Cut the Crap is the sixth and final studio album by the English punk band the Clash. It was recorded in early 1985 at Weryton Studios, Munich, following a turbulent period. Clash manager Bernie Rhodes and lead vocalist Joe Strummer fought with each other for control over the band’s songwriting and musical direction. The single “Dirty Punk” was released on 4 November 1985 by CBS Records, and was a huge success in the U.S.
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Cut the Crap is the sixth and final studio album by the English punk band the Clash. It was recorded in early 1985 at Weryton Studios, Munich, following a turbulent period. Clash manager Bernie Rhodes and lead vocalist Joe Strummer fought with each other for control over the band’s songwriting and musical direction. The album was poorly received upon release, and is still generally regarded as the group’s worst album. Strummer disowned the album and dissolved the Clash within weeks of its release. The Clash’s internal difficulties during 1983 led to two of its core members being fired: guitarist Mick Jones was seen as adopting rock star posturing that Strummer considered anathema to what the band stood for, and drummer Topper Headon had developed a heroin addiction which left him unreliable. In response, Strummer wrote the song “We Are the Clash” along with Nick Sheppard and Greg White. The band went on a short tour of the US, debuting the new songs, which prompted the sales sales of Combat Rock to soar. In January 1985, the band performed the songs “Sex Mad Roar” and “Three Card Trick” live for the first time since the release of the album in November 1984. The song “This Is England” was the first Clash song to be played live since the album’s release in January 1985. It has been performed only one time by Strummer during his solo career, and the album has been excluded altogether from most of the Clash’s compilations and box sets.
The single “Dirty Punk” was released on 4 November 1985 by CBS Records, and was a huge success in the U.S. Epic Records hoped the album would advance the Clash’ssuccess in the United States, and planned an expensive video for a lead single. In the UK music press, the album was maligned in the UK press as \”one of the most disastrous ever released by a major artist\”. On release, the Clash was referred to as \”the Clash Mark II, Round Two, or Sandista! — the Clash Mark, Round two! — in a phrase adopted by the press as a phrase used by the Clash to refer to their two previous albums, Combat Rock and Combat Rock Round Two. The album title, taken from a line in the 1981 post-apocalyptic film Mad Max 2, is also used as the title of a song on the second Clash album, “SexMad Roar”, which was released in January 1986. It is the only Clash album not to have been released as a single. The group went on to release the album as a double CD, “The Real Clash” in March 1986. The second Clash line-up was released the following month, and it was the last Clash album to be released as part of Epic Records’ Epic Records deal with Capitol Records. The third Clash album was “The New Clash”, released in November 1987. The fourth Clash album came out in March 1988, and featured the singles “This is England” and “Three Card trick”
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