Rated 407/500 by Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time!
Fully-replicated artwork including printed inner sleeves
Newly remastered by The Clash from original tapes to audiophile quality vinyl!
"Sandinista! is the first LP since some of the psychedelic productions of the '60s that keeps growing by virtue of density and bulk alone, slowly revealing its constantly changing layers of substance over several listenings." — Rolling Stone
Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was released in December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with six songs on each side. Anticipating the "world music" trend of the 1980s, it features funk, reggae, jazz, gospel, rockabilly, folk, dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, and rap. For the first time, the band's traditional songwriting credits of Strummer and Jones were replaced by a generic credit to the Clash, and the band cut the album royalties, in order to release the 3-LP at a low price.
The title refers to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and its catalogue number, 'FSLN1', refers to the abbreviation of the party's Spanish name, Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.
Sandinista! was voted best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop critics poll in The Village Voice, and was ranked number 407 on the Rolling Stone list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" in 2003. Slant Magazine listed the album at number 85 on its "Best Albums of the 1980s" list in 2012.