New Clash box set
Discussion
This beats my 20 year old triple CD 'Clash on Broadway' into a very cocked hat: (Sound System) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008U3NU38/ref=mw_...
dave stew said:
This beats my 20 year old triple CD 'Clash on Broadway' into a very cocked hat: (Sound System) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008U3NU38/ref=mw_...
looks bloody great!Don't forget that Mick, Paul and Topper are on the Gideon Coe show tonight at 9:00 on 6 Music.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03945fk
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03945fk
dave stew said:
This beats my 20 year old triple CD 'Clash on Broadway' into a very cocked hat: (Sound System) http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B008U3NU38/ref=mw_...
That's the only boxset that I've ever bought. 
I occasionally see Mick around Notting Hill. Such a gentleman!
TwigtheWonderkid said:
The best band ever.
Cor blimey,that's a bit strong.Shows you just how much different people's tastes are,couldn't really stand them for whatever reason.For greatest band ever there doesn't seem to be a great guitarist,great drummer,great singer,bass player etc...rumpelstiltskin said:
TwigtheWonderkid said:
The best band ever.
Cor blimey,that's a bit strong.Shows you just how much different people's tastes are,couldn't really stand them for whatever reason.For greatest band ever there doesn't seem to be a great guitarist,great drummer,great singer,bass player etc... to say nothing of their passion and integrity You're right though, tastes do differ greatly.......I can't abide Pink Floyd personally and would rate Joe Strummer a far greater frontman than say any Freddie Mercury or Robert Plant, but that could be because Joe spoke to me in a language I could relate to
TwigtheWonderkid said:
spiritof'76 said:
Thing is, you get these so called Supergroups forming alledgedly comprising figures who are considered greats in their own right and all you seem to end up with is a very mediocre product........
That reminds me, what ever happened to The Travelling Wilburys.Went travelling I guess
strummerville said:
How's it looking? Does it have everything??
Right. The whole thing is boxed up to look like a ghetto blaster with the contents being:CDs 1-5 being the UK versions of The Clash , Give 'em enough rope, London Calling, Sandinista!, Combat Rock. The CDs look like the original vinyl (they even have the grooves for the tracks, and identical track listing labels in the middle), and have the original 'sleeves'. They also contain a few pages of text and photos and lyric sheets. London Calling and Sandinista are double and triple disc sets.
CD6 is a triple CD and is as follows:
Disc 1 - White Riot, 1977, Listen (including Capital Radio interview), Capital Radio (Capital Radio EP), London's Burning, Complete Control, City of the Dead, Clash City Rockers, Jail Guitar Doors, White Man in Hammersmith Palais, The Prisoner, 1-2 Crush on you, Time is Tight, Pressure Drop, I Fought the Law, Groovy Times, Gates of the West, Capital Radio (Cost of Living EP), Armagideon Time, Bank Robber and Rockers Galore UK Tour.
Disc 2 - Magnificent Dance, Midnight to Stevens, Radio One, Stop the World, The Cool Out, This is Radio Clash, This is Radio Clash (different lyrics), First night back in London, Rock the Casbah (12 inch mix), The Beautiful People are Ugly Too, Idle in Kangaroo Court, Ghetto Defendant (extended version), Cool Confusion, Sean Flynn (extended version) and Straight to Hell.
Disc 3 - Extracts from their first recording session in 1976: I'm so Bored with the USA, London's Burning, White Riot, 1977. Polydor Demos 1977: Janie Jones, Career Opportunities, London's Burning, 1977, White Riot. Live at the Lyceum 1979: City of the Dead, Jail Guitar Doors, English Civil War, Stay Free, Cheapskates, I Fought the Law.
Again the triple CD is presented as a booklet with text and photos.
DVD (in a booklet with text and photos) containing a Julien Temple archive; White Riot promo film including 1977, White Riot and London's Burning; Sussex University in 1977 including I'm so bored with the USA, Hate and War, Career Opportumities and Remote Control; Don Lett's Super 8 medley including White Riot, Janie Jones, City of the Dead, Clash City Rockers, White man in Hammersmith Palais; Clash on Broadway including London Calling, This is Radio Clash, Magnificent Seven, Guns of Brixton and Safe European Home and finally the promo videos of Tommy Gun, London Calling, Bankrobber, Clampdown (live), Train in Vain (live), The Call Up, Rock the Casbah, Radio Clash, Should I stay or should I go and Career Opportunities.
There's a seperate contents booklet telling what's in the whole set plus a box with badges and dog tags, a box with stickers and box with a book that's full of blank pages (go figure?!?). Then there's a folder containing reprints of the first two issues of Armagideon Times plus a special edition of Armagideon Times, a bunch more stickers of varying sizes plus, finally, a tube coloured to look like a giant cigarette containing a 15" square poster.
All the booklets and CD covers are hardback and the box itself is made of pretty thick cardboard so all in all a fair bit for your money (11 CDs and a DVD as well as the other stuff) - dunno what it's going for elsewhere but it's £100 in HMV at the moment.
I think that's everything!
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