Vindication on Vinyl in 1981

Rolling Stone December 24, 1981

Sandinista!

If the Clash, by insisting on their own heroism, continue their willingness to gamble big and still keep winning, they may yet inspire a viable rock-culture politics. While London Calling was a flexing of muscle that claimed Clash style could pull off anything, Sandinista! says to hell with Clash style, there's a world out there. The Clash is a great rock & roll band, and Sandinista! is one of the best albums of 1981. (Epic)

The Top 40 Albums 1982

Rolling Stone December 23, 1982

Combat Rock

With two singles - "Should I Stay or Go" [sic] and "Rock the Casbah" - propelling it up the charts, Combat Rock became the Clash's first gold record in the U.S. The LP is a provocative, demanding document of classic punk anger, and the music ranges from the locomotive disco of "Overpowered by Funk" and the frisky Bo Diddley-style strut of "Car Jamming" to the mutant-cabaret sway of "Death Is the Star." This is stirring, inspirational rock & roll, full of imagination and vigor.

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