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The Clash Album: “Clash [UK]”
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Release Date:1999-10-04
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Type:Unknown
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Genre:Old School Punk Rock
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Label:Sony Mid-Price
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Explicit Lyrics:No
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UPC:5099749534421
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Review - :
{$The Clash}'s self-titled U.K. debut sees the band in its most primal, {\punk} form. Despite {$Mickey Foote}'s low-key, {\lo-fi} production, {$Strummer}, {$Jones}, {$Simonon}, and {$Chimes} mesh and unite with a snarling ferocity and energy. Raw, bouncy edginess pours out of each song, with new hooks popping out at odd angles by the second. The band isn't satisfied lingering in any one genre. {&"Remote Control"} mixes {$Kinks}-style fractured {\pop} with pace changes lifted straight from {$Chuck Berry}. {&"Cheat"} sounds like {$the Ramones}' {&"Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment"} given a {\rockabilly} makeover. {&"Police & Thieves"} is a massively catchy take on the {$Junior Murvin}/{$Lee "Scratch" Perry} song and an early signpost for the future {\dub}/{\rock} fusions to come on {^Sandinista!} {&"White Riot"} and {&"I'm So Bored With the U.S.A."} reflect the somewhat youthful, early quasi-political leanings of the band. Though they would come across as slightly amateurish years later, it's hard to deny their punchy charm. The U.S. edition of {^The Clash}, released in 1979, removed {&"Cheat,"} the funky singalong {&"Protex Blue,"} the dark and revealing paranoia of {&"Deny,"} and the short but utterly delightful {&"48 Hours."} In their place were the more polished and thus somewhat jarring U.K. singles/B-sides {&"Complete Control,"} {&"(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais,"} {&"Clash City Rockers,"} {&"I Fought the Law,"} and {&"Jail-Guitar Doors."} The U.S. edition might have the original beat in shine and catchiness, but it's a distillation of the band's original ferocity, and some might say an unwelcome tinkering with history. In a way, the U.S. edition served as an extremely early best-of. Purists will most likely swear on the sonic cohesion of this U.K. edition. {@Columbia} remastered the album and restored its original artwork in 1999, making it a bare-bones but perfect throwback and the easiest way to turn back the clock and discover {$the Clash} at their origins. ~ Tim DiGravina, All Music Guide
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