The Singles is exactly what the title says -- a collection of the Clash's U.K. single A-sides. This approach can hardly result in a definitive compilation, since the Clash's albums were such cohesive, important works in their own right, and even more erratic LPs like Sandinista! and Combat Rock had their share of fine album tracks. Nevertheless, the collection does have some value, particularly for more casual fans who don't want to spend the time or money sifting through those uneven albums. And because the best way to hear the Clash is on their original albums, The Singles can also be useful for fans who already own those albums and don't want to purchase the three-disc Clash on Broadway, thereby duplicating a good portion of their collection. The Singles does illustrate the progression of the Clash's music from raw, energetic punk to eclectic dabblings in ockabilly, eggae, and dance-ock (even if it doesn't do so as seamlessly as London Calling), and so far, it is the only single-disc Clash comp to feature the original version of the non-LP single "Bankrobber" (the one on Super Black Market Clash is a dub version with most of the lyrics missing). So, the utility of The Singles all depends on how deeply you want to dig into the Clash, and how much tolerance you have for duplication in the compilations necessary for supplementing the original albums (if your tolerance is high, stick with the more thorough Clash on Broadway).
It is such a long time i've not moggin. A lot of things to be adjusted since I’ve relocated to Cambodia. I’m ok so far. Just sometimes Khmers look at me like I’m an alien. My coworker said i need to change my dressing style to be more poor. What the hell is that? I really don't get it!I'd say i'm influenced by weird things in Phnom Phen. I feel homesick. I really miss my life in Thailand. At
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This track goes out to all the hard working Moggers caught up in the daily grind. Heres to you!
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Yesterday I did a post of my "run in" with the law. I actually have never had any type of run in with the police, and do not even have a speeding ticket to my name. Scratch that, I did get caught driving with out insurance once but that is a whole other story. Anyways, on my post quite a few moggers gave ideas of great songs to be chased by the police to, and I had to agree they were pretty goo...
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Joe Strummer - or John Mellor as he was then known - began studying at Central in Sept 1970, one of over 400 applicants for the 60 available places. He wanted to be a cartoonist, though he told people he wanted to be in advertising.Joe later described the school as the "last resort of malingerers and bluffers and people who don't want to work," but it has long been one of the most prestigious a...
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Yesterday I did a post of my "run in" with the law. I actually have never had any type of run in with the police, and do not even have a speeding ticket to my name. Scratch that, I did get caught driving with out insurance once but that is a whole other story. Anyways, on my post quite a few moggers gave ideas of great songs to be chased by the police to, and I had to agree they were pretty goo...
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Carnival Day in London27 April 2008 - Thirty years after a group of music stars decided to Rock Against Racism, the Love Music Hate Racism carnival is celebrating the efforts of 1978.The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Hard-Fi and Jay Sean are headlining the anti-racism concert in east London. Organisers hope 100,000 people will attend the free carnival in Victoria Park.The original gig was headli...
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With Mick Jones, once of The Clash, guesting with Alabama 3 at SXSW it just seemed like a good time to remind ourselves just how great the music of The Clash is. So here's a fave song, "London Calling."s
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Y-Rock on XPN is running Joe Strummer's "London Calling" BBC radio show of a few years back each week, but I've not been able to catch it each week. Damn I love the internet,,,, found a podcast of it here on WRNR-FM. More info on the show is on Y-Rock's site. Somewhere I found the playlist but I can't find it anymore. Suffice to say, it's a global mix, from reggae (of course) to some Colombia...
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...also known as Joe Strummer (i.e., The Clash) ... who, unfortunately, exited the planet four years ago today. The Clash were a hugely influential band for me in my musically formative years. London Calling was, and still is, a phenomenal album, a classic ... I know my life would not be the same had I never been exposed to it. Just wanted to put it out in the mogos: Thanks, and RIP Joe!
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but I'm feeling like a goof and I'm taking my pick for punk rock vid lightly. Jox ought to like this one...
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Okay CapnBozo ... them's fightin' words - You're on!
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Nothing new here, just one of the most creative fusion minded rock groups of all time. This is funky in a tight black pants but ghetto blaster kind of way.
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This track goes out to all the hard working Moggers caught up in the daily grind. Heres to you!
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It is such a long time i've not moggin. A lot of things to be adjusted since I’ve relocated to Cambodia. I’m ok so far. Just sometimes Khmers look at me like I’m an alien. My coworker said i need to change my dressing style to be more poor. What the hell is that? I really don't get it!I'd say i'm influenced by weird things in Phnom Phen. I feel homesick. I really miss my life in Thailand. At
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Summer 1981, NYC, garbage piled in the streets, it's sweltering, it stinks, boomboxes, graffiti subway trains, junkies, hookers, Reagan, Times Square, THE CLASH! For one week in June, The Clash took over New York, for a residency at Bond's in Times Square. The video for "This Is Radio Clash" is a great little document of this - somewhere out there, there's a 12" version of this that just kills (it
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Today my pal Noah, a former Columbia Records executive who taught me a great deal about how a record company can be a positive force for artists and music (rare at CBS/SONY or any of the corporate labels for that matter), did a long follow-up piece on protest music at Down With Tyranny. No story about protest music would be complete without Complete Control, which was the theme song for an old San
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here's a little something for you moggers to jam to :)
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| Title | Lyrics | Buy |
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| 1 London Calling |
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| 2 Rock The Casbah |
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| 3 Should I Stay Or Should I Go |
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| 4 I Fought The Law |
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| 5 (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais |
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| 6 The Magnificent Seven |
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| 7 Bankrobber |
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| 8 The Call Up |
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| 9 Complete Control |
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| 10 White Riot |
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| 11 Remote Control |
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| 12 Tommy Gun |
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| 13 Clash City Rockers |
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| 14 English Civil War |
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| 15 Hitsville U.K. |
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| 16 Know Your Rights |
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| 17 This Is England |
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| 18 This Is Radio Clash |
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| 19 Train In Vain |
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| 20 Groovy Times |
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