''5 Album Studio Set'' is a box set collection by

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released in September 2013. The box contains newly re-mastered by Mick Jones of the band's first five albums on eight discs minus their final album, ''

Cut the Crap ''Cut the Crap'' is the sixth and final studio album by the English punk band the Clash, released on 4 November 1985 by CBS Records. It was recorded in early 1985 at Weryton Studios, Munich, following a turbulent period: co-founder, lead gu ...

''. The albums came in vinyl replica packaging and the box was designed exclusively by the band. The set was released simultaneously with an expanded eleven disc box set titled ''

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'' and a greatest hits package titled ''

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''. They are expected to be the final releases to involve Mick Jones, who said: "I'm not even thinking about any more Clash releases. This is it for me, and I say that with an exclamation mark."

Remastering

Jones said "The concept of the whole thing is best box set ever. Re-mastering's a really amazing thing. That was the musical point of it all, because there's so much there that you wouldn't have heard before. It was like discovering stuff, because the advances in mastering are so immense since the last time he Clash cataloguewas remastered in the 90s." All the music has been remastered from the original tapes, Jones said. "We had to bake the tapes beforehand – the oxide on them is where the music is, so if you don't put them in the oven and bake them, that all falls off, because they're so old." The Clash's bassist

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highlighted a guitar line on "

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", from the band's second album ''

Give 'Em Enough Rope ''Give 'Em Enough Rope'' is the second studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash, released on 10 November 1978 through CBS Records. It was their first album released in the United States, preceding the US version of the self-titled s ...

'', saying he'd never even heard it before. "It's probably some session musician, while I was asleep," Jones joked.

Track listing

References

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