YOUR WEDNESDAY K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

I would have said, "Stay" but that's just me.

I am feeling in a needful mood, one for the playing of The Clash, to present to you a tune from their biggest record Combat Rock, 1981 the year. The Clash, I think, were the most successful punk band ever, though calling them punk greatly reduces what they brought to the table. If punk was a shopping cart with a really wobbly set of wheels, The Clash were the whole %$#@ supermarket. Everything they heard and lived went into their musical arsenal. And this is one of their most popular, and most accessible, songs.

Right from the opening guitar strike, the very first note, you know you are in a different world, one way different than whatever else was on the radio the year this broke loose. In November 2004, it was ranked at 228 on Rolling Stone "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list. In 2009 it was ranked 42nd on VH1's program 100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs.

I enjoy knowing that the Spanish section was inspired by and contain's vocal assist from one Joe Ely. On the spur of the moment I said 'I'm going to do the backing vocals in Spanish,' ... We needed a translator so Eddie Garcia, the tape operator, called his mother in Brooklyn Heights and read her the lyrics over the phone and she translated them. But Eddie and his mum are Ecuadorian, so it's Ecuadorian Spanish that me and Joe Ely are singing on the backing vocals. - Joe Strummer, 1991

So please now to enjoy your-

-K-101.7 SONG OF THE DAY!

P.S: Please now also to enjoy this more about our friends, the only band that matters, THE CLASH!