Rare Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros tracks released – listen

A selection of rare Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros tracks have been released - and you can listen to them below. Strummer started working with the backing band he called The Mescaleros in the mid-to-late 1990s. The band' first album Rock Art And The X-Ray Style was released in 1999. Their second studio album Global a Go-Go followed in 2001. A third album was released posthumously in 2003, after Strummer's death in 2002.

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A selection of rare Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros tracks have been released – and you can listen to them below.

Strummer started working with the backing band he called The Mescaleros in the mid-to-late 1990s. The band’ first album Rock Art And The X-Ray Style was released in 1999.

Their second studio album Global a Go-Go followed in 2001. A third album was released posthumously in 2003, after Strummer’s death in 2002.

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To celebrate what would have been Strummer’s 60th birthday year, the final two LPs have now been re-released, and are packed with extra tracks, some of which you can hear below.

As well as live versions of the B-sides “Rudi, A Message To You” and “The Harder They Come”, you can also hear a live version of Ramones cover “Blitzkreig Bop”.

Also below is a previously unheard live version of “Bindee Bhagee” – recorded at Strummer’s last show on November 15, 2002 at Acton Town Hall, were The Mescaleros played a benefit concert for striking firefighters in London. Mick Jones, who was in the audience, later joined the band on stage for an impromptu performance.

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The tracklisting for the re-issued albums is as follows:

Global A Go-Go (CD and Double Vinyl)

‘Johnny Appleseed’

‘Cool ‘N’ Out’

‘Global A GO-GO’

‘Bhindi Bhagee’

‘Gamma Ray’

‘Mega Bottle Ride’

‘Shaktar Donetsk’

‘Mondo Bongo’

‘Bummed Out City’

‘At The Border, Guy’

‘Minstrel Boy’

‘Bindee Bhagee (Live from the Acton concert) [CD Only]

Streetcore (CD and Vinyl)

‘Coma Girl’

‘Get Down Moses’

‘Long Shadow’

‘Arms Aloft’

‘Ramshackle Day Parade’

‘Redemption Song’

‘All In A Day’

‘Burnin’ Streets’

‘Midnight Jam’

‘Silver And Gold’

‘The Harder They Come’ (live) (B-side to Coma Girl) [CD Only]

‘Rudi, A Message To You’ (live) (B-side to Coma Girl) [CD Only]

‘Blitzkreig Bop’ (live) (B-side of Coma Girl) [CD Only]

‘Yalla Yalla’ (live) (B-side to Coma Girl) [CD Only]

‘Armagideon’ Time (B-side to Redemption Song) [CD Only]

‘Pressure Drop’ (B-side to Redemption Song) [CD Only]

‘Junco Partner’ (from Hellcat Give Em The Boot IVcompilation) [CD Only]

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