This Is Big Audio Dynamite

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Released October 1985 Artist Big Audio Dynamite Genre Pop Label Columbia Records		Length 43:09 Release date October 1985 Producer Mick Jones

This is Big Audio Dynamite (1985) No. 10, Upping St. (1986) Similar Big Audio Dynamite albums, Post-punk albums

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 No. 27 in the UK and No. 103 in the US.

Track listing

All songs written by Mick Jones and Don Letts; except as indicated.

Personnel

Mick Jones – vocals, guitar

Don Letts – sound effects, vocals

Dan Donovan – keyboards, photos

Leo Williams – bass, vocals

Greg Roberts – drums, vocals

Technical

Adam "Flea" Newman - noises "dynamite"

Paul "Groucho" Smykle - engineer

Johnny Shinas, Renny Hill - assistant engineer

Dan Donovan - sleeve artwork, photography

Samples used on the album

Medicine Show

Sampled liberally throughout this song are sound bites from four motion pictures, three of them Spaghetti Westerns. This list is based on order of appearance.

"Get three coffins ready." (Clint Eastwood from A Fistful of Dollars)

"Who the hell is that? One bastard goes in and another comes out....I'm innocent of everything!" (Eli Wallach from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

"You makin' some kinda joke?" (A Fistful of Dollars)

"I don't think it's nice, you laughin'." (Eastwood from A Fistful of Dollars)

"Wanted in fourteen counties of this State, the condemned is found guilty of crimes of murder, armed robbery of citizens, state banks and post offices, the theft of sacred objects, arson in a state prison, perjury, bigamy, deserting his wife and children, inciting prostitution, kidnapping, extortion, receiving stolen goods, selling stolen goods, passing counterfeit money, and contrary to the laws of this State, the condemned is guilty of using marked cards...Therefore, according to the powers vested in us, we sentence the accused before us, Tuco Benedicto Pacifico Juan Maria Ramirez ('Known as The Rat') and any other aliases he might have, to hang by the neck until dead. May God have mercy on his soul. Proceed." (The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; "Known as The Rat" was uttered by Eastwood.)

Ennio Morricone's main theme to The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.

"Duck, you sucker!" (James Coburn from Duck, You Sucker!)

"I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!" (Alfonso Bedoya from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre)

Laughter from The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

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

Songs

1Medicine Show6:33
2Sony4:30
3E=mc²5:55

References

This Is Big Audio Dynamite Wikipedia

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Contents

Track listing

Personnel

Samples used on the album

Songs

References