Give 'Em Enough Rope is the second studio album from The Clash, released in 1978. Despite the tepid production by metal guru Sandy Pearlman, Give 'Em Enough Rope manages to burn with white-hot intensity. Though not as amateurish or snarling as their debut album, Rope finds the boys flexing their songwriting muscles. The first three songs ("Safe European Home," "English Civil War," and "Tommy Gun") stand among their most powerful and leap from the record with brute force. Though they hit a few clunkers ("Cheapskates"), this album is a near classic and gives a hint of the band to come that would light up the world with London Calling.

180 gram audiophile vinyl