{"id":2801,"date":"2010-07-17T10:06:42","date_gmt":"2010-07-17T14:06:42","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-10T20:00:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T00:00:53","slug":"your-chance-to-erase-one-thing-from-a-favorite-artist-s-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-chance-to-erase-one-thing-from-a-favorite-artist-s-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Chance to Erase One Thing From a Favorite Artist&#8217;s Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CogR1OrrPCQ?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>There is one thing that bums me out the most about the legacy of <strong>The Clash<\/strong>: that the <em>song<\/em> &#8220;London Calling&#8221; is generally considered their anthem and stock song for modern-day artists to cover.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t like the song &#8220;London Calling&#8221;; it&#8217;s a keeper, but I consider it most valuable as a set up for what follows on the band&#8217;s breakthrough album by the same name. I also consider it a song that only The Clash have the right to play. Of course, maybe that&#8217;s why the song has taken such a high place in the band&#8217;s legacy, but musically the song leaves me wanting a lot more that I typically expect from a Clash song. If I could erase one thing from The Clash&#8217;s legacy it would be this song as the go-to song for artists like <strong>The Boss<\/strong> to cover. If a blowhard like The Boss (with or without <strong>Elvis Costello<\/strong>, a blowhard I love) must cover a Clash song, I wish it could have been a song with a little more to it, like &#8220;Death or Glory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>How about you, what would you most like to see wiped clean from the legacy of a favorite artist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is one thing that bums me out the most about the legacy of The Clash: that the song &#8220;London Calling&#8221; is generally considered their anthem and stock song for modern-day artists to cover. It&#8217;s not that I don&#8217;t like the song &#8220;London Calling&#8221;; it&#8217;s a keeper, but I consider it most valuable as a <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/your-chance-to-erase-one-thing-from-a-favorite-artist-s-legacy\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[271,52,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}