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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 20, 2006 19:00:26 GMT -5
Best Clash Song Never Released on a Proper Album ... "Gates of the West" (anyone who says they don't like the Clash needs to hear this) "Gates of the West" is on Super Black Market Clash. But Super Black Market Clash isn't a proper Clash album. It's a cd only compilition that drew together singles and b-sides that weren't available anywhere else. The original Black Market Clash consisted of: Capital Radio One The Prisoner Pressure Drop Cheat City of the Dead Time Is Tight Bankrobber/Robber Dub Armagideon Time Justice Tonight/Kick It Over (dub version of Armagideon Time) This sold for the price of an EP (I think I paid $5.99 for it back in '82), but ran over thirty minutes in length -- as long as many contemporary albums! (By comparison, Dire Straits' Making Movies clocked in at just over thirty minutes as well). So no release for "Gates of the West" except on compilitions. |
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Post by Fuzznuts on Jan 20, 2006 19:14:45 GMT -5
Does anybody know what the hell Joe is mumbling at the beginning of Clampdown?
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 20, 2006 19:15:15 GMT -5
"Gates of the West" is on Super Black Market Clash. But Super Black Market Clash isn't a proper Clash album. It's a cd only compilition that drew together singles and b-sides that weren't available anywhere else. The original Black Market Clash consisted of: Capital Radio One The Prisoner Pressure Drop Cheat City of the Dead Time Is Tight Bankrobber/Robber Dub Armagideon Time Justice Tonight/Kick It Over (dub version of Armagideon Time) This sold for the price of an EP (I think I paid $5.99 for it back in '82), but ran over thirty minutes in length -- as long as many contemporary albums! (By comparison, Dire Straits' Making Movies clocked in at just over thirty minutes as well). So no release for "Gates of the West" except on compilitions. I contend that Super Black Market Clash is as much a "proper" album as the original Black Market Clash. It may have been issued well after the band was gone, but both are just compilations of b-sides and outtakes, no? What makes the original BMC more of a proper album? |
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Post by rockysigman on Jan 20, 2006 19:17:41 GMT -5
Does anybody know what the hell Joe is mumbling at the beginning of Clampdown? An ancient debate. I think the first line or two has been deciphered, but otherwise it was just off the cuff, and I think even the band didn't really know what he was saying. |
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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 20, 2006 19:23:12 GMT -5
I wouldn't even call Black Market Clash a proper album. It's more like the Beatles' Hey Jude LP, which was a set of singles and b-sides that hadn't been released on an LP in the US.
IMHO there are five "proper" Clash LPs, with the US version of the debut getting an additional one-half credit.
The Clash (UK)
Give 'em Enough Rope
London Calling
Sandinista!
Combat Rock
Cut the Crap is about as much a "Clash" album as This is Big Audio Dynamite was. Anything else is just a compilition.
That's my take on it anyway.
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Post by Kensterberg on Jan 20, 2006 19:25:23 GMT -5
What Joe's saying at the start of "Clampdown" ...
seen in the [mumble mumble mumble] decent.
[mumbles for the next three or four lines]
[more mumbles]
WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO NOW?!
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