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Combat Rock by The Clash

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Tracklist

    Track     Duration Listeners
1 Know Your Rights 3:39 127,931
2 Car Jamming 3:59 76,711
3 Should I Stay Or Should I Go 3:15 490,513
3 Should I Stay or Should I Go? 3:10 53,041
4 Rock The Casbah 3:41 439,769
5 Red Angel Dragnet 3:44 73,471
6 Straight To Hell 5:27 158,095
7 Overpowered By Funk 4:51 73,554
8 Atom Tan 2:27 69,082
9 Sean Flynn 4:30 61,860
10 Ghetto Defendant 4:43 94,292
11 Inoculated City 2:40 62,930
12 Death Is A Star 3:12 57,721
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About this album

Columbia (1982) Released: 14 May 1982 13 tracks (49:18)
Combat Rock is the fifth studio album by The Clash, released in 1982. It was the last album to feature the classic line-up before Mick Jones was sacked and Topper Headon was kicked out for his heroin addiction.

The cover photo was shot by Pennie Smith on a deserted railway line outside Bangkok while the band was on their “Far East” tour in 1982. Although the album includes different styles of music, it is considerably more straight-forward and less experimental than their previous album Sandinista!. In the United Kingdom the album charted at #2, spending 23 weeks in the UK charts. The album reached #7 in the United States, spending 61 weeks on the chart, and was certified platinum.

Combat Rock was originally planned as a double album with the working title Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg, but the idea was scrapped after internal wrangling within the group. Mick Jones had mixed the first version, but the other members were dissatisfied and mixing/producing duties were handed to Glyn Johns, at which point the album became a single LP. The original mixes have since been obtained and subsequently bootlegged.

Following along the same note as Sandinista!, Combat Rock’s catalogue number ‘FMLN2’ is the acronym for the El Salvador political party ‘Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional’ or FMLN.

In January 2000 the album, along with the rest of The Clash’s catalog, was remastered and re-released.
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  • FerdinandaUK

    Precious!

    January 2012

  • pavellebedev

    ▲

    November 2011

  • grinngo

    Even the song titles are amazing. "Atom Tan" "Inoculated City" "Red Angel Dragnet" "Ghetto Defendant" I loved it before I even heard it.

    March 2011

  • Aragorn_501

    Only Clash album that both my parents own.

    March 2011

  • guilhermebacchi

    great stuff. underrated.

    January 2011

  • derrderr420

    Sean Flynn nobody I know likes that song, most underrated clash song ever

    January 2011

  • mx1000

    another classic

    December 2010

  • grazziee

    Forgot how good this album is! Fantastic stuff.

    December 2010

  • pzgodzilla

    pffffffft this is there best cd w/ london calling in 2nd and the sad thing is of all these great tracks the radio will ONLY EVER play 2 clash songs, rock the casbah and should i stay or should i go

    December 2010

  • AndrewBrannan

    Half of it is decent and well, the other half is among the worst they've put out..

    November 2010

  • innoculatedcity

    best

    October 2010

  • bingbongbilly

    One of the best albums of the 80's.

    October 2010

  • designstattoos

    I have all longplay!

    October 2010

  • Dylanisgod2

    One of the better New Wave albums

    October 2010

  • Summerwindian

    我也这么感觉 The Clash和London Calling 尤其是London Calling 这张少了很多东西~~~

    July 2010

  • JohnnyD1992

    我觉得还是The clash (UK) 和 LONDON CALLING这两张比较喜欢

    July 2010

  • Dylanisgod2

    This has to be one of the most underrated albums of all time

    June 2010

  • ztl_olmi

    I pretty much hate this album, which is a shame as I love practically everything else they've done.

    June 2010

  • funk_off

    absolutely crazy music

    May 2010

  • pevano22

    So influenced and so influential.

    May 2010
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