Combat Rock

Combat RockThe Clash12 AlbumGenre: Rock/PopLabel: Sony Music CMGDescription: The final album by The Clash's original Strummer/Jones incarnation originally released in 1982. It includes two massive hits: 'Should I Stay or Should I Go?' has the biggest stupidest most perfect riff this side of 'Louie Louie' and 'Rock the Casbah' pulls the band's politics fine-honed sarcasm and saw-toothed guitar sound into the service of a dance-floor beat. Strummer's lyrics also deepened on this record - Allen Ginsberg turns up on 'Ghetto Defendant' and it's clear on some of the other tracks ('Car Jamming' 'Straight to Hell') that he was an influence on Strummer's songwwriting.