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Rock Art and the X-Ray Style by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
This is the album that won a recent FAIR album club poll, with a resounding landslide of three votes.
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Rock Art And The X-Ray Style by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
( 1999 )
In a surprising change of style, JS put aside the punk fury of London Calling and made an excentric album of shuffling, urban reggae and folk-rock. He furthur expanded his own particular vision of the multi-cultural music scene on his next album, Global A Go Go, but song for song, I think Rock Art is stronger. Don`t dismiss these albums (as I did for years) as an exercise in musical tourism; they are much more consistent and convincing than that. And if you`re wondering if this is really FAIR music, well JS himself described this Yalla Yalla track as " an ancient British folk song - written in 1999" That`s a good enough excuse for me !
Has anyone listened to it ? Why not share your thoughts about this album ? Or any of Joe Strummer´s other work for that matter - seems like a good topic for one of those "compare and contrast" essays we all get so tired of at school.
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Last edited by Lisnaholic; 03-13-2013 at 12:39 PM.
Rock Art and the X-Ray Style by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
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