My Top 1000 Songs #247: The Bottom Line

[I've been writing up my Top 1000 songs on a daily basis--you can see them all in descending order by hitting the All My Favorite Songs tag.]

Growing up, the Clash were one of my favorite bands (to this day London Calling remains my all-time favorite album); they were instrumental in my pivot from classic rock into punk and indie rock. So of course I took it hard when Mick Jones was kicked out of the band and their dissolution appeared imminent; it was clearly the end of an era for me.

Thus it cam...