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Big Audio Dynamite: No. 10, Upping St. (Epic)

Iman Lababedi, Creem, April 1987

IF BIG AUDIO Dynamite's second LP is a de facto Clash reunion, with Joe Strummer and Mick Jones co-producing and co-writing a number of songs, it's the best Clash LP since London Calling. But what does that mean? Strummer finally cuts the crap? Jones finds his way out of the supermarket? We have no more expectations when it comes to the Clash?

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