Happy 40th birthday to the Clash ’s Cut the Crap , the most hated album of the Eighties. History is full of cases where great bands make terrible records, yet history stands speechless at what the Clash accomplished here. Cut the Crap came out in November 1985, and got instantly repudiated by Joe Strummer and anyone else involved with it. It’s the all-time case of a legendary group with a previously impeccable discography who make one flop so mind-blowingly awful it kills off the brand forever. As Strummer said a few years later, “You probably could put it under the flogging-a-dead-horse file.”

Cut the Crap has gotten erased from the Clash’s official history. It’s not listed in the discography or timeline on the band’s official website. It goes unmentioned in the documentary W

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