My teacher printed off these lyrics and gave them to us to study as a poem. It wasn't until after that he told us that it was a song by the clash. Fell in love with the band ever since then
j ai 58 ans français...j étais ado a l époque..ce groupe a marqué ma jeunesse et meme maintenant je me lasse pas et jamais d écouter ce qui reste a mes yeux un des plus grands groupes rocks all time...cette chanson n a pas une ride.....merci messieurs en ces temps troubles....paris france mars 2024
This song makes me want to sob. The feeling of the end of childhood. The feeling right after you finish a long TV show. The feeling right before or after a breakup. The feeling of the summer between high school and college. Walking home after the last day of school.
I know darn tootin what you mean when I just finished being in 12 Angry Jurors for 5 months directed by the most popular guy in drama class in high school and juicing every drop I can for my channel. “Don’t frown because it’s over, smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss
Different song but classic line.... ‘When I had me a great deal of money I had mighty good friends all over town. Now I ain’t got no more money an’ all of my good friends just put me down’ ‘Give me whisky when I’m thirsty, gimme a headstone when I die’ FUCKIN LEGENDS Check Peakys Poems. You may laugh at a couple. Safe, Mr. Peaky
God, what an amazing song. It captures so many ideas and emotions within: the vapidity of modern society, and the alienation and isolation it causes, issues with depression and social anxiety that arise out of said alienation, the works. Truly, this is an all-time classic.
That’s the beauty of the clash they sing about deep themes in an almost happy manor so if you don’t listen closely to the lyrics you’d think it was a happy song. This is why I love Spanish bombs it sounds like a happy song until you actually listen to what the lyrics are saying
This song is almost 50 years old and is not even in my native tongue, but this is the only song with lyrics I can really relate myself to. The emptiness of mundane suburban life, with a soft melancholy riff that somehow stings...it's just perfection!
This might be one of the most ahead of its time songs ever. Everything from the drums and vocals to even the guitar tone is so modern sounding that if they released it as a modern indie song today, it would still sound fresh, and is still lyrically relevant. It’s a shame this song never got the same mainstream appeal as some of their other big radio hits because this track is incredible.
The lyrics (whilst dark) are beautiful, they are both so personal and at the same time universal. It takes a special intellect/ sensibility to invoke those sorts of feelings.
(Bear in mind that I wholeheartedly agree with you and this isn't intended as a takedown, it just struck me as I was reading your comment and it provided me with some much-needed joy and I felt compelled to share it.) "To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to write The Clash..."
I literally just found out this song wasnt originally by ben folds. Even this original fits so well with his rockin the suburbs album and the voice is even very similar. Now i gotta listen to this whole album. Im hype!😊😊🎉🎉
@@lorenzopacchia9189 I think that's a legit interpretation. Crazy consumerism in our societies surely is a good friend of depression. You don't matter as a person because the point of the world you live in is to make money and buy things. At first you think you're happy because you have material things, but then you begin to understand that life is more than that and that you can't buy happiness/serenity with money. After that epiphany, it's easy to fall in a state of chronic depression, which is due to our without-morals and capitalistic society.
I remember this song just appeared one day when I was listening in Spotify. I was passing through a really bad moment of my life and this song found me. I think this song saved my life and now I come to listen it again every time I feel lost in the supermarket. I love it
London Calling is a perfect album to listening to during trying times, the positive vibes in it are great. "I'm not down" saved me once. I should have taken my own advise earlier :)
@@lisayee2362 He has such an expressive way of singing and it feels like his natural voice rather than someone who had years of vocal training to sing a certain way. It's very real. Joe also had a very expressive voice but a different vocal quality. Their voices really were perfect for the band.
One of those songs that has an undeniably catchy tune, but when you examine the lyrics as well as the context of the songwriting, it’s actually pretty depressing. Amazing song.
Best band of the 80's period!!!! These guys weren't just a bunch of pretty boys who looked good on fancy videos, but a real band who always had a great raw rock sound.
[Chorus] I'm all lost in the supermarket I can no longer shop happily I came in here for that special offer A guaranteed personality I wasn't born so much as I fell out Nobody seemed to notice me We had a hedge back home in the suburbs Over which I never could see I heard the people who lived on the ceiling Scream and fight most scarily Hearing that noise was my first ever feeling That's how it's been all around me [Chorus] I'm all tuned in, I see all the programmes I save coupons from packets of tea I've got my giant hit discoteque album I empty a bottle and I feel a bit free The kids in the halls and the pipes in the walls Make me noises for company Long distance callers make long distance calls And the silence makes me lonely [Chorus] And it's not here It disappeared I'm all lost
It's great!! I like the terminations on "e"!!! I'm french and i don't know if terminations is the good word... I love the Clash, forever since London Calling.
In the movie Over The Hedge there was a part where they played this song and I use to get mad hype singing it! and the fact that I now finally found it my life is complete!
i hope that i can write a song that is even as half as good as this song is. what a fucking masterpiece. forever grateful for the simple fact of the clash’s existence.
I can picture it, all lost in the supermarket. Came for a good time and it turns to tears fast "why the need for all these shelves, who put them here and where´s the daily deals". One stands there with your little own basket and it´s all empty, just a sad mouth and dissapointed eyes on the face, nah i´ll make myself cry, no sarcasm, great song the Clash! Cheers mates
Yeah, fade-out's usually do that to me... It's not even that I want it longer, I want it to actually finish. Meh, I absolutely love this song but fade-out's are a pet peeve of mine. That little peeve, such a cute little annoying bastard - I want to throttle and strangle the wee fuzzy little thing.
Always love the clash even when people talk shit, rolled with a girl I was madly in love with at Walmart, she was pushing my wheelchair while everyone was smiling and felt like a king , I miss her always and this gem brings me back stronger ..
I’ve always found solace in this song, in my darkest moments and my brightest. No matter where I was or who I encountered....I always had The Clash. The only band that matters!
I must have listened to this 600 - 1,000 times in high school. It had come out 2-3 years prior, and I felt so disconnected to my parents who were such perfectionists. I really appreciate this song.
Haha, I probably listened to this about that many times when I was in middle school, during President Obama's first term (not to comment on him per se, just to provide the temporal frame). It really is and remains an enduring song for people who feel lost in the supermarket, wherever and whenever that might be.
The Ben Folds remake is so much better than this version and this was the one in Over The Hedge and most of the songs in that soundtrack are by Ben Folds
This song really chimes with me. When I was about 6 an ASDA opened near us; until then we shopped at our local CO-OP which was tiny. I wandered off from my parents and lost them. I started crying as I was so scared but one of the assistants found me and put a message out on the tannoy.
I remember my dad playing this song for me for the first time when I was like 7. I listen to it now, and actually reading the lyrics, I relate to it more than ever
I'm so alone and sad man but you know what? The clash doesn't make me feel that way cause I'm not alone in feeling alone, and that really helps, keep on keepin on! I love you all, Josh from North Idaho, America
My teacher printed off these lyrics and gave them to us to study as a poem. It wasn't until after that he told us that it was a song by the clash. Fell in love with the band ever since then
That's G'in!
Wow
Never happened
@@thetonypyo prove it then bud
i love the clash all of there songs
j ai 58 ans français...j étais ado a l époque..ce groupe a marqué ma jeunesse et meme maintenant je me lasse pas et jamais d écouter ce qui reste a mes yeux un des plus grands groupes rocks all time...cette chanson n a pas une ride.....merci messieurs en ces temps troubles....paris france mars 2024
im 59 and was an english teenager also made an impact on my troubled youth . and yes i still listen to the music that made my time as a teen
Quel Album, mon préféré depuis toujours de tous les groupes que je connais !aucune mauvaise chanson ,que du parfait ,que du bonheur , ever ^^
merci j' apprécie tout ça
I'm from ecosse and don't speak French but jadore le comment 😅😅
Je suis français ,et j'adore toujours aussi 🙂
This song makes me want to sob. The feeling of the end of childhood. The feeling right after you finish a long TV show. The feeling right before or after a breakup. The feeling of the summer between high school and college. Walking home after the last day of school.
I know darn tootin what you mean when I just finished being in 12 Angry Jurors for 5 months directed by the most popular guy in drama class in high school and juicing every drop I can for my channel. “Don’t frown because it’s over, smile because it happened.” -Dr. Seuss
This track could easily be on a John Hughes film soundtrack.
Well said. I could never quite explain the feeling as well as you just did.
Ahhh man nostalgia just hit me bad
Your dying pet finally dies...
"I empty a bottle, I feel a bit free". A heart-rending line.
Different song but classic line....
‘When I had me a great deal of money I had mighty good friends all over town. Now I ain’t got no more money an’ all of my good friends just put me down’
‘Give me whisky when I’m thirsty, gimme a headstone when I die’
FUCKIN LEGENDS
Check Peakys Poems. You may laugh at a couple.
Safe, Mr. Peaky
For me it's the "I wasn't born so much as I fell out."
@@JayZombie1216 agree
How about: " I wasn't born so much as I fell out" ?
I'm gonna empty a bottle tonight.
God, what an amazing song. It captures so many ideas and emotions within: the vapidity of modern society, and the alienation and isolation it causes, issues with depression and social anxiety that arise out of said alienation, the works. Truly, this is an all-time classic.
That’s the beauty of the clash they sing about deep themes in an almost happy manor so if you don’t listen closely to the lyrics you’d think it was a happy song. This is why I love Spanish bombs it sounds like a happy song until you actually listen to what the lyrics are saying
This song and Straight to Hell are my favorites
It’s very tacky to over read into the lyrics
@@terrance7220 You clearly don't know much about the Clash if you think that's "over reading"
@@terrance7220 do you even know the band? theyre very explicitly political & leftist and care about the issues the other person mentioned
If this was the only song they ever created they would still be one of the greatest bands ever.
Sorry buddy but that would be by definition a one hit wonder and then wouldn't be thought of as one of the greatest bands ever, which they are.
This song is almost 50 years old and is not even in my native tongue, but this is the only song with lyrics I can really relate myself to. The emptiness of mundane suburban life, with a soft melancholy riff that somehow stings...it's just perfection!
@@ba1428 god you must be fun at a party
Agreed!!
where do you live.
Yes you get it❤
45*
This might be one of the most ahead of its time songs ever. Everything from the drums and vocals to even the guitar tone is so modern sounding that if they released it as a modern indie song today, it would still sound fresh, and is still lyrically relevant.
It’s a shame this song never got the same mainstream appeal as some of their other big radio hits because this track is incredible.
Always felt the same way. Has a very "2005" sound.
I think that it's more of a case of the indie bands from 2005 trying to sound like The Clash.
The lyrics (whilst dark) are beautiful, they are both so personal and at the same time universal. It takes a special intellect/ sensibility to invoke those sorts of feelings.
(Bear in mind that I wholeheartedly agree with you and this isn't intended as a takedown, it just struck me as I was reading your comment and it provided me with some much-needed joy and I felt compelled to share it.)
"To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to write The Clash..."
@@artistwithouttalent fr
Thank you Ben Folds and "Over the Hedge" for introducing me to this banger when I was a child
I literally just found out this song wasnt originally by ben folds. Even this original fits so well with his rockin the suburbs album and the voice is even very similar. Now i gotta listen to this whole album. Im hype!😊😊🎉🎉
This song is like the godfather of all modern indie rock
*This band
lol i thought the cure was the godfather of modern indie rock
Tought
The clash did it first... they did everything first
Dude they thought they were punk .
The uncertainty of this song reminds me of what it's like living with social anxiety and depression.
And shopping addiction
why it reminds you that? it's not about it
@@lorenzopacchia9189 I think that's a legit interpretation. Crazy consumerism in our societies surely is a good friend of depression. You don't matter as a person because the point of the world you live in is to make money and buy things. At first you think you're happy because you have material things, but then you begin to understand that life is more than that and that you can't buy happiness/serenity with money. After that epiphany, it's easy to fall in a state of chronic depression, which is due to our without-morals and capitalistic society.
@@tatianawilliams yes i think so
Kenneth Lee Not related, but great profile pic \m/
The genius of the Clash. A profound song about the supermarket - who knew. Can't believe it was so long ago though....where did all that time go??
The Clash- combined rock, punk, reggae, skaa so well!! the Best
React a SUMO
Ex ,regtest
Post-punk!
[Bonjour j'ai vu ça dans un generique defilld'animation
the best disco song of 79!
I sing this song every time I go to the store. Some people get it, some don't.
with ya
... so do I!!
My mrs ❤️ just sighs
me too bruv
Good to know I'm not the only one.
Find myself doing that since I was 12yrs old. Another good one is death or glory
I remember this song just appeared one day when I was listening in Spotify. I was passing through a really bad moment of my life and this song found me. I think this song saved my life and now I come to listen it again every time I feel lost in the supermarket. I love it
Same story for me, thanks to the recommendations
Same here. 14 hour days for months on end, somehow the Clash showed up to get me through.
London Calling is a perfect album to listening to during trying times, the positive vibes in it are great. "I'm not down" saved me once. I should have taken my own advise earlier :)
Joe's vocals that come in at 2.36 ish gets me every time :)
I love the way Micks voice sounds, it's such a good song
I love his voice too. Vulnerability, combined somehow with the irony that was the Clash's hallmark. Amazing song
@@lisayee2362 He has such an expressive way of singing and it feels like his natural voice rather than someone who had years of vocal training to sing a certain way. It's very real. Joe also had a very expressive voice but a different vocal quality. Their voices really were perfect for the band.
@@maddie8415I totally agree. He sounds so real
One of those songs that has an undeniably catchy tune, but when you examine the lyrics as well as the context of the songwriting, it’s actually pretty depressing. Amazing song.
@CubertSacc68 DilbertSlapp69 Yes. Or "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen.
❤❤
If any song deserves a 3rd verse it's this one
Yessssssssss we need it
One of the best intros in any song I've heard. It gets me every time.
absolutley
This song essentially sums up my relationship with society. A true Classic
It sums up my feeling as a child and young teenager. Mick put his very being into the lyrics on this one. A clash classic
I love it when Strummer comes in with the backing vocals.
Best band of the 80's period!!!!
These guys weren't just a bunch of pretty boys who looked good on fancy videos, but a real band who always had a great raw rock sound.
I prefer their 70s stuff tbh (debut-London Calling)
@@shewolfcub3 Yes, they were at their height in the late 70's & early 80's.
@@lgaytan65 Meh Im not big on sandinista
[Chorus]
I'm all lost in the supermarket
I can no longer shop happily
I came in here for that special offer
A guaranteed personality
I wasn't born so much as I fell out
Nobody seemed to notice me
We had a hedge back home in the suburbs
Over which I never could see
I heard the people who lived on the ceiling
Scream and fight most scarily
Hearing that noise was my first ever feeling
That's how it's been all around me
[Chorus]
I'm all tuned in, I see all the programmes
I save coupons from packets of tea
I've got my giant hit discoteque album
I empty a bottle and I feel a bit free
The kids in the halls and the pipes in the walls
Make me noises for company
Long distance callers make long distance calls
And the silence makes me lonely
[Chorus]
And it's not here
It disappeared
I'm all lost
You're on all the good songs man thanks
It's great!! I like the terminations on "e"!!! I'm french and i don't know if terminations is the good word... I love the Clash, forever since London Calling.
Pin this
🔥 🔥 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
In the movie Over The Hedge there was a part where they played this song and I use to get mad hype singing it! and the fact that I now finally found it my life is complete!
❤
That version was by Ben Folds who sang Rockin The Suburbs with William Shatner.
The best song of all of their songs ever. God came down from the heavens and wrote this song. So glad the clash covered it from over the hedge.
J'adore 😂❤1😂2
i hope that i can write a song that is even as half as good as this song is. what a fucking masterpiece. forever grateful for the simple fact of the clash’s existence.
Came back to the movie “Over the Hedge” as a college student today and found this gorgeous song. I’ve always had an appreciation for this older music.
Oh yeah really old music, I listen to real old music sometimes though. You should hear some of it. There are great recordings over 100 years old.
I deadass prefer the Over The Hedge version. This was my fav song BEFORE I saw that but then it somehow got even better with the Vegas vibe.
literally hitler
THANK YOU FINALLY SOMEONE ELSE CAME FROM THAT MOVIE
Underrated song.
I heard it on Daria :)
@@DRAIK08080808 I heard it somewhere else
No, this album is considered one of the greatest rock albums by many so I don't think this song is underrated
not really
Underrated by who? Plastic fans?
Paul Simonon has such an unique style... touches me everytime. Thank you, Mr. Paul.
This song should’ve been a hit every time I listen to it it gives me the chills
😂
I can picture it, all lost in the supermarket. Came for a good time and it turns to tears fast "why the need for all these shelves, who put them here and where´s the daily deals".
One stands there with your little own basket and it´s all empty, just a sad mouth and dissapointed eyes on the face, nah i´ll make myself cry, no sarcasm, great song the Clash!
Cheers mates
I can feel this song within my soul. As a lower-middle class kid growing up in French-speaking Canada. I can relate so hard to this!
fucking beautiful song, the clash are fucking epic, I think underrated in many ways, and Joe Strummer we need you and miss you dearly.
The guitar in the verses is some of the most beautiful music I’ve ever heard
Am I the only one dying for this song to be longer? That fade-out just leaves me wanting more :(
That's why you can always hit the replay button... ;-)
Just play it again. Like I do.
@@tolvajakos I will 💪💪👏🏻👏🏻😁😁
Cover it and make it so
Yeah, fade-out's usually do that to me... It's not even that I want it longer, I want it to actually finish. Meh, I absolutely love this song but fade-out's are a pet peeve of mine. That little peeve, such a cute little annoying bastard - I want to throttle and strangle the wee fuzzy little thing.
This song was way, way ahead of it's time. Still very relevant in this day and age.
And for the foreseeable future.
that bass at 3:18
so perfect
Supermarkets are a place of self reflection
You're right
“ I empty a bottle, I fell a bit free” Life mantra
Always love the clash even when people talk shit, rolled with a girl I was madly in love with at Walmart, she was pushing my wheelchair while everyone was smiling and felt like a king , I miss her always and this gem brings me back stronger ..
I’ve always found solace in this song, in my darkest moments and my brightest. No matter where I was or who I encountered....I always had The Clash. The only band that matters!
Dude, I just found this song after 7-8 years of looking for it... this was my favorite childhood song and now I can’t stop listening to it!
One of the greatest albums of all time.
I must have listened to this 600 - 1,000 times in high school. It had come out 2-3 years prior, and I felt so disconnected to my parents who were such perfectionists. I really appreciate this song.
Haha, I probably listened to this about that many times when I was in middle school, during President Obama's first term (not to comment on him per se, just to provide the temporal frame). It really is and remains an enduring song for people who feel lost in the supermarket, wherever and whenever that might be.
Who else is always waiting for those drums at 3:33? :) Magnificent song.
"Long distance callers make long distance calls"
I felt that line...
I love Mick's vocals
hey, lad was the teacher a punk rocker in the 70's and '80s, i still am even the outfits too,...i'm in my mid-50's.........marius(punk rules).
I want to go back to those days. I miss it so much. Had the greatest time of my life then!
I cant have a favorite Clash song. But this one is near the top.
I was in a Aldi's yesterdayterday singing this
Sounds like everytime I go into a IKEA.
I get ikea ptsd from this song
I'm sorry to hear that.
Object Class: Euclid
I LITERALLY LISTENED TO THIS AT IKEA YESTERDAY OMG
Literally just left Ikea with this song stuck in my head. That's why I listened to it in the first place.
This was the pinnacle of song writing when I was growing up and nothing can change that ever as it still is
Over the Hedge got this song in my head years ago, and it's still stuck there.
Same
The Ben Folds remake is so much better than this version and this was the one in Over The Hedge and most of the songs in that soundtrack are by Ben Folds
@@ShawnVielee the clash's version is so much better
crying so hard thinking of my dad...I love you pop and I can't believe we'll never listen to this together again.
Hope you are doing well. Stay safe
@@jat2319 thankyou so much you as well, these are very trying times♡♡♡
What Joy to listen to them!❤
True. More than ever. :(
Paul smashing up his bass
😮😮😮
I love this song so much, one of the best of the album
Ahead of its time
sorry that wasnt meant for you.
sorry
i am a clash fan also
My favorite Song of Clash.
This song has new relevance in 2020.
I played it on a loop last night in shop rite
@@ducksinarowpatience HAHA! Awesome!
@@lynng6556 😄 can no longer shop happily..
Over the hedge
Wow you take this song very literally
One of the greatest albums ever
Fitting song for Black Friday
The scratchy guitar in this is amazing
They live forever in music.
The bass in this song is ducking outstanding
The only band that matters.
👍🇨🇦
Greatest Record out ever! After years of craving I Finally got it on vynil whiile the Misssussss and I were on honeymoon !! Will Never forget that!!
This song really chimes with me. When I was about 6 an ASDA opened near us; until then we shopped at our local CO-OP which was tiny. I wandered off from my parents and lost them. I started crying as I was so scared but one of the assistants found me and put a message out on the tannoy.
This song is so ahead of its time I’ve heard songs from indie bands from the 2000s and 2010s that sound like that
I remember my dad playing this song for me for the first time when I was like 7. I listen to it now, and actually reading the lyrics, I relate to it more than ever
around 3:25 Simonon and his good manners, charming as usual
Sure it's one of the greatest protest song but it's THAT Bass line that makes the song so good...
Quel jeu ! Quelle finesse, c'est le génie de la jeunesse, Anglais en la circonstance. Fantastique.
The greatest song of all time.
This song makes me so incredibly depressed i cant help but weep whenever i listen to it.
Always listen to this on bad days something about the melody makes the day seem easier, lighter, and more comfortable
I'm obsessed with this
Message to all bassists: Open your ears wide and enjoy.
Love this track,bassline and drums❤
always loved the bass and guitar on this track
If you play thus is any moment of your day this will make that moment more happier or more possitive,its just the vines of the song.
strummer writes about mick jones, mick jones sings a sond from strummer, perfect
Thanks Brother, you got us through! Viper 22.
A quarantined personality. Jokes aside, I love this song and this album, the variety 🔥
THANK YOU
Top 10 of song from The Clash.
best band ever. true Londoners
still sounds fresh
I Remember listening to LC as a kid with my dad in the car and loved this song so much. Some of mick’s best work. Love BAD and clash!!
This is an iconic album.
The Clash definitely one of my top five bands ever.
40 years for this great song!
I'm so alone and sad man but you know what? The clash doesn't make me feel that way cause I'm not alone in feeling alone, and that really helps, keep on keepin on! I love you all, Josh from North Idaho, America
Best song ever!
Its my favorite The Clash's song
Mine as well
Somehow world keeps wrapping around this song. So many references to so many things. The chorus is propably more literal in the near future
Topper Headon, class act
From the best Clash album.