This Is Big Audio Dynamite

Big Audio Dynamite | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 16, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Columbia
• ASIN: B00000265U
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,394 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Best of the B.A.D. original albums, September 29, 2000

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

Mike Jones's career took a dramatic turn when he left The Clash and formed Big Audio Dynamite. From his punk origins, he moved into heavily sampled dance music with a rap and reggae feel. His success with this style was decidedly mixed, but occasionally yeilded terrific high points, such as the excellent "Bottom Line," "E=MC2" and "Medicine Show" from the band's first album. The latter song, in particular, is a brilliant fusion of witty lyrics and extensive samples from the classic Clint Eastwood Western "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly." Once you get used to the style, this is good stuff, indeed.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars BAD's best, February 22, 2002

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sanjuro damji (Calgary, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Is Big Audio Dynamite (Audio CD)

Mick Jones and Don Letts had a good thing going when they penned this album. I would rate this as one of the best cross over albums ever made at the time, it's surprising how over looked it was in hindsight as most of the tracks on this album are out of sight. The track that defined BAD at this junction was 'Medicine Show' Ennio Morricone's 'Good the Bad and the Ugly' was a center peice for the song's structure, Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach had some great lines as well but the clincher was the Bandit's response to Humphrey Bogart in 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'
"I don't have to show you any stinkin badges!!" Letts' made an art of sampling before it really caught on and this first album by BAD was a real gem.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genius!, April 11, 2005

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J. K. Baxter "my right hand is a chainsaw" (Near Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
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Big Audio Dynamite's first album has got to be their absolute best. My first exposure to B.A.D. was hearing the song "Bad" in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", and it made me seek out this album. (This was before I was even a big Clash fan, and I later become one.) To my surprise, every single track was just as good as that one, if not better. From the western sampled "Medicine Show" (with clips from "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly" and "The Treasure Of Sierra Madre"), the catchy and kitschy "Sony", the dance hit "E=MC2", to the Reggae peppered "A Party", I can't find a track among these 8 songs that isn't good.

I highly recommend checking out anything of Big Audio Dynamite that you can get your hands on, but a lot of it is out of print. (The drastically underappreciated F-Punk being one of those) Luckily, the brilliant debut album is still in print, and even though it's still a bit hard to find, you can find it without nearly as much as hassle as some of the other releases. Grab this one!