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RE: We don't need your technical eliteism!!! Original Punk Rock blasts onto the scene [Metal Tree: 6]
I consider The Clash to be something more than your normal punk rock band. They started something special and their music is not only about punk rifs, they experimented with many music genres. You can notice some reggae elements, there is even some violin in some of their songs when they worked with Simon Dog, some classical piano in Rock the Casbah like you mentioned. Every one of the members of the group was a force to be reckoned with. Even though their vocals are not the best they had someting special when Mick Jones added his high pitched voice. This song for example, Joe starts then Mick comes and takes it away.
Yes I agree. They were distinctly different from the other bands considered Punk Rock. Heh... you could perhaps call them Progressive Punk if you read my closing for my post yesterday on Progressive Rock then why I say that makes more sense.
Progressive really just means they are not beholden to one style, and live free, and mingle and merge whatever interests them. The second word simply tells you the common style they tend to return to the most often.
So perhaps Progressive Punk. They never go quite to the technical extremes Progressive Rock acts tended to, I definitely can hear some Prog flavoring in The Clash. That might actually be a big part of why they appeal to me. I tend to really love Progressive acts regardless of what type of genre the root in.
You're right...they transcended the whole punk thing.