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Clash Discography Resources:
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London's Burning! has both a UK and US Clash discography
Clash Discography @ Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah - Indie Pop
The pages above are the most exhaustive documents of the official Clash discography (original vinyl releases) I know to be available on the internet. For those in search of a great visual discography complete with high-resolution images, I'm sorry to report that one does not appear to exist at the moment for the regular page browser. It would require a cooperative of collectors to share the organization duties and webspace while hoping Sony/Epic turns a kind eye to copyright infringement (which is unlikely because Sony/Epic is currently marketing products using the original Clash album art - the most recent form is the singles boxed-set (release date: December 26, 2006).
Another version of black market clash: There is an on-line association that works to preserve other bits of Clash memorabilia like ticket stubs, gig flyers, and original fan photographs. These items are being scanned and archived at Black Market Clash. If you have any items of this sort please contact the administrators of BMC so these images do not become lost to future generations of fans.
printed:
The Clash Retrospective book 120pgs from Retro Publishing, London (December 2000) is a beautifully detailed visual history/discography and an excellent resource for meticulous record collectors and the nostalgic City Rocker alike. Most of the images are in black and white but there are 4 full-color pages with small, but clear reproductions of foreign 7"s, all UK standard singles and albums, and 12 of the more iconic LP bootleg covers. (32 more are identified in a section dubbed "Clash Bootleg Bible" - for a bootleg reference guide printed in late 2000 treating only vinyl releases, it's quite impressive. Retrospective is both informative and mature in presentation - the information is presented in an attractive style: safety-pinned-up and cut and paste DIY look that's fun without looking moronic. A copy of this one looks quite attractive on the Clash collector's bookshelf. The cover features a full-color Clash album art collage published roughly one year after the promo poster for the Clash album catalog reissues and From Here to Eternity was released. (If you look closely, you can see the photographer's hardwood floor in the shot) An excellent project of testament and tribute to The Last Gang.
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