Rock the Casb-Ah my god…

I can say with a lot of confidence that The Clash are easily my favorite band. Combining that with a bad vinyl habit, I find myself seeking and picking up Clash LP’s from time to time. When I ran across a Lot on eBay that included the Rock the Casbah 12″ EP (1982) I didn’t think much of it, until I scoped the artwork on it. From them on, I was entranced with the need to own this if only to stare longingly at what could be the worst but arguably best cover art trainwreck to have ever occurred.

See for yourself:

You have to sit back and wonder whether the band was in on the discussions of the artwork at all or if by that point they just didn’t care. I don’t feel bad mentioning that Combat Rock (the long player this single comes from) was probably furthest from the Clash’s then pretty prominent (and in my mind, pretty great) aesthetic (Ok, Cut the Crap is kind of a trainwreck too). Oh, the 1980′s….

More Clash art:

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