Give 'Em Enough Rope: Best Clash Album?!

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Give 'Em Enough Rope: Best Clash Album?!

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The best Clash album is the Cost of Living EP.
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The best Clash album is Sandinista! … side seven!
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Wolter wrote:The best Clash album is the Cost of Living EP.
It's nice to see CK is back, with a new screen name.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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Apparently it has some killer lyrics (never my thing), but as I have stated here on numerous occasions, I find the arrangements to be very uninspired, dragging the album as a whole, down. That and I had already played the hell out of SEH, TG, and ECW before ever owning the album and what I was left with wasn't much.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
Wolter wrote:The best Clash album is the Cost of Living EP.
It's nice to see CK is back, with a new screen name.
The Former Mr. G. Poet has made that assertion on many occasions.
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CoL's an EP, not an album. GEER still wins.
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eumaas wrote:CoL's an EP, not an album. GEER still wins.
That, I will accept.

I honestly still prefer LC, but we're splitting hairs between the first 4 Clash albums for personal preference...
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Wolter wrote:
eumaas wrote:CoL's an EP, not an album. GEER still wins.
That, I will accept.

I honestly still prefer LC, but we're splitting hairs between the first 4 Clash albums for personal preference...
LC's an acceptable best as is s/t. But CR as better than the first three albums? Never.
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eumaas wrote:
Wolter wrote:
eumaas wrote:CoL's an EP, not an album. GEER still wins.
That, I will accept.

I honestly still prefer LC, but we're splitting hairs between the first 4 Clash albums for personal preference...
LC's an acceptable best as is s/t. But CR as better than the first three albums? Never.
Hey, we can all agree! I think we were at Snews a little too long.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Wolter wrote:
eumaas wrote:CoL's an EP, not an album. GEER still wins.
That, I will accept.

I honestly still prefer LC, but we're splitting hairs between the first 4 Clash albums for personal preference...
LC's an acceptable best as is s/t. But CR as better than the first three albums? Never.
Hey, we can all agree! I think we were at Snews a little too long.
Uhm, GEER is one of the first three albums, therefore you disagree.
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eumaas wrote:
matedog wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Wolter wrote:
eumaas wrote:CoL's an EP, not an album. GEER still wins.
That, I will accept.

I honestly still prefer LC, but we're splitting hairs between the first 4 Clash albums for personal preference...
LC's an acceptable best as is s/t. But CR as better than the first three albums? Never.
Hey, we can all agree! I think we were at Snews a little too long.
Uhm, GEER is one of the first three albums, therefore you disagree.
Okay, in my head I had GEER as being better than CR for some reason. I just had to fix that malfunction.

Actually I can accept people choosing it as their fav and any of the first four for that matter.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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Wolter wrote:I honestly still prefer LC, but we're splitting hairs between the first 4 Clash albums for personal preference...
That's a revelation to me—I thought you were in the GEER-as-pinnacle crowd (aka the Kiss Army).
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote:I honestly still prefer LC, but we're splitting hairs between the first 4 Clash albums for personal preference...
That's a revelation to me—I thought you were in the GEER-as-pinnacle crowd (aka the Kiss Army).
Nope. Never was. I'm in that happy middle where GEER kicks major ass and is underrated, but LC is still my personal favorite.
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While I like GEER a lot, it aint the best Clash LP.

Something to do with the american in a ball cap ...

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