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▓█▀▄▄ 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 ▐██
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████ 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 ████
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████ 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 ████
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████ 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 ████
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████ 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 ████
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████ 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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