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Live at Shea Stadium: 13 Oct 1982/Remastered/Special Edition | 
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| Artist: Clash
Label: Sonybmg
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £8.98
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 327
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 886973536629
EAN: 0886973536629
ASIN: B001E7OO2S
Release Date: October 6, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Tracks:
| • | Kosmo Vinyl | | • | London Calling | | • | Police On My Back | | • | Guns Of Brixton | | • | Tommy Gun | | • | Magnificent Seven | | • | Armagideon Time | | • | Magnificent Seven | | • | Rock The Casbah | | • | Train In Vain | | • | Career Opportunities | | • | Spanish Bombs | | • | Clampdown | | • | English Civil War | | • | Should I Stay Or Should I Go | | • | I Fought The Law |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 The Best Clash Concert Document Yet October 14, 2008
Mr. M. A. Reed (Somewhere, GB)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
"I don't think there's any need for another Clash product on the market. Joe Strummer would be turning in his grave if he'd seen what the band have become today. You know what the Clash originally stood for and we don't stand for that anymore. The Clash were 30 years ago. None of us are really that bothered anymore and so people are moving in and making money out of it." - Topper Headon.
It was with a heavy heart that I approached the release of The Clash At Shea Stadium. After a multitude of endlessly repackaged selections, box sets, half-bothered concert releases, comes what Clash fans have actually wanted all along : a live document that captures a whole evening of The Clash. Aside from the potentially exploitative nature of the beast, "Live At The Shea" is a sumptiously packaged document that is musically precise, clear, and a superior - and worthy - live recording.
Still, it must be odd to see one of the years larger releases come into existence through the most haphazard of fashions : Joe Strummer looking in a box during a house move seven years ago, and suddenly and voila, finding this concert on an old tape, and hey presto! Another Clash live album!
And up until the very day this was released, 25 years after Mick Jones was fired and The Clash floundered, there has been no adequate and official Clash live document : "From Here To Eternity" was a compilation that lacked any narrative flow, "Rude Boy" a forgettable piece of hokum populated by stunning live footage, and "Revolution Rock" a live jukebox that feels like a trailer instead of the main course itself.
But Live At The Shea? This is IT. The definitive Clash live document. Now, purists will declaim Terry Chimes on drums (and the drums are lacking the flair of Topper Headon), but Chimes is a competent, capable, human drum machine that locks down the rhythm with a rigid precision and effortlessly gels with Paul Simoneon's bass to create a fiercely effective unit. On top of this powerful juggernaut of rhythm, Mick Jones and Strummer add a creative monster. The band meanwhile, are a tight, invincible army : the songs turn on a head, the opening numbers are presented as a machine gun assualt with barely a seconds breath or punctuation, and the Clash truly are All Guns Blazing. No second is wasted. And the band are still inventive, still taking risks, presenting fluid, thrilling and fresh medleys that reveal a previously unhinted thematic link between material brand new and ancient. It's over in a short 50 minutes, a brief, thrilling time capsule to a time long gone, a testament to a dream that was beautiful, brief, and right. Live At The Shea is THE Clash live album : accept no imitations, and do not be fooled by the glut of pointless "The Very Best of The Essential Clash In The West End" compilations. If you like The Clash, this should join your record collection now. You've waited long enough for it.
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust October 3, 2008
T. Satchwell (A Tower in the Heart of London.......)
12 out of 14 found this review helpful
OK..So Kosmo delivers his intro then they kick off into London Calling..phoney beatlemania...at the Shea Stadium...???!!!...did Joe know they would end up here?
There is a good sound ...some boomy distorted bass on LC and some fluffed chords on Clampdown...which is great..because that's what playing live should be...anything can happen...
Some nice Mick guitar lines especially on Spanish Bombs and some ROCKSTEADY bass playing by Joe on Guns Of Brixton...amazing!
What you shouldn't do is put the album on random play or shuffle it on your ipod...coz it messes big style with the set list order and continuity of the show..so whack it on...and listen to it from start to end...like you were there!
I think this stands as a historical "document", and an important one if like me you are an obsessive collector/fan..who has recordings ranging from earliest gigs to the Festival and stadium shows.
The special edition pack has some nice Bob Gruen b/w stills ..most from his Clash photo book..but at last..we get a couple of new ones!!
Paul Simonon checking his bootlaces and another live shot I've not seen.
It would have been nice to have had more previously unpublished shots maybe....the standard cd also has most of these shots in the booklet ....but not all..!
Yes ...Get it!
Not so bored with the U.S.A. October 7, 2008
Shug McCretin
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
Although I'm a huge fan of The Clash, I wasn't 100% convinced about this release but, thanks to the previous reviews, decided to take the plunge and I'm glad I did. As already mentioned, the audio quality and musicianship are superb. This is the sound of the band at the top of their game. My only gripes are the, somewhat annoying, intro by Kosmo Vinyl and the absense of Topper Headon on drums. Terry Chimes is a solid enough player but they really miss someone with Topper's power and versatility. However, don't let this put you off buying as what's on offer here is well worth your money and attention. It also makes you wonder where the band would have gone musically had they not imploded shortly afterwards!
By Eck Missus This is the Bee's Knees October 2, 2008
David (UK)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
The sound quality is astonishing. If you have no Clash: get this; if you have Clash: get this. Play it loud...
Set Your Face To Thrilled October 18, 2008
Steve Keen (Herts, UK)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
After reading a caustic review of this CD in the Guardian a few days before its release I was fully prepared for disappointment.
No need.
OK, so Kosmo Vinyl's Intro is truly cringemaking, intoning Noo Yawk Siddy in finest Estuary and mouthing some banalities about the rain, but as soon as the first cords of a breakneck London Calling kick in all that's behind you.
Not that it's all plain sailing, as the point at which we expect Joe to start singing passes lyricless, and we have to wait another few bars before he remembers he's the vocalist on this one and ought to act like one. He then introduces Mick singing on a turbo-charged Police On My Back, followed by Tommy Gun and The Guns Of Brixton, one of their best, and the one which reminds you not only that Paul Simonon couldn't sing but that, hell, it didn't matter!
Strummer follows that with a confession that the band stole the riff from the next song, The Magnificent Seven, from New York on a previous visit; and that song segues into another Clash reggae classic, Armagideon Time, Joe once again advising those who don't understand what's going on to ask their neighbour, before reprising The Magnificent Seven.
There isn't much chat between Clash cliche Rock The Casbah and the end of Clampdown, when Joe does a spiel about a "biological experimentation" being carried out on the 72,000 people present. He then announces English Civil War, which moves into Should I Stay, followed by the closing I Fought The Law.
One of the surprising aspects of the whole recording is the quality of the sound, which includes the clarity of the vocals, to the point where we can get beyond Strummer's drawl and discern the words better even than on the studio versions.
The set is heavily weighted towards London Calling material, unsurprisingly, with five of the 14 songs originating there. There's only one from the first album, Career Opportunities, so unfortunately no opportunity taken for a White Riot or to tell NYC they're Bored With The USA.
No matter. It's a good set, particularly being a record of a single event, whereas From Here To Eternity was a compilation from different gigs, one of which, I was pleased to see when I bought the CD, I was at.
Earlier this year I finally got to see Drive By Truckers, coincidentally in the same place, Camden's Electric Ballroom, I'd twice seen The Clash thirty years or so previously: that concert confirmed to me that DBT have to be the best live act around today; this record reminds me why I used to think it was The Clash.
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