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 if you cut the crap from this you'd have a decent ep Aug 29, 2008
this is like a Clash karaoke lp with faux punk singalongs. there's actually some potentially decent songs but you'd never know considering how crappy they sound. Joe Strummer personally disowned this album
 One good song, cut the rest of the crap Jul 02, 2008
This is England is an inspired song which taps into a lot of the social unrest that was still present in Thatcher's Britain - "Ive got my motorcycle jacket but I'm walking all the time." The rest of the song seem like a disappointing football game, they just glide along, without making any real impression on you at all. Generally, this album is only for completists. There is so much better material in the Clash's back catalogue that is worthwhile and you may as well go back to The Clash / The Clash, or London's Calling or Give 'em Enough Rope.
Hmmmmm Feb 02, 2008
While not as bad as most people say, this record will remain a footnote in the story of the Clash. The song "This is England" is fabulous and maybe even among their best, but the rest is not that great.
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This is the Clash's "Indian War Whoop" Mar 28, 2007
This widely despised recording actually reminds me of another widely scorned recording - Indian War Whoop - by an equally influential group of musicians, the Holy Modal Rounders. When I first heard Indian War Whoop, a record apparently recorded while the musicians were tripping heavily on LSD, it was unlistenable, and I regretted buying it. But, with later listens, it sort of grew on me. I don't listen to it often, but when I do, I recognize a real musical core.
So too with this mess of a record. It's really not the Clash, but there are a core of halfway decent songs. It's not a great record by any means, but not nearly as bad as many would suggest. I suppose, though, that it deserves to be seen as a footnote to the Clash's, and Joe Strummer's, otherwise fine musical careers.
I could really do without the drum machines, both here, and just about everywhere (with perhaps a few exceptions, such as Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, and a handful of techno acts).
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Breaking Up Is Easy To Do Dec 28, 2006
Usually when bands implode it is done through the dreaded phone call to a band member(s) who is getting sacked from the former friends & business agent, the musician showing up to a "scheduled" recording session and nobody is around or the final mix for a CD somehow dropping the (now former) band member.
For The Clash, though, it was taken to a new level with - for a time - two bands with the name and this final studio release for the group - session musicians and a drum machine - being fronted by Joe Strummer, with songwriting and production "assistance" from manager Bernie Rhodes.
It is a mess, as the songs - besides This Is England - would not have made the final cut in previous albums and the instruments buried in a muddy mix. Arguably the best musician throughout is the drum machine, but rumors remain that it even wanted to flee the studio.
The rift between Strummer and Mick Jones had been growing for years and this final product was the acrimony still being played out after Jones was sacked. In its glory years, the band wrote songs that oftentimes took aim at the bloated greed of the music industry. But in the end, the band could not survive the gluttonous egos that seemed more fitting for any number of generic stadium-rock ensembles.
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