The Clash - Tommy Gun (Official Video)
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- The Clash - Tommy Gun (Official Video)
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You ain't happy less you got one
Tommy gun
Ain't gonna shoot the place up
Just for fun
Maybe he wants to die for the money
Maybe he wants to kill for his country
Whatever he wants, he's gonna get it!
You better strip it down for a custom run
Tommy gun
Waiting in the airport 'till kingdom come
An' we can watch you make it
On the nine o'clock news
Standing there in Palestine lighting the fuse
Whatever you want, you're gonna get it
You'll be dead when your war is won
Tommy gun
But did you have to gun down everyone?
I can see it's kill or be killed
A nation of destiny has got to be fulfilled
Whatever you want, you're gonna get it!
You can be a hero in an age of none
Tommy gun
I'm cutting out your picture from page one
I'm gonna get a jacket just like yours
An' give my false support to your cause
Whatever you want, you're gonna get it!
Boats an' tanks and planes, it's your game
Kings an' queens an' generals learn your name
I see all the innocents, the human sacrifice
And if death comes so cheap
Then the same goes for life! - Hudba
*The greatest moment of my life...sitting at a bar in a Cambridge festival did a double take as Joe Strummer sat next to me ..all black leather jacket and smiles..bought him a Guinness...shared a joint with him...he invited me back stage...a humble ordinary genius of a man ...R.I.P*
Damn you were lucky!! 😁
I was named after him
Jealous! What a great memory ❤️
Man good job when I was born he was dead
Holy shit I really would have loved being there. Just crossed him back in the days at the London airport and just told him they were heroes for me and he said smiling "take care of your heroes, boy!" (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). He laughed more when I showed him my walkman with Clash cassette in! I still got that walkman and that cassette. That's a trophy of my life.
August 1979 and I was 17 years old. The Clash were headlining The Ruisrock Festival in Turku, Finland. I scraped enough money to get the ferry over from Stockholm where I lived. Upon arrival in Turku, I crashed the festival area, jumped over the fence to the backstage area and went up to The Clash's mobile home that served as their dressing room. Paul and Joe were lovely and gave me a few beers and sandwiches + a backstage pass. They were impressed that I made it from Stockholm to Finland and asked me tons of questions about life in Sweden and were genuinely the nicest blokes. Like big brothers, guys you respect and look up to. They opened their show with "Clash City Rockers" and the crowd went nuts! They also played a fantastic new song live for the first time: "London Calling". I was in heaven! After the show, The Clash hosted a fun backstage party and hung out with their fans for several hours (while Graham Parker & The Rumour played their show). The Clash...the only band that matters.
RIP Joe Strummer (August 21, 1952 - December 22, 2002), aged 50
You will be remembered as a legend.
And Keith Richards is alive definitely sad Rip Jor
Amen😢❤
One of the best songs by one of the best bands ever. The band that had it all.
Exactly!!!
Joe, Mick, Paul and Topper are legends!!!
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
@@PatrickMorris-sm8dv shut up
I learned more from the Clash than any other source growing up. They propelled me to law school, and I do indigent criminal defense now. Every time I visit a client in jail, I hear Mick Jones' oddly sweet voice singing "bang bang go the jail guitar doors ." "Somebody Got Murdered" was the first song my husband and I sang to our daughter when she was born. God bless them all.
Nice story but I'm afraid you have become the problem, liberalism. Do wrong, pay the price. I did. You learn or don't, choice is there.
One of the strangest comments I’ve ever seen
As I get older I realize how lucky I was to have been a teenager during the punk era.
An I wish I did
Thank you Carol
I envy u.
Actually young people were quite unhappy in the late seventies. That's why punk came about.
Lucky bitch
No other band has ever come close to the everyday passion The Clash had in their music.
Agreed. To me The Clash is the perfect blend of the raw passion and idealistic nature of punk with the complexity and showmanship of more traditional rock and roll. These guys were truly ahead of their time
Song sung with a lot of strength and vigor
Wrong.
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
Passion is right. The first gig I saw was at Brixton Academy in July 1982, age 14. Guess who it was?!! I'll never forget the sight of fucking steam coming off the side of Joe Strummer's shaved Mohican head. It was all kind of downhill after that.....
You cannot credit Topper's drumming enough for The Clash's sound. He was, in my opinion, the best musician in punk rock and, as Strummer said, the band wasn't the same without him. He was the John Bonham of punk.
Absolutely !
Secret of many great Rock bands was a great JAZZ drummer.
Charlie Watts
Topper Headon
Earl Hudson
Carl Palmer
@@sammencia7945 Very True Sam
Joe himself said it best in "Westway To The World" - "You're only as good as your drummer."
ABSOLUTELY AGREE MATE, TERRY CHIMES JUST NEVER STOOD OUT LIKE TOPPER.
My first concert was The Clash - I am so damn proud to say that! I was 15 years old...
I love you
lucky
Anne de Groot i wish to be as cool as you are 😍
i hope you know, how lucky you are.
Lucky you. I had a ticket to see them but my elder brother flogged it to a mate of his who offered him a fiver more. Took me years to forgive him! Still, seen nearly all the other punk bands and more so not too much to complain about.
3 minutes and 13 seconds of punk perfection. Still gets me on my feet all these years later. RIP Joe. U R missed.
"Give em enough rope" is such a good album!
it's their best isn't it?
Buddha159 either that or The Clash
For me their best
When it came out it was panned.
I loved it. AS usual the critics were not experts.
Spittin straight facts
Found these guys 42 years ago and still love the energy and passion.
When music had BALLS!!!
RIP - Joe Strummer
I had a back molar tooth knocked clean out of my head at a Clash concert at the Brixton Academy. Headbutted by a punk in the mosh pit (we didn't call it that then) I watched the tooth hit the floor and saw it disappear under the heaving crush of Doc Martens. I still miss the very first bit of my body that dropped off. Did it grow by itself to become a mini-punk, mostly tooth-based? I still wonder.
Bollocks, unless you went to see them as a five-year old before you started to lose your milk teeth.
@@nookiebroon4424 wanker
I lurve yr sentiment.
U need2 write a book or play Scrabble...they r both great& wonderful ways2 meet people.
Lol
The Clash and the Ramones forever🤘🤘
Never have I ever heard a British song describe America so accurately!
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
That's kind of ridiculous.
@@Splube
It's a joke
STILL FUCKIN' ROCKS 44YRS ON. CLASH CITY ROCKS ON 4EVER.
Raise your kids on The Clash from a young age. Best bit of parenting advise I can give.
As a now 20 year old, I can say one of the things I’m most thankful for is my dad letting me listen to the clash with him all the time 🫀
Are you me? 😂@@z3rker
トゲトゲの14歳の頃に毎日聴いていた。人は14歳に聴いた音楽指向から逃れられないらしい。いつの間にかジョーより年上になったけど、やっぱり聴いてしまいます。
The last 60 seconds of this track are some of the best 60 seconds in rock history.
Well said freind 👍
Just said exactly that to my son. It's phenomenal.
Topper has got to be one of the greatest drummers of all time top class ,
5-round bursts
For punk of, unfortunately he can't make
Topper the class
Are you related to Janie Jones or under witness protection program
@@crazyclash7038 WTF are you even saying ? too much White Widow ? GTF !😁
One of my favorite guitar arrangements ever. As a kid I was blown away by Mick Jones’s melodies perfectly accompanying Strummer’s growling chords and vocals. Neither overwhelmingly the other. So inspirational! I always see this as the example when I’m in a 2-guitarist band
i think mick wrote the tunes when joe sang and reverse
The (real) Clash 🎸🎸
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
Topper was an awesome drummer back then
That guitar solo at 2:19 always gets me, what a fucking band.
katoness I always wonder about what solo is more brilliant, this or the one played in I wanna be sedated
Josiashv95 great producers
Barry McCall and thats not the correct canadian flag in the back ground
katoness Agreed. Gives me goosebumps every single time.
Josiashv95 try a Dave Moustaine (Megedeth) solo from Metallica- Kill em all
Filmed in Vancouver bc. I made that studded wrist band Paul is wearing. The guys had all their wristbands seized at the airport, so I spent the night before the gig making new ones for em. Awesome guys. Awesome band!
Met the Clash at the Orpheum Theatre in 1981, I was 16. Never new then I was in greatness till years later, Joe I miss you. Mick, Paul, Topper if you reading this, Love you Guys,
R.I.P. Sandy Pearlman because the drum sound on this entire album has been blowing my guts out for almost 35+ years.
ClueSign The guitar sound is unreal too.... amazing. This album has a tonne of depth. I call it the Clash's sleeper album- it gets better and better every year. Yeah Sandy Pearlman did an amazing job on it. Too bad it got slagged at the time it came out by 'purists' yawn. The Clash truly were/ are the only band that matters. I play this album all the time; especially Safe, Stay Free, All the Young Punks...genius
ClueSign Sandy Peralman wouldn't have much to work with if not for Topper's fucking brilliance . Give first credits , man .
He polished off the bands edge on too many tracks. Last gang in town and guns on the roof are good examples. This track is the exception because it muscles through. Self titled is mixed like a live gig and really in your face compare uk white riot to us white riot to understand. London calling is a far better production and sound for the band.
The guitars are too dominant in the mix, and on last gang in town you can barely fucking hear the fucking cowbell. Honestly i think he buried a lot of toppers sound and went balls out for snare and bass drum at expense of the rest of the kit. The british mixes were always superior for this band. Same thing happened to combat rock and about 1/3 of sandinista.
смерть империализму.
Not just a great punk band but a great rock band.
“I see all the innocence and the human sacrifice, but if death comes so cheap, then the same goes for life” ...DAMN what a great songwriter!
50 オーバーの親父だけど 英語が少しもわからないのに なぜこの曲はこんなに人を熱くさせるのか
What a fantastic rock band still playing the clash forty years on
Best drum intro ever by the best band ever
im named after this song! when I was little my dad used to sing it to me when I was about to go to sleep :')
Did his honking keep you awake? The thoughtless numbskull. I'll bet they told you it was a wizards hat when they put you in the corner.
sing you to sleep about war lmao
The songs called Tommy gun, not Tommy fuck-wit, I'm sorry if this has spoiled your delusion.
I think this song is a little dark for a kid
You're dads a bad ass then
The clash the only band that mattered!!
You will NEVER hear a better song.....God Bless you Joe Strummer and the Clash forever!
No one can even touch this song. So direct and perfect.
my proudest moment as a father was when my (then) primary 1 year old son came home from school. I asked him how he got on.
"fine", the answer.
what did you get up to? I asked.
Well, we had music and the teacher asked what our favourite bands were. Everybody else said like One Direction and stuff>
"What did you say?"
I said The Clash, daddy.
Buy that kid a telecaster .
Steve Fairlie Parenting done right
parenting +10
unclemort1960 or as Joe says " a Fender Stratosphere " - If Music Could Talk , Sandinista .
Tf ur one year old goes to school ok whatever but still good parenting
Wicked track all respect to all the Tommy's who gave so much 🇬🇧
One of my favorites
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
the way Mick stands at 0:05 is so cool, from the beginning to end he's just badass Ahh lovely lil Mick Jones
Yeah, he was really good.
+Lesley May I thought it was David Essex!!......................................... just joking
+HOW TO PUNK Hell yeah - STILL one of my fave Clash vids, even after - wot - 35 years? Holee fuck! Cheerz, & keep the faith, all u jung punx! :-)
One of the best bands ever... An absolute classic...
High Energy
That's The Clash for ya!!!
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
This is gold! R.I.P Joe you legend!
This is one of the best and most powerful Clash songs ever! The power and chords behind it, show just how progressive the Clash were. They managed to take the punk sound to another level of rock! Another song which exemplifies this; is English Civil War. I think the latter came first, and then the evolution to Tommy Gun!
Punk was never a "sound."
This was the studio suits trying to pass off the Clash as hard rock. They hated it and ditched it as soon as possible.
The Clash did not hate this song, as OroborusFMA asserts, nor did they 'ditch it' as soon as possible. Tommy Gun is a fan favorite and the Clash played it for years.
I am your Tommy Gun; I am Marine.
Tommy Gun was the first Clash song that made my interest in the band
One of the best clash songs , topper on drums. Magnificent
saw the clash in 1978&79,bloody fantastic!!!still one of my all time fave bands
I remember my brother who was all of 12 years old running in with this single, he couldn't wait to drop the needle on it. Seems like yesterday but it was another life ago.
Man it's just too bad we'll never be able to do that with a new Clash song again
I'm a teacher & I've been into the clash since I was 15. I'm 52 now. One of my proudest moments as a teacher was when an ex-student came back when he was about 24, not long ago. I asked him what he was doing. He said he was working in music. He then thanked me from the bottom of his heart because I had been the person who had first played The Clash to him & encouraged him to check them out. He told me they were his favourite group and meant so much to him.
Well done !
Haha your teacher how much do you hate white people and culture
If one day I have a child that plays drums like Topper Headon... I'll be the most proud woman in this fuck*ng world :D LOVE HIM WTF!!!
The epitome of COOLNESS...simply the best.
Best clash song
A true masterpiece from the "only band that matters".
Steve Shaha the clash are my second favourite for me, the jam are just slightly better in my opinion
@@liamregan4810 both of them were top drawer
Lmao only? They're good but only band that matters?
@@brodown64 That was a nickname for them that came from an excerpt in a review for one of their albums.
@@SteveShaha Oh, well I apologize for what I said.
a very young angry clash.....amazing band....joe strummer sadly missed r.i.p.
ACID ROCK PRODS he never dies
Clash has a good line in what comes next of your final right's too live after tomorrow
Topper Was such a brilliant drummer he's very underrated.
Brilliant 👏 👏 👏 brilliant song 🎵 from a brilliant 👏 👏 👏 group.........God bless b kind to each other 🥰 love animals ❤ and yourself ❤ 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Joe should be the icon of punk. You know, like Arnold was to body building. Joe changed everything.
johnny ramone is the godfather of punk
Pro-Pel Clan Joe and Johnny are great punks, but I'd say the true godfather of punk is every member of the Sex Pistols. If you want to go into American punk, I'd say either Greg Graffin of bad religion or jello from DK
Toast Busters I'm not sure about the godfathers but the Grand Father of punk rock would have to be Woody Guthrie. wait , I'm old. Woody would be the Great Grand Father by now .
the clash are the biggest punk rock band... so ofc he is an icon
Gabriel Klopp sid is so reverred because of how controversial he was and how soon he died but the clash were much better songwriters in every way
Springsteen could only dream of having an ounce of Joe Strummer’s passion.
The second clash song i ever heard
40yrs later and im still listening
Wow ! Ringing true to this day !!!!! The truth never ceases to be truth. This madness must end. Let us all live in peace!
This man loves an audience he's excellent and brilliant he loves showing off and love's people god bless him.
This was the first song i brought in the Kings Rd Chelsea on vinyl !! Miss those good ole days !!🎧
I bought this at Honest Johns in Camden the day after release...I miss them too.
They rocked every juke-joint dive with this one. Just when rock n' roll needed a good kick in the ass, The Clash came calling!
Some where exist ts a picture of Shane MaGowan on my left and Joe on my right,a truly down to earth guy,God rest his soul !
0:41 one of the best guitar riffs of rock history. so simple and so good.
Greatest punk song and video ever.
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
57 years old, listen to the CLASH every day. Should be tought at school!
Ha. I can’t help myself. So should spelling.
Wow! The Clash. Just Wow!
I was lucky enough to see them 4 times.
They were probably the best live rock band, ever. Not the most technically gifted (ELP, Crimson, Yes, etc), but the best with life changing visceral impact.
Yes I include The Beatles in that list.
The Clash were that good.
What you think of them, completely true.
I wish all of you could have witnessed their mighty power, live.
My God, what a band.
1977 We all went to heaven
the clash rock my soul
Saw them twice in Paris France. Energy, power, two of the Best gigs in my life.
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
Fair play to Joe , wearing the H Block T Shirt, took some balls back then to do that ! Love you Joe ☘️
And also slaughtering terrorism at the same time... the Clash Rightly left Irish politics to SLF... Great move.
Music like this is still being made in 2017!! Bands such as HeadAche are keeping the spirit of The Clash alive. Search up 'Trepidation' by HeadAche.. real DIY punk rock!!
Topper, if you sometimes read this: I admire you so much!
Bridged the gap between hard rock and Punk. Doss.
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
Give em Enough Rope is an absolutely STELLAR LP
I am sixty five and this is still fucking great.
Yes I know I'm just a young man of sixty I'm still loving The Clash in my little ROCKING chair
At 1:58 when Joe casually looks deep into your soul.
Perfect drum sound
Greatest intro ever
if you like this you might like my brothers music. His name is Stu Morris and 'She has a Car' is a good song by him.
"The Clash have to be one of the MOST inspirational and intelligent Bands to take Rock and Roll and drive it into a new dimension. Their DIVERSE TALENT made them the quintessential Band that they were."
- Danny Marquis
(San Jose, CA)
That's a very true statement
Lesley May I meant that from the heart. They STOOD OUT talent wise from their Punk Counterparts. I love their song "Lost in a Supermarket, " especially.
that was the first song I heard that got me into them!! I thought it was a cute song for a punk band lol and then I heard Should I Stay or Should I Go and I was hooked !!
Lesley May "Should I Stay or Should I go" is a GREAT SONG, I love the Music Video which is Live. The tempo is sped up just a bit. You have EXCELLENT taste in Music. The Clash will always be my favorite Punk Rock Band.
Daniel Marquis this is punk rock? i watched the making of the Clash documentary, this is business mixed with a great idea, plus creative talent. but whatever it is i really like it, and i still like it and im 53
THis has to be th most overlooked Clash song ever!
First Clash track I ever heard. Topper's gloves make it look like he really means business, about to give those drums a hell of a beating.
トッパーヒードンのドラムが冴え渡る名曲！
クラッシュの曲で1番好きかも！
I consider myself very lucky to have seen these guys live twice in the late 70's. I was 15 as well.
Now I’m in my 50s when I listen to these old clash songs I have a greater appreciation for toppers drumming
Yeahhhhh
I saw The Clash in a dive bar in Brooklyn, N.Y...and the very cool part was that Dwight Yokum was the opening act! I might be gettin' old but we had some of the best music eva!! Joe Strummer was so raw onstage! AAHH...the old days!
That's the bass he later smashed to bits, as seen on the 'London Calling' album cover and now on display at the Museum of London.
LOL
It was Paul Simonon smashing the bass!
@@cantcheatkarma3493 - Makes sense! Seeing he was their bassist! 😉
Yeah, I remember reading about it years ago! Great photo, great album!
Topper! Topper! Topper! Monster drummer...
The clash at their best
I brought the single and it was a song that changed my life. Music, girls and more music, what more could a young man want?
I’ve noticed the clash’s guitar work is a lot more interesting than just power chords.
Classic of punk rock!
The best Clash song in my opinion. Nothing's close
Yeah maybe safe european home
@@antonyward8971hmmm nah but #2
@@antonyward8971complete control
"And if death come so cheap, then the same goes for life!"
Can't beat that line.
clash never get old like them others
Without doubt, one of THE BEST EVER bands ever to have graces music and across all types of music 🇬🇧
I wish I had appreciated them more at the time
They look and sound great. Ah my wayward youth! Hanging out with cool punk boys, running around laughing hysterically at everything and doing cool punk boy stuff.
Give em enough rope HAS to be one of the best albums ever produced