Essential Clash

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Album: Essential Clash
#	Song Title		Time
1)	White Riot (Single Version)	More Info...	0:02
2)	1977	More Info...	0:01
3)	London's Burning	More Info...	0:02
4)	Complete Control	More Info...	0:03
5)	Clash City Rockers	More Info...	0:04
6)	I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.	More Info...	0:02
7)	Career Opportunities	More Info...	0:02
8)	Hate & War	More Info...	0:02
9)	Cheat	More Info...	0:02
10)	Police and Thieves	More Info...	0:06
11)	Janie Jones	More Info...	0:02
12)	Garageland	More Info...	0:03
13)	Capital One Radio	More Info...	0:02
14)	(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais	More Info...	0:04
15)	English Civil War	More Info...	0:02
16)	Tommy Gun	More Info...	0:03
17)	Safe European Home	More Info...	0:03
18)	Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad	More Info...	0:03
19)	Stay Free	More Info...	0:03
20)	Groovy Times	More Info...	0:03
21)	I Fought the Law	More Info...	0:02

Album: Essential Clash
#	Song Title		Time
1)	White Riot (Single Version)	More Info...	0:02
2)	1977	More Info...	0:01
3)	London's Burning	More Info...	0:02
4)	Complete Control	More Info...	0:03
5)	Clash City Rockers	More Info...	0:04
6)	I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.	More Info...	0:02
7)	Career Opportunities	More Info...	0:02
8)	Hate & War	More Info...	0:02
9)	Cheat	More Info...	0:02
10)	Police and Thieves	More Info...	0:06
11)	Janie Jones	More Info...	0:02
12)	Garageland	More Info...	0:03
13)	Capital One Radio	More Info...	0:02
14)	(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais	More Info...	0:04
15)	English Civil War	More Info...	0:02
16)	Tommy Gun	More Info...	0:03
17)	Safe European Home	More Info...	0:03
18)	Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad	More Info...	0:03
19)	Stay Free	More Info...	0:03
20)	Groovy Times	More Info...	0:03
21)	I Fought the Law	More Info...	0:02

Performer Notes

The Clash: Joe Strummer, Mick Jones (vocals, guitar); Paul Simonon (vocals, bass); Nicky "Topper" Headon, Tory Crimes, Pete Howard (drums).
Producers include: Mickey Foote, The Clash, Sandy Pearlman, Guy Stevens, Jose Unidos.
Compilation producer: Bruce Dickinson.
Recorded between 1977 & 1985.
It's somehow fitting that the first Clash collection to be released in the wake of frontman Joe Strummer's December 2002 death should be the closest anyone's ever come to a truly definitive non-box-set anthology. The two discs essentially work chronologically, starting out with a dose of old-school UK punk from the days when the Clash were messengers of political fury and icon-shattering rock & roll fire (the raging "White Riot" and gloriously snotty "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A."). We can hear the incorporation of reggae rhythms with "White Man in Hammersmith Palais" and Junior Murvin's street-fighting tale "Police & Thieves," and the beginnings of the Clash's infatuation with American music on the Bobby Fuller cover "I Fought the Law."
Disc two finds the band truly at the peak of its powers, featuring tracks from LONDON CALLING and SANDINISTA, where both the lyricism and the stylistic palette were brought to a new level (the punk-rap of "The Magnificent Seven," the Caribbean lilt of "Rudie Can't Fail"). It's to this compilation's strong credit that it not only includes a healthy portion from the most "difficult" Clash album (SANDINISTA), but some vital tracks from the odd-ends collection BLACK MARKET CLASH (the dubbed-out Robin Hood tale "Bankrobber," the snarling "Capital Radio One"), making THE ESSENTIAL CLASH much more than a greatest-hits collection.

Professional Reviews

Spin (6/03, p.104) - "...These two discs are a pretty hot crib sheet....The first 11 cuts are a shuffle mix of highlights from the U.S. and U.K. versions of 1977's incendiary THE CLASH, and if they don't inspire you to punch holes in the plaster, you're too well-adjusted..."

Uncut (5/03, p.114) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...They never lost sight of Britain's strange mix of supermarket torpor and multicultural high energy..."

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