Combat Rock

Combat Rock
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. –Douglas Wolk

Customer Review: should i stay or should i go
what a masterpiece this song is and the clash were my favorite of the punk rock bands. i’m not a big punk rock kid, but the clash was my favorite. on this album it has the greatest punk song ever created in punk rock history should i stay or should i go and rock the casbah is a great tropical bar song.

Customer Review: Over -rated Punk Rock!
I bought this based on others reviews and boy was i disappointed.Take way the two singles and you have a rambling album-whats with all the spoken word bits? Perhaps its because theres little music of any real value outside of the singles.

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