“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”
Originally published March 5, 1979
“The Clash may be the greatest rock and roll band in the world… but they haven’t conquered Britain yet.”
Originally published January 9, 1978
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.”
Originally published October 24, 1977
The Eighth (or Ninth) Annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll
January 7, 2019
The Seventh (or Eighth) Annual Pazz and Jop Critics Poll
January 4, 2019