Streetcore
- Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
- Band Name: Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
- Record Label: Epitaph
- Release Date: Oct 21, 2003
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100Streetcore negotiates a resolution between the ethnocentric beats that hallmarked the two previous Mescaleros albums and the classic Clash sound that remained pivotal to Joe's live performances. [Nov 2003, p.110]
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100This is one of the best rock & roll albums of 2003, and truly the finest, most cohesive work he did after London Calling.
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Mescaleros Martin Slattery and Scott Shields have yielded a remarkably cohesive set of songs with arrangements that Strummer would have approved of. [Dec 2003, p.135]
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100His best work since the Clash's London Calling.
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90The 'world-music' excursions of the previous 'Global - A Go Go' album are less in evidence and 'Streetcore' is a sharper, leaner collection for it.
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90Strummer's best solo effort and one of the best rock records of the year.
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One of the best albums of 2003, one of his best albums post-Clash, and as the highest note Joe Strummer could have exited on.
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Just the sort of punky reggae party he was born to throw. [24 Oct 2003, p.106]
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80'Streetcore' shows he was still producing vital music to the end.
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80Streetcore is an amalgam of all that made Joe Strummer, the musician and the man, so great. [Nov 2003, p.131]
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80Splits evenly into out-and-out rockers and downhome folk. [Nov 2003, p.123]
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80An unnervingly powerful, cathartic final statement. [#61, p.107]
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It has so many promising moments, so few -- and I would say hardly any -- flaws, that I just can't help but think, "what if he saw it through?"
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75Just as messy as the Mescaleros' first two stabs at relevance. [Jan 2004, p.102]
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70His singing is a bit improved and the playing throughout is heartfelt and strong.
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Streetcore continues the band's lightly amplified muscular-acoustic sound.
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In a way, the tinny sound and half-finished feel makes it seem more touching and direct than the final result might otherwise have been.
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69While the record fails at living up to the hyperbolic critical proclamations of London Calling's second coming, it does make for a pretty decent, if somewhat unexpected, sweat-soaked finale for The Clash's legendary golden boy.
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Streetcore isn't exactly London Calling, but with his sweet, ragged voice sounding as strident as ever, Strummer improves on such hit-and-miss affairs as 1999's Rock Art and the X-Ray Style.
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40Without much international color or guest flourish. [Nov 2003, p.122]
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LynnG10
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GuidovanEs10I listen to it now and it fills my ears with pure joy every time :)
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LawrenceP10Thanks for all the good music...Joe Strummer is the only musican that changed the way i lived my life.