Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #56776 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-04-28
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 90 minutes

DVD Description
Tracklisting:
Clash on Broadway - 10 min trailer including live 'London Calling' & 'Radio Clash'
White Riot
Complete Control
Tommy Gun
Clampdown
Train in Vain
London Calling
Bank Robber
The Call Up
Rock the Casbah
Should I Stay or Should I Go? (live)
Career Opportunities (live)

Special Features
Promo Videos
Hell West 10
rare footage/unseen performances
Discography
Digitally Mastered
Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound
PCM Stereo
Interactive Menus

Synopsis
This collection gathers together all the promotional videos from The Clash, as well as interview footage and rare archival material. A short film (HELL W10) directed by Joe Strummer is also included. Filmed in 1983 this silent flick has been lost for almost 20 years, and is only included here following its emergence at a flea market! One of the the most influential bands of the seminal English punk rock movement, The Clash also found themselves at the advent of the video age. Among numerous gems, 'White Riot','Rock The Casbah' and 'London Calling' demonstrate a phenomenon that was both visually and musically thrilling.

Customer Reviews

A blast from the past...
When I first watched this dvd, I wasn't too sure what I thought of it. A second viewing made me realise it was a good one. It contains a small collection of videos mixed with live performances. The selection of songs is ok too, with most of the popular ones included.
There is also a b/w silent movie lasting approx 50 minutes (written and directed by the late Joe Strummer). The quality of this is poor but the story line is amusing, involving gangsters in London... the cast being the Clash, their friends and roadcrew.
There is a very short interview from 1976 with Janet Street-Porter and some promo footage (also from 1976). Overall the picture quality of the dvd is lacking, giving the feeling of watching an old video at times, but the sound quality is perfect throughout.
All in all, this is a good collection of Clash bits and certainly recreates the spirit of the time. Total running time is 90 minutes.

ok, but a missed opportunity
I think the problem with this dvd is that apart from Hell W10, there isn't anything on this to entice a Clash fan to buy this. Unfortunately, the Clash never made promo videos for the majority of their songs and also never appeared on totp, so you'd think the record company would have difficulty finding footage to create a dvd similar to the excellent Jam dvd. Wrong! If they bothered to search properly they would have found stuff like: an excellent French tv filmed from early 1980, a Japanese tv gig from 1982, the US festival in 1983, Something Else tv show, Granada tv stuff, American tv stuff, basically this dvd is a missed opportunity. I would buy Rude boy instead as the live footage on that is a million times better than anything on this dvd.

Real Punk!
With me being only 16 years old, I was not part of the clash generation, but after hearing a couple of songs on the radio and on tv, i loved what I heard!
I bought this album and expected alot, and I was not dissapointed! The first disk contains all the old skool punk classics, and the second disk has more of the ska, reggae type stuff. This CD is 41 great tracks of real music, and just shows how good music was before now!