Title: The most overrated record in rock history.
Review: I bought this after reading all the raves below - "Greatest rock album ever," Rolling Stone's Album of the Decade, etc. etc.... now I remember why I never bought it when it first came out. Half of it is cruise ship in hell reggae. There's no real tension in the songs (like on the best ones from their first album), and Joe Strummer is one of the worst singers in the history of recorded music. Kids- this is what smoking will do to you! Throw in the Clash's usual muddled politics and you've got an undigestible messy sprawl of a double album set that really should have been whittled down to a single album. There were so many great English bands during the period- Sex Pistols, Wire, Buzzcocks, X-Ray Spex, XTC, Elvis Costello, Pretenders... and yet the Clash made it bigger than any of them in America. I'll never understand it.
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