Joe Strummer-Assembly-CD-FLAC-2021-FORSAKEN

                     FORSAKEN Proudly Presents              
    Artist      : Joe Strummer                                      
   Album       : Assembly                                          
    Label       : BMG Records                                        
    Genre       : Rock                                               
    Source      : CD                                                 
    Street Date : 2021-03-26                                         
   Quality     : 909 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels                   
    Encoder     : FLAC 1.3.1                                        
     Size        : 499.54 MB                                          
     Time        : 73:16 min                                          
    Url         : http://allmusic.com/album/release/assembly-mr0005 
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  1.  Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Coma Girl                      3:48 
  2.  Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Johnny Appleseed               4:04 
  3.  Joe Strummer - I Fought The Law (Live)                         2:39 
  4.  Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Tony Adams                     6:33 
  5.  Joe Strummer - Sleepwalk                                       4:08 
  6.  Joe Strummer - Love Kills                                      4:00 
  7.  Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Get Down Moses                 5:07 
  8.  Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - X-Ray Style                    4:34 
  9.  Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Mondo Bongo                    6:13 
  10. Joe Strummer - Rudie Can't Fail (Live)                         3:09 
  11. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - At The Border, Guy             7:02 
  12. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Long Shadow                    3:34 
  13. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Forbidden City                 4:46 
  14. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Yalla Yalla                    6:56 
  15. Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Redemption Song                3:29 
  16. Joe Strummer - Junco Partner (Acoustic)                        3:14 
     It was Joe Strummer's good fortune that he was the frontman of     
     one of the greatest rock bands of all time, the Clash. It was his  
     burden that after the group broke up, he had to spend the rest of  
     his career being judged by a standard that meant only so much to   
     him. Very little of what Strummer did as solo artist followed the  
     musical template of the Clash, and that was just the way he        
     wanted it. His albums had as much to do with folk as rock in       
     their focus on storytelling and character studies, as well as his  
     willingness to incorporate acoustic guitars and fiddles in their   
     arrangements to give them a sound and personality distinct from    
     what he'd done in the past. The 2018 compilation Joe Strummer 001  
     was an effort to bring together the gems from Strummer's           
     post-Clash catalog and examine his solo recordings with fresh      
     ears, and 2021's Assembly is a more compact attempt to do          
     essentially the same thing, wrapping up the package with 16        
     tracks rather than 001's 32. Joe Strummer 001 sometimes felt       
     overstuffed despite the quality of the material, and in contrast   
     Assembly feels like it's not quite enough. The material with his   
     band the Mescaleros is uniformly fine, even when it upends         
     expectations of what Strummer could do in the studio. The gentle   
     flow of "Sleepwalk," the rough but joyous internationalist rock    
     of "Coma Girl," the quiet roar of the largely acoustic "Johnny     
     Appleseed," the menace and intrigue of "At the Border, Guy," and   
     the curiously organic electronics of "Yalla Yalla" all bear the    
     stamp of his vision and soul, even though they bear little if any  
     resemblance to punk rock. (And "Love Kills," which he recorded     
     for the soundtrack of the film Sid & Nancy, feels like the         
     template for what the Clash's Cut the Crap should have been with   
     its crashing guitar and hip-hop-inspired electronic percussion.)   
     It's significant that the two weakest tracks on Assembly are live  
     takes of Strummer & the Mescaleros playing "I Fought the Law" and  
     "Rudy Can't Fail," which are the work of an artist who is happy    
     to please his fans but sounds only so enthusiastic about it. For   
     anyone who hasn't explored the music Joe Strummer made after the   
     Clash, Assembly works well as a compact introduction, but Joe      
     Strummer 001 gives a better perspective on the full scope of his   
     musical world view, and 2003's Streetcore, his final album, is an  
     outstanding and fully formed record eagerly awaiting rediscovery.  
     Hint, hint.                                                        

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26M	02-joe_strummer_and_the_mescaleros-johnny_appleseed.flac
19M	03-joe_strummer-i_fought_the_law_(live).flac
44M	04-joe_strummer_and_the_mescaleros-tony_adams.flac
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22M	15-joe_strummer_and_the_mescaleros-redemption_song.flac
19M	16-joe_strummer-junco_partner_(acoustic).flac
480M	total