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What can
you say about this album except it should in everyone's collection.
Everything about it is perfect. Slated for signing with giant CBS Records
the boys came up with the goods in fact knocking out 16 tracks in seven
days! Essentially their live sound -incendiary guitars clash with spat
venomous lyrics to bring you the sound of London 1977: Janie
Jones, I'm So Bored With The USA,
Career
Opportunities,
a rawer White
Riot , Deny,
The London SS's
Protex Blue and
of course their take on Junior Murvin's Police
& Thieves.
Note the cover taken in Camden Market as a three piece which they so
often were round that time. Terry Chimes (Tory Crimes) had left but stayed
on for the recording sessions. |
The Clash - 1977 Polydor
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Give E'm Enough Rope - 1978
Polydor
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Slated
for signing with CBS and then slated for using producer Sandy Pearlman
(more famous for producing bands like Blue Oyster Cult) for their second
album. Armed with a full time drummer now, Topper Headon, they were ready to
rock or were they? For me a flawed album I don't listen too much. However
you cannot ague that it has some absolute classics there: Tommy
Gun, Safe European Home, English Civil War
but so much of the album seems emotionless and devoid of a spark. A band in
change. |
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Give 'Em Enough Rope. |
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magic this double album appears with its a cover a take on an Elvis album
and is perhaps their greatest and most cohesive album apart from
their first. Its the beginning of their not so bored love affair with the
USA and its culture while still retaining a British perspective. The Clash
were a punk band but like The Stranglers, Siouxsie and The Damned took it
in different directions incorporating rockabilly and reggae. The album revealed them as songwriters with sharp
lyrical content. Nearly very song is of a high quality. Picks: London
Calling, Brand New Cadillac, Spanish Bombs, Guns Of Brixton
and Clampdown.
The album made them
in America and Rolling Stone voted this album #1 of all time. You can
justifiably apply any superlative to this album. |
London
Calling - 1979 Polydor |
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