THE CLASH "COMBAT ROCK" 1982 EPIC RECORDS REPRESS EX/NM +INNER SLEEVE OOP LP

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ARTISTS: THE CLASH

TITLE: “COMBAT ROCK”

TRACK LISTING (SEE PHOTOS & BELOW):

A1

Know Your Rights

3:40

A2

Car Jamming

3:58

A3

Should I Stay Or Should I Go

3:06

A4

Rock The Casbah

3:42

A5

Red Angel Dragnet

3:46

A6

Straight To Hell

5:26

B1

Overpowered By Funk

4:52

B2

Atom Tan

2:27

B3

Sean Flynn

4:30

B4

Ghetto Defendant

4:43

B5

Inoculated City

2:40

B6

Death Is A Star

3:08

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – CBS Inc.

• Copyright (c) – CBS Inc.

• Copyright (c) – Nineden Ltd.

• Manufactured By – Epic Records

• Manufactured By – CBS Inc.

• Record Company – CBS Inc.

• Published By – WB Music Corp.

• Mastered At – CBS Studios, New York

• Lacquer Cut At – Masterdisk

• Mastered At – Customatrix

• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute

Credits

• Backing Vocals – Allen Ginsberg, Ellen Foley, Futura 2000, Joe Ely

• Lacquer Cut By – HW*

• Mastered By – Ray Janos

• Mixed By – Glyn Johns

• Other [Inspiration] – Guy Stevens

• Photography By [Sleeve Photo By] – Pennie Smith

• Producer [Made By] – The Clash

• Recorded By – Jerry Green, Joe Blaney

• Tape Op [Tape Jock] – Eddie Garcia

• Written-By – The Clash

Notes

This entry is for the second pressing with standard Epic labels.

The first pressing includes custom vinyl labels and a commercial in the middle of "Inoculated City." This is a later U.S. pressing with the standard dark blue Epic labels and no commercial in "Inoculated City."

The US catalog number FE 37689 appears on the spine and both sides of the record. The original UK catalog number FLMN 2 appears on the spine and inner sleeve.

The album was packaged in cellophane with one of four stickers on the wrapping. Each sticker featured a head shot of a Clash member.

© 1982 CBS Inc./? 1982 CBS Inc./Manufactured by Epic Records/CBS Inc./51 W. 52 Street, New York City/"Epic" and [Epic logo] are trademarks of CBS Inc.

© Copyright 1982 by Nineden Limited (PRS).
All rights for the U.S.A. and Canada controlled by WB Music Corp. (ASCAP)

Mastered at CBS Recording Studios, N.Y. on the CBS Discomputer™ System.
Joe Ely appears courtesy of MCA Records.
Allen Ginsberg appears courtesy of Hammond Records.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Scanned): 074643768917

• Barcode (Text): 0 7464-37689-1

• Matrix / Runout (Side A label matrix): AL 37689

• Matrix / Runout (Side B label matrix): BL 37689

• Matrix / Runout (Side A etched, exc. ??s?????s? stamped, variant 1): AL-37689-2F MASTERDISK

• Matrix / Runout (Side B etched, exc. ??s?????s? stamped, variant 1): BL-37689-3D MASTERDISK

• Matrix / Runout (Side A etched, exc. ??s?????s? stamped, variant 2): AL-37689-2G MASTERDISK

• Matrix / Runout (Side B etched, exc. ??s?????s? stamped, variant 2): BL-37689-3A XG MASTERDISK

LABEL: EPIC RECORDS

CAT. #: FE 37689

YEAR: 1982

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX/NM- CONDITION. NO VISIBLE WEAR, SCRATCHES, LINES, BLEMS ETC. BOTH LABELS ARE IN EXCELLENT CONDITION. NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER TO THE VINYL. THE SONGS PLAY SUPER CLEAN!

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN NM/NM- CONDITION THERE'S NO WRITING ON THE JACKET. STRAIGHT EDGES, NO WRITING, TEARS, WRINKLES OR SEAM SPLITS, ETC.ETC...

MORE INFO: I TRY AND MATCH WHAT I AM SELLING WITH DISCOGS LISTINGS.THIS RECORD IS CURRENTLY OUT OF PRINT. INCLUDES ORIGINAL INNER SLEEVE W/LYRICS. HAS EDIT VERSION OF “INOCULATED CITY”.

MORE ON THE ARTIST & RELEASE:

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock. They have also contributed to the post-punk and new wave movements that emerged in the wake of punk and employed elements of a variety of genres including reggae, dub, funk, ska, and rockabilly. For most of their recording career, the Clash consisted of lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist Joe Strummer, lead guitarist and vocalist Mick Jones, bassist Paul Simonon, and drummer Nicky "Topper" Headon. Headon left the group in 1982 and internal friction led to Jones' departure the following year. The group continued with new members, but finally disbanded in early 1985.

The Clash achieved commercial success in the United Kingdom with the release of their self-titled debut album, The Clash, in 1977. Their third album, London Calling, released in the UK in December 1979, earned them popularity in the United States when it was released there the following month. It was declared the best album of the 1980s a decade later by Rolling Stone. In 1982, they reached new heights of success with the release of Combat Rock, which spawned the US top 10 hit "Rock the Casbah", helping the album to achieve a 2× Platinum certification there. A final album, Cut the Crap, was released in 1985.

In January 2003, shortly after the death of Joe Strummer, the band—including original drummer Terry Chimes—were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the Clash number 28 on its list of the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time".

Combat Rock is the fifth studio album by the English rock band the Clash.[4] It was released on 14 May 1982 through CBS Records. In the United Kingdom, the album charted at number 2, spending 23 weeks in the UK charts and peaked at number 7 in the United States, spending 61 weeks on the chart.

Combat Rock is the group's best-selling album, being certified double platinum in the United States. It contains two of the Clash's most popular songs, the singles "Rock the Casbah" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go". Combat Rock is the last Clash album featuring the classic lineup.

Background

Following the triple-album Sandinista! (1980), singer/guitarist Joe Strummer felt the group was "drifting" creatively. Bassist Paul Simonon agreed with Strummer's dissatisfaction towards the "boring" professionalism of The Clash's then-managers Blackhill Enterprises. Strummer and Simonon convinced their bandmates to reinstate the band's original manager Bernie Rhodes in February 1981, in an attempt to restore the "chaos" and "anarchic energy" of The Clash's early days.This decision was not welcomed by guitarist Mick Jones, who was becoming progressively estranged from his bandmates.

During this period, drummer Topper Headon escalated his intake of heroin and cocaine. His occasional drug usage had now become a habit that was costing him £100 per day and undermining his health.This drug addiction would be the factor that would later push his bandmates to fire him from The Clash, following the release of Combat Rock.

Recording

The album had the working title Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg during the recording and mixing stages. After early recording sessions in London, the group relocated to New York for recording sessions at Electric Lady Studios in November and December 1981. Electric Lady Studio was where the band had recorded its previous album Sandinista! in 1980.

While recording the album in New York, Mick Jones lived with his then-girlfriend Ellen Foley.[Joe Strummer, Paul Simonon and Topper Headon stayed at the Iroquois Hotel on West 44th Street, a building famed for being the home of actor James Dean for two years during the early 1950s

After finishing the New York recording sessions in December 1981, the band returned to London for most of January 1982. Between January and March, The Clash embarked on a six-week tour of Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong and Thailand.During this tour, the album's cover photograph was shot by Pennie Smith in Thailand in March 1982.

Mixing and editing

Following the Far East tour, The Clash returned to London in March 1982 to listen to the music that they had recorded in New York three months earlier. They had recorded 18 songs, enough material to possibly release as double-album.Having previously released the double-LP London Calling (1979) and the triple-LP Sandinista! (1980), the group considered whether it should again release a multi-LP collection.

The band debated how many songs their new album should contain, and how long the songs' mixes should be. Mick Jones argued in favour of a double-album with lengthier, dancier mixes.The other band members argued in favour of a single album with shorter song mixes. This internal wrangling created tension within the band, particularly with Jones, who had mixed the first version.

Manager Bernie Rhodes suggested that producer/engineer Glyn Johns be hired to remix the album. This editing took place in Johns' garden studio in Warnford, Hampshire (not at Wessex Studios, as is incorrectly stated by some sources).

Johns, accompanied by Strummer and Jones edited Combat Rock down from a 77-minute double album down to a 46-minute single LP.[ This was achieved by trimming the length of individual songs, such as by removing instrumental intros and codas from songs like "Rock the Casbah" and "Overpowered by Funk". Additionally, the trio decided to omit several songs entirely, dropping the final track count to 12.

During these remixing sessions, Strummer and Jones also re-recorded their vocals for the songs "Should I Stay or Should I Go" and "Know Your Rights" and remixed the songs with the intent of maximising their impact as singles.

Music and lyrics

A recurring motif of Combat Rock is the impact and aftermath of the Vietnam War."Straight to Hell" describes the children fathered by American soldiers to Vietnamese mothers and then abandoned, "Sean Flynn" describes the photojournalist son of actor Errol Flynn who disappeared in 1970 while covering the war.

Biographer Pat Gilbert describes many songs from Combat Rock as having a "trippy, foreboding feel", saturated in a "colonial melancholia and sadness" reflecting the Vietnam War. The band was hugely inspired by Francis Ford Coppola's 1979 film about the Vietnam War, Apocalypse Now, and had previously released the song "Charlie Don't Surf" on Sandinista!, which referenced the film.

Other Combat Rock songs, if not directly about the Vietnam War and U.S. foreign policy, depict American society in moral decline. "Red Angel Dragnet" was inspired by the January 1982 shooting death of Frank Melvin, a New York member of the Guardian Angels. The song quotes Martin Scorsese's 1976 movie Taxi Driver, with Clash associate Kosmo Vinyl recording several lines of dialogue imitating the voice of main character Travis Bickle. Bickle sports a mohawk in the latter part of Taxi Driver, this was a hairstyle adopted by Joe Strummer during the Combat Rock concert tour.

The song "Ghetto Defendant" features beat poet Allen Ginsberg, who performed the song on stage with the band during the New York shows on their tour in support of the album. Ginsberg had researched punk music, and included phrases like "do the worm" and "slam dance" in his lyrics. At the end of the song he can be heard reciting the Heart Sutra, a popular Buddhist mantra.

Music for "Rock the Casbah" was written by the band's drummer Topper Headon, based on a piano part that he had been toying with.Finding himself the studio without his three bandmates, Headon progressively taped the drum, piano and bass parts; recording the bulk of the song's musical instrumentation himself.

The other Clash members were impressed with Headon's recording, stating that they felt the musical track was essentially complete.However, Strummer was not impressed by the page of suggested lyrics that Headon gave him. Before hearing Headon's music, Strummer had already come up with the phrases "rock the casbah" and "you'll have to let that raga drop" as lyrical ideas that he was considering for future songs. After hearing Headon's music, Strummer went into the studio's toilets and wrote lyrics to match the song's melody.

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