Washington Bullets (Song)

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align="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Washington Bullets
lign="center" colspan="3"|Image of Sandinista! album cover
lign="center" bgcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Compact Disk album by The Clash
lign="center" colspan="3"|From the album Sandinista!
lign="left" valign="top"|Released colspan="2" valign="top"|December 12 1980.
lign="left" valign="top"|Recorded colspan="2" valign="top"|Unknown
lign="left" valign="top"|Genre colspan="2" valign="top"|Punk Rock
lign="left" valign="top"|Length colspan="2" valign="top"|3 min, 51 sec
lign="left" valign="top"|Record label colspan="2" valign="top"|CBS Records
lign="left" valign="top"|Producer colspan="2" valign="top"|???
gcolor="orange" colspan="3"|Sandinista! track listing
align="top"|The Call Up
(22)
valign="top"|Washington Bullets
(23)
valign="top"|Broadway
(24)
"Washington Bullets" is a song from The Clash's 1980 album Sandinista!. A politically charged song, it is a simplified version of Latin American history from the 1959 Cuban Revolution to the Nicaraguan Sandinistas of the 1980s, with mention of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Dalai Lama. A criticism of the foreign policy of the United States, the song also betrays The Clash's left wing politics. The song is one of The Clash's more experimental, in the reggae style, with a xylophone and lyrics that are almost spoken rather than sung. Though the xylophone is the most prominent instrument, electric guitar riffs are still audible. At 2 minutes 2 seconds, the lyrics to the song effectively finish, with 1 minute and 47 seconds of drums, xylophone and guitar interspersed with the occasional cry of "Sandinista!". At 2 minutes 42 seconds, a monkey-like laughing/howling noise is heard, lasting until 3 minutes and 1 second.

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