General Comment love this song, love the clash. General Comment this song is simply a "get away song". General Comment i read in a magazine which was published around the time of the clash's 25th anniversary and read that Jimmy Jazz was infact a nickname for Topper Headon.

Rate These Lyrics. Log in now to add this track to your mixtape! We do not have any tags for Jimmy Jazz lyrics. Paul's Tune. Lonesome Me. The Police Walked in 4 Jazz. Up-Toon Instrumental. Walking the Slidewalk. Where You Gonna Go Soweto. The Man In Me. London Calling Album. Wish list. This content requires a game sold separately.

Works with. Rock Band 4 Rated 4 out of 5 stars. Show more. Except for that I picked the same top ten as have the current highest pick counts.

One of the strongest two-LP studio releases of all time. Two Sheds , Sep 8, Location: Ont. If pressed I would say that London Calling is my favourite album of all time. My original UK posted below. Also have the first CD release on the shelf.

Love that cover. London Calling was met with widespread critical acclaim. London Calling has since been considered by many critics to be one of the greatest rock albums of all time, [67] including AllMusic 's Stephen Thomas Erlewine , who said that it sounded more purposeful than "most albums, let alone double albums". According to Acclaimed Music , London Calling is the sixth most highly ranked record on critics' lists of the all-time greatest albums.

All lead vocals by Joe Strummer , except where noted. All tracks are written by Strummer and Mick Jones , except where noted.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the album. For other uses, see London Calling disambiguation. The Clash. Post-punk punk rock. CBS Epic. Guy Stevens. Joe Strummer top and Mick Jones bottom , the band's lead vocalists, guitarists, and lyricists; pictured in The song's lyrics were influenced by the March meltdown of a nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. The song was the first composed solely by Paul Simonon and discusses an individual's paranoid outlook on life.

London Calling is honored for many excellent reasons, not least its audacity: a double album by the band that personified punk anti-'commercial' brevity and defiance going long and ranging far in both songwriting and instrumentation—the horn-fed 'The Card Cheat' features M. Jones on piano! It was where they announced that they wanted to play with the big boys and buried most of them forthwith. Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound.

Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 20 February Retrieved 17 February London: Turnaround. Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved 12 September No Focus. Archived from the original on 4 June Retrieved 9 July October Soft Skull Press. Information about the recording of London Calling. Retrieved 18 February Archived from the original on 1 September Retrieved 18 January New Statesman.

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Koka Kola. The Card Cheat. Lover's Rock. Four Horsemen. I'm Not Down. Revolution Rock.