Clash clobber poll

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What year did the Clash look best?

1976
0
No votes
1977
7
19%
1978
9
25%
1979
8
22%
1980
7
19%
1981
2
6%
1982
1
3%
1983
0
No votes
1984
0
No votes
1985
2
6%
 
Total votes: 36

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Was Bernie correct about them looking like twats with those trilby hats on? Did Paul's "double leather and snood" look do it for you in 1985?

Ps. Voting for 1978 is the equivalent of voting for Black Diamond by the Replacements.
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automatic vote for 78 with Heston's lead-in.
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Inder, I'm fucking pissed, move this to the Last Gang forum please.
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Heston wrote:
14 Aug 2018, 6:52pm
Was Bernie correct about them looking like twats with those trilby hats on? Did Paul's "double leather and snood" look do it for you in 1985?

Ps. Voting for 1978 is the equivalent of voting for Black Diamond by the Replacements.
What is a snood
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Kory wrote:
14 Aug 2018, 7:18pm
Heston wrote:
14 Aug 2018, 6:52pm
Was Bernie correct about them looking like twats with those trilby hats on? Did Paul's "double leather and snood" look do it for you in 1985?

Ps. Voting for 1978 is the equivalent of voting for Black Diamond by the Replacements.
What is a snood
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76 and 77 is pretty much the same thing, right? Street punks plus the Jackson Pollock thing. Anyway, I picked '77 because punks in general looked best at the start.

Also, I vote Black Diamond by the Replacements as well as the New York Dolls.
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Joe's hair looked shit in 77, 78 and 84, I had to rule those out straight away. The only real contenders are 79, 80 and 81, I plumped for the latter.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 Aug 2018, 7:24pm
76 and 77 is pretty much the same thing, right? Street punks plus the Jackson Pollock thing. Anyway, I picked '77 because punks in general looked best at the start.

Also, I vote Black Diamond by the Replacements as well as the New York Dolls.
I think '76 is more Pollocked boiler suits, while '77 is more zippers and pockets on jackets and trousers, right?
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Kory wrote:
14 Aug 2018, 8:02pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 Aug 2018, 7:24pm
76 and 77 is pretty much the same thing, right? Street punks plus the Jackson Pollock thing. Anyway, I picked '77 because punks in general looked best at the start.

Also, I vote Black Diamond by the Replacements as well as the New York Dolls.
I think '76 is more Pollocked boiler suits, while '77 is more zippers and pockets on jackets and trousers, right?
If there's a meaningful distinction, I vote for the poverty look.
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I think they o-stencil=bly* looked their best in 1977


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I voted 1985, based solely on the homoeroticism.
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Wolter wrote:
15 Aug 2018, 9:59am
That’s not what a snood is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snood_(headgear)
It appears to refer to several garments. A quick google image search brings up some very different items. Nik Kershaw was always ridiculed in Smash Hits for wearing a snood just like Simonon's.
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People are just voting 1978 to annoy me, aren't they?
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