Assorted demos and live recordings, 1976-8.

Notes from a bootleg catalogue

Listen to the First Album like you have never heard it before!
Outakes, demos and unheard tracks.

Want to listen to the first album but in a completely different way? Here on this rare 2CD Import you can listen to demos, outakes or remixes and where it mattered, on stage on the White Riot Tour April 77 and as a five piece with Keith Levene on guitar back in 1976.

Relive the debut album The Clash like you have never heard it before. A fantastic collection of tracks with great sound quality on a nice 2CD package with extensive colour artwork.

A must have that will sit well on any CD shelf. 59 songs, 2CDs, 160 minutes...

And a slightly more balanced view, from my own listening:

Those tracks present on Adam's superb D.O.A. compilation seem to have slightly better sound quality there than they do here, although both sound superb and it may just be the slightly higher volume level of those discs. The Leicester tracks are taken from a BBC Radio 1 broadcast, and the versions here sound (to my ears at least) superior to those on the Cardiff '77 boot - again, good equalising by the Snotty Snail label is probably the only real reason for that.

The Roundhouse tracks, which were supposedly a major upgrade on the existing 5 Go Mad... bootleg, sound very similar - it's clearly the same source, and if it's a lower generation it's not that significant. Despite all these niggles over potential upgrades, this set does a great job of collecting together much of the essential recordings from the early years, and it's just a blast to listen to. Highly recommended.