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The Clash - Cut the Crap Audio CD

A fair review of the The Clash "Cut the Crap" Audio CD. Please note that the below review is the views of the authors, and authors only. You can get a complete list of all The Clash reviews here, or go back to the The Clash tabs.

The Clash Band: The Clash
Title: Cut the Crap
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Release Date: 2008-03-01
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Dictator 2: Dirty Punk 3: We Are the Clash 4: Are You Red... Y 5: Cool Under Heat 6: Movers and Shakers 7: This Is England 8: Three Card Trick 9: Play to Win 10: Fingerpoppin' 11: North and South 12: Life Is Wild

If you are a Clash or Strummer fan, you need to own This is England
So okay you cannot call it a Clash song maybe, so let me say that it is one of the top 10 Joe Strummer songs. I know this album is almost universally mocked, but I have to believe that all of the negative reviews must or should exclude This is England. First heard The Clash in 78, first saw them in 79 and again in 82, knew it was about to end when I first heard Combat Rock. This is England could have been on any of their first three albums and would have been much better known and appreciated.


Cut the crap--it's worth it
At first listen, it sounds overproduced and untimely. Is "Cut the Crap" a Clash album? Is "Cut the Crap" a good album? For that matter, does it even matter if it is a good album, since everyone hates it and the band's disowned it? I say "Not really" to the first, "Yes" to the second, and "Oh yes" to the third. By the second listen, I was over the overproduction (in fact, I like it), and the sense of time had dissipated. "We Are the Clash" works better as a socialist piece than a decrepit band's reaffirmation, but check out "This is England"--that's potent--and "North and South"--there's some atmosphere. Some days, I might even venture that it's better than "Combat Rock. " Any day I'd venture that it's better than anyone thinks it is.


Clash69
It's a chaotic mix, Simonon doesn't actually play on the album, it's an attempt to revive something primordial;to recapture the spirit of 1976- but it still has about 7 really good songs. This is a decent album. The repeated use of terrace chants throughout gives it a Sham69 kind of feel. It's kind of a sad footnote to an otherwise brilliant career. Punk hadn't actually died at that point- There was some great stuff coming out from Husker Du in particular, but this feels like a death call for the original punk movement. .


cut the crap no so crappy
After all it wasnt really the Clash, the music. I used to think this album was Crap. . . not the Clash. Recently I listened to it again and if you take is as a different group, its not so crappy. In fact there are a few tracks that are good. . This is England, and a couple others . But clearly it is a different direction musically. Lyrics are good though. .


much better than the bad rap it gets
But it's not Strummer's and Semonin's fault that those two were smacked out of their minds. First of all, you have to get past the fact that Mick Jones and Topper Headon are not on this album. That being said, this is not vingtage 1977 Clash, it is however, a pretty good album. They go in some new directions, although not to the extent as in Sandinista! and the end product is well worth a listen. Joe Strummer made such precious little music that we have to take what we can get.
If you are a Clash fan or a Strummer fan, you owe it to yourself to own this album. .


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