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"Pressure Drop" is a song recorded in 1969 by the Maytals for record producer Leslie Kong. The song appears on their 1970 album Monkey Man (released in Jamaica by Beverley's Records ) and From the Roots (released in the UK by Trojan Records ).
Toots and the Maytals' compositions experienced a resurgence of popularity in 1978–80 during the reggae punk and ska revival period in the UK, when the Specials covered "Monkey Man" on their 1979 debut album and the Clash covered the group's hit "Pressure Drop".
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Single by The Clash; from the album Give 'Em Enough Rope; B-side "Pressure Drop" Released: 23 February 1979 (U.K.) Recorded: 1978: Genre: Punk rock: Length: 2: 35: Label: CBS 7082: Songwriter(s) traditional, arranged by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones: Producer(s) Sandy Pearlman: The Clash singles chronology "
"The Prisoner," the cover of "Pressure Drop" by Toots and the Maytals, "City of the Dead," and "Armagideon Time" had all been UK b-sides from the period 1977–79, respectively of "White Man in Hammersmith Palais," "English Civil War," "Complete Control," and "London Calling." "Pressure Drop" is presented here in a remix by Bill Price.
In a contemporary review for Rolling Stone, Greil Marcus hailed Give 'Em Enough Rope as a poised, unpretentious record of "straight English punk with a grip on the future" and "accessible hard rock" showcasing the Clash's unyielding, humorous "vision of public life": "The band's vision of a world strangling on its own contradictions hasn't changed, but their idea of their place in that world has."
Taylor Swift Graham Denholm/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights Management The chairman of the Tortured Poets Department has spoken, and she’s dropping lyrical clues. Taylor Swift took to ...
"Clampdown" is a song by the English rock band the Clash from their 1979 album London Calling. The song began as an instrumental track called "Working and Waiting". [1] It is sometimes called "Working for the Clampdown" which is the main lyric of the song, and also the title provided on the album's lyric sheet.