Is ‘London Calling’ The Only Album That Matters?

Jim Mowat
The Riff
Published in
8 min readFeb 11, 2024

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How good is this 1979 album widely regarded and lauded since its release? Does it stand the test of time in 2024?

Returning to my first exposure to it: it would have been sometime around the late seventies that the Clash started getting played at parties and onto my radar. They sounded cool, so when I saw their triple album at the secondhand Luigi’s Emporium record store, I took…

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Jim Mowat
The Riff

Writes about rock and indie music. Long term music lover and follower of Indie-Alternative sounds, rock with an edge and a good lyric.