Honorable Mention: The Clash
The Clash are beasts at what they do best and that was an energy and commitment to rock n’ roll, to rocking n’ rolling. Plus they gave us a new way to say “Should I Stay or Should I Go”, that we can never say it in another way again.
The Clash
The Clash were one of the voices of British Punk but they also experimented with their sound, mixing punk and rock with reggae, or rockabilly, and they wouldn’t give a damn what anyone else thought of them or the way they made their music. They didn’t just experiment and get away with it, they absolutely killed it.
Honorable Mention: Talking Heads
Talking Heads became famous for their three or four chord songs and their experimentation, which gave punk music the punch-up it needed at the time; they are practically responsible for inventing art-punk. Listening to one of their tracks with take you on all sorts of journeys.
Talking Heads
All the elements of their music mix together into some sort of collective consciousness. “Once in a Lifetime” is one of those tracks that speak to so many adults in transient phases of their lives. And a song like “This Must Be the Place” makes wherever you feel like home. That’s quite a power for a song to have.
