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Cut The Crap

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The Clash

 
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  • Date Released: January 1, 1985
  • Genre: Rock/Pop
  • Style: Rock
  • Label: Epic
  • Copyright: 1985 Sony Music Entertainment (UK) Ltd.
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    Having fired Jones and reconstituted the Clash as a generic-sounding rock quintet, Strummer and Simonon made the all-but-posthumous Cut the Crap, an album so anomalous that it is rarely counted in the band’s oeuvre. If not for Strummer’s clattering Big '80s production, the songs -- all co-written by original Clash manager/manipulator Bernie Rhodes – could have made him a passable solo platter. Styled with castoff DNA of the era’s MTV clones (which actually suits the rueful, elegant “This Is England”), the album leads with its chin on nakedly defensive songs like “Dictator” and “We Are the Clash.” If not quite as awful as it seemed at the time, Cut the Crap is the only Clash album that doesn’t matter.

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