Combat Rock
Combat Rock is the fifth studio album by the English punk rock band the Clash. It was released on 14 May 1982 through CBS Records. In the United Kingdom, the album charted at number 2, spending 23 weeks in the UK charts and peaked at number 7 in the United States, spending 61 weeks on the chart. Combat Rock is the group's best-selling album, being certified double platinum in the United States. It was the last album featuring Mick Jones and Topper Headon. Following along the same note as Sandinista!, Combat Rock's catalogue number "FMLN2" is the abbreviation for the El Salvador political party Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional or FMLN.
Recording and production
Combat Rock was originally planned as a double album with the working title Rat Patrol from Fort Bragg, but the idea was scrapped after internal wrangling within the group. Mick Jones had mixed the first version, but the other members were dissatisfied and mixing/producing duties were handed to Glyn Johns, at which point the album became a single LP. The original mixes were later bootlegged. Out-takes included a Tymon Dogg song, "Once You Know", the recording featured all the band with Tymon Dogg on vocals and violin.
Combat Rock (novel)
Combat Rock is a BBC Books original novel written by Mick Lewis and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Second Doctor, Victoria and Jamie.
The story encompasses an extended allegory on Indonesia's colonial treatment of Irian Jaya and draws on Lewis's own experiences in the region. The characters of Jamie and Victoria are also used to explore post-colonial themes.
Placement
Its precise placement in the series continuity is not stated. The Doctor describes landing on a tropical beach as a "welcome change", implying that their last landing was in a more inhospitable place like in the serial The Ice Warriors or the novel Dreams of Empire. However, it could equally fit in between many of the stories with the Second Doctor, Jamie and Victoria, in particular the ending of The Abominable Snowmen.
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Combat Rock
They tell us there are only two sides to be on
If you are on our side you're right if not you're wrong
But are we innocent paragons of good?
Is our guilt erased by the pain that we've endured?
Endured
Hey look, it's time to pledge allegiance
Oh God I love my dirty Uncle Sam
Our country's marching to the beat now
And we must learn to step in time
Where is the questioning, where is your protest song?
Since when is skepticism unamerican?
Dissents not treason but they talk like it's the same
Those who disagree are afraid to show their face
Their face
Let's break out our old machines now
It sure is good to see them run again
Oh gentlemen start your engines
And we know where we get the oil from
Are you feeling alright now?
Paint myself all red, white, blue
Are you singing let's fight now?
Innocent people die [Incomprehensible]
Show you love your country go out and spend some cash
Red, white, blue hot pants doing it for Uncle Sam
Now flex your muscles show them stronger than the rest
Raise your hands up baby are you sure that we're the best?
The best
We'll come out with our fists raised
The good old boys are back on top again
And if we let them lead us blindly
The past becomes the future once again
Are you feeling alright now?
I paint myself all red, white, blue
Are you singing let's fight now?
Innocent people die [Incomprehensible]
Are you singing let's fight now?
Innocent people die [Incomprehensible]
No one's ever [Incomprehensible]