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The whole CD is great! But don't take just my word for it: The album received positive reviews from critics and peaked at number 12 in the UK charts. In December 1979, critic Robert Christgau named it his favorite album of the 1970s. In February 1993, the New Musical Express magazine ranked the album number 13 in its list of the Greatest Albums Of All Time. NME also ranked The Clash number 3 in its list of the Greatest Albums of the '70s, and wrote in the review that "the speed-freaked brain of punk set to the tinniest, most frantic guitars ever trapped on vinyl. Lives were changed beyond recognition by it". In December 1999, Q magazine rated the album 5 stars out of 5, and wrote about The Clash that they "would never sound so punk as they did on 1977's self-titled debut....Lyrically intricate...it still howled with anger". The same magazine placed The Clash at number forty-eight in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever in 2000, and included The Clash in its "100 Best Punk Albums", giving it 5 stars out of 5, in May 2002. In 2000, Alternative press rated the album 5 out of 5. Alternative press review saw The Clash as an eternal punk album, a blueprint for the pantomime of 'punkier' rock acts, and that for all of its forced politics and angst, The Clash continues to sound crucial. In May 2001, Spin magazine ranked the album number 3 in its "50 Most Essential Punk Records", and wrote "Punk as alienated rage, as anticorporate blather, as joyous racial confusion, as evangelic outreach and white knuckles and haywire impulses". In 2003, the album was ranked number 77 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album was described as a "youthful ambition bursts through the Clash's debut, a machine-gun blast of songs about unemployment, race, and the Clash themselves." In March 2003, Mojo magazine ranked The Clash number 2 in its "Top 50 Punk Albums", writing about the album that it was "the ultimate punk protest album. Searingly evocative of dreary late '70s Britain, but still timelessly inspiring". Lee Perry (credited with singer Junior Murvin with the composition of "Police and Thieves") heard the album while in London in 1977 and played it to Bob Marley, who in turn mentioned The Clash on his own track "Punky Reggae Party".Read full review
Great tunes that bring me back to punk in the early days... Clash City Rockers... I'm So Bored With The U.S.A. start the disc off with a bang! White Riot and (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais pick up the pace and London's Burning is a classic. I Fought The Law is an adequate cover of the original. Career Opportunities, Hate & War and Police & Thieves finish off the disc quite well, and we can hear the formative Clash, pre- London Calling.