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Genre: Pop/Rock |
Dates: 1979 |
Sometimes punk rockers don't sell out—they just grow up and get better. Here, Joe Strummer and company take their audience on a musical tour of nuclear paranoia, the drug trade, corporate excess, the attractions and costs of crime, the limits of style, the Spanish Civil War, third-world oppression, movie star crack-ups, consumerism, birth control, the apocalypse, triumphant rebellion, and failed revolution, certainly not the typical subject matter of a punk record. Along the way, they rockabilly, they skank, they boogie-woogie, they skiffle, they even pop ("Train in Vain" was—horrors!—a hit single!). Beyond the topics and the style, the lyrics are on par with Highway 61 Revisited. Sample? "Every cheap hood strikes a bargain with the world/And ends up making payments on a sofa or a girl/L-O-V-E and H-A-T-E tattooed across the knuckles on his hands/The hands that slap his kids around, 'cause they don't understand how/ "Death or glory!" /Becomes /Just another story." One of the greatest records of American music ever made by Brits, and as a doubl- record set, it sold for regular price when it came out. How punk rock is that?
Playlist:
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2. Brand New Cadillac
3. Jimmy Jazz
4. Hateful
5. Rudie Can't Fail
6. Spanish Bombs
7. Right Profile, The
8. Lost In The Supermarket
9. Clampdown
10. Guns Of Brixton, The
11. Wrong 'Em Boyo
12. Death Or Glory
13. Koka Kola
14. Card Cheat, The
15. Lover's Rock
16. Four Horsemen
17. I'm Not Down
18. Revolution Rock
19. Train In Vain