The Clash - Sandinista!

Three 180-gram LP set

Rated 407/500 by Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!

Fully-replicated artwork including printed inner sleeves

Newly remastered by The Clash from original tapes to audiophile quality vinyl!

"Sandinista! is the first LP since some of the psychedelic productions of the '60s that keeps growing by virtue of density and bulk alone, slowly revealing its constantly changing layers of substance over several listenings." — Rolling Stone

Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was released in December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with six 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, 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 cut the 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 407 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.

 

Side 1

The Magnificent Seven

Hitsville U.K.

Junco Partner

Ivan Meets G.I. Joe

The Leader

Something about England

Side 2

Rebel Waltz

Look Here

The Crooked Beat

Somebody Got Murdered

One More Time

One More Dub

Side 3

Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice)

Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)

Corner Soul

Let's Go Crazy

If Music Could Talk

The Sound of Sinners

Side 4

Police on my Back

Midnight Log

The Equaliser

The Call Up

Washington Bullets

Broadway

Side 5

Lose this Skin

Charlie don't Surf

Mensforth Hill

Junkie Slip

Kingston Advice

The Street Parade

Side 6

Version City

Living in Fame

Silicone on Sapphire

Version Pardner

Career Opportunities

Shepherds Delight

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