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Joe Strummer
Future Is Unwritten
Release Date: 2007 05 15
Label: Sony Music Distribution
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This musical accompaniment to director Julian Temple's biopic of the late Joe Strummer obliterates the traditional soundtrack formula, turning the whole listening experience into an 80-minute radio show, hosted by the inimitable singer/producer/punk rock icon himself. Strummer, a lifelong devotee to the power of radio (he would often bring a transistor on-stage, hold it up to the microphone, and religiously tune in whatever beat-heavy, underground station popped up first), had his own program on the BBC that revolved around his myriad influences and notorious gift for gab. Like Little Steven's Underground Garage program, the music was steeped in its creator's psyche, with old and new favorites inciting rants, raves, and stories that were just as entertaining as the songs themselves. Strummer, a die-hard supporter of world music, filled the airwaves with as many dub, Latin, urban folk, and Middle Eastern dance tracks as he did rare Clash cuts and tracks from rock & roll outsiders like Tim Hardin, the MC5, and Nina Simone, a discipline that's executed perfectly on this lovingly compiled window into the soul of one of popular culture's most inclusive and influential voices. James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	"Punk Rock Warlord"		:11
2	White Riot [#]	Simonon, Strummer, Headon, Jones	2:22
3	Rock the Casbah	Headon, Jones, Strummer	4:30
4	BBC World Service		:19
5	Crawfish [From King Creole]	Wise, Weisman	2:08
6	Black Sheep Boy	Hardin	2:00
7	Kick Out the Jams	Kramer, Smith, Thompson, Davis	3:00
8	Keys to Your Heart	Strummer	3:38
9	"Mick and Paul Were Different"		:11
10	I'm So Bored with the U.S.A. [#][Demo Version]	Jones, Strummer	2:20
11	Natty Rebel [#]	U Roy, Beckford	4:09
12	Armagideon Time	Williams, Mittoo	3:46
13	Nervous Breakdown	Roccuzzo	2:18
14	(In The) Pouring Rain [Live][*]	Strummer	5:06
15	Omotepe [From Walker]	Strummer	3:44
16	Martha Cecilia	Cifuentes	2:52
17	Minuet	Ranglin, Maal	8:57
18	Trash City [From Permanent Record]	Strummer	4:11
19	"I Called Him Woody"		:19
20	Ranger's Command	Guthrie	2:48
21	Corrina, Corrina	Dylan	2:44
22	Johnny Appleseed	Shields, Dogg, Cook, Slattery, Strummer	4:02
23	To Love Somebody	Gibb	2:38
24	"Without People, You're Nothing"		:51
25	Willesden to Cricklewood	Strummer, Glenn	6:46

Other Releases:

Future Is Unwritten [DVD]
Release Date: 2007
Label: Sony Music Distribution

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