The raw, messy U.K. debut is still the toughest punk album ever, so full of fury and passion and humor it sounds like it's going to burst into flames. 

 Give 'Em Enough Rope has cleaned-up sound and too much easy military shtick, despite killers such as "Safe European Home" and "Guns on the Roof."  

 Like Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull, the double-vinyl London Calling dropped just in time to welcome the new decade, and still wound up topping many critics' best-of-the-Eighties lists. 

 The raw, messy U.K. debut is still the toughest punk album ever, so full of fury and passion and humor it sounds like it's going to burst into flames. 

 Some fans liked Sandinista! even better: It's a big triple-vinyl mess, deliberately provocative and offensive from its title on down to the kiddie-chorus version of "Career Opportunities."  

 Combat Rock, even artier than Sandinista! yet cleverly packaged as a pop move, had some excellent tunes ("Rock the Casbah," "Ghetto Defendant"), but the cover looked stupid and the band was audibly falling apart.  

 Strummer kicked out Jones and replaced him with two handsome nobodies for the career-killing Cut the Crap (alternate title: Contra!), which offered only the bitter “This Is En¬gland” and the proto–Andrew W.K. synth-¬metal chant “We Are the Clash.”  

 A good compilation. 

 Expanded edition of 1980 compilation of outtakes, b-sides and dub versions of early Clash classics.  

 Live: From Here to Eternity picks from highlights from several gigs over several years.  

 The first disc of this the pricey box collects the essential early singles that aren’t on The Clash. Don’t get stuck without “Gates of the West,” “Groovy Times,” “Armagideon Time,” or “Bankrobber.” 

 The Essential Clash is a two-disc overview. 

 Following Rock Steady, No Doubt went on hiatus as Stefani embarked on a solo career, dressing in ever more colorful coutour and turning out shiny electro-pop on 2004’s Love.Angel.Music.Baby (which had the massive hit “Hollaback Girl) and 2006’s The Sweet Escape, both of which went platinum.... 

 Live at Shea documents a 1982 show when the Clash opened for the Who in New York City. It's a crystalline-sounding recording with solid versions of stone classics.