Cornucopia Of Clash

[MacRua]

At Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame And New Boxed Set
Wednesday October 04, 2006 @ 06:00 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
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This is a big month for The Clash and their fans, as the group will be the subject of a new exhibit at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and have all of their British singles released in a boxed set.

The Clash released six full-length albums before their 1986 demise, and were inducted into the hall in 2003, a few months after singer/songwriter/guitarist Joe Strummer died of a sudden heart attack.

Revolution Rock: The Story Of The Clash will open at the Cleveland, Ohio museum on October 21 and run until April 15. The exhibit will feature instruments, clothing, memorabilia and never-before-seen original manuscripts and artifacts from what used to be described as "the only band that matters." Band members Mick Jones and Terry Chimes, along with Strummer's widow, Lucinda Mellor, will take part in the opening of the exhibit on October 20 and 21.

"If you told me 30 years ago that we were going to be in a museum, we would have laughed at you," Jones says of the honour.

Epic/Legacy will release The Clash: The Singles boxed set on October 31. It will include all 19 of the group's U.K. singles (including the never commercially released New Music Express give-away Capital Radio EP) packaged in replica sleeves and with replica labels. It will come with a 44-page booklet with rare photos and sleeve notes written by The Who's Pete Townshend, U2's The Edge, Beastie Boy Mike D, Sex Pistol Steve Jones, Gorillaz and Blur's Damon Albarn, Foo Fighter Chris Shiflett, The Pogues' Shane McGowan, Stone Roses' Ian Brown, New Order's Bernard Sumner, The Libertines and Dirty Pretty Things' Carl Barat, The Doves' Jim Goodwin, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and authors Irvine Welsh and Danny Boyle.

Jones and Clash bassist Paul Simonon chose the bonus tracks for the package, which will be available with either CDs or seven-inch vinyl singles.

Here are the tracks on The Clash: The Singles boxed set:

Disc one:
"White Riot"
"1977"

Disc two: Capital Radio EP:
"Listen"
Interview
Interview
"Capital Radio"

Disc three:
"Remote Control"
"London's Burning" (live)

Disc four:
"Complete Control"
"City Of The Dead"

Disc five:
"Clash City Rockers"
"Jail Guitar Doors"

Disc six:
"White Man In Hammersmith Palais"
"The Prisoner"

Disc seven:
"Tommy Gun"
"1-2 Crush On You"

Disc eight:
"English Civil War"
"Pressure Drop"

Disc nine: Cost Of Living EP:
"I Fought The Law"
"Groovy Times"
"Gates Of The West"
"Capital Radio Two"

Disc 10:
"London Calling"
"Armagideon Time"
"Justice Tonight"
"Kick It Over"
"Clampdown"
"Card Cheat"
"Lost In The Supermarket"

Disc 11:
"Bank Robber"
"Rockers Galore"
"Rudie Can't Fail"
"Train In Vain"

Disc 12:
"The Call Up"
"Stop The World"
"Cool Out"

Disc 13:
"Hitsville U.K."
"Radio One"
"Police On My Back"
"Somebody Got Murdered"

Disc 14:
"The Magnificent Dance Edit"
"Lightning Strikes"
"One More Time"
"One More Dub"
"The Magnificent Seven"
"The Magnificent Seven"

Disc 15:
"This Is Radio Clash"
"Radio Clash"
"Outside Broadcast"
"Radio 5"

Disc 16:
"Know Your Rights"
"First Night Back In London"

Disc 17:
"Rock The Casbah"
"Long Time Jerk"
"Mustapha Dance"
"Red Angel Dragnet"
"Overpowered By Funk"

Disc 18:
"Should I Stay Or Should I Go"
"Straight To Hell"

Disc 19:
"This Is England"
"Do It Now"

[Eric V]

Thanks for that. Won't be buying any more cds with just two songs on them anymore.... did that with a Rolling Stones boxed set and its just a waste of material. They are better off putting it out on a single cd and just including a book along with it. But now I do have a reason to go to the museum. The Clash were #1.

[jpdca]

Ahhhhhh...Sony lets us all indulge once again, and again re-packages the same recycled material that we've gotten time and time again....
personally, I'm excited!

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[firehazard]

The trouble is, MacRua, I just love the word "cornucopia". So, much as I love the Clash, i'm not sure that the cd set can possibly live up to the thread title...

[MacRua]

I am not agitating, i'm informing

[Bellabog]

Nice article on Paul Simonon's trip to Raasay in search of Strummer's ancestors in today's Telegraph. Hate to admit reading the Telegraph - nicked the travel section from someone at work this morning, but there's a nice picture there too.