The Clash: Sandinista! (1980)

When Sandinista! was released, some of the reviewers made the point that had this record been pruned to make it a single or maybe even a double album, it would have been much stronger. I am in that camp. It would have made a really great single record and I think it could easily have been stretched to a double. Evidently, the band asked for fewer royalties to help fund a triple album.

Despite the fact that it might have been better with either 12 or 24 songs, rather than 36, there is something to be said for the vision of a really diverse three record set. They did what they wanted and it works.