"The Clash - who will be at the Bond International Casino in Times Square for eight performances starting Thursday - emerged along with the Sex Pistols in the British punk rock explosion of 1976. Both bands played music that was fast and furious, brash and bitter, in response to the seeming hopelessness of the British economy. ... But Strummer and Jones, who are astonishingly prolific songwriters, were unwilling to face the backlog of material that would have resulted from cutting down the project. So ''Sandinista!'' was issued intact, its bulk representing, to the hostile British critics, directionless self-indulgence, and, to many in the record industry, a perverse commercial gamble. ..."
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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. It crosses various genres including
funk,
reggae,
jazz,
gospel,
rockabilly,
folk,
dub,
rhythm and blues,
calypso,
disco, and
rap. For the first time, the band's songs were credited to the Clash as a group, rather than to
Joe Strummer and
Mick Jones. ..."
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