After all this, won't you give me a smile?

Our first picture. I thought it was a good idea. I decided to write my response before I even read the other ones. I'm not sure if this will help my review but it just seemed right to me.



As I listen to the song on repeat I'm still not exactly sure what all I'm going to write about. I like the music and the way that his voice sounds. It's like authentic punk, which I think is really cool. I think there is some popular clash song that I know but I have no idea what it is. I also probably wouldn't regularly listen to them just cause I feel there are better bands to listen to.

Now onto what the song is about. The reason that the song was written was because of an accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania. There was an accident with a pressurized water reactor and this was the "nuclear error". The Clash singer, Joe Strummer said that he thought that "we were about to slip down a slope, or something".

"A nuclear error, but I have no fear
London is drowning-and I live by the river"

I think that these ending lines to the chorus show the "I don't care" attitude of this type of music. The line about London drowning has to do with the Thames river in the center of London. It has been said that if the river flooded that all of central London would drown.

The next lines I'd like to talk about go as follows:

"London calling, now don't look at us
All that phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust"

When I first read this line I thought it very interesting that they would hate on the Beatles. Wikipedia begged to differ. Haha. I guess the band was having a lot of issues at the time with debt and with their label. Some say that the line referred to the end of the "punk boom" in 1977. Another point of view is that the line isn't about the Beatles at all but about the Broadway production of Beatlemania. So "the line castigated late 1970s culture for its lack of substance, such as consuming "phoney Beatlemania," essentially a simulated, rather than actual, experience."

Overall, I think that "London Calling" is a good song. I wouldn't mind enjoying it every once in a while.