Combat Rock

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Combat Rock
Combat Rock cover
Studio album by The Clash
Released May 14, 1982
Recorded Late 1981 and early 1982
Genre Rock
Length 46:21
Label Epic
Producer(s) The Clash
Professional reviews
The Clash chronology
Sandinista!
(1980)		 Combat Rock
(1982)		 Cut the Crap
(1985)


Combat Rock is a 1982 album released by The Clash. It was the last album to feature the "original" line-up before Mick Jones left, and Topper Headon was kicked out for his heroin addiction. The album includes many different styles of music, following up the trend from their previous album "Sandinista!".

Combat Rock was originally planned as a double album with the working title Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg, but the idea was scrapped after internal wrangling within the group. Mick Jones had produced the first cut, but the other members were dissatisfied and producing duties were handed to Glyn Johns, at which point the album became a single LP. The original cut has since been obtained and subsequently bootlegged.

In the United Kingdom the album charted at #2 spending 23 weeks in the UK charts. The album reached #7 in the United States spending 61 weeks on the chart and was certified platinum.

Following along the same note as Sandinista!, Combat Rock's catalogue number 'FMLN2' is the acronym for the El Salvador political party 'Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional' or FMLN.

In January 2000 this album along with the rest of the Clash's catalog was remastered and re-released.

[edit] Track listing

All songs written by The Clash except where noted.

  1. "Know Your Rights" (Jones/Strummer) – 3:39
  2. "Car Jamming" – 3:58
  3. "Should I Stay or Should I Go" – 3:06
  4. "Rock the Casbah" – 3:14
  5. "Red Angel Dragnet" – 3:48
  6. "Straight to Hell" – 5:30
  7. "Overpowered by Funk" – 4:55
  8. "Atom Tan" – 2:32
  9. "Sean Flynn" – 4:30
  10. "Ghetto Defendant" – 4:45
  11. "Inoculated City" – 2:43
  12. "Death Is a Star" – 3:08

[edit] Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg track listing

  1. "The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too"
  2. "Kill Time"
  3. "Should I Stay or Should I Go"
  4. "Rock the Casbah"
  5. "Know Your Rights" (Extended version)
  6. "Red Angel Dragnet"
  7. "Ghetto Defendant"
  8. "Sean Flynn"
  9. "Car Jamming"
  10. "Inoculated City"
  11. "Death Is a Star"
  12. "Walk Evil Talk"
  13. "Atom Tan"
  14. "Overpowered by Funk"
  15. "Inoculated City" (Uncensored version)
  16. "First Night Back In London"
  17. "Cool Confusion"
  18. "Straight to Hell" (Extended version)

[edit] Album credits

Additional musicians:


The Clash
Joe Strummer | Mick Jones | Paul Simonon | Topper Headon
Nick Sheppard | Keith Levene | Pete Howard | Terry Chimes | Vince White
Discography
Studio albums: The Clash | Give 'Em Enough Rope | London Calling | Sandinista! | Combat Rock | Cut the Crap
Compilations and lives: Black Market Clash | The Story of the Clash, Volume 1 | Clash on Broadway | The Singles | Super Black Market Clash | From Here to Eternity: Live | The Essential Clash | London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition | Singles Box
Related:
Punk rock | Public Image Ltd | The Good, the Bad and the Queen | The Mescaleros | Big Audio Dynamite
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