Sandinista! (1980)

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Title: Sandinista!
Artist: The Clash
Genre: Punk Rock
Released: 1980

Tracks:
1 - The Magnificent Seven - 5:30
2 - Hitsville U.K. - 4:21
3 - Junco Partner - 4:52
4 - Ivan Meets G.I. Joe - 3:05
5 - The Leader - 1:41
6 - Something About England - 3:42
7 - Rebel Waltz - 3:25
8 - Look Here - 2:45
9 - The Crooked Beat - 5:28
10 - Somebody Got Murdered - 3:33
11 - One More Time - 3:32
12 - One More Dub - 3:35
13 - Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice) - 4:50
14 - Up in Heaven (Not Only Here) - 4:32
15 - Corner Soul - 2:42
16 - Let's Go Crazy - 4:24
17 - If Music Could Talk - 4:36
18 - The Sound of Sinners - 4:01

Overview:
Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. Anticipating the "world music" trend of the 1980s, it features reggae, jazz, mock 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 404 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.
Music information in first post provided by The AudioDB
I was never a fan of The Clash. Their album Sadanista was their 80s album.
 
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