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The
Clash helped set the pace for socially conscious rockers. This
double CD contains many of their best songs, from their first
album straight on through to their last.
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BACK
TO PUNK ALBUM COVERS
THE
CLASH came to be one of the few punk bands to
gain attention in the mainstream media and get signed
to a major record label. Because of this many punks
accused the band of selling out. Nevertheless, the
Clash reached a wide audience with their radical ideas,
and were the first to introduce reggae music into
the rock scene. The
band sang their opposition to police brutality and
the arms race, and with their third album titled SANDINISTA,
gave their support to the Nicaraguan revolution.
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The
artwork shown above was the cover art for the second album
release by the band, GIVE 'EM ENOUGH ROPE. The band
was touring the United States and while in San Francisco
(where there was a thriving punk scene), happened upon a
young punk artist by the name of Gene Grief. Grief
was creating flyers for bands and events in San Francisco,
and the
Clash were impressed enough with the
artist's visual style to ask him to do their album cover.
The artist portrayed an American icon, the cowboy... face
down in the dirt, nothing but a lifeless carcass, a meal
for vultures. In the background a mounted Chinese peasant
surveys the loathsome Western landscape.
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