“Here at last was art with access to a contemporary, white, English-speaking proletarian culture. It pos­ited kids whose very determination to survive took guts and whose unwillingness to give up the idea of victory was positively heroic”

“The Clash may be the greatest rock and roll band in the world… but they haven’t conquered Britain yet.”

The Clash and the Pistols have established social realism as an essential part of punk ideology, but this does not make their music the “direct expression of the contemporary working class.”

The Eighth (or Ninth) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

The Seventh (or Eighth) Annual Pazz and Jop Critics Poll