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Sandinista! – The ClashDecember 12th, 1980  or  iTunes Price: $16.99 Genre: Alternative Released: Dec 12, 1980 Customer Ratings (108 Ratings)
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View More By The Clash Our ReviewSandinista! is what happens when a band is brave enough to fail — and then turns that failure inside out. At 36 tracks it's messy, brilliant, gorgeous, infuriating, necessary, and one would expect nothing less (and God help us, nothing more) from "the only band that matters." Dipping their fingers in every musical pie from gospel ("The Sound of Sinners") to disco ("Lightning Strikes"), Europop ("Hitsville U.K.") to Dadaist noise collage ("Silicone On Sapphire"), the Clash refused to edit themselves, named the album in tribute to Nicaraguan insurgents, and thumbed their noses at the expectations of fans and critics alike. The conventional wisdom is that there's a solid single album inside Sandinista!, just waiting to be let out. Don't believe it. There are some real missteps, but every last track is at the very least interesting: lyrically, musically, or just in terms of the sonic furniture. Trying to cherry-pick "the good ones" runs contrary to the messy, democratic spirit of the whole project. And besides, one person's necessity is another's throwaway is another's guilty pleasure. Just let go of all expectations, embrace the chaos, and actually listen.. Customer ReviewsA most important work... (5 stars)Can you imagine if today, you were a break out artist, telling your record company that you going drop a 36 song pro-socialist monolith produced by a rastafarian dub-mixer? This was the Clash – the only band that mattered then, and forever. Their Best ! ! ! (5 stars) The Itunes review is only correct when it identifies this album as "different" than their others. While all of their albums were good and arguably classics, Sandinista is in a class of it's own. It is remarkably different! It is magnificent and brilliant. Sandinista! is much more than an experiment or opus for the dedicated fan... it is accessible for anyone that appreciates music from this genre. It is packed with rich and complex Ahead of its time (5 stars) A lot of people say this album is bloated and unfocused. Maybe, but this album turned me on to an entire genre of music. As a career OC punk rocker, I thought reggae was for white college kids from San Francisco in Birkenstocks. Now I listen to Big Youth, Mikey Dread and Prince Far I more than Social Distortion and the Adolescents. Washington Bullets and the Junco Partner cover are the gems. BiographyFormed: 1976 in London, EnglandGenre: Rock Years Active: '70s, '80s The Sex Pistols may have been the first British punk rock band, but the Clash were the definitive British punk rockers. Where the Pistols were nihilistic, the Clash were fiery and idealistic, charged with righteousness and a leftist political ideology. From the outset, the band was more musically adventurous, expanding its hard rock & roll with reggae, dub, and rockabilly among other roots musics. Furthermore, they were blessed with two exceptional songwriters in Joe Strummer and Mick Jones,...
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