Essential for the bonus tracks, although the album is pretty compressed. I'd get the deluxe edition to augment an original pressing CD (something I recently re-acquired and am quite enjoying).
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Remastered original album, second disc of primarily remixes (some, I think, were unreleased to that point). I don't especially hear the improved remastered sound (but I'm shit for that outside of, like, the Beatles remasters). Outside of that, it depends on your tolerance for BAD remixes. I'm good with longer versions, but the extra twist to the remixes isn't that fantastic.Kory wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 6:04pmIs the 2-disc worth buying? It's mostly 12" mixes right?Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 5:59pmPlayed the 2-disc remastered set this afternoon while installing a ceiling fan. It remains really fucking good. Striking how Mick and Joe produced such diametrically opposite results in their first post-CR albums. Mick could scarcely have done something more successfully forward-thinking, while Joe was stuck in a confused back-to-basics that also wasn't.
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It's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 8:07amHeretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
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Better than CtC? Gasp! But seriously, I say with a straight face that it sits with LC as far as I'm concerned.Heston wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 7:25pmIt's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 8:07amHeretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
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Yep, agreed. It's the flow of words I love about this album. Nothing seems forced, it's like a musical commentary about everyday life.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 7:31pmBetter than CtC? Gasp! But seriously, I say with a straight face that it sits with LC as far as I'm concerned.Heston wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 7:25pmIt's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 8:07amHeretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
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I admire how forward-looking it is. Everything about it is Mick asserting where he thinks music can go. Joe and Bernie did him a favour in forcing him, giving him the freedom to pursue his interests more easily.Heston wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 7:46pmYep, agreed. It's the flow of words I love about this album. Nothing seems forced, it's like a musical commentary about everyday life.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 7:31pmBetter than CtC? Gasp! But seriously, I say with a straight face that it sits with LC as far as I'm concerned.Heston wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 7:25pmIt's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 8:07amHeretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
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I always put that down to the opposite ends of spectrum when they came together, Joe folk / pub rock and looking back and Mick glam and forward looking.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 5:59pmPlayed the 2-disc remastered set this afternoon while installing a ceiling fan. It remains really fucking good. Striking how Mick and Joe produced such diametrically opposite results in their first post-CR albums. Mick could scarcely have done something more successfully forward-thinking, while Joe was stuck in a confused back-to-basics that also wasn't.
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I think that's a sensible perspective, and it's that tension that made Mick and Joe such a successful partnership.101Walterton wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 9:06pmI always put that down to the opposite ends of spectrum when they came together, Joe folk / pub rock and looking back and Mick glam and forward looking.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 5:59pmPlayed the 2-disc remastered set this afternoon while installing a ceiling fan. It remains really fucking good. Striking how Mick and Joe produced such diametrically opposite results in their first post-CR albums. Mick could scarcely have done something more successfully forward-thinking, while Joe was stuck in a confused back-to-basics that also wasn't.
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Better than CtC not even close to any Clash album.Heston wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 7:25pmIt's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.Dr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 8:07amHeretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
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A voice of sanity. 101Flexerton
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101Floyerton. Might be a first time occurrence.
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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Oh god. 101Floylterton...
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Heston wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 7:25pmIt's definitely better than GEERDr. Medulla wrote: ↑14 May 2019, 8:07amHeretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album