Sold Date:
April 8, 2018
Start Date:
April 1, 2018
Final Price:
$29.00
(USD)
Bid Count:
17
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Found these records at an estate sale..most have water damage cover..some records are VG or better..this is a no return auction..ask questions if you want more pictures Thanks The Clash Lp LONDON CALLING...Cover is the original with the original songs on the back cover...later pressings added some songs..Cover is VG+..Record is VG+/VG Buyer to pay $4.00 s/h Thanks for looking ****London Calling has been considered by many critics to be one of the greatest rock albums of all time, including 's , who said that it sounded more purposeful than "most albums, let alone double albums".According to , it is the 6th most ranked record on critics' lists of the all-time greatest albums. In 1987, of the named it the fourth-best album of the previous 10 years and said while the Clash's debut was a punk masterpiece, London Callingmarked the genre's "coming of age" as the band led the way into "fertile post-punk territory". In 1989, Rolling Stone ranked it as the best album of the 1980s, despite its 1979 release date. In 1999, magazine named London Calling the fourth-greatest British album of all time, and wrote that it is "the best Clash album and therefore among the very best albums ever recorded". In 2002, Q included it on its list of the 100 Best Punk Albums, and in 2003, ranked it twenty second on their list of the Top 50 Punk Albums, while British writer named it the second-greatest punk album of all time. In 2006, Q Magazine ranked it 20 on its list of the 100 Greatest Albums Ever.
London Calling was ranked as the sixth-greatest album of the 1970s by , and the second-best by , whose reviewer said that it was the Clash's "creative apex" as a "rock band" rather than as a punk band. In 2003, London Calling was ranked number eight on Rolling Stone's list of . 's Tom Sinclair declared it the "Best Album of All Time" in his headline for a 2004 article on the album. In 2007, London Calling was inducted into the , a collection of recordings of lasting qualitative or historical significance. The album was included in the 2009 Masterpieces Series, marking it as one of the most influential albums of all time, some thirty years after its original release.