Rationalising Sandinista!

[Chuck Mangione]

Career Opportunities (kids) "fantastic"? I don't know about that.

[Inder]

I admire the self-awareness involved in a quote-unquote punk band revisiting an earnest first-wave track and re-recording it with children and bells.

An experiment that went horribly awry in 1985...

[msza2]

I admire the self-awareness involved in a quote-unquote punk band revisiting an earnest first-wave track and re-recording it with children and bells.

An experiment that went horribly awry in 1985...

It struck me as a knock-off of Another Brick ITW pt 2.

[matedog]

I admire the self-awareness involved in a quote-unquote punk band revisiting an earnest first-wave track and re-recording it with children and bells.

An experiment that went horribly awry in 1985...

It struck me as a knock-off of Another Brick ITW pt 2.

No way. Career Ops is at least a bit tongue in cheek. Brick is very very serious. Just because both utilize children doesn't mean they are going for the same thing.

[Marky Dread]

I admire the self-awareness involved in a quote-unquote punk band revisiting an earnest first-wave track and re-recording it with children and bells.

An experiment that went horribly awry in 1985...

Let's not forget they re-recorded Remote Control at the Vanilla sessions. So it would've been cool if they had re-recorded CO as dub-wise stylee workout for S! Instead of the Mickey's kids version. Which is fun at first but hardly something you'd want to hear more than once and not worthy of inclusion on the album.

[jayrok]

1.Mag 7
2.Hitsville UK
3.Junco Partner
4.Something About England
5.Somebody Got Murdered
6.One More Time
7.The Sound Of Sinners
8.Police On My Back
9.Broadway
10.Kingston Advice
11.The Street Parade

... and although not on the album, and everyone on this site hates it, I love it ...


12.Stop The World

[IkarisOne]

How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.

[Dirty Harry]

How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.

I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'

Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.

[Wolter]

How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.

I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'

Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.

It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.

[Silent Majority]

How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.

I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'

Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.

It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.

Yeah, Sandinista!'s inept sequencing plays a part in that I think.

[Marky Dread]

How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.

I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'

Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.

It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.

Yep killer track.

[BR16ADE_R055E]

How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.

I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'

Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.

It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.

Yep killer track.

Yeah, UIH is essential.

[IkarisOne]

How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.

I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'

Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.

It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.

Yep killer track.

Yeah, UIH is essential.

Good word. If someone asked me to pick a track that summed up The Clash that would be on my short shortlist. Why isn't on COB or whatever? Maybe some coked-up rich twit from the NME told Mick it was too rockist and told them they should sound more like the Raincoats or 23 Skidoo and it became a thing.

[CorwoodRep]

Up In Heaven is one of their all-time best "this would change my life if it came on the radio at 2 in the morning" songs, of which they have several.

[Wolter]

How anyone can make a Sandinista comp without Up in Heaven - one of a tiny handful of real, actual, bonafide Clash songs on hand- in favor on some wanked-off pile of dumbfuck, pseudo-ethnic twaddle (name it) will forever be a mystery to me.

I find it weird how its never even been on one of the many compilations, It never even made it onto 'Clash on Broadway'

Great lyrics definetly one of my fave ever Clash songs would loved to have heard it live.

It really is one of the most underrated gems of their catalog.

Yeah, Sandinista!'s inept sequencing plays a part in that I think.

The sequencing on Sandinista is truly terrible. Hitsville as track 2? Absurd.

(My phone just tried to autocorrect it to Hoysville.)