Big Audio Dynamite - Planet BAD: Greatest Hits

Big Audio Dynamite | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 19, 1995)
• Original Release Date: September 19, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000002BBV
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MiniDisc  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,855 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

A reminder that the post-Clash Mick Jones once had something exciting to say about the gray area between rock and dance/hip-hop. Initial fare like "E=MC2" and "C'Mon Every Beatbox" swings loose and wild, while such early '90s tracks as "The Globe" and "Rush" benefit from a tighter reign. A definitive collection. --Jeff Bateman

Product Description

Loose and wild, this collection serves as an ample reminder that the post-Clash Mick Jones had a lot to say about that space between rock and hip-hop! Includes The Bottom Line; Medicine Show; Sightsee M.C.!; Just Play Music; Other 99; Contact; Free; Rush; Looking for a Song; I Turned Out A Punk , and more. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent "Best Of", September 29, 2000

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Brian D. Rubendall (Oakton, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Audio Dynamite - Planet BAD: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

"Plante Bad" is an excellent anthology album that manages to capture nearly all of the highlights from Big Audio Dynamite's studio albums and thankfully makes no distinction between the two different versions of the band. All the best songs are here, from the classic samples of the Clint Eastwood Western "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" on "Medicine Show" from the first album to the excellent singles "The Globe" and "Rush" from the B.A.D. II era of the early nineties. For all but the most ardent fans, this is all the B.A.D. you'll ever need to own.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A CD for every beatbox, January 9, 2002

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M. S. Tucker "subversive snot" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Audio Dynamite - Planet BAD: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

I owned the first cassette by BAD when the first hit the music scene with "C'mon Everybeatbox" and loved it. Recently I wandered by this on the "used" shelf and looked at the tracks and thought, you know I really like all of these songs.

The thing is..I really, really like these songs.

"The Medicine Show" with it's spaghetti western samples looped in is fantastic, the track with the most substance on this CD. I was sort of struck by how innovative it still sounds all these years later. "The Medicine Show" is equally ecclectic and the kitchy "C'mon Every Beatbox" not only musically is enjoyable with the Rap, Rock and Dance Hall styles but lyrically, it's hilarious.

This collaboartion certainly isn't anywhere near the level of musical genius as The Clash, but it's a nice departure from the political heaviness and underlying punk.

Considering most of the choices musically we have out now, this is a good distraction.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spread The News The Maestros Back, December 3, 2006

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Bicycle Day - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Big Audio Dynamite - Planet BAD: Greatest Hits (Audio CD)

From the acrimonious breakup of The Clash - though Joe Strummer later colllaborated with Big Audio Dynamite - came several bands with varying sound from Mick Jones. The group has been known as Big Audio Dynmaite, Big Audio Dynamite II and Big Audio due to the changes in band personnel and approaches to music.

With elements of the sound he refined as guitarist/vocalist in "The Only Band That Matters," Jones delivers lyrics that are sometimes comparable with the snapshot mosaics of John Dos Passos in his classic USA Trilogy and the spoken performances by Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg. Many of the earlier songs intertwine lyrics with cuts from TV shows, movies and music.

Jones especially shows his brilliance in the still politically timely The Bottom Line, guitar-powered E=MC2 and C'mon Every Beat Box. In Sightsee M.C.! and I Turned Out A Punk, Jones pounds away at issues like mindless hate & how many let a musical movement narrow their thinking to extreme levels of nothingness.

The band somewhat devolved from a post-punk dance/rock to a heavier sound comparable with The Clash, and then - with the addition of the legendary Ranking Roger - began to explore the ingredients that made ska essential and timeless.

Planet BAD is a great sampler and shows that a greatest hits package is only as good as the band whose name appears on the cover.