Streetcore
Sign in to saveStreetcore is the third and final studio album by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros. The album was completed after the death of frontman Joe Strummer, primarily by Martin Slattery and Scott Shields, and released on 21 October 2003. The album marks the band's transition from their previous genre-bending work to a more straightforward rock album, reminiscent of Strummer's early work with the Clash. The album received a positive critical reception and is generally seen as a return to form and a high point for Strummer to have gone out on.
Release · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Album
- Artist
- Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros
- First released
- 2003-10-20
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 317
- Total plays
- 2,485
Tags
post-punkindie rockPop-punk
Streetcore is now known as Stuck Out Here. After four years of high school shows, house parties, town halls, legions, and the odd legit bar, we're ready to keep on doing the exact same thing, only with an infinitely more badass name. For real. For bookings: stuckouthereATgmail.com. "If you combinded the vocal calamity of the Dead Milkmen, the four chord punk of the Clash, the super-happy fun bops and melodies of Weezer and injected the kind of confidence and testosterone that often gets young
Key dates
- Published
- 2003
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- album
- Genre
- alternative rock
- Follows
- Global a Go-Go
- Producer
- Rick Rubin
- Performer
- The Mescaleros
- Record label
- Hellcat Records
- Distribution format
- music streaming
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Song information
- Reception
- Critical
- Impact
- Track listing
- Personnel
- References
- External links
Streetcore is the third and final studio album by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros. The album was completed after the death of frontman Joe Strummer, primarily by Martin Slattery and Scott Shields, and released on 21 October 2003. The album marks the band's transition from their previous genre-bending work to a more straightforward rock album, reminiscent of Strummer's early work with the Clash. The album received a positive critical reception and is generally seen as a return to form and a high point for Strummer to have gone out on.
A remastered version of the album along with Strummer's other two Hellcat released albums was released as a special 57 song digital download titled Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years on 21 August 2012 to celebrate what would have been Strummer's 60th birthday. Hellcat also released each remastered album individually on CD and vinyl on 25 September 2012.