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Sandinista!
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Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English 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. The band agreed to a decrease in album royalties in order to release the 3-LP at a low price.
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- Album
- Artist
- The Clash
- First released
- 1980-12-12
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Sandinista (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) was a band founded on the basis that whole hardcore punk thing is more than music and fashion. The band itself tried to examplify that idea with their lifestyles and music. All band’s members (in case that line-up has changed few times) took part in or supported various groups including antifascist resistance, anarchist movement, Food Not Bombs and Animal Liberation. Also all members were strict vegans or vegetarians. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sandi
Key facts
- Album.name
- Sandinista!
- Album.type
- studio
- Album.artist
- the Clash
- Album.cover
- The Clash - Sandinista!.jpg
- Album.released
- 12 December 1980
- Album.studio
- Pluto (Manchester) Power Station (New York City) Electric Lady (New York City) Channel One (Kingston, Jamaica) Wessex (London)
- Album.genre
- Post-punk experimental dub world reggae punk
- Album.length
- 144:09
- Album.label
- CBS Epic
- Album.producer
- The Clash
- Album.prev_title
- London Calling
- Album.prev_year
- 1979
- Album.next_title
- Combat Rock
- Album.next_year
- 1982
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Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English 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. The band agreed to a decrease in 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sandinista!” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.