Why “The Clash City Rockers” is a Well-formed Song

A long time ago, I used to be a Tutorial Assistant for a Listening to Music course put on by Adrian Hoffman. Usually at the time when we discussed the “Classical Era” (ie. Mozart, Haydn, early Beethoven) there was a lecture on form. Often, form was expressed as a tool for absolute music (ie. how to give a song a structured feel to it). I always itched at doing a lecture on how form can impa...