Megatop Phoenix

Big Audio Dynamite | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 7, 1989)
• Original Release Date: September 5, 1989
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000026TJ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,728 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Start

2. Rewind

3. All Mink & No Manners

4. Union, Jack

5. Contact

6. Dragon Town

7. Baby, Don't Apologise

8. Is Yours Working Yet?

9. Around The Girl In 80 Ways?

10. James Brown

11. Everybody Needs A Holiday

12. Mick's A Hippie Burning

13. House Arrest

14. The Green Lady

15. London Bridge

16. Stalag 123

17. End

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Kudos to Mick Jones and his crew!, December 19, 2002

By 

Sean King (Hartford, Connecticut) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Megatop Phoenix (Audio CD)

Hip-hop never had it so good. Former Clash guitarist, and singer Mick Jones put together B.A.D. with its hip-hop, dance groove beats, and overdub sampling. Megatop Phoenix delivers the poppy and danceable goods with songs like "Contact", "Around the Girl In 80 Ways", "London Bridge", and "Dragon Town" If your a fan of Big Audio's early tunes like "Sightsee MC" and "Medicine Show" then this album is a shoe-in for you! Give yourself a treat, and get this CD. There's little room for disappointment!

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BAD Masterwork, January 4, 2005

By 

A. Hamilton - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Megatop Phoenix (Audio CD)

I have been a fan of this band since their debut in 85, and I have to say that "Megatop Phoenix" is their masterpiece. I would even dare to suggest it is superior to their strong "This is Big Audio Dynamite" debut album. Unlike the hollow "10 Upping Street"
or the inconsistent "Tighten Up", Phoenix manages to create an intricate and unified sonic experience. The production is incredibly detailed, the songs are all groovy and listenable, and even the short audio bites between songs are styled perfectly for the tracks they lead into. This album holds up extremely well, even 15 years later. It is one of those albums that I mention whenever someone asks me that if-you-were-on-a-deserted-island question. If you had to have only one BAD album, this would be it.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Jones for Life, June 14, 2003

By 

Hap "Flint And Roses" (Austin,TX United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Megatop Phoenix (Audio CD)

Here's a guy just struggling to give meaning to life; which for all intents and purposes is what Punk is, what music is, what most angst is all about..
Mick Jones, by the by, didn't quit the Clash as much as they just let him go. It was time. The magic made by Strummer and Jones was a fleeting and wonderful thing. That's how most good music is. And should be.

B.A.D. is Mick Jones gleeful return from death; he had a near fatal motorcycle accident and a nasty life-threatening bout of Hepatitus (hence that "Vitamin C" song on F-Punk.) When he came back from the darkness, got out of the hospitals, got away from the sickness, he felt like dancing; hence Big Audio Dynamite. There are no B.A.D. albums that are a miserable listen, all of them have their brilliance and flashes, with old British Music Hall, Reggae, political and movie samples. All of them are full of the buoyancy of a working class Punk back from the dead. All of them have the poignance and verve of Jones' fertile imagination. I was a die-hard Clash fan (the only band that mattered) and a Sex Pistols fan back in the day. I turned out a punk. I loved Polly Styrene, the Damned, Wire, The Ramones, The Saints et.al.

But the best bands to evolve from the whole Brit-punk thing were B.A.D. and P.I.L. (interesting that both Jones and Lydon have an acronymic bent). Lydon spits his sharply intelligent barbs and Jones asks us to party; it's the yin and yang of punk. Both have given us fine stuff, groundbreaking stuff. Us old punks don't sneer at the new punks (well, not all of them, anyway), open your heart and see our scars; they're similar to yours. Now. Let's drink. Let's dance. Let's eat some damn cake. Have you ever asked yourself to the party of life?