Combat Rock Music Cd

Clash - Combat Rock

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Combat Rock      Artist : The Clash      List Price : $9.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1990-10-25      Studio : Sony      Label : Sony      Avg. Customer Rating : (118 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Combat Rock      Look around for something better      Rating:      Ghetto deffendant, streight to hell, should i stay, rock the casbah... how the hell someone can say this is not one of the best rock albums ever? I like how they explore the sound of the guitar, different rithms but in a different, maturer way than in Sandinista... great record, with flaws, but listen without prejudice and you'll fall into it more and more (i started decades ago)     Customer Reviews for Combat Rock Cd      Their least focused record but it's still decent (3.5 stars)      Rating:      While Combat Rock would give the Clash the band its greatest success, it is also the most inconsistent release that the original lineup recorded. Having said that, it's still a decent album. It is best known for their two most popular songs, "Rock the Casbah" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go." These songs were all over the radio in 1982-1983 and you still hear them quite often. Those tunes are the heart of the album's first side where everything works. The excellent "Know Your Rights" finds the band recalling the focused anger of their debut while "Car Jamming" is just as strong both lyrically and musically with its tribal beat. "Red Angel Dragnet" is another great tune sung by bassist Paul Simonon and led by his funky bass line. "Straight to Hell" finds Joe Strummer perhaps at his most politically aware as he addresses racism, abandonment, and the possibility of an unrealized American dream over its reggae beat. From here, the album is very hit and miss with the best tunes being the jazzy and somber "Sean Flynn" and one of their best reggae tunes, "Ghetto Defendant". The track "Inoculated City" is also pretty catchy. The remaining tracks aren't up to par as "Overpowered by Funk" is too simple and too long while "Atom Tan" and "Death is a Star" just don't work with the latter sounding like an attempt to replicate the Specials' moodier work. All told, while Combat Rock is their least satisfying album, it's still worth hearing and this is the only place where you'll find the songs "Car Jamming" and "Sean Flynn".