Often regarded as too slick and overproduced, the Clash's 1985 album Cut the Crap has been “rebooted” by Gerald Manns, who injected new life into the songs by mixing in portions of bootleg performances—and in some cases playing the instruments himself:
To get a better sound I had to buy a Les Paul to differ from my Telecaster sound (nice axe to have anyway). I had to add some backing vocals because the algorithms swallowed some of the football chants (didn't make them out as vocals). It took me a while to mix it all, but now it was time to kick it out of my house.