The Clash - Another Combat Rock Darkside Records DSS CD 009 UK Released:2003 There are many different titles of the Mick Jones mix of “Combat Rock” circulating, the two best I’ve heard are “Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg” and “Another Combat Rock” these have different track listings and running orders. In comparison to the released album three songs are similar in length: Car Jamming, Should I Stay Or Should I Go and Rock The Casbah. The only shorter track is Death Is A Star with Atom Tan only slightly longer than the released version. Seven tracks are substantially longer: Sean Flynn, Red Angel Dragnet, Overpowered By Funk, Inoculated City, Ghetto Defendant, Know Your Rights and Straight To Hell. This posted version is better sequenced than Rat Patrol with superior artwork but as for sound quality it’s not such a clear-cut decision. Six of these tracks will appear on the forthcoming Clash box set. Leaving nine to compare as the missing seven-minute version of Overpowered by Funk, two minutes longer than the official release is absent from Rat Patrol. After normalizing the different track volumes to make a comparison easier, most have similar sound quality, others can be considered inferior to Rat Patrol such as Should I Stay Or Should I Go and Inoculated City but on the quieter tracks such as Sean Flynn and Death Is a Star, there is much less hiss, Car Jamming and Red Angel Dragnet are clearer here and not quite as murky sounding. In Rat Patrol’s favour some tracks do have better bass and it does include the missing Cool Confusion. 1. Know Your Rights 5:07 2. Car Jamming 3:53 3. Should I Stay or Should I Go 3:03 4. Rock the Casbah 3:46 5. Red Angel Dragnet 5:13 6. Straight to Hell 6:55 7. Overpowered By Funk 7:00 8. Atom Tan 2:43 9. Sean Flynn 7:28 10. Ghetto Defendant 6:17 11. Inoculated City 4:28 12. Death Is a Star 2:37 13. The Beautiful People Are Ugly Too 3:43 14. Kill Time 4:52 15. First Night Back in London 3:00 16. Walk Evil Talk 7:31 Lineage: cdr>dbpoweramp>flac6 thebasement67 100greatestbootlegsblogspot ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Original notes Late 1981…….under the working title ‘Rat Patrol From Fort Bragg’ work was commencing on the follow up album to ‘Sandinista’ Demos were being recorded using a mobile sound van at the KAR studios in London. Mick Jones was not pleased and issued an ultimatum “If you do it in New York, I’ll turn up” The sessions were transferred to Electric Lady studios in New York, where Mick Jones took on production duties. Mick’s dance influenced production of the project shaped up to be 15 mostly raga-length tracks. The Clash could be looking at a double album again it seemed. Mick’s finished mixes were presented to the band, as they were about to leave for a Far East tour. They unanimously rejected it, citing over-indulgence and over-length. Joe wanted a single album that the band could tour and make money for themselves for the first time, being only just out of debt to CBS. Joe pushed his single album plan and Glyn Johns, who had worked with the Beatles, Rolling Stones and the Faces, was brought in to oversee the production and cut the album down to size. Some tracks were edited down and remixed, whilst ‘The Beautiful People’ ‘Kill Time’ and First Night Back In London were left off completely. Even the title was edited down, and the 12 remaining tracks were finally released in May 1982 as “Combat Rock” eventually becoming the biggest selling album the Clash ever had. Presented here are these original tracks, in the same track order as “Combat Rock” followed by the 3 cut tracks, and to conclude an out-take of a recently discovered jam called ‘Walk Evil Talk’ from these sessions. With a playing time of 77 minutes and 35 seconds there is an additional 30+ minutes over “Combat Rock’s” 46 minute playing time.