i'm just interested in pointing out that this sounds very much like an aladdin sane outtake - which is at least a nice shakeup. i mean, you can't go around sounding like the who for your entire career, right?
the clash were actually pretty good at taking the arena rock of the early 70s and stripping it down to the core, without any silly artistic pretensions. it's a pretty good example of a very well produced commodity.
it would just be nice if people stopped pretending they were more important than they actually were, due solely to the fact that they were fifteen when this record was released. again: give it time and the bias will come out in the wash.
