Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s

London Calling wins.

Tough to argue with, other than it was first released in the UK in December of 1979, therein making my own best of the 1970s list, but hey.

"There was a sense that life really is a succession of heavy blows," says Jones, "that this is what we have to take day to day." Indeed, "Lost in the Supermarket," a dark slice of peppy Euro-pop, is based on Jones's personal life at the time. "I was living in a council flat with my grandmother," he says. "I couldn't get settled. I was supposed to be this rock star, but I was living with my grandmother," Jones and Strummer wrote a lot of songs in his grandmother's flat before Jones eventually moved out.

I will now place the songs from London Calling in order of how I like them.

Death or Glory
The Card Cheat
Rudie Can't Fail
Clampdown
Hateful
I'm Not Down
Revolution Rock
London Calling
The Guns of Brixton
Brand New Cadillac
Train in Vain
The Right Profile
Wrong 'em Boyo
Jimmy Jazz
Spanish Bombs
Lost in the Supermarket
Koka Kola
Four Horsemen
Lover's Rock

It also doubles as maybe being the most iconic album cover ever (other than Sgt. Pepper (or With the Beatles)).

The cover design of London Calling, a takeoff on Elvis Presley's first album with a photo of Paul Simonon destroying his bass onstage in New York, says it all: This is an album of classic rock & roll values with renewed spirit for a new age.

Here's a picture of the bass from the cover.