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Live at Shea Stadium: 13 Oct 1982/Remastered/Special Edition | 
| Artist: Clash
Label: Sonybmg
Category: Music
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 373
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
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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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 Great, but not their best October 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
The problem with the Shea Stadium gig was that they were supporting a stadium rock band (The Who) and, thus, concentrated on some of their more audience-friendly tracks.
The best live Clash track I have ever heard is Complete Control. Other great lives songs include White Man In Hammersmith Palais, London's Burning and Capital Radio. None of which feature here.
Although there are some great Clash songs on here, and some are better than on the second half of From Here To Eternity, this does not represent the best of the Clash live.
To get a true picture of what the Clash were like live, you'd probably need the first half of From Here To Eternity, mixed with a random selection of tracks from this CD.
Also, I quite like the live version of English Civil War from the Clash On Broadway box-set and I've heard a great bootleg version of Know Your Rights.
Even so, the Clash WERE the best live band ever, so please don't be put off buying this. Just don't assume that this comes close to representing the Clash at their live best.
 Set Your Face To Thrilled October 18, 2008
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 cliché 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.
The Best Clash Concert Document Yet October 14, 2008
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.
 Good set but this isn't peak Clash October 11, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Certainly worth having but this isn't peak Clash. I saw the band in '82 on the Casbah tour and while it was good to experience the Terry-Chimes-first-LP line-up back together Topper headon was always the better drummer. Chimes was an adequate drummer, Topper was ferocious and had both the licks and the flexibility. The back-line was always a bit leaden without him. Not only that but the Strummer-Jones-Simonon axis peaked live sometime before this - probably around '79. In the same way the From Here To Eternity live collection suffered from too many (8 of 17)post-Topper tracks it would be nice to see some earlier shows (such as the 3.1.79 Lyceum set which can be got an a decent-quality-probably-off-the-mixing-desk bootleg recording) given an official release. Don't get me wrong, there's still plenty here to enjoy; they make a decent fist of some great songs. The 'Mag 7'/'Armaigideon Time'/'Mag 7 (Return)'section shows they could always do dance & reggae dynamics and knew the value of space in the music. Good also to have 'Spanish Bombs' and 'Police on my back' amongst what is otherwise a largely greatest hits package. And remember it's only 3-stars by Clash standards - that's a nailed-on 5 for most of the rest.
The sound of the Clash imploding October 9, 2008
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is worth having out of historic interest alone, much like Cut the Crap, although it is rather better than Cut the Crap. The songs all seem to be too fast, like they're desperately trying to get offstage asap.
I'd seen them on the Combat Rock tour a few months earlier in the UK, and whilst that was better, they were well past their peak. But From here to eternity instead.
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