about the clash

[Under_the_cover_of_ignora]

do you consider them part ska. songs like revilotion rock are defenatily ska.  

[stormi gray]

yay totally JOE STRUMMER i love you  

[Hobbes]

The Clash are alright. I don't think they influenced ska though.  

[Leveller]

1, yesh Clash is a great band!
2, and a some of their music has ska influeces ther's no doubt about, and The Clash and The Specials had the same manager I belive...now I don't remember his name  

[King Of The Ska]

No, I do not consider them ska.
They were around at the same time that ska was getting big, but no.
I don't like the clash, and probably never will ><  

[evilbrainbabies]

i have almost all there albums. dont think they are really ska at all... not from what ive heard at least  

[DarkVice]

I think the Clash are too much a part of Punk history to be considered ska... even if they did have a couple songs..... The Beatles - "Ob La Di Ob La Da" is pretty much a Ska song, but no one would ever think of calling them a ska band. Although I won't deny that The Clash did quite a bit to help the birth of 2-Tone.... the Specials first major tour was opening for the Clash... i think. And originally, The Specials considered themselves more punk than ska....
As for the name of the manager, its Bernard Rhodes... ( I even have a Japanese Oi! Song about him....) He also was a big part of the inspiration for the song "Gangsters"  

[Farnoosh]

They're punk, and only punk.  

[Leveller]

DarkVice

As for the name of the manager, its Bernard Rhodes... ( I even have a Japanese Oi! Song about him....) He also was a big part of the inspiration for the song "Gangsters"

yeah I remember now...kinda stupid to forgett...."Bernard Rhodes knows don't argue"...  

[Asthen]

I've never really listened to the Clash, so I have no opinion.  

[Mr. Fascist]

I like the Clash, but I don't think they're really ska. They have some ska influences in some of their songs, but they're definitly more punk, and helped form the punk genre than the ska genre.  

[Leveller]

Farnoosh

They're punk, and only punk.

the first 2 clash albums are punk, London Calling is rock, Sandinista is everything except punk!
Combat rock is rock and Cut The Crap is not an offical Clash album.  

[[Play Ziggy]]

I'd love to but I really just can't think of them as ska....  

[Leveller]

the closest to ska they'll ever come is, "Rudie can't Fail" and the Dub songs on sandinista  

[Queenie42]

Part ska. About, oh, 20%. Not that I don't totally love them. But they're punk rock, not ska.