Black Market Clash
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| EP by The Clash | ||||
| Released | October 1980 | |||
| Recorded | 1977-1980 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock, Reggae, Dub | |||
| Length | 34:37 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Producer | Pepe Unidos, Sandy Pearlman, Mickey Foote, The Clash | |||
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| Robert Christgau | A− |
| Super Black Market Clash | ||||
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| Compilation album by The Clash | ||||
| Released | 26 October 1993 | |||
| Recorded | February 1977-May 1982 | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 77:13 | |||
| Label | Epic | |||
| Producer | Kosmo Vinyl, Pepe Unidos, The Clash | |||
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Super Black Market Clash is a 1993 compilation album released by the English punk rock band The Clash. It contains B-sides and rare tracks not available on the group's regular studio albums. The album is an expanded repackaging of the 1980 release Black Market Clash, which was a 10-inch EP, containing 9 songs. The man in the foreground of the front cover art is Don Letts, who worked with The Clash on several projects and later was a founding member of Big Audio Dynamite.
Black Market Clash was released only in the US and Canada in between London Calling and Sandinista!. It compiled recordings which were then unavailable in the US except as imports. The disc was one in the series of "Nu-Disk" 10-inch records from Epic. Other artists in the series included Gary Glitter, New Musik and Cheap Trick.
"The Prisoner," the cover of "Pressure Drop" by Toots and the Maytals, "City of the Dead," and "Armagideon Time" had all been UK b-sides from the period 1977-79, respectively of "White Man in Hammersmith Palais," "English Civil War," "Complete Control," and "London Calling." "Pressure Drop" is presented here in a remix by Bill Price.
At the time of release, this was the only record that featured the cover of the "Time Is Tight" instrumental by Booker T & the MGs. "Capital Radio" was extremely rare in the UK. Rather than re-issue the original the group recorded a new version for The Cost of Living as "Capital Radio Two." "Cheat" is from their UK debut album but had been left off the US version.
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