The Clash's VHS release This Is Video Clash was issued in October 1985.

Video Clash

The Clash released the VHS compilation This Is Video Clash in 1985. This video album features a selection of the band's music videos and live performances, capturing the essence of their punk rock energy. It was directed by Lindsey Clinell, Don Letts, and Keef & Co.

For more details on this release, including track listings and credits, you can visit its Discogs page.

1 Tommy Gun 3:23
2 London Calling 3:17
3 Bank Robber 4:20
4 Train In Vain 3:47
5 The Call Up 5:06
6 This Is Radio Clash 4:04
7 Rock The Casbah 3:37
8 Should I Stay Or Should I Go 3:40

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Ron Rom, Sounds, 4 Jan. 1986

Review of This Is Video Clash (CBS/Fox Video)

THE CLASH Video Clash (CBS/Fox)

This is not only a chronology of The Clash and their 'hits' over the last decade, but it also acts as an indirect document of the rise and fall of punk rock. Strummer should have called it a day ages ago, but he preferred to keep The Clash going and wrongly tried to make them a band for all seasons. Which would never work, as the initial pedestal The Clash placed themselves on wouldn't allow it.

The rise. 'Tommy Gun' smashes out of the screen and kicks you in the groin, a brilliant video as it simply shows a great group with a great song in full untamed flight, with all the bullshit clichés that plague most videos thankfully absent.

We move to the Thames for 'London Calling' where the lads are wrapped in crombies whilst the evening is soaked in rain. The sight of Joe's saliva flowing into the dense night air is a video image that will stay with me a lot longer than most others.

The demise sets in with 'Train In Vain' and by the time we arrive at 'The Call Up', egos can be seen to be swallowing the group up from the inside. But with 'Rock The Casbah', The Clash prove that when they were at their very worst, they were still mildly entertaining.

A video that's worth buying, if only for the memories.

RON ROM

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