#20 "SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?"
THE CLASH, 1982

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Though Clash purists will rightfully admit there's many more great Clash songs than "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?", but this is about the most "fun" Clash song of them all.  What gets me every time is during the last verses when these boys from England start garbling the most drunken unintelligble Spanish I've ever heard in my life.  It's like they are speaking in tongues, but it just adds to the madness.  It's a damn shame Strummer and the boys never reconciled and recorded any more albums together after this one, because they had so much more to offer.  Now with the tragic loss of Joe, we'll never know.  And for some reason, a Big Audio Dynamite reunion just doesn't have the same level of thrill about it.

-Robert Berry

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