Irregulars,
I know I've been lax in posting the radio show here in the blog, of
late. Actually, I've just been lax about the blog,
but that's another story.
BUT...before
I digress too far up my own backside and start reminiscing about
shoveling snow in Denver or some crud, let's put this thing back on
rails.
Yesterday
was my 48th birthday. Among the presents I received (including two
new pairs of hi-tops, which I've been needing, and a new pair of
black skinny chinos) was the new Clash box set out on Sony/Legacy as
of Tuesday the 10th, Sound Syustem.
Mick Jones himself lovingly remastered the back catalog, making it
sound more 3D than it has since the original vinyl records were
issued, then assembled it onto high quality facsimile CDs, alongside
a triple-disc of non-LP 45s, B-sides, early demos and live material
and a DVD of archival footage. Paul Simonon then equally lovingly
assembled a beautiful package to house the disc that's itself
a work of art: He filled a fliptop box based around his old Clash-era
boombox with facsimile tour badges, stickers, dogtags, three issues
of the old Armagideon Times
fanzine (including a specially assembled new edition), even a blank
book for you to fill titled The Future Is
Unwritten (to get quite Joe Strummer about
it).
That
new Clash box was handed to me by my editor at The
Austin Chronicle not only as an early
birthday present, but with the express instruction to write a 300
word review and an expanded blog. You will see those next week. But
this is such musical gold, why not assemble a radio birthday
celebration of one of my favorite bands around Sound
System's treasures?
That
I did, working around the clock after posting another new "RADIO
NAPALM" this past Monday. And I
didn't stop with Sound System:
I assembled a Clash audio collage for 90+ minutes, filling the gaps
out of my own vast archives with vintage interviews with Joe, Mick
and Paul, plus some exciting unreleased live material. This is an
assault of prime
Clashness for your ears.
Enjoy
my birthday gift to you:
"RADIO NAPALM": This Is Radio
Clash, streaming for your punk rock
pleasure at Mixcloud. The link is below, just above the playlist.
Click it, open your speakers wide and everybody
smash up your seats and rock to this brand-new beat! This here music
mash up the nation! This here music cause a sensation! Tell your ma,
tell your pa: Everything gonna be alright....
Capital
Radio One (live, "So It Goes" UK Granada TV, Manchester,
11/15/77)
Janie
Jones (Sound System remaster)
Pressure
Drop (Sound System remaster)
Garageland
(live, "So It Goes" UK Granada TV, Manchester, 11/15/77)
White
Riot (45 version, Sound System remaster)
Complete
Control (Sound System remaster)
White
Man In Hammersmith Palais (Sound System remaster)
Safe
European Home (Sound System remaster)
Tommy
Gun (live UK TV Appearance, 1978)
I
Fought The Law (Sound System remaster)
Groovy
Times (Sound System remaster)
London
Calling (Sound System remaster)
Clampdown
(Sound System remaster)
The
Guns Of Brixton (Sound System remaster)
Train
In Vain (Sound System remaster)
Bankrobber
(Sound System remaster)
Police
On My Back (Sound System remaster)
One
More Time (Sound System remaster)
Know
Your Rights (Sound System remaster)
Straight
To Hell (from "Saturday Night Live")
1977
(live in Cardiff, Wales, 1977)
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