Story Of The Clash Vol.1, The [Remastered] - Clash (The)

...(Siouxsie). Basically it is the story of a mixed race Vietnamese child trying to get to America. Thrown into this mix is the decimation of Northern England steel foundries, 'junkiedom USA'. It is a depressing song yes, but also brilliant in it's insight, 'There aint no asylum here', how contemporary that was and prophetic. This is lyrically and politically quite stunning as a song. 'Clear as winter ice, this is your paradise "there aint no need ...
...hell boy'. (the steel), followed by "Let me tell you about your blood kid, it aint Coca Cola, it's rice", to the Vietnamese child. So harsh, so raw. 10/10. ~*~*~*Police and Thieves*~*~*~ A punked up version of the Junior Marvin song, bloomin' fantastic, the echo on the lead guitar is just the business. How they manage to turn this song into what it becomes is sheer brilliance. If you heard this before Junior Marvin's original you would say that ...

paulhanton 25.06.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Story Of The Clash Vol.1, The [Remastered] - Clash (The)

Two discs, you lucky people. This definitive album is full to brimming with the very best of the heart-pounding sound that was The Clash. Arguably they are the best group (Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Tipper Headon, and Paul Simonon) to come out of the punk era; their guitars and drums a-blazing. This is pure London rock that sometimes mixes its in-your-face agression with gentle reggae and comes out with a stunning combination. And after all these ...
...which made it feel so dangerous and intimidating. Listen to some real classics - "Rock The Casbah", "Should I Stay Or Should I go", "I Fought The Law", "Lost in The Supermarket", "Tommy Gun", "White Riot", "English Civil War", especially if you like to headbang and pogo yourself into a frenzy. Or "Straight To Hell", "Armagideon Time", "Bank Robber", "Police And Thieves" and "London Calling" for the tracks that get as laid back as The Clash could ...

Salgirl 17.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Story Of The Clash Vol.1, The [Remastered] - Clash (The)

This is a good double album of the clash's greatest hits. It spans their career from the start untill when Mick Jones left in 1983. There are a few welcome suprises which include the interveiw with them on track 6 and the origional version of capital radio. Other than that there are some B-sides like this ir radio clash and armagideon time. The opening song Magnificent seven seems to be a strange choice because you here the clash not in there punk ...
...CD1 doesnt get started in my opinion untill Clampdown song number 7. CD2 is more like it with classics like Tommy Gun and Safe European home. The CD cover looks good with a shot of the clash live and on the inside some cool pictures of the group members. One thing that bugs me is the 7 page memoirs written by their valet. The writting is too small and hard to read. Cd2 is definatly the best. ...

zef 24.07.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Story Of The Clash Vol.1, The [Remastered] - Clash (The)

...love it, especially if you like other rock bands of the time like The Specials. Even the booklet is something special, it's a letter to Chris from Albert Transom, it's 12 pages long and just tells the story of the clash basically, there are also photographs of the band members! ...

james-b 10.01.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Story Of The Clash Vol.1, The [Remastered] - Clash (The)

One of the best ideas for a compilation album ever, this double-disc set takes music from the whole of the Clash's recording career, including singles, b-sides, album tracks and rarities. Which means that not only do we get hits like 'White Riot' and 'Rock The Casbah', we also get gems like 'Straight To Hell' and 'Armigideon Time'. There are plenty of non-album recordings here too, such as the excellent 'Bank Robber' and 'White Man (In Hammersmith ...

juliebushnell 28.09.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Story Of The Clash Vol.1, The [Remastered] - Clash (The)

The story of The clash includes the greatest hits form all of the clash’s albums from ’The Clash’ their self titled album to Sandista their final album. The story of the clash contains too many of their reggae tracks such as Rock the casbah and does not contain much of their pure punk sound found on their first album. However they have maybe covered how the clash’s music changed form Punk to more of a variety of type’s of music. I f you are looking ...

mattbarnes 14.06.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Story Of The Clash Vol.1, The [Remastered] - Clash (The)

The story of the clash contains 28 of the bands best songs. Of which I though only half were any good. I expected this album to include more of the fast punk style of their first album, but I found out why they managed influence so many different musical genres. I don’t know who I would recommend to but this album but I think that you would have to be interested in the clash and not a certain style of music. Oh, yeah and the best thing about the ...

zachlawlor 08.06.2000 · Read full review
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Review of Story Of The Clash Vol.1, The [Remastered] - Clash (The)