The final album by the Clash's original Strummer/Jones incarnation is also their most inconsistent. There were musical and ideological rifts developing within the band, and it shows: the experimentation is almost as wild as Sandanista!'s (and the biggest experiment is heading away from their punk shiftiness and into a commercial rock sound), but they seem to be enjoying it less. The band's stabs at funk and poetry aren't terribly successful, but it all came together for 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.
01 Know your rights 02 Car jamming 03 Should i stay or should i go 04 Rock the casbah 05 Red angel dragnet 06 Straight to hell 07 Overpowered by funk 08 Atom tan 09 Sean flynn 10 Ghetto defendant 11 Inoculated city 12 Death is a star