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Rock Art and the X-Ray Style | 
 enlarge | Artist: Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros
Label: Mercury Records Ltd (London)
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  11 reviews
Sales Rank: 4823
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 50
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 731454665421
EAN: 0731454665421
ASIN: B00002MHSP
Release Date: October 18, 1999
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| Tracks:
| • | Tony Adams | | • | Sandpaper Blues | | • | X-Ray Style | | • | Techno D-Day | | • | The Road To Rock 'n' Roll | | • | Nitcomb | | • | Diggin The New | | • | Forbidden City | | • | Yalla Yalla | | • | Willesden To Cricklewood |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 6 more reviews...
 Rock Art and the Return of World Service Troubadour June 21, 2008
Ten years had passed since Joe Strummer had last recorded an LP, 1989's `Earthquake Weather' which had been a critical and commercial failure and had lost him his solo contract with CBS/Epic the home of The Clash. Since then he had deputised for Shane MacGowan on a Pogues tour, appeared with Black Grape, The Levellers and Fat Les as well as contributing to the soundtracks and making cameo appearances in various independent films. Nobody was expecting much of The Mescaleros as The Latino Rockabilly War was still very much in everyone's mind if not on their turntables.
The album opens with `Tony Adams' which if it is a tribute to the England and Arsenal Captain and defender it is very obscure but a great song regardless. `Sandpaper Blues' and `X-Ray Style' are both percussion driven world music inspired songs of which Strummer was making very much his trademark arrangement in his soundtrack work. `Techno D-Day' is very much what it says on the tin as indeed is `The Road to Rock'N'Roll'. `Nitcomb', `Diggin' the New' and `Forbidden City' follow the percussion driven Rock'N'Roll road building to a crescendo with the albums tour de force single `Yalla Yalla' which adds the techno beats to Joe's world music styling's and the storytelling waltz `Wilesden to Cricklewood' is the perfect curtain call for the album.
A wonderful return to form from a true rock icon. The Mescaleros topped this album with their next record but that was only exceeding the high expectations this album set it.
 Joe Strummer & his super Mescaleros November 9, 2007
Have recently purchased my second copy of this wonderful album, previous lost somewhere? As soon as I played my new copy again, for the first time in a fair while, I realised what a truely beautiful album this is. The influence of messers. Genn & Cook is really striking and together with Joe they made an album to be proud of. Yalla Yalla is the best track on the album, X-Ray Style is great, as for Willesden to Cricklewood..wow..fantastic. To sum it up, one of the few albums you would never even think about fast forwarding a single track on.
 Late news breaking this just in.... September 1, 2006
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
A charming effort that is slightly unsure of itself, Mr Strummer's return to the scene after some time is very likeable just not all that consistent.
The high points are the 2 closers - "Yalla Yalla" and the stunning "From Willesden To Crickelwood". Elsewhere things are little patchy. "Nitcomb" sounds like a bored Bob Dylan and "Techno D-Day" is a bit of bluster with little to show for it.
"X-Ray Style" and "Forbidden City" are rather charming.
The man would hit his stride with the Mescaleroes second effort.
A 5 Star Come back album - as rare as the Artist! July 11, 2005
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
When this cd came out in 1999, I,like most clash fans, could not wait to get it home and play it,from "Combat Rock" in 1982, it had been a long time! Sure there was "This England" the only great track on "Cut the Crap", great title, crap album......and a few tracks floating around, but this was supposed be the real deal. As soon as the first track kicked in "Tony Adams" a great groove, fantastic lyrics, full of humour and bite, I relaxed, I knew I was in for a treat.
Highlights were also "X Ray Style", a superb song, great acoustic playing, bongos with a happy positive lyric."Nitcomb", Joe singing to "all the torn betting slips", great song with the high of a Saturday night, and great lyrics of showing how you can get your life back despite anything thrown at you."Diggin' the New", acceptance of getting older and a new regime is in, with the immortal line "Just walk in like you own it........."."Forbidden City" Oh China indeed, strong imagery, the voice is seasoned and passionate, just as you would wish it to be. There are some modern sounds on the album,"Yalla Yalla" is very electronic, as are one or two tracks, but still with those fantastic lyrics "So long Liberty, lets just forget you didn't show" and then the humour of mixing fighting moves and drinking beer......It finishes with a sentimental "Willesden to Cricklewood", getting the mozzerella in.....
I was lucky enough to see the Mescarleros in Liverpool shortly after this album came out, the band were superb, Joe was pushing 50 and still giving it everything, thats why we loved him!
I saw him after "Global a Go Go" came out a couple of years later in Manchester, by that time, he'd played the Festivals all over the World, got his respect and profile back up, and yet he was chatting with the audience and was a great down to Earth guy.
To me, he was the John Lennon of our generation, always ready to take risks, and put himself on the line.
This album must have given him as much pleasure as it did all his fans, the way it was received. Go and buy it!
A return to glory August 9, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the album that re-established Joe Strummer as a musical force to be reckoned with, following a decade in self-imposed exile from the spotlight. The opening track, "Tony Adams", is a declaration of purpose, with the same sort of rock-plus-reggae formula that served Joe's former band, The Clash, so well. Elsewhere, Latin, folk, roots and punk styles collide as Joe celebrates the kind of multi-culturalism that puts the "great" back into Great Britain. All this and Joe namechecks both old school rapper Kool Moe Dee and bluesman Brownie McGee in the same line of a song!Overall, one gets the feeling that this is a glimpse at the kind of direction The Clash might have gone in had they survived the early 1980's and made it into the 1990's intact. What more could you really want?
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