BUGLE CALL DUB
The Clash are emphatic. Any statement that can be made with the point of a finger is made with a fist raised in the air. They believe in bulk: the three-disc Sandinsta!, where the wind does not come sweeping down the plain, nearly doubles the number of tracks on London Calling (36 to 19), and could with no difficulty be compressed onto one LP and a NuDisk.
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Jeff Nesin
BUGLE CALL DUB
THE CLASH
Sandinista!
(Epic)
The Clash are emphatic. Any statement that can be made with the point of a finger is made with a fist raised in the air. They believe in bulk: the three-disc Sandinsta!, where the wind does not come sweeping down the plain, nearly doubles the number of tracks on London Calling (36 to 19), and could with no difficulty be compressed onto one LP and a NuDisk.
The Clash are not particularly strong on verbal skills. Their lyrics have precious little colloquial grace (try singing 'indiscriminate use of the power of arrest' without cracking up), and as for vocal diction, well, I walked around for days hearing 'Wrong 'Em Boyo' from the last album as a story about Stagger Lee being served the incorrect entree at a Spanish restaurant with the chorus going, 'Don't you know it is wrong/it is arroz con polio.'