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'''''Sandinista!''''' is the fourth album by the [[punk rock]] band [[The Clash]]. ''Sandinista!'' was released in 1980 as a [[triple album]] containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side.<ref name="Westway_to_the_World">{{cite video
'''''Sandinista!''''' is the fourth album by the [[punk rock]] band [[The Clash]]. ''Sandinista!'' was released in 1980 as a [[triple album]] containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. Some critics have argued that the album would have worked better as a less-ambitious, smaller project. Others think of the album as a breakthrough that deserves comparison to the [[The Beatles|Beatles']] ''[[The Beatles (album)|White Album]]''.<ref name="MTV-Rockumentary">{{cite episode
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| location = London
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}}</ref><ref name="Green-A_Riot_of_Our_Own">{{cite book
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| first = Johnny
| coauthors = Garry Barker
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| quote = Amid all the dub experiments, backward tracks, unfinished songs, and instrumentals, there are a number of classic Clash songs that rank among the band's best, including "Police on My Back," "The Call Up," "Somebody Got Murdered," "Charlie Don't Surf," "Hitsville U.K.," and "Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice)," yet it's difficult for anyone but the most dedicated listeners to find them.
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Sandinista! is the fourth album by the punk rock band The Clash. Sandinista! was released in 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. Some critics have argued that the album would have worked better as a less-ambitious, smaller project. Others think of the album as a breakthrough that deserves comparison to the Beatles' White Album.[1] It was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll, and in 2003, the album was ranked number 404 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[2]

History

The album was recorded over most of 1980, in London, Manchester, Jamaica and New York. It was produced by the band (which, essentially, meant Mick Jones and Joe Strummer), recorded and mixed by Bill Price, and engineered by Jeremy Green (Wessex Sound Studios), J. P. Nicholson (Electric Lady Studios), Lancelot "Maxie" McKenzie (Channel One Studios), and Bill Price (Pluto + Power Station Studios). Dub versions for some of the songs and toasting was done by Mikey Dread, who had first hooked up with the band for their 1980 single "Bankrobber". With Sandinista! the band reached beyond punk and reggae into dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, gospel and whatever else.[2] The album clearly displays the influence of reggae and in particular producer Lee "Scratch" Perry (who had worked with the band on their 1977 single "Complete Control" and who had opened some of the band's shows during its stand at Bond's in New York in 1980), with a dense, echo-filled sound on even the straight rock songs.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

When recording began in New York bass guitarist Paul Simonon was busy making a film, and he was replaced briefly by Ian Dury and the Blockheads bassist Norman Watt-Roy; this later caused some bad feeling when Watt-Roy and keyboard player Mickey Gallagher, a fellow Blockhead, claimed they were responsible for co-composing the song "The Magnificent Seven", as the song was based on tune of theirs. Dread, too, was upset that he was not credited as the album's producer, although he was credited with "Version Mix." Other guests on the album include actor Tim Curry (providing the voice of a priest on "The Sound of Sinners"), singer Ellen Foley (Jones' partner at the time), former Voidoid guitarist Ivan Julian, former Eddie and the Hot Rods member Lew Lewis, and Strummer's old friend and musical collaborator Tymon Dogg, who plays violin, sings on and wrote the track "Lose This Skin"; he later joined Strummer's band The Mescaleros. Mickey Gallagher's children also made appearances: his two sons, Luke and Ben, singing a version of "Career Opportunities" from the band's first album, and his daughter Maria singing a snippet of "The Guns of Brixton", from London Calling, at the end of the track "Broadway".[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10]

For the first time, the band's traditional songwriting credits of Strummer/Jones were replaced by a generic credit to "The Clash". This is also the only Clash album on which all four members have a lead vocal. Drummer Topper Headon made a unique lead vocal contribution on the disco song "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe," and bassist Paul Simonon sings lead on "The Crooked Beat".[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Four singles were released from the Sandinista! sessions in the UK: "Bankrobber" (which did not appear on the album), "The Call Up", "Hitsville UK", and "The Magnificent Seven". The last deserves mention as possibly the first-ever British rap single and as one of the first rap singles by a white band.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

The triple-LP set was, like London Calling, a subject of trickery towards the record company from the band. Two contradictory accounts of the release of the album exist. Some say that the Clash pulled the same trick a second time by saying they wanted to include a 12" single with their double album, and then getting 3 full-length discs pressed before executives became wise. Another belief is that The Clash surrendered all of their album royalties for the first 200,000 copies sold in order to make the 3-LP set a reality. Joe Strummer said in an interview by Judy McGuire for the Punk Magazine: "Well, now you're talking to a man who forewent the royalties on Sandinista!"[11] Regardless of which of these is true, either situation paints the band in a good light, putting their fans before and above any other involved entity.[1][4][5][6][7][8][9][12]

A one-LP distillation of the album, called Sandinista Now!, was sent to press and radio. The side one track listing was "Police on My Back", "Somebody Got Murdered", "The Call Up", "Washington Bullets", "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe" and "Hitsville U.K.". The side two track listing was "Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)", "The Magnificent Seven", "The Leader", "Junco Partner", "One More Time" and "The Sound of Sinners".[4][5][6][7][8][9][13]

The title comes from the left-wing guerilla organization of Nicaragua, the Sandinistas, who the previous year had overthrown the dictator Anastasio Somoza. The albums catalogue number 'FSLN1' refers to the acronym for Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.[2][1][4][5][6][7][8][9][14]

The song "Washington Bullets" was Clash lyric-writer Joe Strummer's most extensive--and most specific--political statement to date. In it, Strummer name checks conflicts or controversies from around the world; namely in Chile, Nicaragua, Cuba, Afghanistan and Tibet. (In reference to the first three, Strummer seems to side with what he sees as popular leftist movements or governments, while in the latter two, he sharply criticizes the policy of Moscow's and Beijing's communist governments for what he sees as their imperialist actions). The original Rolling Stone review of Sandinista! calls "Washington Bullets", along with "The Equaliser" and "The Call Up", "the heart of the album".[4][5][6][7][8][9][15][16]

The original, 3-disc vinyl release of "Sandinista" included a tri-fold lyric sheet cleverly titled The Armagideon Times, no. 3 (a play on "Armagideon Time," a song from the EP Black Market Clash.) Armagideon Times, nos. 1 and 2 were Clash fanzines. The lyric sheet featured cartoons credited to Steve Bell, as well as hand-written (but still legible) lyrics of all songs. The 2-CD release contains a facsimile of the lyric sheet considerably reduced in size.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]

Joe Strummer once told Rolling Stone magazine that the concept for a triple-LP (a rarity in the rock music world) came from friendly competition with American artist Bruce Springsteen. When their earlier LP London Calling was released in 1980, critics said that Springsteen's upcoming double-disc album The River would outsell the Clash effort and wipe away any impact. Strummer's response was: "Right Bruce. Suck on this." The band then expanded Sandinista into a triple album.[1][17]

Critics' praise

The rock music world hailed Sandinista! as a masterpiece. The triple album won several "best of the year" critics polls in 1981. It was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll, and in 2003, the album was ranked number 404 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.[2] Dave Marsh noted that it was a record whose topic was as many years ahead of its time as its sound.[18] The album is a stylistic and topical potpourri that anticipates the "world music" trend of the late '80s and early '90s. Reggae, jazz, mock gospel, rockabilly, folk, dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, Clash-style rock and whatever else all turn up on Sandinista! The album included two rap songs at a time when rap was new even among its core black audience. John Piccarella, in a review headlined "The Clash Drop The Big One" and giving the album the highest possible rating of five stars, argues that in effect, the band said "to hell with Clash style, there's a world out there."[19][20]

The Sandinista! Project, a tribute to the album featuring The Smithereens, Camper Van Beethoven, Jon Langford (Mekons) and Sally Timms, Amy Rigby, Katrina Leskanich (Waves), Wreckless Eric, Willie Nile, Matthew Ryan, Stew, Sex Clark Five, Sid Griffin & Coal Porters, Haale, The Blizzard of 78 featuring Mikey Dread, Ruby on the Vine, and many others, was released on May 15, 2007, on the 00:02:59 Records (a label named after a lyric from the Sandinista! song "Hitsville U.K."). The album will also feature a collaboration by Soul Food and Mickey Gallagher on "Midnight Log".[21][22][23]

Reissues

In January 2000 this album along with the rest of the Clash's catalog was remastered and re-released. It was reissued several times, with different covers and formats, and in different countries (see the table below).[24]

Year Country Format Label Note
1980 EU Vinyl LP CBS CBS 66363
1980 AUS Vinyl LP Epic 2ELPS 0031
1980 USA Vinyl LP Epic E3X 37037
1980 Vinyl LP CBS FSLN 1 December 12, 1980
1990 CD Epic EK-35763
1999 UK CD Columbia COL 495348 2
2000 USA CD Epic EK 63888 Remastered
2004 JAP CD Sony Music Direct MHCP 526-8 November 17, 2004; CD Sized Album Replica, Limited Edition
Vinyl LP CBS 463364 1
CD CBS 463364 2
CD Epic E2K 37037

Audio excerpts

Track listing

All songs were written by The Clash unless noted. The compact disc release had the first three sides on the first CD and the latter three sides on the second CD.[24]

Side one

  1. "The Magnificent Seven" – 5:28
  2. "Hitsville UK" – 4:20 [Vocal: Mick Jones/Ellen Foley ]
  3. "Junco Partner" ("writer, at present, unknown" on insert notes) – 4:53
  4. "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe" – 3:05 [Vocal: Topper Headon ]
  5. "The Leader" – 1:41
  6. "Something About England" – 3:42

Side two

  1. "Rebel Waltz" – 3:25
  2. "Look Here" (Mose Allison) – 2:44
  3. "The Crooked Beat" – 5:29 [Vocal: Paul Simonon ]
  4. "Somebody Got Murdered" – 3:34
  5. "One More Time" (The Clash / Mikey Dread) – 3:32
  6. "One More Dub" (The Clash / Mikey Dread) – 3:34 [ Dub version of "One More Time"]

Side three

  1. "Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)" – 4:51
  2. "Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)" – 4:31
  3. "Corner Soul" – 2:43
  4. "Let's Go Crazy" – 4:25
  5. "If Music Could Talk" (The Clash / Mikey Dread) – 4:36
  6. "The Sound of the Sinners" – 4:00

Side four

  1. "Police on My Back" (Eddy Grant) – 3:15
  2. "Midnight Log" – 2:11
  3. "The Equaliser" – 5:47
  4. "The Call Up" – 5:25
  5. "Washington Bullets" – 3:51
  6. "Broadway" – 5:45 [Features an Epilogue of "Guns of Brixton" sung by Maria Gallagher]

Side five

  1. "Lose This Skin" (Tymon Dogg) – 5:07 [Vocal: Tymon Dogg]
  2. "Charlie Don't Surf" – 4:55
  3. "Mensforth Hill" – 3:42 ["Something About England" backwards]
  4. "Junkie Slip" – 2:48
  5. "Kingston Advice" – 2:36
  6. "The Street Parade" – 3:26

Side six

  1. "Version City" – 4:23
  2. "Living in Fame" (The Clash / Mikey Dread) – 4:36 [Dub Version of "If Music Could Talk", vocals by Mikey Dread]
  3. "Silicone on Sapphire" – 4:32 [Dub version of "Washington Bullets"]
  4. "Version Pardner" – 5:22 [Dub version of "Junco Partner"]
  5. "Career Opportunities" – 2:30 [New version sung by Luke and Ben Gallagher]
  6. "Shepherds Delight" (The Clash / Mikey Dread) – 3:25

Personnel

Guest musicians

Charts

Album

Year Chart Position
1980 Billboard Pop albums 24

Singles

Year Single Chart Position
1980 "The Call Up" UK Charts 40
1981 "Hitsville U.K." UK Charts 56
1981 "Hitsville U.K." U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks 53
1981 "The Magnificent Seven" UK Charts 34
1982 "The Magnificent Seven" Billboard Club Play Singles 21

Certifications

Certifier Certification Sales
RIAA (U.S.) Platinum 1,000,000

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d Interviewer: Unknown; Presenter: Kurt Loder. "MTV Rockumentary". MTV. {{cite episode}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |began= and |ended= (help); External link in |transcripturl= (help); Missing or empty |series= (help); Unknown parameter |city= ignored (|location= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |transcripturl= ignored (|transcript-url= suggested) (help)
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    • "MTV Rockumentary Part 2". londonsburning.org. Retrieved 2008-02-20. Kurt Loder: Scrapping their series of singles notion, the Clash instead headed in the opposite direction entirely banging out a triple LP album that bid a nose thumbing farewell at the ousted US-backed Nicaraguan dictator Samoza with its title: Sandinista!
      Joe Strummer: At the end of "Washington Bullets" I shout, "Sandinista!" And I came out of the vocal booth and Mick said, "why don't we call the bloody album that," 'cause we were really thrilled about them getting rid of Samoza out of Nicaruagua.
      Kurt Loder: Also on the band's roll call of political concerns this time was military conscription. Not everyone loved the Sandinista! album. Some critics thought it was too scattered and others thought there was just too much of it.
      Joe Strummer: We were over-indulgent. We were creatively crazed. We were consumed with enthusiasm. We couldn't stop writing songs. We were on the road too much [laughs].
      Mick Jones: We had it as three for the price of one which was very difficult. We had to take a real cut in royalties, in order to do that. People really didn't get it the first time because it was so cheap they thought there must be something wrong with it. So we were just like... But nowadays, in retrospect a lot of people like it: Sandinista!
  2. ^ a b c d Levy, Joe (2006) [2005]. "404) Sandinista". Rolling Stone The 500 Greatest Album of All Time (3rd edition ed.). London: Turnaround. ISBN 1932958614. OCLC 70672814. The Clash's ballooning ambition peaked with Sandinista!, a three-album set named after the Nicaraguan revolutionary movement. Joe Strummer and Mick Jones reached beyond punk and reggae into dub, R&B, calypso, gospel and whatever else -- say, a kids' chorus on "Career Opportunities"-- crossed their minds. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |edition= has extra text (help); External link in |chapterurl= (help); Unknown parameter |chapterurl= ignored (|chapter-url= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
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  3. ^ a b c Cite error: The named reference Westway_to_the_World was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cite error: The named reference Gilbert-Passion_Is_a_Fashion was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cite error: The named reference Gray-The_Clash was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cite error: The named reference Needs-Joe_Strummer_and_the_Legend_of_the_Clash was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i Cite error: The named reference Topping-The_Complete_Clash was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference allmusic.com-Sandinista!_Review was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  11. ^ punkmagazine.com – morestuff – joe strummer
  12. ^ Deeth, John. "Turning Rebellion Into Money: The Story of the Clash". jdeeth.home.mchsi.com. Retrieved 2008-02-18. They made up the difference by sacrificing their royalties, earning almost nothing for Sandinista!. CBS objected strongly to both the oversized albums and the low prices, and Paul Simonon believed that CBS refused to promote Sandinista! to punish the band.
  13. ^ Deeth, John. "Turning Rebellion Into Money: The Story of the Clash". jdeeth.home.mchsi.com. Retrieved 2008-02-18. CBS had no hope that radio stations would be able, let alone willing, to plow through 36 songs, so they issued a promotional album, Sandinista Now!, with the twelve "best" cuts.
  14. ^ Jaffee, Larry. "The Politics of Rock" Popular Music and Society, Winter 1987, pp. 19–30.
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    • Deeth, John. "Turning Rebellion Into Money: The Story of the Clash". jdeeth.home.mchsi.com. Retrieved 2008-02-18. "The Clash called their 1981 album Sandinista! long before anyone knew what it meant. One wonders whether the record company, today would allow such a strong endorsement for the left." (Jaffee, 1987, p. 28.)
      Politically, Sandinista! anticipated the struggles of the 1980's landscape. The album cover is in the red and black colors of the then-new Nicaraguan regime. The title, complete with exclamation point, seemed optimistic in early 1981 and bitterly ironic a decade later, after ten years of political battles, scandals, crimes and civil war centered around Nicaragua. A throwaway line in "Charlie Don't Surf" ("satellites will make space burn") anticipated Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative by two and a half years. Just to ensure that no one missed the point, a huge lyric sheet came with the album, complete with maps. Like its cinematic counterpart in the winter of 1981, Warren Beatty's Bolshevik epic Reds, Sandinista! flew in the face of conventional wisdom. Both were long to a fault, Sandinista! running two and a half hours. Both ran against the political grain of the early Reagan era. Both were major works by major artists and met with serious critical discussion upon release, and both were commercial failures. Most attacks focused on the sheer bulk of the triple album.
  15. ^ Peet, Preston (2001-07-09). "where's the clash when we need them?". Disinformation. Retrieved 2008-02-19. Regardless of your opinion on their musicianship, or even whether you liked the band's music at all, the fact remains that The Clash pointed out life's bitter ironies for the poor, the oppressed, the trod upon, and the outcast. With such song like "Charlie Don't Surf", "Career Opportunities", "Guns on the Roof", "Guns of Brixton", "Clampdown," and so many more, The Clash painted a vivid picture of injustices inherent in, and perpetrated by the modern Western world.
  16. ^ Deeth, John. "Turning Rebellion Into Money: The Story of the Clash". jdeeth.home.mchsi.com. Retrieved 2008-02-18. Despite the punning title, "Washington Bullets" has nothing to do with the basketball team of the same name. (Strummer insisted he had never heard of the ball club.) The mock-calypso song runs through a dishonor roll of Yanqui imperialism: Nicaragua, Chile, the Bay of Pigs. The effect is either enhanced or subverted by the mariachi music, and a corny hockey arena organ sound at the fade. In the last verse, after discrediting G.I. Joe, the Clash calls Ivan on his sins: "If you can find an Afghan rebel that the Moscow Bullets missed/ ask him what he thinks of voting Communist."
  17. ^ Deeth, John. "Turning Rebellion Into Money: The Story of the Clash". jdeeth.home.mchsi.com. Retrieved 2008-02-18. In the days before the boxed collection, three record sets were rare and usually confined to excessive live albums by acts like Yes and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer--the very antithesis of punk. Triple studio albums were even more unusual, with George Harrison's "All Things Must Pass" virtually the only precedent.
  18. ^ Dave, Marsh (1999) [1989]. The Heart of Rock and Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made. New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press. pp. p. 78. ISBN 030680901X. OCLC 40200194. {{cite book}}: |pages= has extra text (help)
  19. ^ Piccarella, John (March 5, 1981). "Red-Hot Rock and Roll, A Joyful Noise and Politics That Live: The Clash Drop the Big One". Rolling Stone: pp. 57-58. {{cite journal}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); |pages= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ Deeth, John. "Turning Rebellion Into Money: The Story of the Clash". jdeeth.home.mchsi.com. Retrieved 2008-02-18. The rock music world, however, hailed Sandinista! as a masterpiece, and it won several 1981 "best of the year" critics polls. Dave Marsh (1989, p. 78) noted "Sandinista! (was) a record whose topic was as many years ahead of its time as its sound." The album is a stylistic and topical potpourri that anticipates the "world music" trend of the late `80s and early `90s. Reggae, jazz, mock gospel, rockabilly, and Clash-style rock all turn up on Sandinista! The album included two rap songs at a time when rap was new even among its core black audience. John Piccarella, in a review headlined "The Clash Drop The Big One" and giving the album the highest possible rating of five stars, argues that in effect, the band said "to hell with Clash style, there's a world out there." (Piccarella, 1981, p. 58.)
  21. ^ Clash, The; Joe Grushecky; Katrina Leskanich; Willie Nile; Ship & Pilot.; Soul Food (Musical group); Sunset Heroes. The Sandinista! Project A Tribute to the Clash (Compact Disc). England: 00:02:59 Records. OCLC 178980813. {{cite AV media}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Unknown parameter |date2= ignored (help)
  22. ^ "The Sandinista Project". sandinista.guterman.com. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
  23. ^ "Cary Baker's conqueroo - The Sandinista! Project Announcements". conqueroo.com. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
  24. ^ a b "Sandinista! by The Clash : Reviews and Ratings - Rate Your Music". rateyourmusic.com. Retrieved 2008-02-20.
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