"Which band had a hit record in 1980 with ""London Calling""?"
London Calling "London Calling" is the sixth most highly ranked record on critics' lists of the all-time greatest albums. In 1987, Robert Hilburn of the "Los Angeles Times" named it the fourth-best album of the previous 10 years and said, while the Clash's debut was a punk masterpiece, "London Calling" marked the genre's "coming of age" as the band led the way into "fertile post-punk territory". In 1989, "Rolling Stone" ranked the 1980 American release as the best album of the 1980s. In the 1994 "Guinness Book of Top 1000 Albums", Colin Larkin named it the second-greatest punk album. In 1999, "Q"
London Calling imagery" and "tired old rock clichés". At the end of 1980, "London Calling" was voted the best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published by "The Village Voice". Robert Christgau, the poll's creator and supervisor, also named it 1980's best record in an accompanying essay and said, "it generated an urgency and vitality and ambition (that Elvis P. cover!) which overwhelmed the pessimism of its leftist world-view." "London Calling" has since been considered by many critics to be one of the greatest rock albums of all time, including AllMusic's Stephen Thomas