YES YES YES!!!!! This album means so much to me. I was coming off a drug addiction just turning 18, and after just started driving. I was kind of into music, but was trying to listen to more music and diversify my tastes. My dad and I didn't have the closest relationship, but we were working on it and it was getting better. I remember when he gave me the CD to play in my car, and while it took awhile, it just kept growing on me. It was one of the first albums I really listened to whole. We really bonded over it and it started my love for music and collecting music. Not to mention, I just broke up with my girlfriend at the time, and Train in Vain basically captured all I felt in a much needed upbeat way
Definitely one of the greats, but I'd also pitch Tomorrow Never Knows (Beatles), Jungleland (Springsteen), Voodoo Child, Slight Return (Hendix) and The Tourist (Radiohead)
Machine Gun Etiquette, another post punk masterpiece, was recorded at the same time, in the same studio. The Dammned and the Clash even do back up vocals on each other's albums.
One of my favorite albums with one of my favorite main single by my favorite punk band, with a one of my favorite cover that had one of my favorite rock photograph and one of my favorite reference to another rock artist. FUCKING CLASSIC
Nice little video. Especially the points you make about how they differed from the Pistols. P.S. you're pronouncing Simonon wrong...... P.S. - Paul Simonon haha
You guys should also do these albums! Let it Be: The Replacements Murmur or Automatic for the People: REM My War: Black Flag Parklife or Blur: Blur Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californiacation, or Stadium Arcadium: Red Hot Chili Peppers Never Mind the Bullocks: Sex Pistols Bringing it all Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited, or Blonde on Blonde: Bob Dylan Rubber Soul, Revolver, Sgt Pepper, Magical Mystery Tour, OR the White Album: the Beatles [ or all of them ;) ] All things must pass: George Harrison Unknown Pleasures: Joy Division The Stooges: The Stooges Kick out the Jams!: The MC5
Randy Newman's 12 Songs, Nilsson Schmilsson, XTC's Drums and Wires/Black Sea/Skylarking. Kink's Muswell Hillbillies or Village Green would all be good candidates
"Pub-rock roots" ??? Whaaaaat? The Clash were NEVER a pub rock band. Listen to genuine pub rock bands like Kilburn & The High Roads (who morphed into Ian Dury & The Blockheads) or Brinsley Schwarz (Nick Lowe's original band) and then compare with the Clash's first album. Not remotely similar.True, Strummer's first band The 101's were pretty pub-rock, but Mick Jones was always more into what we now call "classic rock".