Ahhh endelig forår............. Og op popper Clash....................Bør nydes rigtigt højt!
Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music Guide:
For their second album, the Clash worked with the American hard rock producer Sandy Pearlman, best-known for his work with blue oyster cult and the Dictators. The teaming was quite controversial within the punk community, and the sound of
give em enough rope is considerably cleaner, yet the more direct sound hardly tamed the
Clash. While the record doesn't burn with the same intense, amateurish
energy of
, it does have a big, forceful sound that is nearly as powerful. What keeps give em enough
from being a classic is its slightly inconsistent material. Many of the
songs are outright classics, particularly the first half of the record
("Safe European Home," "English Civil War," "Tommy Gun," "Julie's Been
Working for the Drug Squad") and "Stay Free," but the group loses some
momentum toward the end of the record. Even with such flaws, give em enough ranks as one of the strongest albums of punk era.