The Clash Sandinista 3LP 1980 new wave reggae jazz punk Australian + insert
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The Clash Sandinista! 3LP 1980 new wave reggae punk Australian + insert
Original Australian pressing on Epic
Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by English rock band the Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. Anticipating the "world music" trend of the 1980s, it features funk, reggae, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, folk, dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, disco, and rap. For the first time, the band's traditional songwriting credits of Strummer and Jones were replaced by a generic credit to the Clash, and the band agreed to a decrease in album royalties in order to release the 3-LP at a low price.
The title refers to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and its catalogue number, 'FSLN1', refers to the abbreviation of the party's Spanish name, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.
Sandinista! was voted best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop critics poll in The Village Voice, and was ranked number 404 on the Rolling Stone list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003. Slant Magazine listed the album at number 85 on its "Best Albums of the 1980s" list in 2012.
Sandinista is the ultimate Clash record. It is a family business where all individuals are at the peak of their art. It is wide open to all cultures.
The Clash had chosen Mickey Dread as producer but Mick Jones got involved as well in the search of this new sound and they came up with the Bankrobber sound. When listening to Sandinista the bass is upfront, so are the drums. The cymbals could be right inside your ears. The keyboards are often heard very distinctly, saxes and horns here and there. This is reggae sound, soul and jazz but rock guitars are nowhere to be found on the vast majority of songs. Even on “Somebody Got Murdered” where guitars really rock you can not hear them so well as Mick Jones sings it like if it was a ballad in a very soft voice which is pushed in front of everything else in the mix.
Mikey Dread, Lee Dorsey, Mose Allison, Diana Ross, Vince Taylor, these were major influences for Sandinista. The band could still rock through “Police and Thieves” on stage but in the studio, they were now into explorations. It has often been stated that Mick Jones was the driving force behind Sandinista musical directions but it is hard not to see the wonderful openness of Joe Strummer, his way to connect with other people. Sandinista is Joe and Mick connecting to all people everywhere and all artists, past and present.
In Sandinista you will find multiple layers of sound, multiple takes. Hard work is what it is. Musically it went in all directions rap, rhythm and blues, reggae, ballad, rock, rockabilly, waltz, jazz, reggae, dub and that was only the first of the three LPs! World music was invented right there.
It is fascinating that Sandinista would keep such a strong unity. This has a lot to do with Topper Headon's performance. Topper Headon had a jazz background and he certainly was the most gifted musician within the Clash. His drumming throughout the record is magnificent. Never the same beat twice.
Paul Simonon came with his sound and his style. Actually not so different from what he was doing on London Calling or even on Give Them Enough Rope. The story behind Magnificent Seven (essentially a Blockhead song as it was partly written by Noman Watt-Roy and Mickey Gallagher) does not do justice to Paul's bass lines which are consistent throughout the record and very convincing on reggae tracks. He is not Bootsy Collins but he does not work at Funkadelic neither, he works at the Clash.
When asked about about Sandinista Joe Strummer praised Mick Jones musical qualities and said he did not have any regrets related to Sandinista. That was in 2002, some years before the iPod revolution but he could not see one song on this triple LP that did not belong there, “not one”. ~ Dave Girard, 2015
A1 The Magnificent Seven
A2 Hitsville U.K.
A3 Junco Partner
A4 Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
A5 The Leader
A6 Something About England
B1 Rebel Waltz
B2 Look Here
B3 The Crooked Beat
B4 Somebody Got Murdered
B5 One More Time
B6 One More Dub
C1 Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
C2 Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
C3 Corner Soul
C4 Lets Go Crazy
C5 If Music Could Talk
C6 The Sound Of Sinners
D1 Police On My Back
D2 Midnight Log
D3 The Equaliser
D4 The Call Up
D5 Washington Bullets
D6 Broadway
D7 Blowing In The Guns Of Brixton
E1 Lose This Skin
E2 Charlie Don't Surf
E3 Mensforth Hill
E4 Junkie Slip
E5 Kingston Advice
E6 The Street Parade
F1 Version City
F2 Living In Fame
F3 Silicone On Sapphire
F4 Version Pardner
F5 Career Opportunities
F6 Shepherds Delight
CONDITION:
SLEEVE: NM Includes original trifold insert also NM
RECORDS: EX+ to NM+ Play flawlessly; pen marks on one label of each; Disc 3 has Misprint saying Side 1 & 2 instead of 5 & 6
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