Super Black Market Clash
Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Digitally remastered from the original production master tapes, this a reissue of the 1993 retrospective for 'the only band that matters', England's best punk/ new wave group, The Clash. Contains tracks from their 1980 mini-album 'Black Market Clash', plus some other non-album A-sides & B-sides, as well as some rare tracks every true fan needs. 21 tracks in all. 1999 release. --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
Average customer rating:
- "No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones!"
- Eclectic
- Bankrobber and Armagideon Time would have made it 5
- Aggravating!
- Super Black Market Ripoff
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Super Black Market Clash
The Clash
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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- Give 'em Enough Rope
- Sandinista!
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- The Clash
- From Here to Eternity: Live
ASIN: B00004C4L1
Release Date: 2000-01-25 |
Tracks:
- 1977
- Listen
- Jail Guitar Doors
- City Of The Dead
- The Prisoner
- Pressure Drop
- 1-2 Crush On You
- Groovy Times
- Gates Of The West
- Capital Radio Two
- Time Is Tight
- Justice Tonight/Kick It Over
- Robber Dub
- The Cool Out
- Stop The World
- The Magnificent Dance
- Radio Clash
- First Night Back In London
- Long Time Jerk
- Cool Confusion
- Mustapha Dance
Album Description
Digitally remastered from the original production master tapes, this a reissue of the 1993 retrospective for 'the only band that matters', England's best punk/ new wave group, The Clash. Contains tracks from their 1980 mini-album 'Black Market Clash', plus some other non-album A-sides & B-sides, as well as some rare tracks every true fan needs. 21 tracks in all. 1999 release.
Customer Reviews:
"No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones!".......2006-03-21
Clash Instrumentals...WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??
But, this also has some of Strummer & Company's greatest early-years vocal tracks - "Jail Guitar Doors" (amazing), "Gates Of The West," "Capital Radio Two" (better than the original by far), and "Groovy Times" to name a few. 1977 has to be my favorite song here, simply because it's my personal Clash anthem: the ending of the song has Strummer belting out, "1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 198-FAW!" I don't know exactly what he was talking about, or why he chose to end on 1984....but Joe Strummer counting out from the year of punk rock's birth to the year of my birth? That's awesome enough that I don't need to ask why.
Another standout track is the 8 minute+ "Justice Tonight/Kick It Over." This is an extended studio version of a dub song the Clash played live throughout almost their whole career, "Armaggideon Time," which can finally be found on CD (on the "Live: From Here To Eternity" disc). What an amazingly great song. The groove lulls you in so completely that the false stop halfway through the song is guaranteed to get you every time, even if you've heard it a thousand times like I have by now.
"Mustapha Dance," a dance remix of "Rock The Casbah" that is almost lyricless, as well as "The Cool Out," a completely lyric-free remix of the Sandinista track "The Call Up," really came as a revelation to me. You think of the Clash as being all about the lyrics, so it's weird to discover that they put out dance remixes for borgeouis (sp?) American white kids to dance to, but they did do it--twice. It makes more sense now that I've read the Strummer biography, "Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash," by Kris Needs. Kris Needs is a pretty cool guy who, it turns out, provided the howls and various other strange vocal parts ot certain Clash songs. Anyway, the dance remixes make sense for this reason: Strummer was the one behind the lyrics; and while Mick and the others were on board with his politics in the early days of the band, towards the end they just wanted to be rock stars. At the same time, Mick had been to New York City a few times and was becoming a huge fan of the emerging style called hip-hop. So it was natural for Mick to want to make beat-heavy (that is, rap-influenced) and feel-good (i.e., danceable) versions of Clash songs. And that's basically the reason that Joe fired him - he stopped caring about the politics.
I've probably given the wrong impression. You don't have to care about the band's history to enjoy this disc. If you want to own one of the best rarities albums ever released in the history of music, with a good mix of biting social commentary and feel-good party music, then get Super Black Market Clash ASAP.
Eclectic.......2006-02-17
Super Black Market Clash is exactly what a B-sides album should be: a handful of gems ("1977," "Groovy Times," "Pressure Drop"), some experimentation ("Justice Tonight/Kick it Over," "Radio Clash"), but ultimately uneven. I have been put on the record as saying that a B-sides album isn't worth anything if it isn't uneven (well, on the record because I just wrote it now). If the band doesn't have some failures then they're really not trying, are they? They're just spending time lounging in the safe zone. There's nothing terribly wrong with the safe zone, it's nice, I'd visit, but I sure wouldn't want to live there. The two biggest critical darlings had some massive failures. Radiohead's first album was absolutely grating (and not in an avante garde sort of way) and in my personal opinion the Beatles were mediocre until Help!. That being said, some of the songs off the second half of the album fall a bit flat. Even so, they're all interesting to listen to and don't permanently scar the album. Most of them show The Clash trading in their gut level impact for some more experimental music.
Super Black Market Clash is just the fix for those of you who have already bought the first three CDs (which I recommend doing immediately if you haven't already). It's a great career spanning picture of the most eclectic punk band.
Bankrobber and Armagideon Time would have made it 5.......2005-12-05
..I happen to be a true fan of The Clash and i really enjoy Black Market Clash, however i'm quite disappointed at the omission of Bankrobber and Armagideon Time. I've acquired these tracks on a copy of "story of the clash vol. 1" so i'm still able to enjoy them, but Black Market Clash suffers without them.
However...
The City of the Dead, The Prisoner, Pressure Drop, Groovy Times, Gates of the West, Capital Radio Two, and Stop The World are some of the best Clash tracks I've heard and make this album very enjoyable.
As for the dubs... i can't stand Justice Tonight/Kick it Over, or Robber Dub. The Magnificent Dance is okay but the song really needs lyrics to be good, same with The Cool Out. The Mustafa Dance is an enjoyable dub of Rock The Casbah though
Aggravating!.......2005-07-25
I loved the original Black Market , especially for Bank robber Armiggdeon time and was gravely disappointed to not find them here. The replacement dubs here are awkward, cutting some vocals off in mid-word. I was wondering if these are original outakes or something thrown together more recently. Does anybody know? I guess the problem here is that when your so familiar with the orginal, any differences are disturbing to the flow and expectation you have for the song.
Super Black Market Ripoff.......2005-07-17
Nothing signifies the greed involved in the Clash reissues more than this CD. I had the original 10" vinyl edition of "Black Market Clash," and it was a gem, full of non-album singles and B-sides from the early and middle portions of the Clash's career. Unfortunately, Sony has taken most of the best songs from the original "Black Market Clash" and has made them available only on various greatest hits CDs or the "Clash on Broadway" box set. The new "Super Black Market Clash" retains only a few of the original tracks and replaces the missing songs with less interesting tracks from the "Sandinista" and "Combat Rock" eras.
The net effect is that to obtain all of the songs on the original record, one must buy multiple CDs, resulting in the repurchase of songs already appearing on the proper Clash albums. The music originally obtainable on a single vinyl LP is now disaggregated and unreasonably expensive to bring back together. Unfortunately, the mishandling of this reissue has made this once great record a shadow of its former self.
Average customer rating:
- "No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones!"
- Eclectic
- Bankrobber and Armagideon Time would have made it 5
- Aggravating!
- Super Black Market Ripoff
|
Super Black Market Clash
The Clash
Manufacturer: Sony
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Punk
| Hardcore & Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
British Punk
| Hardcore & Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
Hard Rock
| Hard Rock & Metal
| Styles
| Music
Similar Items:
- Give 'em Enough Rope
- Sandinista!
- Combat Rock
- The Clash
- From Here to Eternity: Live
ASIN: B0000028VJ
Release Date: 1993-10-26 |
Tracks:
- 1977
- Listen
- Jail Guitar Doors
- City Of The Dead
- The Prisoner
- Pressure Drop
- 1-2 Crush On You
- Groovy Times
- Gates Of The West
- Capital Radio Two
- Time Is Tight
- Justice Tonight/Kick It Over
- Robber Dub
- The Cool Out
- Stop The World
- The Magnificent Dance
- Radio Clash
- First Night Back In London
- Long Time Jerk
- Cool Confusion
- Mustapha Dance
Album Description
Digitally remastered from the original production master tapes, this a reissue of the 1993 retrospective for 'the only band that matters', England's best punk/ new wave group, The Clash. Contains tracks from their 1980 mini-album 'Black Market Clash', plus some other non-album A-sides & B-sides, as well as some rare tracks every true fan needs. 21 tracks in all. 1999 release.
Customer Reviews:
"No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones!".......2006-03-21
Clash Instrumentals...WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??
But, this also has some of Strummer & Company's greatest early-years vocal tracks - "Jail Guitar Doors" (amazing), "Gates Of The West," "Capital Radio Two" (better than the original by far), and "Groovy Times" to name a few. 1977 has to be my favorite song here, simply because it's my personal Clash anthem: the ending of the song has Strummer belting out, "1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 198-FAW!" I don't know exactly what he was talking about, or why he chose to end on 1984....but Joe Strummer counting out from the year of punk rock's birth to the year of my birth? That's awesome enough that I don't need to ask why.
Another standout track is the 8 minute+ "Justice Tonight/Kick It Over." This is an extended studio version of a dub song the Clash played live throughout almost their whole career, "Armaggideon Time," which can finally be found on CD (on the "Live: From Here To Eternity" disc). What an amazingly great song. The groove lulls you in so completely that the false stop halfway through the song is guaranteed to get you every time, even if you've heard it a thousand times like I have by now.
"Mustapha Dance," a dance remix of "Rock The Casbah" that is almost lyricless, as well as "The Cool Out," a completely lyric-free remix of the Sandinista track "The Call Up," really came as a revelation to me. You think of the Clash as being all about the lyrics, so it's weird to discover that they put out dance remixes for borgeouis (sp?) American white kids to dance to, but they did do it--twice. It makes more sense now that I've read the Strummer biography, "Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash," by Kris Needs. Kris Needs is a pretty cool guy who, it turns out, provided the howls and various other strange vocal parts ot certain Clash songs. Anyway, the dance remixes make sense for this reason: Strummer was the one behind the lyrics; and while Mick and the others were on board with his politics in the early days of the band, towards the end they just wanted to be rock stars. At the same time, Mick had been to New York City a few times and was becoming a huge fan of the emerging style called hip-hop. So it was natural for Mick to want to make beat-heavy (that is, rap-influenced) and feel-good (i.e., danceable) versions of Clash songs. And that's basically the reason that Joe fired him - he stopped caring about the politics.
I've probably given the wrong impression. You don't have to care about the band's history to enjoy this disc. If you want to own one of the best rarities albums ever released in the history of music, with a good mix of biting social commentary and feel-good party music, then get Super Black Market Clash ASAP.
Eclectic.......2006-02-17
Super Black Market Clash is exactly what a B-sides album should be: a handful of gems ("1977," "Groovy Times," "Pressure Drop"), some experimentation ("Justice Tonight/Kick it Over," "Radio Clash"), but ultimately uneven. I have been put on the record as saying that a B-sides album isn't worth anything if it isn't uneven (well, on the record because I just wrote it now). If the band doesn't have some failures then they're really not trying, are they? They're just spending time lounging in the safe zone. There's nothing terribly wrong with the safe zone, it's nice, I'd visit, but I sure wouldn't want to live there. The two biggest critical darlings had some massive failures. Radiohead's first album was absolutely grating (and not in an avante garde sort of way) and in my personal opinion the Beatles were mediocre until Help!. That being said, some of the songs off the second half of the album fall a bit flat. Even so, they're all interesting to listen to and don't permanently scar the album. Most of them show The Clash trading in their gut level impact for some more experimental music.
Super Black Market Clash is just the fix for those of you who have already bought the first three CDs (which I recommend doing immediately if you haven't already). It's a great career spanning picture of the most eclectic punk band.
Bankrobber and Armagideon Time would have made it 5.......2005-12-05
..I happen to be a true fan of The Clash and i really enjoy Black Market Clash, however i'm quite disappointed at the omission of Bankrobber and Armagideon Time. I've acquired these tracks on a copy of "story of the clash vol. 1" so i'm still able to enjoy them, but Black Market Clash suffers without them.
However...
The City of the Dead, The Prisoner, Pressure Drop, Groovy Times, Gates of the West, Capital Radio Two, and Stop The World are some of the best Clash tracks I've heard and make this album very enjoyable.
As for the dubs... i can't stand Justice Tonight/Kick it Over, or Robber Dub. The Magnificent Dance is okay but the song really needs lyrics to be good, same with The Cool Out. The Mustafa Dance is an enjoyable dub of Rock The Casbah though
Aggravating!.......2005-07-25
I loved the original Black Market , especially for Bank robber Armiggdeon time and was gravely disappointed to not find them here. The replacement dubs here are awkward, cutting some vocals off in mid-word. I was wondering if these are original outakes or something thrown together more recently. Does anybody know? I guess the problem here is that when your so familiar with the orginal, any differences are disturbing to the flow and expectation you have for the song.
Super Black Market Ripoff.......2005-07-17
Nothing signifies the greed involved in the Clash reissues more than this CD. I had the original 10" vinyl edition of "Black Market Clash," and it was a gem, full of non-album singles and B-sides from the early and middle portions of the Clash's career. Unfortunately, Sony has taken most of the best songs from the original "Black Market Clash" and has made them available only on various greatest hits CDs or the "Clash on Broadway" box set. The new "Super Black Market Clash" retains only a few of the original tracks and replaces the missing songs with less interesting tracks from the "Sandinista" and "Combat Rock" eras.
The net effect is that to obtain all of the songs on the original record, one must buy multiple CDs, resulting in the repurchase of songs already appearing on the proper Clash albums. The music originally obtainable on a single vinyl LP is now disaggregated and unreasonably expensive to bring back together. Unfortunately, the mishandling of this reissue has made this once great record a shadow of its former self.
Average customer rating:
- "No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones!"
- Eclectic
- Bankrobber and Armagideon Time would have made it 5
- Aggravating!
- Super Black Market Ripoff
|
Super Black Market Clash
The Clash
Manufacturer: Sony/Columbia
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
Punk
| Hardcore & Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
British Punk
| Hardcore & Punk
| Alternative Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Hard Rock & Metal
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- Give 'em Enough Rope
- Sandinista!
- Combat Rock
- The Clash
- From Here to Eternity: Live
ASIN: B00002MVR1
Release Date: 1999-10-04 |
Tracks:
- 1977
- Listen
- Jail Guitar Doors
- City of the Dead
- Prisoner
- Pressure Drop
- 1-2 Crush on You
- Groovy Times
- Gates of the West
- Capital Radio Two
- Time Is Tight
- Justice Tonight/Kick It Over
- Robber Dub
- Cool Out
- Stop the World
- Magnificent Dance
- Radio Clash
- First Night Back in London
- Long Time Jerk
- Cool Confusion
- Mustapha Dance
Album Description
Digitally remastered from the original production master tapes, this a reissue of the 1993 retrospective for 'the only band that matters', England's best punk/ new wave group, The Clash. Contains tracks from their 1980 mini-album 'Black Market Clash', plus some other non-album A-sides & B-sides, as well as some rare tracks every true fan needs. 21 tracks in all. 1999 release.
Customer Reviews:
"No Elvis, Beatles or the Rolling Stones!".......2006-03-21
Clash Instrumentals...WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR??
But, this also has some of Strummer & Company's greatest early-years vocal tracks - "Jail Guitar Doors" (amazing), "Gates Of The West," "Capital Radio Two" (better than the original by far), and "Groovy Times" to name a few. 1977 has to be my favorite song here, simply because it's my personal Clash anthem: the ending of the song has Strummer belting out, "1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 198-FAW!" I don't know exactly what he was talking about, or why he chose to end on 1984....but Joe Strummer counting out from the year of punk rock's birth to the year of my birth? That's awesome enough that I don't need to ask why.
Another standout track is the 8 minute+ "Justice Tonight/Kick It Over." This is an extended studio version of a dub song the Clash played live throughout almost their whole career, "Armaggideon Time," which can finally be found on CD (on the "Live: From Here To Eternity" disc). What an amazingly great song. The groove lulls you in so completely that the false stop halfway through the song is guaranteed to get you every time, even if you've heard it a thousand times like I have by now.
"Mustapha Dance," a dance remix of "Rock The Casbah" that is almost lyricless, as well as "The Cool Out," a completely lyric-free remix of the Sandinista track "The Call Up," really came as a revelation to me. You think of the Clash as being all about the lyrics, so it's weird to discover that they put out dance remixes for borgeouis (sp?) American white kids to dance to, but they did do it--twice. It makes more sense now that I've read the Strummer biography, "Joe Strummer and the Legend of The Clash," by Kris Needs. Kris Needs is a pretty cool guy who, it turns out, provided the howls and various other strange vocal parts ot certain Clash songs. Anyway, the dance remixes make sense for this reason: Strummer was the one behind the lyrics; and while Mick and the others were on board with his politics in the early days of the band, towards the end they just wanted to be rock stars. At the same time, Mick had been to New York City a few times and was becoming a huge fan of the emerging style called hip-hop. So it was natural for Mick to want to make beat-heavy (that is, rap-influenced) and feel-good (i.e., danceable) versions of Clash songs. And that's basically the reason that Joe fired him - he stopped caring about the politics.
I've probably given the wrong impression. You don't have to care about the band's history to enjoy this disc. If you want to own one of the best rarities albums ever released in the history of music, with a good mix of biting social commentary and feel-good party music, then get Super Black Market Clash ASAP.
Eclectic.......2006-02-17
Super Black Market Clash is exactly what a B-sides album should be: a handful of gems ("1977," "Groovy Times," "Pressure Drop"), some experimentation ("Justice Tonight/Kick it Over," "Radio Clash"), but ultimately uneven. I have been put on the record as saying that a B-sides album isn't worth anything if it isn't uneven (well, on the record because I just wrote it now). If the band doesn't have some failures then they're really not trying, are they? They're just spending time lounging in the safe zone. There's nothing terribly wrong with the safe zone, it's nice, I'd visit, but I sure wouldn't want to live there. The two biggest critical darlings had some massive failures. Radiohead's first album was absolutely grating (and not in an avante garde sort of way) and in my personal opinion the Beatles were mediocre until Help!. That being said, some of the songs off the second half of the album fall a bit flat. Even so, they're all interesting to listen to and don't permanently scar the album. Most of them show The Clash trading in their gut level impact for some more experimental music.
Super Black Market Clash is just the fix for those of you who have already bought the first three CDs (which I recommend doing immediately if you haven't already). It's a great career spanning picture of the most eclectic punk band.
Bankrobber and Armagideon Time would have made it 5.......2005-12-05
..I happen to be a true fan of The Clash and i really enjoy Black Market Clash, however i'm quite disappointed at the omission of Bankrobber and Armagideon Time. I've acquired these tracks on a copy of "story of the clash vol. 1" so i'm still able to enjoy them, but Black Market Clash suffers without them.
However...
The City of the Dead, The Prisoner, Pressure Drop, Groovy Times, Gates of the West, Capital Radio Two, and Stop The World are some of the best Clash tracks I've heard and make this album very enjoyable.
As for the dubs... i can't stand Justice Tonight/Kick it Over, or Robber Dub. The Magnificent Dance is okay but the song really needs lyrics to be good, same with The Cool Out. The Mustafa Dance is an enjoyable dub of Rock The Casbah though
Aggravating!.......2005-07-25
I loved the original Black Market , especially for Bank robber Armiggdeon time and was gravely disappointed to not find them here. The replacement dubs here are awkward, cutting some vocals off in mid-word. I was wondering if these are original outakes or something thrown together more recently. Does anybody know? I guess the problem here is that when your so familiar with the orginal, any differences are disturbing to the flow and expectation you have for the song.
Super Black Market Ripoff.......2005-07-17
Nothing signifies the greed involved in the Clash reissues more than this CD. I had the original 10" vinyl edition of "Black Market Clash," and it was a gem, full of non-album singles and B-sides from the early and middle portions of the Clash's career. Unfortunately, Sony has taken most of the best songs from the original "Black Market Clash" and has made them available only on various greatest hits CDs or the "Clash on Broadway" box set. The new "Super Black Market Clash" retains only a few of the original tracks and replaces the missing songs with less interesting tracks from the "Sandinista" and "Combat Rock" eras.
The net effect is that to obtain all of the songs on the original record, one must buy multiple CDs, resulting in the repurchase of songs already appearing on the proper Clash albums. The music originally obtainable on a single vinyl LP is now disaggregated and unreasonably expensive to bring back together. Unfortunately, the mishandling of this reissue has made this once great record a shadow of its former self.
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