This is a CLASH POLL service announcement...WITH RESULTS!!!!!! ILX Artist Poll #41

thx!

Thanks sir!

Thanks, gukbe! Cool to see at least one vote for "Mensforth Hill."

Thanks for the totals!

On the remasters, did they at least fix the screw-up at the beginning of "Koka Cola" from the last round of reissues? I'm one of those oddballs who thinks the circa-'99 remaster of London Calling was bad all around--the first try was much closer to the record.

I've read that the bell no longer sounds all goofy (as it did on the "legacy edition"), and the elevator sound is back.

Yes. It's fixed.

I wanna note that this poll inspired me to finally pick up a vinyl copy of Give 'Em Enough Rope to replace the one I traded in maybe 25 years ago. Much better than I remembered!

Tell you what, I'd forgotten how great the 'Capital Radio' remake is!

There's a documentary that was produced to coincide with the box set. Not revelatory so far, but nice to see the guys together:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16-WktpcHpI

Mick and Paul are on reddit answering some questions. Some of these redditors make some lame questions so if you have an actual Clash fan question you want answered here you go:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1msew6/this_is_mick_and_paul_from_the_clash_ask_us/

For the holidays, a two-hour This Is Radio Clash program, with bizarre Bernie Rhodes cameos in Chipmunks speed.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mjl04

I still can't stand a certain minor chart hit.

if memory serves it was a major chart hit over here and yeah it is crushingly dull

Phony Clashmania has bitten the dust!.

Nice work! But it's Safe European Home, not Homes

it's the Sumner-ite in me.

Ha!

Where would you put Black Market Clash? That was a big one for me, the record (or more accurately, $5.98 cassette) that made me an obsessive. They padded it out for the CD era as Super Black Market Clash, which inexplicably replaced the original Bankrobber with a dub version that goes on twice as long, but it half as good.

just scanned through the results thread and I have no idea what I would've picked for #1 (this poll pre-dated my ILM posting by a few months--pretty sure I registered to ILM so I could vote in the Elvis Costello poll)--there were at least 12 candidates just looking at the songs that made the list

inexplicably replaced the original Bankrobber with a dub version that goes on twice as long, but it half as good.

it's explicable! and also the original Black Market Clash edited Bankrobber and Robber Dub together, so the Super version is the one that's half as long.

I bought the triple 10" version, that's a different thing!

how so? https://www.discogs.com/The-Clash-Black-Market-Clash/release/103078 vs https://www.discogs.com/The-Clash-Black-Market-Clash/release/2987143

I had never seen that before. It adds the tracks that were left off the US debut.

https://www.discogs.com/The-Clash-Super-Black-Market-Clash/release/420020

Yes, side one is those tracks, plus "Listen" without the interview, which are all from those sessions.

Two = b-side tracks from "give them enough rope" era

three = the "Cost of Living" e.p. without "I fought the law" and the "ad" but with "Time Is Tight" instead.

four = Armagideon Time 12" dubs and Bankrobber dub

five = Mostly "Combat Rock" b-sides along with "Cool Out"

Six = Whatever's left: Casbah Dub / Mag7 dub / "This Is Radio Clash" (the a-side?)

So, basically pick yr side, it's like having 6 ep's

oh derp, I missed "triple"