Super Black Market Clash
album by The Clash
Super Black Market Clash is a 1993 compilation album released by the English punk rock band the Clash. It contains B-sides and rare tracks not available on the group's regular studio albums. The album is an expanded repackaging of the 1980 release Black Market Clash, a 10-inch EP containing nine songs. The man in the foreground of the front cover art on both releases is Don Letts, who worked with the Clash on several projects and later was a founding member of Big Audio Dynamite.
Black Market Clash
Black Market Clash was released in October 1980, only in the US and Canada, in between London Calling and Sandinista!. It compiled recordings which were then unavailable in the US except as imports. The disc was one in the series of "Nu-Disk" 10-inch records from Epic. Other artists in the series included New Musik and Cheap Trick.
"The Prisoner", the cover of "Pressure Drop" by Toots and the Maytals, "City of the Dead", and "Armagideon Time" had all been UK B-sides from the period 1977–79, respectively of "White Man in Hammersmith Palais", "English Civil War", "Complete Control", and "London Calling". "Pressure Drop" is presented here in a remix by Bill Price.
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