Combat Rock (studio album)
by The Clash
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Combat Rock is ranked 4th best out of 19 albums by The Clash on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by The Clash is London Calling which is ranked number 20 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 31,829.
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The tracks on this album have an average rating of 80 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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70/100  | 09/24/2025 12:58 | ShenBapiro | | 80/100 |
85/100 | 08/24/2025 04:09 |  Brandon8 | | 89/100 |
90/100 | 08/07/2025 01:55 | edguyerrison | | 74/100 |
70/100 | 07/13/2025 17:54 | rfowler | | 85/100 |
75/100 | 06/23/2025 15:17 | cicadelic | | 73/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 6% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.7/100, a mean average of 75.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.8/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.7.
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Three iconic songs - Straight To Hell, Should I Stay, Rock The Casbah - but the rest of the album is really lacking quality. Sean Flynn, Red Angel Dragnet and even the first track Know Your Rights are particularly poor. Nowhere near the standard of London Calling, which I enjoyed.
Under-rated Clash record, much more consistent than Sandinista.
In terms of consistency it is similar to their previous one Sandinista! but much shorter which is improvement. There are 4 great songs that stand out Know Your Rights, Should I Stay Or Should I Go, Rock The Casbah and Straight To Hell, the ret is either forgettable or pointless and boring.
Jboy56 03/31/2022 07:28
Uneven, with 2 hits
Larcx13 11/21/2021 12:33
I didnt get Straight to Hell but Rock the Casbah and Should I Stay are obviously great, as is Know Your Rights. That being said, unlike most commenters I've seen, I also quite enjoyed songs like Overpowered by Funk and Red Angel Dragnet. As for Atom Tan, Sean Flynn, Ghetto Defendant and Inoculated City, they are not the greatest songs ever written BUT in their own right are enjoyable songs. Sean Flynn might not be for everyone but I've learned to appreciate a track like that. It's not the Clash's best work, BUT I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it.
The hits are just fantastic. Should I Stay or Should I Go, Know Your Rights, Rock the Casbah and especially Straight to Hell are among the Clash's best songs. The rest of the album... not so much.
Larcx13 06/18/2020 16:54
Disappointing compared to London Calling but a breath of fresh air after Sandinista!.
This was good, but is the weakest proper Clash album.
Their two major hits are on this one, but apart from that the rest of the songs (exluding Know Your Rights) are quite dull, and just blatantly poor-writed. Such a shame, they could have done this so much better.
Sandrof1969 02/17/2018 10:23
Il mio primo disco dei Clash nonché l'ultimo a poter essere davvero considerato un disco dei Clash non lo cambierei con dieci "Sandinista". E' vero che non c'è più quasi niente di nuovo ma è anche vero che è quasi tutto di livello buono quando non ottimo; anche senza prendere in considerazione le hits planetarie "Rock the casbah" e "Should i stay should i go", l'album abbonda di buone canzoni toccando, com'è nel loro stile, generi diversi.
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