Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "London Calling" in French language version.
« I played bass on the recording, but because of the song’s bass line, I felt more comfortable playing guitar and singing the whole song live. »
« Le slogan punk « No future » des années 1976-1978 et les textes engagés des groupes phares de cette période comme le « London calling » des Clash (1979) rendent mieux compte que tout discours de l’état d’esprit dans lequel la jeunesse, en particulier celle des classes modestes, aborde les « années de fer ». »
« "Rudie Can't Fail" (the "She's Leaving Home" of our generation) celebrates an initiation into bohemian lowlife with affection and panache (...) »
« As in the past, the most personal songs are the ones sung by Mick Jones. »
« Reggae figures more prominently than ever, in Paul Simonon's songwriting debut on "Guns Of Brixton" (a dark-brooding picture of urban terror, sung by Paul), »
« Simonon's sullenly menacing "Guns of Brixton" is one of the strongest cuts »
« It can be as intimate and hilarious as the moment when Joe Strummer deflates any hint of portentousness in the sexual-equality polemics of "Lover's Rock" by squawking "I'm so nervous!" to close the tune. »
« But the most autobiographical song, reminiscent of Give ‘Em Enough Rope’s "Stay Free," is "I’m Not Down," upon whose street-tough declaration of having been there the self-mythologizing "Four Horsemen" is built. »
« "The track was like a train rhythm," says Jones, who wrote most of it, " and it was, once again, that feeling of being lost. So there it was." »
« London Calling, was a tour de force of styles, from rockabilly to hard rock, dub and ska, alchemised by plenty of finger-jabbing attitude »
« Le slogan punk « No future » des années 1976-1978 et les textes engagés des groupes phares de cette période comme le « London calling » des Clash (1979) rendent mieux compte que tout discours de l’état d’esprit dans lequel la jeunesse, en particulier celle des classes modestes, aborde les « années de fer ». »
« Avec Koka Kola (...), ils écrivent avec vingt-cinq ans d’avance la chanson préférée de Patrick Le Lay. Celle dont il a fait récemment le pitch lorsqu’il a déclaré : "Dans une perspective business, soyons réalistes : à la base, le métier de TF1, c’est d’aider Coca-Cola à vendre son produit." »
« The same song also advocates an alternative, a common Strummer theme, the need for working-class rebellion »
« The song fades away in a vamp that sounds like disco, so light you might get the impression the band had forgotten eveything they'd just sung about : institutional racism, political brainwashing, and the creeping compromise of working life. »
« Here is a partial list of songs since the late 1950s that have used the Bo Diddley beat, or a variation of it. (...) The Clash, Hateful »
« Lyrically, they attacked consumerism ("Lost in the Supermarket," "Koka Kola") and drug dealers ("Hateful") while waxing philosophical about the apocalypse ("London Calling" and "Four Horsemen"). »
« I don't see Joe much after this, watch from a distance as London Calling turns The Clash into a major rock band, the world theirs if they want it. »
