The Clash - Combat Rock
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Free Music Notes for Combat Rock
Free Music Review: What the hell happened?!
Hit: 1 Stars
From '77- '79 the Clash were a great, if different, punk band. Then, they left behind their punk roots and recorded a masterpeice called "London Calling". To this day it is still acknowledged as one of the greatest albums of all time. This, on the other hand, is horse manure. The Clash always experimented with different styles of music, but c'mon, did we really need disco? Instead of this dreck, buy their masterpeices: "London Calling", "The Clash", and the less good but still great "Give em Enough Rope". Avoid this, "Sandista", and especially "Cut the Crap".Free Music Review: End of the Strummer and Jones as Clash bandmates.
Hit: 3 Stars
Combat Rock was the Clash's biggest album. The amount of discs it sold made them one of the most popular bands of the early 80's. It also was the beginning of their downfall.
Egos got into the way of conquering the music world. According to Joe Strummer, Mick Jones was becoming difficult to work with. He wanted people to go through his lawyer. Strummer and Simonon (the band's bassist) felt that Jones had strayed away from the band's ideals.
The music on combat rock is a mixture of pop, punk, dance and synth-pop. Strummer tried to keep the music political and revelant whilst Jones wanted to add more beat and hip-hop. Allen Ginsburg (beat poet) appears on Ghetto Deffendant. The tracks range from a Nuclear Holocaust to
a song about Errol Flynn's son. Their most pop friendly album to date (even more so than London Calling). You can
tell by the music that the band was pulling in several directions. The CD comes with a pull out that has pictures and lyrics on them.
Recommended for Clash fans.
Free Music Review: The avant-garde in disguise
Hit: 5 Stars
What other band's "sell-out" album features spoken-word contributions from Allen Ginsberg, guitar from Tex-Mex troubador Joe Ely, doleful musical treatises on colonial fallout and the decaying American cityscape, and homages to Scorsese and the Guardian Angels and a journalist who disappeared in the Cambodian jungle during the Vietnam war? What other band would try to tackle all of that while synthesizing Duane Eddy, Dr. Alimantado, The Funky Four Plus One, The Last Poets and The Who?
This record also happened to include two humonguous radio hits, "Rock the Casbah" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" As a result, rock nerds have deemed it uncool for the last quarter century. Listen to them at your own peril.
Free Music Review: its ok, but they have much better stuff
Hit: 3 Stars
their biggest radio hit, yet most annoying song "should I stay or should I go" is contained herein, as well as a mix of good songs and fairly forgettable ones. I like a few songs here, but it honestly doesn't hold up well, and as a big fan of London Calling, I was very dissappointed that the Clash could release such a mediocre album after that masterpiece. I still give this cd a listen occasionally, but I will probably sell it later, because the Clash have other exciting albums that are good all the way through. I urge you to get a best of collection of the Clash, because honestly there are some pretty sweet songs on here, like "car jamming," "rocking the casbah," and "ghetto defendent" that might be on a best of set. I don't know, I guess having the good tracks is worth it, but I was dissappointed by the incohesiveness. get London Calling and their self-titled album instead.Free Music Review: Bollocks on wheat toast!
Hit: 1 Stars
enough said.... it's bollocks. don't buy it. don't download it. don't borrow it. it's awful. I'm a huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge fan of the clash. and, as a fan, i can tell you this is horrid. buy london calling instead.