What's the consensus on this album for Clash fans?

I love this record. It's probably not for a single sitting, or anything, but it's gotta be the definitive piece of evidence for their spastic, try-anything obsessiveness with creating music. It's got almost as many great songs as London Calling, which is saying a lot. I guess I see it a lot like the white album...there's a bit of filler, but that doesn't really detract from the album as a whole because, if you're not pushing yourself hard enough that you sometimes misfire then you probably don't need to be releasing a double album of your output anyway.

Not sure I can add much to that, pretty much agree with what McParadigm said.

This was the last Clash Album I got, but that was mostly owing to the fact that the only local record store that had it wanted an arm and a leg for it. A lot of great songs here, some of my favorites being: "The Magnificent 7," "Somebody Got Murdered," "The Sound of Sinners," and "Kingston Advice."

Usually when I feel the Clash I pull out London Calling, but this would be a close second.

The production is awful, but I can't fault the songs for that.

Still better than "Combat Rock", but nothing remotely approaching the first three albums.

Oh yeah, definitely better than Combat Rock.

"The Magnificent 7" is my favourite Clash song. Otherwise, what McP said.

I owned this one for a couple of years before I could ever really get into it.

But every time I listen to it now, which isn't all too often because of its length and I prefer to listen to it all in one go, I find something new that I really like.

I'll go ahead and agree with most of what's been said here. It's an underrated album to some extent, and certainly worth having.