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Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side. Anticipating the “world music” trend of the 1980s, it features reggae, jazz, mock 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 The title comes from the Nicaraguan socialist political party, the Sandinistas, and its catalogue number, ‘FSLN1’, refers to the acronym for Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional. Sandinista! was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice‘s Pazz & Jop critics poll, and it was ranked... Read on...