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Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
Band United Kingdom Active 1999–2003
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros formed in 1999 in the United Kingdom and was active until 2003. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros has 44 chart appearances on 28 radio countdowns from 5 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Johnny Appleseed”, which appears on 20 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros most often is CD101 (Columbus, OH), with 25 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros was the band that Strummer put together in 1999, and it had an unlikely birth. It began with soundtrack work for a pair of short films alongside Pablo Cook and Richard Norris; when Antony Genn came aboard and urged him to make a proper record, the sessions turned into Rock Art and the X-Ray Style. The lineup was a gang of musical all-rounders: Scott Shields switching between bass, guitar and drums, Martin Slattery on keyboards, guitar, flute and sax, Cook on percussion and Steve Barnard on drums.
Global a Go-Go in 2001 was their loosest, most joyous outing, a roving punk rock record with its sleeves rolled up, and "Johnny Appleseed" was its big-hearted anthem, a rolling, singalong tune that had rock radio listeners turning it up. Tymon Dogg joined for that phase, and Hellcat Records put the music out.
Strummer died of a heart attack in 2002 at 50. One more album came out after he was gone: Streetcore, in 2003, with "Coma Girl" leading the charge, raw and roaring and a fitting last word. The Mescaleros were over, but the songs are the sound of a man who got his fire back.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Johnny Appleseed | 20 | #5 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | Coma Girl | 17 | #60 | – | 2003 | |
| 3 | Get Down Moses | 6 | #189 | – | – | |
| 4 | Redemption Song | 1 | #401 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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