Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years | ||||
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Released | August 21, 2012 | |||
Genre | Alternative rock. punk rock, reggae, folk | |||
Label | HellCat | |||
Producer | Antony Genn, Richard Norris, Scott Shields, Martin Slattery, Joe Strummer, Rick Rubin, Danny Saber, Richard Flack | |||
Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros chronology | ||||
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Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros: The Hellcat Years is a MP3 digital download album consisting of the entire remastered catalog of music that was recorded by Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros during their tenure with Hellcat Records from 1999 to 2003.
The 57 song set was released to celebrate what would have been Strummer's 60th birthday.[1][2] The set features all three of the group's studio albums along with various B-sides and the entire November 2002 concert titled Live at Acton Town Hall which features one of Strummer's final performances before his death a month later.[3]
Track listing
[edit]Rock Art & The X-Ray Style
[edit]- "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"
Global a Go-Go
[edit]- "Johnny Appleseed"
- "Cool 'n' Out"
- "Global a Go-Go"
- "Bhindi Bhagee"
- "Gamma Ray"
- "Mega Bottle Ride"
- "Shaktar Donetsk"
- "Mondo Bongo"
- "Bummed Out City"
- "At the Border, Guy"
- "Minstrel Boy"
Streetcore
[edit]- "Coma Girl"
- "Get Down Moses"
- "Long Shadow"
- "Arms Aloft"
- "Ramshackle Day Parade"
- "Redemption Song"
- "All in a Day"
- "Burnin' Streets"
- "Midnight Jam"
- "Silver and Gold"
B-sides and outtakes
[edit]- "Time and the Tide" (b-side to "Yalla Yalla")
- "X-Ray Style" (Live Summer '99) (b-side to "Yalla Yalla")
- "Yalla Yalla" (Norro's King Dub) (b-side to "Yalla Yalla")
- "The Harder They Come" (live) (b-side to "Coma Girl")
- "Rudy, A Message to You" (live) (b-side to "Coma Girl")
- "Blitzkrieg Bop" (live) (b-side to "Coma Girl")
- "Yalla Yalla" (live) (b-side to "Coma Girl")
- "Armagideon Time" (live) (b-side to "Redemption Song")
- "Pressure Drop" (live) (b-side to "Redemption Song")
- "Junco Partner" (live) (from Give 'Em the Boot IV)
Live at Acton Town Hall
[edit]- "Shaktar Donetsk"
- "Bhindee Bhagee"
- "Rudie Can't Fail"
- "Tony Adams"
- "(White Man) in Hammersmith Palais"
- "Mega Bottle Ride"
- "Get Down Moses"
- "Police and Thieves"
- "Cool 'N' Out"
- "Police on My Back"
- "Johnny Appleseed"
- "Coma Girl"
- "I Fought the Law"
- "Bankrobber" (featuring Mick Jones)
- "White Riot" (featuring Mick Jones)
- "London's Burning" (featuring Mick Jones)
References
[edit]- ^ Judge, Stephen (2 November 2012). "Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros – The Hellcat Years". Blurtonline.com. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ^ "Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros releasing digital box set, expanded CD reissues". Slicingupeyeballs.com. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
- ^ Cericola, Rachel. "Hellcat Records Celebrates 60 Years of Joe Strummer with Digital Release | GeekMom". Wired.com. Archived from the original on 25 August 2012. Retrieved 6 October 2013.