This Is Big Audio Dynamite

Infobox Album | Name = This is Big Audio Dynamite
Type = Album
Artist = Big Audio Dynamite

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Released = October 1985
Recorded =
Genre = Post-punk
Length = 43:09
Label = Columbia
Producer = Mick Jones
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:5srp286c056a link]
Last album =
This album = "This is Big Audio Dynamite"
(1985)
Next album = "No. 10, Upping St."
(1986)

"This Is Big Audio Dynamite" was the debut album by Big Audio Dynamite, led by former Clash band member Mick Jones. It was released in 1985, and reached #27 in the UK and #103 in the U.S.

Track listing

#"Medicine Show" – 6:29
#"Sony" – 4:30
#"E=MC²" – 5:54
#"The Bottom Line" – 4:35
#"A Party" – 6:40
#"Sudden Impact!" – 5:03
#"Stone Thames" – 4:05
#"Bad" – 5:54

All Songs written by Jones/Letts except "The Bottom Line" written by Mick Jones.

Personnel

* Mick Jones - vocals, guitar
* Don Letts - sound effects, vocals
* Dan Donovan - keyboards, photos
* Leo Williams - bass, vocals
* Greg Roberts - drums, vocals

amples used on the album

Medicine Show
*Many samples from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" directed by Sergio Leone
*One sample "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" directed by John Huston
*"I don't have to show you any stinking badges!"
*A short sample from "A Fistful of Dynamite" directed by Sergio Leone (original Italian title: "Giù la testa"; also known as "Duck, You Sucker" and "Once Upon a Time … The Revolution")

Sony
*Joe Strummer crowing from The Clash song "London Calling"

E=MC²
*Several samples from the cult film "Performance" directed by Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crjgjKp7Eao Youtube - "Medicine Show" music video]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U11fg_aNncI Youtube - "The Bottom Line" music video]