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Combat Rock
~ The Clash (Artist)
4.2 out of 5 stars  (13 customer reviews)
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Product details
  • Audio CD (4 Oct 1999)
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Label: Columbia
  • ASIN: B00002MVQT
  • Other Editions: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  Mini-Disc
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,811 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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Track Listings

1. Inoculated City
2. Know Your Rights
3. Car Jamming
4. Should I Stay Or Should I Go
5. Rock The Casbah
6. Red Angel Dragnet
7. Straight To Hell
8. Overpowered By Funk
9. Atom Tan
10. Sean Flynn
11. Ghetto Defendant
12. Death Is A Star

Product Description
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The final album by the Clash's original Strummer/Jones incarnation is also their most inconsistent. There were musical and ideological rifts developing within the band, and it shows: the experimentation is almost as wild as Sandanista!'s (and the biggest experiment is heading away from their punk shiftiness and into a commercial rock sound), but they seem to be enjoying it less. The band's stabs at funk and poetry aren't terribly successful, but it all came together for two massive hits: "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" has the biggest, stupidest, most perfect riff this side of "Louie Louie," and "Rock the Casbah" pulls the band's politics, fine-honed sarcasm, and saw-toothed guitar sound into the service of a dance-floor beat. --Douglas Wolk

Description
It's not easy being the World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band (a tag the Clash inherited from the Rolling Stones, who had traded their emotional commitment for tax exile). What you doafter changing the world with your first few releases? The previous SANDINISTA was the Clash's WHITE ALBUM, exploring just about every musical style they could think of over the course of three LP's. COMBAT ROCK, then, could be their LET IT BE, an attempt to focus on visceral, accessible material, kidney-punching instead of bobbing and weaving.
There's an increased focus on funk here, as on the unlikely hit "Rockthe Casbah" and "Overpowered by Funk". Naturally, there's also a pronounced political element to the lyrics (the anti-authoritarian rant of "Know Your Rights", the post-Vietnam morality play of the moving "Straight to Hell".) Despite the renewed sense of focus, though, there's still a high degree of artistic ambition revealed in both the polysyllabic lyricsand the textured, overdub-heavy arrangements.