The Clash - Sandinista! (Vinyl)

Three 180-gram LP set

Rated 407/500 by Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!

Fully-replicated artwork including printed inner sleeves

Newly remastered by The Clash from original tapes to audiophile quality vinyl!

Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was released in December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with six songs on each side. Anticipating the "world music" trend of the 1980s, it features funk, reggae, jazz, 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 407 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.

TRACKLIST

Side 1
The Magnificent Seven
Hitsville U.K.
Junco Partner
Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
The Leader
Something about England

Side 2
Rebel Waltz
Look Here
The Crooked Beat
Somebody Got Murdered
One More Time
One More Dub

Side 3
Lightning Strikes (Not Once but Twice)
Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)
Corner Soul
Let's Go Crazy
If Music Could Talk
The Sound of Sinners

Side 4
Police on my Back
Midnight Log
The Equaliser
The Call Up
Washington Bullets
Broadway

Side 5
Lose this Skin
Charlie don't Surf
Mensforth Hill
Junkie Slip
Kingston Advice
The Street Parade

Side 6
Version City
Living in Fame
Silicone on Sapphire
Version Pardner
Career Opportunities
Shepherds Delight

Release Date: 2013 (Reissue) 

Originally released on 12 December 1980