Mescaleros catalog reissued for Joe Strummer's birthday

Joe Strummer and The Mescaleros
Contributed by Xisdc, Posted by Hellcat

As fans celebrate what would have been Clash frontman Joe Strummer's 60th birthday this year, Hellcat Records has announced plans to reissue all three of Joe's albums with The Mescaleros. The albums - 1999's Rock Art and the X-Ray Style 2001's Global A Go-Go, and 2003's Streetcore, will be remastered and released on vinyl, and CD with bonus tracks.

All three are due out September 25, 2012.

A single "digital" box set release with all three albums and their bonus tracks is due today for Joe's birthday, August 21, 2012. It's titled The Hellcat Years and you can find it for $25 on iTunes or Amazon.


  1. Coma Girl
  2. Get Down Moses
  3. Long Shadow
  4. Arms Aloft
  5. Ramshackle Day Parade
  6. Redemption Song
  7. All In A Day
  8. Burnin' Streets
  9. Midnight Jam
  10. Silver And Gold
  11. The Harder They Come (live) (B-side to Coma Girl) -
  12. Rudi, A Message To You (live) (B-side to Coma Girl)
  13. Blitzkreig Bop (live) (B-side of Coma Girl)
  14. Yalla Yalla (live) (B-side to Coma Girl)
  15. Armagideon Time (B-side to Redemption Song)
  16. Pressure Drop (B-side to Redemption Song)


  1. Tony Adams
  2. Sandpaper Blues
  3. X-ray Style
  4. Techno D-day
  5. The Road To Rock'n'roll
  6. Nitcomb
  7. Diggin' The New
  8. Forbidden City
  9. Yalla Yalla
  10. Willesden To Cricklewood
  11. Time and The Tide (B-side of Yalla Yalla)
  12. The X-Ray Style (live summer 99) (B-side to Yalla Yalla)
  13. Yalla Yalla (Norro's King Dub) (7:01) (B-side to Yalla Yalla)


  1. Johnny Appleseed
  2. Cool 'N' Out
  3. Global A GO-GO
  4. Bhindi Bhagee
  5. Gamma Ray
  6. Mega Bottle Ride
  7. Shaktar Donetsk
  8. Mondo Bongo
  9. Bummed Out City
  10. At The Border, Guy
  11. Minstrel Boy
  12. Bhindee Bhagee (Live from the Acton concert)

(Digital Bonus Tracks)

  1. Junco Partner (from Hellcat Give Em The Boot IV compilation) - 4:19
  2. Shaktar Donetsk (Acton Concert) - 5:43
  3. Rudy Can’t Fail (Acton Concert) - 4:39
  4. Tony Adams (Acton Concert) - 7:24
  5. White Man In Hammersmith Palais (Acton Concert) - 5:18
  6. Mega Bottle Ride (Acton Concert) - 3:47
  7. Get Down Moses (Acton Concert) - 4:18
  8. Police and Thieves (Acton Concert) - 6:02
  9. Cool 'n' Out (Acton Concert) - 3:38
  10. Police On My Back (Acton Concert) - 4:49
  11. Johnny Appleseed (Acton Concert) - 4:37
  12. Coma Girl (Acton Concert) - 4:27
  13. I Fought The Law (Acton Concert) - 4:00
  14. Bank Robber (encore w/ Mick Jones) (Acton Concert) - 9:08
  15. White Riot (encore w/ Mick Jones) (Acton Concert) - 2:25
  16. London’s Burning (encore w/ Mick Jones) (Acton Concert) - 2:33