The Clash (album)
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CBS Records Epic Records |
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14 (UK) / 15 (US) |
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35:18 (UK) / 43:20 (US) |
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The Clash is the first studio album by the English punk band The Clash and was released in April 1977 by CBS Records . In addition to the albums Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols by the Sex Pistols and Ramones by the band of the same name , it is the most important album of the early phase of punk . In the United States , Epic Records only released the album in 1979 with a changed track list.
Press reactions
New Musical Express (UK): “The Clash have made an album that consists of the most exciting rock 'n' roll contemporary music has to offer. (…) They tell better than any other band about our lives and what it is like to be young in the musty seventies, and they do it with style, glamor and verve. The Clash can do it. I strongly recommend that you get a copy of this album. "
Melody Maker (UK): “I find that listening carefully leads to a headache, due to the melodious repetition of chords at breakneck pace. [The album] will probably be a treat for the Blank Generation. Thank goodness I'm 'too old' to think that's good. "
Sounds (UK): “If you don't like 'The Clash' then you don't like rock 'n' roll either. Really, it's that simple. Period. "
ZigZag (UK): “Even if you don't buy it yourself, at least listen to it. It's one of the most important records ever made. "
Rolling Stone (USA): "This music has a biting urgency that no one else has managed before: tight, rough, stormy and extreme, but always - only by a hair's breadth - controlled."
The Village Voice (USA): “The British version of 'The Clash' is the greatest rock 'n' roll album that has ever been made anywhere, at least to a certain extent because its innocence is somehow so coherent: it never stops sniffing at you, and it threatens to fly around your ears. I'm still angry that the original didn't appear here two years ago. "
Sounds (Germany): "The record is good, the fourteen songs are full of musical ideas, small important things happen all the time that you often only discover when you listen to it for the second or third time."
Today's reception
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The Clash's debut work is now considered a rock classic and a milestone in punk. The music magazine Rolling Stone leads the Clash number 81 of the 500 best albums of all time . It reached number 61 in the New Musical Express's list of the 500 best albums of all time . The Guardian selected the debut album at number 34 of the 100 best albums, and Uncut magazine at number 26 of the 200 best albums. In the selection of the 100 best albums of the 1970s by Pitchfork Media is The Clash space 44. The album was in the The 1001 album You Must Hear Before You added.
The Clash and those involved about the album
Joe Strummer (2000): “We didn't compose anything in the studio. We just cut it out like that. "
Mick Jones (1978): "I was so up to speed , well, I can't even remember how we did the first album."
Mick Jones (2000): "Well, I actually like the first album best, I generally like the kind of sound it has."
Paul Simonon (1977): “It sounds really good ... a lot better than the ['White Riot'] single. I think we hit our live sound exactly. "
Mickey Foote (producer) (2004): “I'm not a sound engineer, I've never claimed to be one. That wasn't my job at all. What was my job? Making [the album] sound like we wanted it to sound like, not how [CBS] wanted it. "
Simon Humphrey (sound engineer) (1995): "[Foote] was credited with the production, but it really cannot be said that he contributed to it."
Maurice Oberstein (Chairman of CBS Records Ltd. UK) (1991): “They just went into the studio without our A&R manager , with a producer and engineer of our choice, and made an album that was their own album. I realized that our process of making a good album would not necessarily have resulted in a good punk album. "
Track list
UK version
All songs were written by Mick Jones and Joe Strummer , exceptions are indicated.
- Janie Jones - 2:09
- Remote Control - 3:03
- I'm So Bored With The USA - 2:25
- White Riot - 1:57
- Hate & War - 2:07
- What's my name? ( Jones , Levene , Strummer ) - 1:42
- Deny - 3:03
- London's Burning - 2:13
- Career Opportunities - 1:54
- Cheat - 2:06
- Protex Blue - 1:47
- Police and Thieves ( Junior Murvin , Lee Perry ) - 6:04
- 48 hours - 1:36
- Garageland - 3:12
US version
The US version's track list is different from that of the UK version.
- Clash City Rockers - 3:55
- I'm So Bored With The USA - 2:24
- Remote Control - 3:00
- Complete Control - 3:14
- White Riot - 1:57
- (White Man) at Hammersmith Palais - 3:58
- London's Burning - 2:10
- I Fought the Law ( Sonny Curtis ) - 2:40
- Janie Jones - 2:00
- Career Opportunities - 1:54
- What's my name? ( Jones , Levene , Strummer ) - 1:40
- Hate and War - 2:05
- Police and Thieves ( Murvin , Perry ) - 5:58
- Jail Guitar Doors - 3:05
- Garageland - 3:12
Topper Headon played the drums for Clash City Rockers , Complete Control , (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais , I Fought the Law and Jail Guitar Doors . The Clash produced the track White Man In Hammersmith Palais . The tracks I Fought the Law were produced by the band and Bill Price. Lee Perry produced Complete Control .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tony Parsons: New Musical Express , April 9, 1977 (English)
- ↑ Michael Oldfield: Melody Maker , April 9, 1977 (English)
- ↑ http://homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/recordings/1976_77/77-00-00%20Clippings/The%20Clash%20(CBS)SOUNDS.html ( Memento from January 17, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Pete Silverton: Sounds , April 9, 1977 (English)
- ↑ http://homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/recordings/1976_77/77-00-00%20Clippings/Konkrete%20Klockwork%20ZIGZAG.html ( Memento from March 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Kris Needs: ZigZag , No. 71, April 1977 (English)
- ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original from April 15, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Tom Carson: Rolling Stone , October 18, 1979 (English)
- ^ [1] Robert Christgau: The Village Voice , September 3, 1979 (English)
- ^ Hans Keller: Sounds , 7/1977
- ↑ Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine on Allmusic (accessed December 27, 2018)
- ↑ Review by Milo Miles on Rolling Stone (archived) (accessed December 27, 2018)
- ↑ 500 Greatest Albums of All Time on Rolling Stone (accessed December 27, 2018)
- ↑ The 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time on New Musical Express (accessed December 27, 2018)
- ↑ The Guardian 100 Best Albums Ever by The Guardian (1997) on BestEverAlbums (accessed December 27, 2018)
- ↑ Uncut: 200 Greatest Albums Of All Time on Rate Your Music (accessed December 27, 2018)
- ↑ The 100 Best Albums of the 1970s on Pitchfork Media (accessed December 27, 2018)
- ↑ The Clash: Westway to the World -DVD (2001) (English)
- ↑ http://homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/recordings/1978/78-11-23%20manchester%20Apollo/2nd%20dec.html ( Memento from November 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) New Musical Express , December 2, 1978 (English)
- ↑ The Clash: Westway to the World -DVD (2001) (English)
- ↑ http://homepage.mac.com/blackmarketclash/Bands/Clash/recordings/1976_77/77-00-00%20Clippings/Konkrete%20Klockwork%20ZIGZAG.html ( Memento from March 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) ZigZag , No. . 71, April 1977 (English)
- ↑ quoted in: Pat Gilbert: Passion Is A Fashion - The Real Story Of The Clash , p. 144 (English)
- ↑ quoted in: Marcus Gray: Return Of The Last Gang In Town , p. 222 (English)
- ↑ quoted in: Jon Savage : England's Dreaming , 1991, p. 304 (English)
