Rock Art And The X-Ray Style
by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros

Rock Art And The X-Ray Style by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros
Year: 1999
Overall rank: 11,783rd   Overall chart history
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Award Top albums of the 1990s (1,896th)
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Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros bestography

Rock Art And The X-Ray Style is ranked 2nd best out of 6 albums by Joe Strummer on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Joe Strummer is Streetcore which is ranked number 5161 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 264.

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros album bestography « Higher ranked (5,161st)
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Overall rank: 11,783rd | 1990s rank: 1,896th | 1999 rank: 187th

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After releasing a very horrible final album with The Clash, Joe Strummer kinda disappeared for about 10 years. In 1999 he formed the Mescaleros and released a solid album that, like The Clash, took influences from all over the world.
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