The Clash

[Les Waste]

The Clash were really big on not releasing songs on their albums as singles, and instead releasing new songs as singles. That's what Complete Control is about. You know the song Remote Control? Their manager released it as a single against their will and Complete Control is about how much they hated him ("They said, 'release remote control,' / we didn't want it on the label")

You should get Clash on Broadway. Yeah, it's a three disc box set, but it's so worth it. Besides the extremely interesting and informative book that comes with it, it has all the songs that aren't on any other Clash albums, like: Armagideon Time, Bankrobber, Gates of the West, Groovy Times, One Emotion, Midnight to Stevens, Cool Confusion, Every Little Bit Hurts, This is Radio Clash, Stop the World, 1-2 Crush on You, Pressure Drop, Prisoner, really good live versions of I Fought the Law and English Civil War, and some others too probably but I can't remember if they were on the English version of their first album or not.

Actually, there are way more songs on this album you probably hadn't heard yet than I though.

There is a song on Super Black Market Clash called Robber Dub, which is a dub of Bank robber. It's ok, but I like the original version of the song better. There is a dub of Armagideon Time though that is excellent