![]() ![]() ‹ The template Album ratings is being considered for merging. › Retrospective professional ratings Review scores Four more songs were recorded: "One Emotion", " Groovy Times", "Ooh Baby Ooh (It's Not Over)" (AKA "Rusted Chrome", later reworked and released as "Gates of the West") and "RAF 1810." Critical reception Other songs recorded during the sessions included the single " (White Man) In Hammersmith Palais", as well as B-sides " Pressure Drop", "1-2 Crush on You" and "The Prisoner". Sandy Pearlman, who produced the original album, was not a big fan of Joe Strummer's voice, to the point that he ensured the drums were mixed louder than the lead singer's vocals on the entire album. ĭuring recording of the album, Joe Strummer's trademark Telecaster guitar needed to be taken in for repairs, so he played a hired semi-hollow Gibson ES-345 for most of the sessions. Jones later commented on the trip by saying, "we went down to the docks and I think we only survived because they mistook us for sailors." The song also contains references of Jamaican culture and buildings like the Sheraton hotel in Kingston. "Safe European Home" describes Strummer's and Jones uneasy writing trip to Jamaica. "Drug-Stabbing Time" is strongly anti-drug and describes the paranoia of being caught despite the band's (specifically Mick Jones's) drug usage. The song also makes a reference to the Beatles' song " Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" in the opening line, "It's Lucy in the sky and all kinds of apple pie". The band continued to include contemporary subjects in their lyrics on the album "Tommy Gun" deals with Middle Eastern terrorism, specifically the hi-jacking of aircraft, while "Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad" is a commentary on the infamous " Operation Julie" drug bust that saw the largest LSD production ring in the world, based in Wales, dismantled by an undercover police operation. Paul Simonon and Topper Headon were arrested and charged with criminal damage (and later fined £750) for shooting racing pigeons with an air-gun from the roof of their rehearsal building. Though the opening track of side two, "Guns on the Roof", is ostensibly about global terrorism, war and corruption, it was partly inspired by an incident that resulted in the Metropolitan Police's armed anti-terrorist squad raiding the Clash's Camden Market base. They entered the UK charts at numbers 19 and 25, respectively. ![]() " Tommy Gun" and " English Civil War" were released as the album's singles, either side of Christmas 1978. The original American issue of the album also retitled "All the Young Punks" as "That's No Way to Spend Your Youth". pressings used a faux-oriental style font, which was then replaced with the more ornate faux-oriental style font used on the UK release. ![]() ![]() The cover of the first US pressings showed the band's name written in block capital letters. The album's cover art was designed by Gene Greif, the front of which was based on a postcard titled "End of the Trail", photographed by Adrian Atwater and featuring Wallace Irving Robertson. Most of the tracks, as with the prior album, were written by guitarists Joe Strummer and Mick Jones, with the exception of " English Civil War" (a reworking of the traditional American folk song " When Johnny Comes Marching Home") and "Guns on the Roof", which is credited to all four band members, being Headon, Jones, Strummer, and bassist Paul Simonon. The album marked the first album appearance of drummer Topper Headon, who joined the band shortly after the recording of their first album. The album is tied with Combat Rock for being the highest charting album for the Clash in their native United Kingdom. The album was well received by critics and fans, peaking at number two in the United Kingdom Albums Chart, and number 128 in the Billboard 200. It was their first album released in the United States, preceding the U.S. It was released on 10 November 1978 through CBS Records. Give 'Em Enough Rope is the second studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash. ![]()
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