The Clash - Tommy Gun (Official Video)
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- The Clash - Tommy Gun (Official Video)
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You ain't happy less you got one
Tommy gun
Ain't gonna shoot the place up
Just for fun
Maybe he wants to die for the money
Maybe he wants to kill for his country
Whatever he wants, he's gonna get it!
You better strip it down for a custom run
Tommy gun
Waiting in the airport 'till kingdom come
An' we can watch you make it
On the nine o'clock news
Standing there in Palestine lighting the fuse
Whatever you want, you're gonna get it
You'll be dead when your war is won
Tommy gun
But did you have to gun down everyone?
I can see it's kill or be killed
A nation of destiny has got to be fulfilled
Whatever you want, you're gonna get it!
You can be a hero in an age of none
Tommy gun
I'm cutting out your picture from page one
I'm gonna get a jacket just like yours
An' give my false support to your cause
Whatever you want, you're gonna get it!
Boats an' tanks and planes, it's your game
Kings an' queens an' generals learn your name
I see all the innocents, the human sacrifice
And if death comes so cheap
Then the same goes for life!
*The greatest moment of my life...sitting at a bar in a Cambridge festival did a double take as Joe Strummer sat next to me ..all black leather jacket and smiles..bought him a Guinness...shared a joint with him...he invited me back stage...a humble ordinary genius of a man ...R.I.P*
Damn you were lucky!! 😁
I was named after him
Jealous! What a great memory ❤️
Man good job when I was born he was dead
Holy shit I really would have loved being there. Just crossed him back in the days at the London airport and just told him they were heroes for me and he said smiling "take care of your heroes, boy!" (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). He laughed more when I showed him my walkman with Clash cassette in! I still got that walkman and that cassette. That's a trophy of my life.
August 1979 and I was 17 years old. The Clash were headlining The Ruisrock Festival in Turku, Finland. I scraped enough money to get the ferry over from Stockholm where I lived. Upon arrival in Turku, I crashed the festival area, jumped over the fence to the backstage area and went up to The Clash's mobile home that served as their dressing room. Paul and Joe were lovely and gave me a few beers and sandwiches + a backstage pass. They were impressed that I made it from Stockholm to Finland and asked me tons of questions about life in Sweden and were genuinely the nicest blokes. Like big brothers, guys you respect and look up to. They opened their show with "Clash City Rockers" and the crowd went nuts! They also played a fantastic new song live for the first time: "London Calling". I was in heaven! After the show, The Clash hosted a fun backstage party and hung out with their fans for several hours (while Graham Parker & The Rumour played their show). The Clash...the only band that matters.
you lucky duck
Great story!
Graham Parker and the Rumour. Shadowing The Clash. FM! The dog's...
pah que suertudo, tremenda historia.
DUDE!! That’s so damn cool!!
I learned more from the Clash than any other source growing up. They propelled me to law school, and I do indigent criminal defense now. Every time I visit a client in jail, I hear Mick Jones' oddly sweet voice singing "bang bang go the jail guitar doors ." "Somebody Got Murdered" was the first song my husband and I sang to our daughter when she was born. God bless them all.
Nice story but I'm afraid you have become the problem, liberalism. Do wrong, pay the price. I did. You learn or don't, choice is there.
One of the strangest comments I’ve ever seen
God keep you all ! How brave and undaunted ~~~~~~~~~
Most people sing Rock-a-bye baby to their children. 😅
Thought they were working class kids. Turns out they had more in common with you Uni types, pretend punks.
No other band has ever come close to the everyday passion The Clash had in their music.
Agreed. To me The Clash is the perfect blend of the raw passion and idealistic nature of punk with the complexity and showmanship of more traditional rock and roll. These guys were truly ahead of their time
Song sung with a lot of strength and vigor
Wrong.
Passion is right. The first gig I saw was at Brixton Academy in July 1982, age 14. Guess who it was?!! I'll never forget the sight of fucking steam coming off the side of Joe Strummer's shaved Mohican head. It was all kind of downhill after that.....
true ENRage!
RIP Joe Strummer (August 21, 1952 - December 22, 2002), aged 50
You will be remembered as a legend.
And Keith Richards is alive definitely sad Rip Jor
Amen😢❤
“I see all the innocence and the human sacrifice, but if death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life” ...DAMN what a great songwriter!
I never understood why when they talk about the best drummers In rock history they never mention Topper. He could play any genre of music perfectly and had a great clock!
You’re so right he was an amazing drummer
Those who get it get it. Lists are for losers.
50 オーバーの親父だけど 英語が少しもわからないのに なぜこの曲はこんなに人を熱くさせるのか
トゲトゲの14歳の頃に毎日聴いていた。人は14歳に聴いた音楽指向から逃れられないらしい。いつの間にかジョーより年上になったけど、やっぱり聴いてしまいます。
@@Natu63625 probably
One of the best songs by one of the best bands ever. The band that had it all.
Exactly!!!
Joe, Mick, Paul and Topper are legends!!!
@PatrickMorris-sm8dv shut up
The only band that matters
Met the Clash at the Orpheum Theatre in 1981, I was 16. Never new then I was in greatness till years later, Joe I miss you. Mick, Paul, Topper if you reading this, Love you Guys,
3 minutes and 13 seconds of punk perfection. Still gets me on my feet all these years later. RIP Joe. U R missed.
Still love them and I'm way too old.
CBS sell out crap ..fuck major label punk bands...,Strummer lived in a £1m mansion in Notting hill ,fake as fuck
You cannot credit Topper's drumming enough for The Clash's sound. He was, in my opinion, the best musician in punk rock and, as Strummer said, the band wasn't the same without him. He was the John Bonham of punk.
Absolutely !
Secret of many great Rock bands was a great JAZZ drummer.
Charlie Watts
Topper Headon
Earl Hudson
Carl Palmer
@@sammencia7945 Very True Sam
Joe himself said it best in "Westway To The World" - "You're only as good as your drummer."
ABSOLUTELY AGREE MATE, TERRY CHIMES JUST NEVER STOOD OUT LIKE TOPPER.
As I get older I realize how lucky I was to have been a teenager during the punk era.
An I wish I did
Thank you Carol
I envy u.
Actually young people were quite unhappy in the late seventies. That's why punk came about.
Lucky bitch
Never have I ever heard a British song describe America so accurately!
That's kind of ridiculous.
@@Splube
It's a joke
Raise your kids on The Clash from a young age. Best bit of parenting advise I can give.
As a now 20 year old, I can say one of the things I’m most thankful for is my dad letting me listen to the clash with him all the time 🫀
Are you me? 😂@@z3rker
The Clash and the Ramones forever🤘🤘
One of my favorite guitar arrangements ever. As a kid I was blown away by Mick Jones’s melodies perfectly accompanying Strummer’s growling chords and vocals. Neither overwhelmingly the other. So inspirational! I always see this as the example when I’m in a 2-guitarist band
i think mick wrote the tunes when joe sang and reverse
Tommy Gun, you can be a hero in an age of none. Tommy Gun, whatever you want you're gonna get it ......bang
Found these guys 42 years ago and still love the energy and passion.
Filmed in Vancouver bc. I made that studded wrist band Paul is wearing. The guys had all their wristbands seized at the airport, so I spent the night before the gig making new ones for em. Awesome guys. Awesome band!
I'm a teacher & I've been into the clash since I was 15. I'm 52 now. One of my proudest moments as a teacher was when an ex-student came back when he was about 24, not long ago. I asked him what he was doing. He said he was working in music. He then thanked me from the bottom of his heart because I had been the person who had first played The Clash to him & encouraged him to check them out. He told me they were his favourite group and meant so much to him.
Well done !
Haha your teacher how much do you hate white people and culture
My first concert was The Clash - I am so damn proud to say that! I was 15 years old...
I love you
lucky
Anne de Groot i wish to be as cool as you are 😍
i hope you know, how lucky you are.
Lucky you. I had a ticket to see them but my elder brother flogged it to a mate of his who offered him a fiver more. Took me years to forgive him! Still, seen nearly all the other punk bands and more so not too much to complain about.
You will NEVER hear a better song.....God Bless you Joe Strummer and the Clash forever!
The clash the only band that mattered!!
57 years old, listen to the CLASH every day. Should be tought at school!
Ha. I can’t help myself. So should spelling.
No one can even touch this song. So direct and perfect.
R.I.P. Sandy Pearlman because the drum sound on this entire album has been blowing my guts out for almost 35+ years.
ClueSign The guitar sound is unreal too.... amazing. This album has a tonne of depth. I call it the Clash's sleeper album- it gets better and better every year. Yeah Sandy Pearlman did an amazing job on it. Too bad it got slagged at the time it came out by 'purists' yawn. The Clash truly were/ are the only band that matters. I play this album all the time; especially Safe, Stay Free, All the Young Punks...genius
ClueSign Sandy Peralman wouldn't have much to work with if not for Topper's fucking brilliance . Give first credits , man .
He polished off the bands edge on too many tracks. Last gang in town and guns on the roof are good examples. This track is the exception because it muscles through. Self titled is mixed like a live gig and really in your face compare uk white riot to us white riot to understand. London calling is a far better production and sound for the band.
The guitars are too dominant in the mix, and on last gang in town you can barely fucking hear the fucking cowbell. Honestly i think he buried a lot of toppers sound and went balls out for snare and bass drum at expense of the rest of the kit. The british mixes were always superior for this band. Same thing happened to combat rock and about 1/3 of sandinista.
смерть империализму.
The last 60 seconds of this track are some of the best 60 seconds in rock history.
Well said freind 👍
Just said exactly that to my son. It's phenomenal.
I look at all the comments here of people's awesome stories and comments and wish I myself could have met Strummer myself. I listen to these legendary compositions every second I can, hoping one day I might meet one of the remaining members of this awesome band. RIP Joe and let the remaining members know that they will not be forgotten when they pass. Long love The Clash!
They rocked every juke-joint dive with this one. Just when rock n' roll needed a good kick in the ass, The Clash came calling!
0:41 one of the best guitar riffs of rock history. so simple and so good.
Stood the test of time. An absolute classic tune.
Wow ! Ringing true to this day !!!!! The truth never ceases to be truth. This madness must end. Let us all live in peace!
My god, the guitars on this song!!! The riffs at 1:17 and 2:20 just send me into an infinite universe of Rock n Roll ecstasy. Really reminds me of the killer riffs Mick Ronson came up with. Mick Jones was on fire!
And then there's Topper Headon's spot on drumming with passionate precision. As always he and Paul Simonon were the rhythm backbone of the group.
And of course Joe Strummer's impassioned delivery. He truly was the voice of a generation with his heartfelt sincerity for decrying injustice and brutality and evoking the better nature of humanity. That last line: "And if death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life!" Devastating.
Will there ever be another band as epic as The Clash?
one of the best comments I read about this band and in general 🎸🥰
@@rsuman Thank You! ❤️
Not just a great punk band but a great rock band.
"Give em enough rope" is such a good album!
it's their best isn't it?
Buddha159 either that or The Clash
For me their best
When it came out it was panned.
I loved it. AS usual the critics were not experts.
Spittin straight facts
This man loves an audience he's excellent and brilliant he loves showing off and love's people god bless him.
I was listening to the Clash today on my way back home. There was a Juggler doing his business for money by the traffic light. He overheard what I was listening to- White Riot. He simply raised his thumb and mentioned the title of the song. It was nice to me!. So young and light-hearted, and listening to the Clash! I just love them!
I had a back molar tooth knocked clean out of my head at a Clash concert at the Brixton Academy. Headbutted by a punk in the mosh pit (we didn't call it that then) I watched the tooth hit the floor and saw it disappear under the heaving crush of Doc Martens. I still miss the very first bit of my body that dropped off. Did it grow by itself to become a mini-punk, mostly tooth-based? I still wonder.
Bollocks, unless you went to see them as a five-year old before you started to lose your milk teeth.
@@nookiebroon4424 wanker
I lurve yr sentiment.
U need2 write a book or play Scrabble...they r both great& wonderful ways2 meet people.
Lol
STILL FUCKIN' ROCKS 44YRS ON. CLASH CITY ROCKS ON 4EVER.
Wicked track all respect to all the Tommy's who gave so much 🇬🇧
One of the best bands ever... An absolute classic...
"And if death come so cheap, then the same goes for life!"
Can't beat that line.
Magical Clash never will ever be matched pure gold .R.I.P. Joe .
That guitar solo at 2:19 always gets me, what a fucking band.
katoness I always wonder about what solo is more brilliant, this or the one played in I wanna be sedated
Josiashv95 great producers
Barry McCall and thats not the correct canadian flag in the back ground
katoness Agreed. Gives me goosebumps every single time.
Josiashv95 try a Dave Moustaine (Megedeth) solo from Metallica- Kill em all
Topper was an awesome drummer back then
Toppa headons drumming on this is superb 👌
Saw them twice in Paris France. Energy, power, two of the Best gigs in my life.
The thing I love about the clash is that they just made universally good music so you don't have to be absolutely obsessed with rock to enjoy their songs
, I love reggae but I can tell you that I have a playlist with atleast 15 songs by the clash because they were just something else 🔥🔥
To be fair, The Clash incorporates several genres in their music.
That's prolly one of the reasons you like them.
saw the clash in 1978&79,bloody fantastic!!!still one of my all time fave bands
the way Mick stands at 0:05 is so cool, from the beginning to end he's just badass Ahh lovely lil Mick Jones
Yeah, he was really good.
+Lesley May I thought it was David Essex!!......................................... just joking
+HOW TO PUNK Hell yeah - STILL one of my fave Clash vids, even after - wot - 35 years? Holee fuck! Cheerz, & keep the faith, all u jung punx! :-)
This is one of the best and most powerful Clash songs ever! The power and chords behind it, show just how progressive the Clash were. They managed to take the punk sound to another level of rock! Another song which exemplifies this; is English Civil War. I think the latter came first, and then the evolution to Tommy Gun!
Punk was never a "sound."
This was the studio suits trying to pass off the Clash as hard rock. They hated it and ditched it as soon as possible.
The Clash did not hate this song, as OroborusFMA asserts, nor did they 'ditch it' as soon as possible. Tommy Gun is a fan favorite and the Clash played it for years.
I am your Tommy Gun; I am Marine.
Tommy Gun was the first Clash song that made my interest in the band
great!
全てが神ががっているぜ！！
What a fantastic rock band still playing the clash forty years on
Topper! Topper! Topper! Monster drummer...
Best drum intro ever by the best band ever
Some where exist ts a picture of Shane MaGowan on my left and Joe on my right,a truly down to earth guy,God rest his soul !
Thanx for the music Joe, it still stirs me to the core.
I was lucky enough to see them 4 times.
They were probably the best live rock band, ever. Not the most technically gifted (ELP, Crimson, Yes, etc), but the best with life changing visceral impact.
Yes I include The Beatles in that list.
The Clash were that good.
What you think of them, completely true.
I wish all of you could have witnessed their mighty power, live.
My God, what a band.
1977 We all went to heaven
my proudest moment as a father was when my (then) primary 1 year old son came home from school. I asked him how he got on.
"fine", the answer.
what did you get up to? I asked.
Well, we had music and the teacher asked what our favourite bands were. Everybody else said like One Direction and stuff>
"What did you say?"
I said The Clash, daddy.
Buy that kid a telecaster .
Steve Fairlie Parenting done right
parenting +10
unclemort1960 or as Joe says " a Fender Stratosphere " - If Music Could Talk , Sandinista .
Tf ur one year old goes to school ok whatever but still good parenting
Greatest punk song and video ever.
This is gold! R.I.P Joe you legend!
Topper gun enough said.... the best part is let's agreed about the price..thank you the Clash for what i am today.
Topper has got to be one of the greatest drummers of all time top class ,
5-round bursts
For punk of, unfortunately he can't make
Topper the class
Are you related to Janie Jones or under witness protection program
@@crazyclash7038 WTF are you even saying ? too much White Widow ? GTF !😁
Es difícil encontrar una canción de The Clash que no sea una excelente canción... Siempre me sorprende la cantidad de excelentes composiciones de esta banda, la calidad musical, el sonido, las letras, la música, la instrumentalización, la variedad, la creatividad y la estética, me resultan cada día más alucinantes.
Springsteen could only dream of having an ounce of Joe Strummer’s passion.
I bought a Clash album when I was 12 years old because I liked the album cover, in the early 80s this would be a way of choosing a vinyl record. Played it on my Scooby Doo record player when I got home....... over and over again. Heard this song and knew what I was born for. A little punk rocker was born that day.
The epitome of COOLNESS...simply the best.
A true masterpiece from the "only band that matters".
Steve Shaha the clash are my second favourite for me, the jam are just slightly better in my opinion
@@liamregan4810 both of them were top drawer
Lmao only? They're good but only band that matters?
@@brodown64 That was a nickname for them that came from an excerpt in a review for one of their albums.
@@SteveShaha Oh, well I apologize for what I said.
I remember my brother who was all of 12 years old running in with this single, he couldn't wait to drop the needle on it. Seems like yesterday but it was another life ago.
Man it's just too bad we'll never be able to do that with a new Clash song again
The (real) Clash 🎸🎸
1979 was my musical awakening. The Clash woke me up. I was 12.
Wow! The Clash. Just Wow!
"The Clash have to be one of the MOST inspirational and intelligent Bands to take Rock and Roll and drive it into a new dimension. Their DIVERSE TALENT made them the quintessential Band that they were."
- Danny Marquis
(San Jose, CA)
That's a very true statement
Lesley May I meant that from the heart. They STOOD OUT talent wise from their Punk Counterparts. I love their song "Lost in a Supermarket, " especially.
that was the first song I heard that got me into them!! I thought it was a cute song for a punk band lol and then I heard Should I Stay or Should I Go and I was hooked !!
Lesley May "Should I Stay or Should I go" is a GREAT SONG, I love the Music Video which is Live. The tempo is sped up just a bit. You have EXCELLENT taste in Music. The Clash will always be my favorite Punk Rock Band.
Daniel Marquis this is punk rock? i watched the making of the Clash documentary, this is business mixed with a great idea, plus creative talent. but whatever it is i really like it, and i still like it and im 53
One of my favorites
One of the best clash songs , topper on drums. Magnificent
Fair play to Joe , wearing the H Block T Shirt, took some balls back then to do that ! Love you Joe ☘️
And also slaughtering terrorism at the same time... the Clash Rightly left Irish politics to SLF... Great move.
First Clash track I ever heard. Topper's gloves make it look like he really means business, about to give those drums a hell of a beating.
Gosh I love the lead and the drums are killer. Perfect punk song!
High Energy
That's The Clash for ya!!!
im named after this song! when I was little my dad used to sing it to me when I was about to go to sleep :')
Did his honking keep you awake? The thoughtless numbskull. I'll bet they told you it was a wizards hat when they put you in the corner.
sing you to sleep about war lmao
The songs called Tommy gun, not Tommy fuck-wit, I'm sorry if this has spoiled your delusion.
I think this song is a little dark for a kid
You're dads a bad ass then
Joe Strummer... What an icon! The Clash were a great historical moment. At least in my lifetime.
tommy gun you ain't happy less you got one.
you can be a hero in an age of none.
there aren't bands like these guys anymore. I miss these guys so much
Brilliant 👏 👏 👏 brilliant song 🎵 from a brilliant 👏 👏 👏 group.........God bless b kind to each other 🥰 love animals ❤ and yourself ❤ 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Without doubt, one of THE BEST EVER bands ever to have graces music and across all types of music 🇬🇧
I wish I had appreciated them more at the time
perfection in music - I Love this band ❤
Same
Topper Was such a brilliant drummer he's very underrated.
The greatest band of all and on so many levels......... Thee Clash!!!!!
Remember this excellent singer when I was eight years old love his music still now in the name of the lord Jesus Christ and the holy spirit thank you God for this beautiful music thank you God amen.
Topper the drummer's drummer! Meet him after the famous Glasgow Apollo gig,
This is the only band (that mattered) where you couldn't take your eyes off any of them equally! And this track just cannot be labelled! Sheer power perhaps!
"STANDING THERE IN PALESTINE, LIGHTING A FUSE!?" Honestly my favorite lyric from these Kings.
I brought the single and it was a song that changed my life. Music, girls and more music, what more could a young man want?
the clash rock my soul
So many people give the Clash a hard time for not being punk enough but the music world wouldn't be the same without them. Maybe they weren't as gritty as Crass or the Subhumans but they brought a sound that was unparalleled. RIP Joe Strummer, a true rock God.
The Clash were the heroes of the Crass. Also people who say that, are either new in punk and don’t know about punk’s broader artistic sound, or they haven’t heard stuff like their debut, which is just pure and raw punk rock at its best
@@allstarlord9110 White Punks on Hope-"They said that we were trash
Well the name is crass, not clash
They can stuff their punk credentials
Cause it's them that take the cash
They won't change nothing with their fashionable talk
All their rar badges and their protest walk."
Now while Steve Ignorant (Crass) may have been inspired early on it doesn't seem like they held the Clash in very high high regard at all. They considered them sellouts. I enjoy both bands for their unique and different sounds inside the punk genre but they weren't exactly hanging out.
@@xDPx-zh7vr He was butthurt and felt betrayed that his heroes signed to a label. A bit childish in my opinion, but hey, crass is pretty cool. The Clash are far far better imo
@@allstarlord9110 Clash are definitely more refined and the world music that Joe Strummer brought to their sound definitely made them more unique. Crass has always had a message but the music played second fiddle to that allot. There's songs that are just nonsense and noise just for the sake of art. Penis Envy is probably their most solid album musically.
Joe has left the building but will never be forgotten.
Yeah, Joe never died, he just left the building.
Name dropper. That's what made him legend. He was just a geezer, but with a platform to be heard. And make your own moments of your life, don't play second fiddle to anyone. Respectfully.
I saw The Clash in a dive bar in Brooklyn, N.Y...and the very cool part was that Dwight Yokum was the opening act! I might be gettin' old but we had some of the best music eva!! Joe Strummer was so raw onstage! AAHH...the old days!