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Know Your Rights | The Clash | 3:40 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Car Jamming | The Clash | 4:00 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Should I Stay or Should I Go | The Clash | 3:07 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Rock the Casbah | The Clash | 3:40 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Red Angel Dragnet | The Clash | 3:45 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Straight to Hell | The Clash | 5:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Overpowered By Funk | The Clash | 4:52 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Atom Tan | The Clash | 2:27 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Sean Flynn | The Clash | 4:31 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Ghetto Defendant | The Clash | 4:44 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Inoculated City | The Clash | 2:41 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Death Is a Star | The Clash | 3:13 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
| Total: 12 Songs |
iTunes Review
In 1982 there wasn’t another band in the world that could unite West Texas troubadour Joe Ely, New York graffiti artist Futura 2000, and Beat poet Allen Ginsberg. That those are the three prominent guest musicians on Combat Rock says a lot about the Clash — about their eclectic interests and their stature not just in the music world, but within world culture at large. The Clash’s final album to feature the classic lineup, Combat Rock is at once their most basic rock album, and the most bizarre. The Clash had to go through a lot to be able to write a riff as simple and memorable as “Should I Stay or Should I Go.” “Rock the Casbah,” on the other hand, is one of the most effortlessly complex dance songs to ever top the charts. The rest of the album is thornier. “Overpowered by Funk,” “Car Jamming,” and “Sean Flynn” are even more out there than the songs on Sandinista!. “Inoculated City” is one of Mick Jones’ most underrated pop songs, but it is Joe Strummer’s “Straight To Hell” that ends Combat Rock, and the Clash’s career, with elegiac grace.
Customer Reviews
Must I be the ghetto defendant?
A wonderful pinpoint in time for that time, Combat Rock is truly a great album, especially when copied onto a casette tape from a 33-1/3 LP and then listened to in a silver 1980's vintage Ford Escort on your way back from the beach in New York. (Okay, I know what you youngsters are saying right now... "What the &$#@* is an LP?" Well, its plastic, and big, and came with a cool picture cover to fondle and fetish while you listened... unlike these new-fangled little CD covers.) In any event, whatever car you are in this album is still fantastic, and I know my rights.
Looking back...
...it's hard to find a song more influential on or a sound-byte more repeated than "Should I stay or should I go..." For every Preppy that was first exposed to punk by this song in 1982, for every teen sitting in their parents' car making up lyrics for Rock The Casbah, this is one of those albums that made a generation. I loved it then and I love it now. I guess the real test of a song's (or album's) longevity is how much do you hear it today, 25 years later on TV and on the radio in commercials? Not that Mick, Joe, Paul and Topper ever wanted to be commercial staples, but what rocker doesn't want to be the voice of a generation? This album is a great part of what made that era what it was: musically diverse and incredibly fun!
Forget "Rock The Casbah."
Please. That may have been the worst song this band ever wrote.
To wit: in the fall of 1982, I entered the University of Georgia as a freshman. The first tape(!) I bought in Athens was "Combat Rock," and I convinced my fraternity brother (yup! That's right: I'm a frat boy!) who DJed all our parties to put the tape in late one night. The powers that controlled the frat hated it (my pledge class loved it), and called me Punk Rock Steve to cement their feelings.
Fast forward one month, when "Rock The Cashbah" was in the Top 40: suddenly, they wanted this tape, as well as my Elvis Costello ("Every day I Write The Book"), REM, etc., but only for the hits.
That's when I knew the only band that mattered were doomed.
And I blame "Rock The Cashbah." The rest of the album is amazing, and totally aligns musically and lyrically with previous releases.
That one song killed this band. And yet it continues to be the only song meatheads recognize from this album...
Ironic, eh?
Biography
Formed: 1976 in London, England
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '70s, '80s
Top Albums and Songs by The Clash
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Should I Stay or Should I Go | Combat Rock | 3:07 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Rock the Casbah | Combat Rock | 3:40 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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London Calling | London Calling | 3:19 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Train In Vain | London Calling | 3:09 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Bankrobber | The Clash - The Singles | 4:33 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Should I Stay or Should I Go | The Clash - The Singles | 3:07 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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Rock the Casbah | The Clash - The Singles | 3:41 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
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This Is Radio Clash | The Clash - The Singles | 4:09 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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I Fought the Law | The Essential Clash | 2:39 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
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Straight to Hell | Combat Rock | 5:29 | $0.99 | View In iTunes |
- $9.99
- Genres: Rock, Music, Hard Rock, Alternative, Punk, New Wave, Rock & Roll
- Released: May 14, 1982
- ℗ 1982 Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.
