The Clash : Time Is Tight
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On October 21, 1980 The Clash released the Black Market Clash EP in the US and Canada. Featured are nine rare songs previously unavailable over the past years, leading off with "Capital Radio", the title track from a 1977 UK-only EP. There's "Cheat" from the UK version of the debut album. You'll also find B-sides like "City of the Dead","The Prisoner", "Armagideon Time" and "Pressure Drop" as well as a cover of Booker T and the MG's' "Time Is Tight" from the Sandanista sessions.
Robert Christgau of the Village Voice gave the album a grade of A-, writing:
CBS's transparent attempt to class up a dumb new line of ten-inch LPs that some marketeer thinks will make collectors of us all, this hodgepodge makes more sense than Elvis the C's long-awaited full-sized hodgepodge nevertheless. First side combines B's and a U.K.-only album cut from '77-'78, when everything they did was touched with the desperate euphoria of revolutionary holdouts, with two garageland covers, the Toots appropriate and the Booker T. a stroke. Second is spacy Clash dub plus hooks, with the yearning "Bankrobber" more lyrical than anything else they've committed to plastic. Yet.
The EP has since been superseded by the 21-track Super Black Market Clash.
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