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Track List
01) Clash City Rockers
02) I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.
03) Remote Control
04) Complete Control
05) White Riot
06) (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
07) London's Burning
08) I Fought the Law 
09) Janie Jones
10) Career Opportunities
11) What's My Name
12) Hate & War
13) Police & Thieves
14) Jail Guitar Doors
15) Garageland
01) Clash City Rockers
02) I'm So Bored With the U.S.A.
03) Remote Control
04) Complete Control
05) White Riot
06) (White Man) in Hammersmith Palais
07) London's Burning
08) I Fought the Law
09) Janie Jones
10) Career Opportunities
11) What's My Name
12) Hate & War
13) Police & Thieves
14) Jail Guitar Doors
15) Garageland
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First Released
1977
Punk Rock
Confrontational
Punk
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The Clash is the eponymous debut studio album by English punk rock band The Clash. It was released on 8 April 1977, through CBS Records.
Most of the album was conceived on the 18th floor of a council high rise on London's Harrow Road, in a flat that was rented by Mick Jones's grandmother, who frequently went to see their live concerts. The album was recorded over three weekend sessions at CBS Studio 3 in February 1977. By the third of these sessions the album was recorded and mixed to completion, with the tapes being delivered to CBS at the start of March. It cost £4000 to produce.
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Often compared to the Sex Pistols, with whom they hung out, The Clash had just as much raw energy, but a lot more to say. Whilst the gobbing anarchic former raged against everything for the sake of anything, the well-mannered, socially aware latter raged about injustice and poverty for the sake of revolution.
Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Keith Levene and Terry Chimes had been spending most of their time hanging out in the bars and high rises of west London when they recorded The Clash. This band wrote about what they knew: clashes with police, clashes between black and white, clashes with each other. They couldn’t have come from anywhere other than London.
Whether it's with the Ramones-like burst that is White Riot, inciting activism in Britain’s disaffected white youth, or London's Burning which tells of drugs, boredom and apathy, The Clash sums up what it was like to be young in London in the 1970s. Elsewhere, Career Opportunities is about living off the dole, and Garageland simply celebrates being in a band.
The band raised its profile backing the Pistols on the now infamous 1976 Anarchy Tour. Despite some initial bad reviews - NME wrote, "They are the kind of garage band who should be speedily returned to the garage with the motor running" - the boys were signed to CBS and this debut was speedily recorded. Pretty soon after, Terry Chimes was replaced by Topper Headon as the band's drummer, though it wasn’t until 1979 that CBS released the album in the States, worrying perhaps too much that this London export wouldn’t go down so well across the Atlantic. As it happens, I’m So Bored With the USA was loved by fans and the band were known to open their US gigs with the track.
This debut buzzes with the arrogance of youth who have something to prove. Each member brought a slight different influence, whether it was Joe's folk lyricism and rockabilly rhythms, Mick's rock adulation for the Stones, Mott the Hoople and the Faces or Paul Simonon’s Brixton-born reggae, what you get is a unique blend.
With a fingers-up gesture to the music press, it was Micky Foote – the band's touring soundman - who was recruited to oversee the recording in an attempt to recreate the band's live sound. The Clash is probably as close as you’ll get to hearing them live today and paved the way for their classic, London Calling.
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The Clash is the eponymous debut studio album by English punk rock band The Clash. It was released on 8 April 1977, through CBS Records.
Most of the album was conceived on the 18th floor of a council high rise on London's Harrow Road, in a flat that was rented by Mick Jones's grandmother, who frequently went to see their live concerts. The album was recorded over three weekend sessions at CBS Studio 3 in February 1977. By the third of these sessions the album was recorded and mixed to completion, with the tapes being delivered to CBS at the start of March. It cost £4000 to produce.
User Album Review
Often compared to the Sex Pistols, with whom they hung out, The Clash had just as much raw energy, but a lot more to say. Whilst the gobbing anarchic former raged against everything for the sake of anything, the well-mannered, socially aware latter raged about injustice and poverty for the sake of revolution.
Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, Paul Simonon, Keith Levene and Terry Chimes had been spending most of their time hanging out in the bars and high rises of west London when they recorded The Clash. This band wrote about what they knew: clashes with police, clashes between black and white, clashes with each other. They couldn’t have come from anywhere other than London.
Whether it's with the Ramones-like burst that is White Riot, inciting activism in Britain’s disaffected white youth, or London's Burning which tells of drugs, boredom and apathy, The Clash sums up what it was like to be young in London in the 1970s. Elsewhere, Career Opportunities is about living off the dole, and Garageland simply celebrates being in a band.
The band raised its profile backing the Pistols on the now infamous 1976 Anarchy Tour. Despite some initial bad reviews - NME wrote, "They are the kind of garage band who should be speedily returned to the garage with the motor running" - the boys were signed to CBS and this debut was speedily recorded. Pretty soon after, Terry Chimes was replaced by Topper Headon as the band's drummer, though it wasn’t until 1979 that CBS released the album in the States, worrying perhaps too much that this London export wouldn’t go down so well across the Atlantic. As it happens, I’m So Bored With the USA was loved by fans and the band were known to open their US gigs with the track.
This debut buzzes with the arrogance of youth who have something to prove. Each member brought a slight different influence, whether it was Joe's folk lyricism and rockabilly rhythms, Mick's rock adulation for the Stones, Mott the Hoople and the Faces or Paul Simonon’s Brixton-born reggae, what you get is a unique blend.
With a fingers-up gesture to the music press, it was Micky Foote – the band's touring soundman - who was recruited to oversee the recording in an attempt to recreate the band's live sound. The Clash is probably as close as you’ll get to hearing them live today and paved the way for their classic, London Calling.
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