Combat Rock
Occupation
- Vocal / Guitar: Joe Strummer
- Vocal / Guitar: Mick Jones
- Vocals / Bass: Paul Simonon
- Drums: Topper Headon
Combat Rock is the fifth album by The Clash and was published in 1982. It is the last album of the famous Clash - occupation. Later, Mick Jones and Topper Headon left the band was excluded because of his heroin addiction from the band. The album goes on the Sandinista! commenced way to combine many different styles of music, more.
Combat Rock was supposed to be a double album with the working title Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg, this idea was rejected by in-band squabbles. Mick Jones was responsible for the production of an initial version, but the other band members were dissatisfied with the outcome and committed Glyn Johns as a new producer. With it, the course was followed to produce the album as a single LP. The original images are preserved to this day and appeared as a bootleg.
In the UK charts, the album started at No. 2 and remained in the UK Top 40 23 weeks. In the United States it was able to keep 61 weeks, came up to # 7 and went platinum.
As with Sandinista! was the catalog number of the album a political allusion. " FMLN2 " is an abbreviation for the party " Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional " ( FMLN ) of El Salvador.
In January 2000, the album was remastered in common with the rest of the catalog of The Clash and republished.
The well-known from the movie Slumdog Millionaire song Paper Planes by MIA includes a sample of Straight to Hell.
Press reactions
New Musical Express ( UK): " Combat Rock is easily the best Clash album since, Give ' Em Enough Rope '. "
Melody Maker ( UK): "Conclusion: I have my doubts as to the more trendy aspects of The Clash and the way how they ride around to insignificance on death and depression, but I 'll probably, Combat Rock ' for a listen while. "
Rolling Stone (USA): "The message of ' Combat Rock ' - the fifth Clash album, and a snarling, angry, yet musically ambitious collection of twelve tone songs on a single disk - is: To hell with pop hits and Presselob. This plate is a real state of emergency, a provocative and challenging testimony classical Punkwut, thoughtful questioning and nerve-wracking Frustriertheit. "
The Village Voice (USA): " Those who ( allegedly) expect that The Clash someday surpass Gramsci, claiming that they do here now definitely a fool. I think, however, that they are ahead of the majority of their serious competition far [ ... ] you are evolving, and there are signs of hope that they write even at that higher level of textual, musical and political density songs that are so scarce and precision are like, Janie Jones '. "
Musik Express ( Germany ): "With their fifth album - the working title was, Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg ' - are the Clash again more on her skirt - feet. [ ... ] The Clash are a rock band. An outstanding. If they still can play their reggae feel, then that is also convincing., Combat Rock ' is full of both. "
Sounds ( Germany ): " In The Clash I wonder how a band can be as fast as old, or rather senile, without being previously grown [ ... ] Clash needs today actually no one to hear. "
SPEX ( Germany ): " Combat Rock '? , Combat Rock '! After the ( failed ) attempt to Sandinista! to find their way in a musical world that was divided into more and more styles, poses, and idioms, and further decays, here focus on what they truly master - Rock. [ ... ] Here The Clash have become flush again: the music is precisely tuned to the statement of the individual piece. "
Track Listing
Unless otherwise listed, come all songs by The Clash.
Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg track listing
Contributors
- Mick Jones: Guitar, Vocals
- Joe Strummer: Guitar, vocals
- Paul Simonon: bass, vocals
- Topper Headon: Drums
Guest musicians:
- Ellen Foley, Allen Ginsberg, Joe Ely, Futura 2000: background vocals
- Tymon Dogg: Piano Song in 12
- Poly Mandell: Keyboards in song 7
- Gary Barnacle: Saxophone on track 9
- Joe Ely: background vocals in the song 3