'Cut the Crap', The Clash's last album and their only album with their "improved" line up, is easily the clash's worst album. Without Topper on drums or Mick on guitar, the album seems to be missing something, maybe Micks wild ideas which, even if causing their downfall on albums such as Sandinista!, gave the Clash their distinctive sound. Or it may've been Toppers impecable rythm (in tracks such as Dictator, the albums first song, the instrument sound very loose, and not entirely all together). The records sole single 'This Is England' may be one of the albums only respectable tracks, despite this the track was still left off the 1991 compilation, 'The Singles'. The albums first track Dictator, has the Clash's feel, with the lyrics, though the repetive drum pattern in the background and the out of tune, out of time tinny horns and the mysterious instrument which sounds suspiciously like the lower end of a xylophone, which is hidden deep in all the sound of the songs, spoils the track, and the voice clips of what sounds to be a radio anouncement or a news program on television is done very trashily, though a good idea initially. I would not advise the purchase of this album, except to a clash collector, and even then, its not really the clash is it? just the same words, the same bass, the same name, and the same rock 'n' roll swindler: Bernard Rhodes. Though saying this I would advise the purchase of the single, if it is still available on the market, despite not actually hearing the B-sides to it. Bobby L.