On August 21, Joe Strummer would have been 70 years old. To mark the birthday, a box set will be released to celebrate his work with the Mescaleros. It contains unreleased songs, demos and outtakes. Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years is out September 16th.
We’re giving away a 7-LP box set of “Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years”
The box set includes remixed editions of all three of the Mescaleros’ studio albums: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style, Global A Go-Go and Streetcore. There are also 15 unreleased songs and the first demos that Strummer wrote for the band. Also included are outtakes, interviews with Joe’s friends and Mescalero’s bandmates, and notes, lyrics and drawings by Strummer.
Rock Art and the X-Ray Style
- Tony Adams
- Sandpaper blues
- X ray style
- Techno D Day
- The Road to Rock ‘N’ Roll
- Diggin’ The New
- nitcomb
- Forbidden City
- Yalla Yalla
- Willesden To Cricklewood
Global A Go Go
- 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 (full length version)
street core
- coma girl
- Get Down Moses
- Longshadow
- Arms Aloft
- Ramshackle Day Parade
- Redemption song
- All In A Day
- Burnin’ Streets
- midnight jam
- silver and gold
Vibes Compass
- Time And The Tide
- Techno D Day (Demo)
- Ocean Of Dreams (feat. Steve Jones)
- Forbidden City (Demo)
- X-Ray Style (Demo)
- The Road To Rock ‘N’ Roll (Demo)
- Tony Adams (Demo)
- Cool ‘N’ Out (Demo)
- Global A Go-Go (Demo)
- Secret agent man
- All In A Day (Demo)
- London Is Burning
- Get Down Moses (Outtake)
- Fantastic
- Coma Girl (Outtake)
ROLLING STONE raffled a 7-LP box set of “Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years”. If you want to win, all you have to do is fill out the form below and enter “Joe Strummer” as the answer. The closing date for entries is September 16th.
Here you can listen to the previously unreleased track “Fantastic”.
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