The Essential Clash

"The DVD The Essential Clash is not to be confused with the double-CD compilation The Essential Clash, which has 40 songs spanning the band's entire career. The core of the DVD The Essential Clash is all dozen of their promo videos, including many of the songs that most fans would indeed view as among their most essential output, like "White Riot," "London Calling," "Complete Control," "Train in Vain," "Should I Stay or Should I Go," "Career Opportunities," and "Rock the Casbah." As video promos from the new wave era go, these are decent, veering from the fairly creative to the fairly mundane. Though just a couple of these are identified as live, certainly a bunch of these incorporate live footage, whether the soundtrack is live or not, and that's certainly the best way to appreciate the Clash visually, as Joe Strummer, Mick Jones, and Paul Simonon had extremely animated on-stage presence (more so on the earlier clips than the later ones)." - AMG