Title: Shoot often and see what you hit
Review: "Sandinista!" has been terribly underrated by critics and shockingly overrated here. It most certainly is not a five-star album: there is shameful self-indulgence here (brevity can be a virtue!) and you have to pan through some dirt to find the gold (a double album would have been perfect instead of the triple as originally issued). But gold there is. "The Leader," "Something about England," "Somebody Got Murdered," "One More Time," "Up in Heaven," "Police on my Back," "The Call Up," "Washington Bullets," and "Charlie Don't Surf" are outstanding. Really, though, after "Charlie" there isn't much unless you're into weird sound-effect tape loops. And yet, kudos to the boys for trying all this stuff. Yeah, I like "Sandinista!" a lot, but I think all these five-star reviews are reactions to its constant criticism by music critics. Four is just right.
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