Label: Columbia Records (US), CK 40705
Style: Alternative Dance, New Wave
Country: London, England
Time: 59:17
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 353 Mb
Charts: UK #11, AUS #85, NZ #23, SWE #49, US #119. UK: Silver.
After
Mick Jones was fired from the Clash in 1983, he formed Big Audio
Dynamite (B.A.D.) one year later to continue the more experimental funk
elements of the Clash's Combat Rock. The group's original incarnation
included Jones, video artist and Clash associate Don Letts (effects and
vocals), Greg Roberts (drums), Dan Donovan (keyboards), and Leo "E-Zee
Kill" Williams (bass). Adding samplers, dance tracks, and found sounds
to Jones' concise pop songwriting, B.A.D. debuted on record with the
single "The Bottom Line" in September 1985 and the album This Is Big
Audio Dynamite later that year. "E=MC2" and "Medicine Show" became
sizable hits in England, and reached the dance charts in America.
When
it arrived in late 1986, Big Audio Dynamite's second album, No. 10,
Upping St., boasted co-production and co-writing from Joe Strummer,
Jones' former bandmate in the Clash. It was a much better fusion of
contemporary production techniques with Jones' songwriting, and the two
biggest singles -- "C'mon Every Beatbox" and "V. Thirteen" -- performed
well both on the British pop charts and American dance charts. After a
two-year break, the band returned with a less free-form work, Tighten
Up, Vol. 88, but righted the ship with 1989's Megatop Phoenix, their
biggest performer in America (thanks to the singles "Contact" and "James
Brown").
After Megatop Phoenix, the band split apart at the end of
1989. Jones quickly added Gary Stonadge (bass/vocals), Chris Kavanagh
(drums/vocals), and Nick Hawkins (guitar/vocals) to form Big Audio
Dynamite II, while Letts, Williams, and Roberts formed Screaming Target
and Donovan joined the Sisters of Mercy. Releasing The Globe, the first
full-length album with the new lineup, in 1991, B.A.D. II experienced
their greatest success yet with the American Top 40 hit "Rush." In 1994,
Jones truncated the band's name to Big Audio and released Higher Power.
After
Higher Power, Big Audio parted ways with Epic, signing with Radioactive
in early 1995 and releasing F-Punk. The single "I Turned Out a Punk"
became a college radio hit, even when it was initially released
anonymously (granted, Jones' voice was immediately recognizable). That
conglomeration also split shortly afterward, Jones later appearing in
the production chair of notable records including the Libertines' Up the
Bracket.
(allmusic.com/artist/big-audio-dynamite-mn0000763237)
01. C'Mon Every Beatbox (05:26)
02. Beyond The Pale (04:41)
03. Limbo The Law (04:45)
04. Sambadrome (04:53)
05. V. Thirteen (04:39)
06. Ticket (03:27)
07. Hollywood Boulevard (03:56)
08. Dial A Hitman (05:04)
09. Sightsee M.C! (04:57)
10. Ice Cool Killer (05:32)
11. The Big V (04:49)
12. Badrock City (07:02)
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