Ok, we probably won't get many detractors for this one, although I find it hard to believe a bunch of British rock critics would pick this one. And this week's entry is The Clash - London Calling (1979)

The best record to come out of punk, or punk's death knell? On this double album, The Clash fused their rockabilly roots with their love of reggae, moving away from the choppy snarls of the scene that birthed them. This was the album that legitimised puck - hitherto a stroppy fad - into the rock canon. Its iconic cover, and songs about the Spanish Civil war brought left-wing politics firmly into musical fashion. Without this would the west have come to love reggae, dub and ragga quite as much? We certainly would have no Manic Street Preachers...or Green Day, or Rancid...or possibly even Lily Allen.

I would agree this was not only a fabulous album but a tremendously influential one as well, and I would again like to point out that their list following "Without this" is kind of pathetic. Surely they could come up some bigger names that those, with the exception of Green Day of course.

Swish