emotion. I personally think it was there finest work although to get there you had the fetid rage and spit of the shithole clubs of the past, Joe's electric leg giving it large to Career Opportunities! Anyhow Marc, enough of my tenth rate journalistic attempts, I have probably bored you shitless by now thanks for your patience. Kind regards Martin. Stay free.

Taking off his Turban he said is this man a jew. They haven't scratched the surface Marc. But in those days you had more latitude, more freedom to say what you feel. Today, banned everywhere and probably 5 years in the nick for inciting racial hatred when nothing could be further from the truth.

@@martinotoole9959 Kia ora Martin once again you are on the money 💲

We WERE a little nervous about putting the song up based on the lyrics we had skimmed through before the video. We didn't want too much information about it before we watched. We just didn't want to waste our time recording a video that we weren't going to be able to keep up. But, we sucked it up, and listened. Though we didn't get every reference, we got the gist. I (Chris) grew up in a place where people didn't trust anyone who didn't resemble them. If I hadn't been a huge fan of Hip Hop and Prince in my teens, I might have had that same attitude. Except that my dad was a hippie, and hated nobody. You can't be raised like that and not have empathy, you know?

@@hanierfamily kia ora hello my friends hay if there's one thing you can be certain of THE CLASH will always be fighting the good fight against corruption poverty racism sexism and just plain old bad behaviour

@@hanierfamily i would highly recommend watching THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN a documentary about JOE STRUMMER AND THE CLASH it's a MUST 😉👍

Not too hard to follow if you are a guttersnipe! Just kidding brother.

Cultural context needed for this song , knowledge of that puts it in a different league, without it, its just a catchy reggae song

Lad I haven't got a jealous bone in my body but reading your message did give me a twinge of envy ! I bet you can tell some stories. The Hannier family are lovely, but this didn't register, its importance didn't hit the nerve as it did with us. In the shit and we knew it.

@@martinotoole9959 ...you remember going down the Swan and the George for a few, then round to Hammersmith Palais and out at 2am for a kebab or off down to the local Indian for a late night early morning curry!!

@@glastonbury4304 Brother I'm a Yorkshire man and only went to London with work, but when the Clash and the whole movement were around I was a snot nosed kid. I'm 55 now and if I had you to lean on I reckon we could do some damage to the system even now , whatever happened to the mucky curry house? They all became gentrified and expensive. Or closed down and sold for flats....The light clicked out in the bedsit, old England was all alone. Keep sticking it to the fuckers. Kind regards Martin. Your deputy in the North. I await your instructions Glastonbury, or should we just have one too many and go for fish and chips after a big joint whets our appetite?

I (Chris) love these old stories. Brings me back to college in the early 2000's. When the Tannery closed up for the night in Fredericton, there were 2 pizza places vying for our attention, and 1 Indian family opened a window in a back ally and sold samosas for $2 each. The line up for them went round the corner. So good!!!

@@hanierfamily Two dollars for a samosa , thats a bit strong brother, two dollars should have got you at least three or four, mind you its all supply and demand. Thanks for giving this song a go, I mean this with all the kindness in my heart, but you won't feel some of these songs because you had to be British and realise that the government has fucked the working class over again .You listened to a Town called malice by the Jam, a line in that says do you cut down the beer or the kids new gear...I love you both ,and thank you for having go kind regards Martin.

The only band that mattered apart from the Stranglers and the Sex Pistols and the Jam and the Doors and The Who and the Beatles .

We're not too worried about swearing. We are big fans of Ice Cube.

Your a sucked up spat out Smartie ,a death at a birthday party. Poetic champions compose ! He is now a professor, thats a stretch from the back streets of Salford or Manchester. But to me his greatest verse was Mau Mau lovers come and go, dreamboats leave you behind. From baby doll to go man go down the slopes of the adult mind. You beat that. I don't reckon our friends from across the pond would be too interested, its a bit niche even for some English people. A bit like playing The Ramones at a Japanese royal wedding.

Lost my respect when you got Debenhams for a pound and shafted the pension fund. A retail pension is scanty to say the least, but it's fine if all your money is signed over to the wife so bankruptcy can't touch you. I know it's not new , or even you. But I fucking hope JC Clarke is reading what I do. Peter brother you share the name, but weren't in it for the screw.

@@hanierfamily I, to my shame have been vitriolic about you not truly understanding The Clash. I stand by my words because you were not born then and I was 10 in77 but the thing got you when you were about to leave school and no jobs were available, not even the most menial, and any work is honourable. But just nothing. Now turn on me because Rap is alien to my soul . Violent misogynist, maybe wonderful and elegant. My control tower is too old to bring it into land. Many black friends tried but I'm beyond hope. But you know that I think the world of you! Kind regards Martin.

@@martinotoole9959 you seem to have confused me with that other idiot called Phillip Green I do live on the coast however Skegness is far from Monaco and Ido not possess a super yacht paid for by peoples pensions i have stolen

Yes, and both sides got it in their faces here.

Actually, I'm naming it after the song. We know it, as well as London Calling.

Play White Riot by the Clash...or Hersham Boys by Sham 69

I reckon you won't be satisfied Heath until us old boys kick some arse again .But you grow up and you calm down, you start wearing blue and brown.yes brother, were working for the clampdown like it or not. It was that or crime and plan B was never ending up in the nick. Or maybe I missed a trick, kind regards Martin. P.S. your words speak loud enough, no need for capital letters you make a great writer, let your weapon be your words, those who don't get it can just fuck off.

@@martinotoole9959 i think that we might be cut from the same cloth Martin ether way i like the way you think about the world and people around you. ps I've got friends here in Aotearoa new zealand who are O'Tooles they live about 80 kms off the coast of Auckland Aotearoa new zealand on great barrier island where i lived in the 90s in a teetree framed tin shed in the bush with my dog's Sadie purebred English Bullmastiff and her granddaughter Pagan who was a Bullmastiff x Pitbull x English bulldog and Pagans son Boy i miss those dogs still 25 years later they were my friends family protectors but boy was it expensive to feed them everything on great barrier island is about twice the price as on the mainland petrol was around 75 cents per litre on the mainland and $1.50 per litre on great barrier island and food was the same luckily i could get as much pork as me and my dog's wanted the four of us out the door and hunting captain cooker pig's me my dog's and a knife exciting adrenaline Filled days

@@heathcornbeef yes ,as far as the O' Toole thing, us Paddys get everywhere. But I tip my hat to them that they got into New Zealand, must be millionaires and never been to court! Yes we are cut from the same cloth. Best Yorkshire worsted 24 oz. My knife is Sheffield steel, but I wish you would take me hunting pigs.if you eat what you catch I reckon its fair. I'm ashamed to admit it but I think I would lose my bottle when it came down to it. Hypocritical bastard that I am, I would cheerfully get stuck in to the meat. I love rabbit and pheasant but the dirty bit has to be done by someone else. Guess I've gone down in your estimation but thatcomes with living in a city, you get no exposure to the country. Nice talking to you Heath,take care and kind regards Martin.

@@martinotoole9959 hay there I'm born and raised in Auckland city the GPS CORRECT EXACT CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE lol . but i totally understand your position on the hunt and killing it's not everyone's cup of tea but there's something about eating something that you have had to chase up and down hill's and has a decent chance of escape hunting with a knife and dog's through the Bush is an adrenaline rush and wild pork is nowhere near as fatty and has a slightly gamey strong taste and the bacon 🥓 is first class. Please don't tell my two pet Kunekune pig's Chopper and Diablo about my past or absolute addiction to bacon they won't understand and wouldn't trust me ever again,😜

@@heathcornbeef Thanks for not rubbishing my lack of courage and I have found the answer for the Bacon word via John Steinbeck's masterpiece The Grapes of wrath. The people in that masterpiece of a novel called it side meat. Now the most sensitive piglet in the southern hemisphere can't get upset about that ! Heath , if you haven't read that book I hope you give it a go. But at least your pets can trust you now! As always, Martin.

Hi guys, first part of song is essentially a story of when the singer went to an all nighter concert at the H Palais. The names mentioned are early 70s reggae stars and he expected a lot of what was called 'roots reggae' but instead got the acts sounding too smooth, and trying to be like Motown acts. 2nd part of song is essentially criticism of new wave bands jumping on the bandwagon and only being interested in making it big.

We'd be interested in hearing those bands as well.

Ken boothe, “everything I own” a nice mellow song, great review of the clash thank you

we know those songs

@@hanierfamily try Siouxsie and the Banshees cover of the Beatles Dear Prudence

We're Canadian.

it was a stand alone single, not from any album.

@@rdm4509 Spot on!

Nope it was released in 78 as a 7" 1st album was 77

The Only BAND THAT MATTERS . ??? INCORRECT ❌

We appreciate that. We will always give our honest opinion, whether you guys like it or not. No apology. But, we'll always try and find the parts we can say nice things about. And we won't directly insult anyone.

😂😂😂 I guess the Pistols weren't then 😂😂😂😂