The Clash
Combat Rock
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Tracklist
| Track | Duration | Listeners | ||||
| 1 |
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Know Your Rights full track | 3:41 | 85,182 | ||
| 2 |
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Car Jamming full track | 3:59 | 49,328 | ||
| 3 |
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go full track | 3:08 | 263,385 | ||
| 4 |
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Rock the Casbah full track | 3:42 | 276,507 | ||
| 5 |
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Red Angel Dragnet full track | 3:47 | 47,690 | ||
| 6 |
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Straight to Hell full track | 5:27 | 98,960 | ||
| 7 |
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Overpowered By Funk full track | 4:54 | 46,573 | ||
| 8 |
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Atom Tan full track | 2:27 | 45,086 | ||
| 9 |
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Sean Flynn full track | 4:30 | 40,190 | ||
| 10 |
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Ghetto Defendant full track | 4:43 | 62,151 | ||
| 11 |
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Inoculated City full track | 2:40 | 41,282 | ||
| 12 |
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Death Is a Star full track | 3:13 | 38,321 | ||
| 3 |
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Should I Stay or Should I Go? | 3:10 | 41,898 |
About this album
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.
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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fuckxyeahh wrote:
Released on my birthday. haha I didn't knew it.
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MisterJunior wrote:
Very little about this album is commercial or mainstream beyond the two hits. Some really interesting stuff happening throughout, particularly on the second side.
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spacefaceinfurs wrote:
I was always kinda reluctant to check this one out, because people always told me this was their 'commercial, mainstream' album - well, fuck 'em! this is fine stuff!
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MisterJunior wrote:
I believe the little clip you're referring to was removed in later pressings of the album due to copyright issues.
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alexia_N wrote:
On my copy of the record "Combat Rock" there's a song called "Inoculated City" with an infomercial for some toilet flushing cleaner thing but on the torrent of the album I downloaded the infomercial is not there. WTF! i thought it was genius and hilarious for them to include that infomercial and it inspired me to make a song about Billy Mays (RIP).
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MisterJunior wrote:
My favorite Clash record. Only song I'm not wild about is "Overpowered by Funk," which isn't bad, just kind of dopey. Love side two.
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strummerrr wrote:
Wow.. I just bought this album (I bought my first Clash album like 12 years ago..). I had heard Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Rock the Casbah and Straight to Hell (of course), and thought the rest of the album would just be fillers and some weird stuff ala Sndinista!. Well, I was wrong ;) Actually, I like almost every song.
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felghen wrote:
Go Straight To Hell Boy!
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ex0genic wrote:
Know Your Rights!
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Katyuzha wrote:
i love this album.
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TantoTempo wrote:
Once fate had a witness..
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TantoTempo wrote:
If you can play on the fiddle ~ How's about a British jig and reel? ~ Speaking King's English in quotation ~ As railhead towns feel the steel mills rust water froze ~ In the generation ~ Clear as winter ice ~ This is your paradise ~ There ain't no need for ya ~ Go straight to hell boys ~
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isolation_86 wrote:
ghetto defendant ghetto defendant ghetto defendant ghetto defendant ghetto defendant ghetto defendant
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Mythtall wrote:
Good album
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skahde wrote:
Rocks the Kasbah!
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McFrye wrote:
I'm sure most of you have done this all ready, but, if you take Know Your Rights, First Night Back in London, & Cool Confusion from the "Singles Box", Straight to Hell from "Clash on Broadway", and (if you have a copy) The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too & Kill Time and add them to the album in their respective places, you have something close to "Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg" that doesn't sound like a bootleg or demo. Or, you could even put the entire album in the running order for "Rat Patrol...". It actually makes for a better album, and a double-LP.
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auntiecoagulant wrote:
One of the best albums ever!
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sanjuro54 wrote:
Best album !
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VioletAudrey wrote:
:-)
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bobbyefc38 wrote:
classic 80s
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