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Originally Posted by Comus
Album 970
The Clash - Sandinista!
Year: 1980
6 sides of pure, experimental Clash. This is just pure awesome from The Magnificent Seven to Shepherds Delight. Yeah 2 hours and 24 minutes of brilliance. You get the point. The album that was released at cut price due to Clash cutting their own royalties from the album is well worth the massive amount of time you're undoubtedly going to have to dedicate to it. People who criticise it only really say that there's "one good album hidden in all of this". Yeah, that's not really a criticism now is it? I'll argue that there's not 1 good album in it all, becuase it is so, so, so much better with everything in it. And as such can only really be a good triple album. This is an experience that cannot be missed, and should be treated as such. Listen to it when you have the time to sit through it all, believe me, it's worth it.
3 Choice Tracks: The Magnificent Seven, Somebody Got Murdered, Police On My Back
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Great album, often passed over by casual fans and critics, Sandinista is as you noted experimental Clash at it's best. There is a lot of filler, although that's the wrong word for a song or songs on a triple album, still it's hard to resist delving into the bizarre and experimental rap and country rock songs on the album. Especially 30 years later.