Growing up a young punk the Clash soon became my favourite and this heavily slagged album was, and still is my favourite, even nearly 40 years later,a musical masterpiece,never surpassed. The baseline never tires.
This was a misunderstood masterpiece… it really opened up my ears to wider possibilities of music… I bought a phase shifter because of London Calling 😅
@@cameron10138 you're def getting something right in life kid. My bro just passed away 3 days ago, he was a prince of punks amongst punks, an OG fascist hunter, a pioneer SF longboarder, a true gentleman and hell of a graphic artist. I know you would have his blessings, and you have mine !
When it came out it passed our acid test ... If a record still sounded great after embarking on a trip it was a keeper this one was one of my faves of 1980
I remember hearing The Clash for the first time in my isolate Northern town. I went out the next day, bought the double album London Calling and cut my hair like Joe Strummer. I bought this triple album at the same store a couple years later. It still holds up 4 decades later. The only band that matters.
Reason #556 of why I love The Clash: They took an off the wall statement by Ltc. Kilgore and turned it into an amazing song. I can never hear this without being transported directly into Apocalypse Now! Rock on! Miss you Joe!
@verdun16 I watch it at least once a year, if not more, along with basically every Tarantino movie. Besides the first Godfather, Apocalypse Now is Copolla's masterpiece.
Toppers 50s early Rock on Roll kick on this Track is what makes it. Topper the Human Drum Machine. It's reminiscent of a sort of buddy Holly vibe with the way Topper kicks that beat with the others falling in. Very visual. Topper Legend
After 39 years after I first heard it, still feels so fresh, and more than that, something that you can listen now and think that its like the new thing, you know?... a feeling I rarely find in music that gets me excited in a cool way.
My dad played it to me as a kid, im 40 now. And i get it more than ever. Ive collected over a 1000 records now... still one of my favs. So is the movie.
1979: "Charlie don't surf!" - line from Apocalypse Now 1980: "Charlie Don't Surf" - song by the Clash 1985: "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" - song by Tears For Fears, line from "Carlie Don't Surf" by the Clash
Nicked Sandinista from my local library, remember ticking the back of the record of the ones I liked after first listen there was. about 7, fifteen years later 32, its a grower!
@@marvel905 I'd say one third of the album is fantastic....maybe they should have made B sides instead of a double LP...but Clash fans know what the great songs are.
I was at Bonds when the Clash played Sandanista. There were fire marshals counting every person leaving the place. That was the last night they ever were open. Bonds had been around for at least 15 years, yet it was all gone that night.
Charlie don't surf and we think he should Charlie don't surf and you know that it ain't no good Charlie don't surf for his hamburger Momma Charlie's gonna be a napalm star Everybody wants to rule the world Must be something we get from birth One truth is we never learn Satellites will make space burn We've been told to keep the strangers out We don't like them starting to hang around We don't like them all over town Across the world we are going to blow them down The reign of the super powers must be over So many armies can't free the earth Soon the rock will roll over Africa is choking on their Coca Cola It's a one a way street in a one horse town One way people starting to brag around You can laugh, put them down These one way people gonna blow us down Charlie don't surf he'll never learn Charlie don't surf though he's got a gun Charlie don't surf think that he should Charlie don't surf we really think he should Charlie don't surf Charlie don't surf and we think he should Charlie don't surf and you know that it ain't no good Charlie don't surf for his hamburger Momma Charlie don't surf
When what was cool, The Clash or burnin' one down? Grew up in the South Bay, SoCal punk capital n no punkers there have this album or burn anymore, yuppie ghetto drunk pill poppers or straight edge construction workers that don't even know Sting was in The Police, lames. Times change, for better or worse?
They were my youth and my politics - they stayed true, like to think I did. When ever I hear the Clash it takes me back, still may favourite band - got to see 12 times. loved ever occasion :)
In the early 2000s when I would go to a new music store I wouldn't go straight to find what I was looking for, I would first go to C, if they didn't have either London Calling or Sandinista on the shelf I would leave.
@@v.valente Verdade ! Ô " MANO VÉIO " ....! ... não é surf music , MAS A MELODIA DA MÚSICA É DE SURF MUSIC ! ... todos os "Chalies" deveriam surfar .... Você surfa " VÉIO vitor " ?! Como diz a música " me disseram pra deixar você (Ô ESTRANHO ) lá fora ... " Ah ! não tenho total domínio da língua inglesa , e você rir disso , NÃO TE FAZ mais culto e ou mais " sábio " mas sim um TIRANO que se assemelha a esses líderes de super potências a qual esta música se refere também ! Ri melhor quem ri por último ... 🤙 ALOHA ! AGENTE DÁ O QUÊ TEM !
Quando ouço este som. Lembro das pessoas incríveis, que estão viciados em alguma droga nociva, perdidos em si mesmos. E nas decisões erradas que tomaram. E do quanto eles poderiam estar brilhando em algo por aí...
@@tatianawilliams Seriously...I'm just disappointed in myself for really truly discovering them only recently. I mean I knew the radio hits but I had no idea they had so many great songs...and I was in my teens when they were in their prime. Same goes for discovering the Mescaleros and learning how good a person Joe Strummer was.
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I love the sound of the clash in the morning, sounds like victory.
Glad I wasn't the only one.
Someday this war is going to end.
Cool answer!
LOL that's a good one!!
Bruuuuuuh
What a song by the Clash, they even managed to fit the sound of the helicopter rotors in. An absolute masterpiece
Love when artists choose to allow comments in their official TH-cam video comment section. You dudes rule.
unlike snob artists, the clash are the people's band.
@@themizaru lol
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@@birjarq Really? That must be new within the last like 2 months.
Growing up a young punk the Clash soon became my favourite and this heavily slagged album was, and still is my favourite, even nearly 40 years later,a musical masterpiece,never surpassed. The baseline never tires.
One of my favourites and im 18🤣
@@cameron10138 in the mid 00s i was ur age and i was obssesed with the clash
This was a misunderstood masterpiece… it really opened up my ears to wider possibilities of music… I bought a phase shifter because of London Calling 😅
@@cameron10138 you're def getting something right in life kid. My bro just passed away 3 days ago, he was a prince of punks amongst punks, an OG fascist hunter, a pioneer SF longboarder, a true gentleman and hell of a graphic artist. I know you would have his blessings, and you have mine !
@@ottodidakt3069 Pouring one for your brother mate, merry christmas!
When it came out it passed our acid test ... If a record still sounded great after embarking on a trip it was a keeper this one was one of my faves of 1980
Thanks, I already love this song, adding it to the playlist
still does today 🥀
What are your other 1980 faves?
mind to share your acid approved list?
I remember hearing The Clash for the first time in my isolate Northern town. I went out the next day, bought the double album London Calling and cut my hair like Joe Strummer. I bought this triple album at the same store a couple years later. It still holds up 4 decades later. The only band that matters.
oh yeah well I got the quadruple album and it can hold up my tv, and the DVD player.
AN IM CZE LIKE WATER IN POLISH CLASK LIKE SNOW LIKE LIFE
not the only but one of the rare
This song, live or on record, just brilliant. RIP Joe.
That bass line...
Yeah, and it's not Paul Simonen.
@@s.miller2648 Who is it then?
@@thomassnider6691 Bass player from Ian Dury and the Blockheads
@@s.miller2648 Thank you.
@@thomassnider6691 You're welcome.
Reason #556 of why I love The Clash: They took an off the wall statement by Ltc. Kilgore and turned it into an amazing song. I can never hear this without being transported directly into Apocalypse Now! Rock on! Miss you Joe!
Apocalypse Now will always be the be the best movie of all time in my opinion.
@verdun16 I watch it at least once a year, if not more, along with basically every Tarantino movie. Besides the first Godfather, Apocalypse Now is Copolla's masterpiece.
Truly the only band that mattered.
努力！勇気！くじけずに!!!!負けそうな時もしんどくても ギブ! 根性 シコ踏んで！
Toppers 50s early Rock on Roll kick on this Track is what makes it. Topper the Human Drum Machine. It's reminiscent of a sort of buddy Holly vibe with the way Topper kicks that beat with the others falling in. Very visual.
Topper Legend
After 39 years after I first heard it, still feels so fresh, and more than that, something that you can listen now and think that its like the new thing, you know?... a feeling I rarely find in music that gets me excited in a cool way.
Superb bass!
I saw these guys live in Montreal sooo many years ago. Wonderful. Back then popular music had a greater societal purpose.
One of the best albums I’ve ever heard
My dad played it to me as a kid, im 40 now. And i get it more than ever. Ive collected over a 1000 records now... still one of my favs.
So is the movie.
IF I SAY IT'S SAFE TO SURF THIS BEACH THEN IT'S SAFE TO SURF THIS BEACH!
I love the smell of napalm in the morning
PBR Street Gang this is almighty over...
Never get out of the boat...absolutely goddamn right.....unless you're going all the way.
Someday this wars gonna end......
He can drink patty water!
I love this song...i love this album ...i love all the albums of The Clash
Everybody wants to rule our world, Charlie don't surf ☠🔥💀
how beautiful this song is
Quite possibly the finest backing vocals of all time on this song!
My name is Charlie , and I was learning to surf about the time this song dropped... It's always had special meaning 💯😉...
This remaster is pretty good. I love the Clash.
This is definitely one of my favorites
MORE CLASH. this is my favourite clash song and the best version is the live in japan gig.
1979: "Charlie don't surf!" - line from Apocalypse Now
1980: "Charlie Don't Surf" - song by the Clash
1985: "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" - song by Tears For Fears, line from "Carlie Don't Surf" by the Clash
SUCH A GOOD SONG
My best band EVER!!!
OMG, when I bought this album... Soon I bought the sheet with all chords. I still have it.
Very underrated song
Nicked Sandinista from my local library, remember ticking the back of the record of the ones I liked after first listen there was. about 7, fifteen years later 32, its a grower!
A bit bloated, but many classics for sure!
@@marvel905 I'd say one third of the album is fantastic....maybe they should have made B sides instead of a double LP...but Clash fans know what the great songs are.
love the waltz pattern, Topper Headon is great
This song smells like.....
VICTORY
...Teen Spirit😛
Rgds from Germany
Mad underrated.
Greatest shows ever. We thought *music* would rule the world.
The 10 years after I was born (1972-1982) was the greatest era of music ever. I brought great music into this world (haha). You're welcome!
I was at Bonds when the Clash played Sandanista. There were fire marshals counting every person leaving the place. That was the last night they ever were open. Bonds had been around for at least 15 years, yet it was all gone that night.
My favorite band referencing my favorite movie, pretty epic.
The Clash has been a great band ! I’ve loved them a long time. Theyre music lives still.
Charlie don't surf and we think he should
Charlie don't surf and you know that it ain't no good
Charlie don't surf for his hamburger Momma
Charlie's gonna be a napalm star
Everybody wants to rule the world
Must be something we get from birth
One truth is we never learn
Satellites will make space burn
We've been told to keep the strangers out
We don't like them starting to hang around
We don't like them all over town
Across the world we are going to blow them down
The reign of the super powers must be over
So many armies can't free the earth
Soon the rock will roll over
Africa is choking on their Coca Cola
It's a one a way street in a one horse town
One way people starting to brag around
You can laugh, put them down
These one way people gonna blow us down
Charlie don't surf he'll never learn
Charlie don't surf though he's got a gun
Charlie don't surf think that he should
Charlie don't surf we really think he should
Charlie don't surf
Charlie don't surf and we think he should
Charlie don't surf and you know that it ain't no good
Charlie don't surf for his hamburger Momma
Charlie don't surf
I remember being a lot younger listening to this, getting smoked out, enjoying life in So. Cal. When it was still cool.
When what was cool, The Clash or burnin' one down? Grew up in the South Bay, SoCal punk capital n no punkers there have this album or burn anymore, yuppie ghetto drunk pill poppers or straight edge construction workers that don't even know Sting was in The Police, lames. Times change, for better or worse?
The only band that mattered!
Agreeing 100%. I listen to jazz, blues, funk, soul... but somehow Sandinista is mine. If you see what l what mean.
@@evacarter2608 AGREED 100%❤😎👍
This jam is fire 🔥
This will always be my Clash touchstone song.
I like to listen to this on the beach when the sun is going down, thinking about life, the choices we make and how it affects people around us..
Quite a lot to think about in 5 minutes
Got the chills,reading this mate I livexby the beach and I know the vibes 🌴💯
Deep
the clash and Lieutenant Colonel kilgore ❤❤❤❤
Yes, Robert Duvall, great actor.
❤❤❤ this song is like the blood in my veins ....... essential
La línea de bajo me da mil años de vida 💛
I've never heard that expression but it's awesome. 😊
They were my youth and my politics - they stayed true, like to think I did. When ever I hear the Clash it takes me back, still may favourite band - got to see 12 times. loved ever occasion :)
So many armies can't free the earth. Jones, Strummer, Simonon & Headon.
this dude. One horse street in a one horse town.
Surf Audio Dynamite! 🧨
Apocalypse now is one of the best Vietnam war movies I’ve ever seen .
mistake was falling in love with this song and expecting them to replicate it live. They couldn't.
I asked for a song by the Clash, and for my sins they gave me one.
A masterpiece. Here 40 years later, as pointed and relevant as the day it was made. Make America Responsible Again
Again?
Were we ever responsible?
@@TheThaggs samoa!
How come there isn't a music video for this one, I remember this being the hit from this album besides police on my back cover?
The bassline is the same as the guitar riff in the end by the doors which is in the beginning of apocalypse now
SICK 🔥
This song is a spiked hit straight from the Golden Triangle. Maybe that's why Charlie don't surf; he's too high to move.
In the early 2000s when I would go to a new music store I wouldn't go straight to find what I was looking for, I would first go to C, if they didn't have either London Calling or Sandinista on the shelf I would leave.
Mi banda favorita de todos los tiempos y sigo descubriendo nuevos temas ♥
Probably one of the greatest song ever 💥 Cheers 🍻
Clash por vida
I feel like I would associate the clash with a Sunday morning 😂
Always head on Lsd. Great
Simply the best
Wonderful
1:19 yesssssss
AGRADEÇO A DEUS POR ELE TER COLOCADO O SURF 🏄
NA MINHA VIDA !!!!!
PRINCIPALMENTE O SURF DE LONG BOARD !!!!
SURF MUSIC É
MANTRA !!!!
acho que tu nao sabe oq a música fala kkkkk não tem nada a ver com surf music mano véio kkkk
@@v.valente
Verdade !
Ô " MANO VÉIO " ....!
... não é surf music , MAS A MELODIA DA MÚSICA É DE SURF MUSIC !
... todos os "Chalies" deveriam surfar ....
Você surfa " VÉIO vitor " ?!
Como diz a música
" me disseram pra deixar você (Ô ESTRANHO ) lá fora ... "
Ah ! não tenho total domínio da língua inglesa , e você rir disso , NÃO TE FAZ mais culto e ou mais " sábio "
mas sim um TIRANO que se assemelha a esses líderes de super potências a qual esta música se refere também !
Ri melhor quem ri por último ...
🤙 ALOHA !
AGENTE DÁ O QUÊ TEM !
Mi favorita de esta banda😎
Forgot about this one, I like it
I love the Clash!
I love this song
I love the clash
Someday this war will end…victory
No me canso de oirla desde los 80!!!
¡Yo tambièn! Esta canción tiene mucho sentido y importancia. Me gusto.
@@La_Ru-yg8es ¿sentido y importancia?¿CUáL?
Great great song
Quando ouço este som. Lembro das pessoas incríveis, que estão viciados em alguma droga nociva, perdidos em si mesmos. E nas decisões erradas que tomaram. E do quanto eles poderiam estar brilhando em algo por aí...
classic !!!
Chopper blade backbeat is very creative.
Only song my mother liked on this album. I like whole album (almost}.
Lance Johnson like this song
This song is the reason why "Everybody Wants to Rule the World" by Tears for Fears exist
Nobody said it like THE CLASH
I'm in Da Nang,which was the DMZ during the Vietnam war, and is famous for surfing
I also just found out that surfing became popular in a part of the Philippines that Apocalypse Now was filmed in
Nice
One of the best songs about the Vietnam war ever.. That's the best short critique I can give. P
The only band that matters
You know how hard it is to find a board you like?
niceone
Charlie no va a surfear porque no sabe como hacerlo, solo sabe portar un arma.
I just remembered the shirts in the 90s with big face of Charles Manson on the front and on the back says "Charlie Don't Surf"
"YA CAN'T WALK THE NOSE ON A SHORTBOARD!"
Nobody:
Robert Duvall: CHARLIE DON'T SURF
everybody wants to rule the world
Yes bubba yes. Aiiggt finna rock and roll with some nice girl on a porch swing. Yessir. ✌️
I went off the Clash years ago but even so I still like this song.
Why would you go off them?
You never go off the Clash, it's like coming home after a tiresome day.
@@tatianawilliams Seriously...I'm just disappointed in myself for really truly discovering them only recently. I mean I knew the radio hits but I had no idea they had so many great songs...and I was in my teens when they were in their prime. Same goes for discovering the Mescaleros and learning how good a person Joe Strummer was.
@@twochordcool Stopped liking their music and politics.
@@tatianawilliams That is your opinion to which you are entitled, but still only opinion nonetheless.
My license plate frame “Charlie Don’t Surf!”
So glad I have this original vinyl! It was a Christmas gift. Can I still say that?
You can
the new thought police insist under severe penalty that you use the phrase ''winter soltice'' gift
1) no one cares what you say lol
2) You clearly no nothing about the politics of this explicitly socialist band lol.
conservatives unironically enjoying Sandinista but complaining about "the war on Christmas" LMAO y'all are too much
please look up what the word Sandinista means ahahahaha
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