This Is Big Audio Dynamite

Mick Jones, Carbon/Silicon, BAD and cetera.

Which song do you like the least?

Poll ended at 15 May 2019, 2:53am

Medicine Show
2
9%
Sony
9
39%
E=MC2
1
4%
The Bottom Line
0
No votes
A Party
2
9%
Sudden Impact
2
9%
Stone Thames
1
4%
BAD
6
26%
 
Total votes: 23

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Kory wrote:
14 May 2019, 6:04pm
Is the 2-disc worth buying? It's mostly 12" mixes right?
Essential for the bonus tracks, although the album is pretty compressed. I'd get the deluxe edition to augment an original pressing CD (something I recently re-acquired and am quite enjoying).
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Kory wrote:
14 May 2019, 6:04pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 5:59pm
Played the 2-disc remastered set this afternoon while installing a ceiling fan. It remains really fucking good. Striking how Mick and Joe produced such diametrically opposite results in their first post-CR albums. Mick could scarcely have done something more successfully forward-thinking, while Joe was stuck in a confused back-to-basics that also wasn't.
Is the 2-disc worth buying? It's mostly 12" mixes right?
Remastered original album, second disc of primarily remixes (some, I think, were unreleased to that point). I don't especially hear the improved remastered sound (but I'm shit for that outside of, like, the Beatles remasters). Outside of that, it depends on your tolerance for BAD remixes. I'm good with longer versions, but the extra twist to the remixes isn't that fantastic.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 8:07am
Heretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
It's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
14 May 2019, 7:25pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 8:07am
Heretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
It's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.
Better than CtC? Gasp! ;) But seriously, I say with a straight face that it sits with LC as far as I'm concerned.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 7:31pm
Heston wrote:
14 May 2019, 7:25pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 8:07am
Heretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
It's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.
Better than CtC? Gasp! ;) But seriously, I say with a straight face that it sits with LC as far as I'm concerned.
Yep, agreed. It's the flow of words I love about this album. Nothing seems forced, it's like a musical commentary about everyday life.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board

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Heston wrote:
14 May 2019, 7:46pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 7:31pm
Heston wrote:
14 May 2019, 7:25pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 8:07am
Heretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
It's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.
Better than CtC? Gasp! ;) But seriously, I say with a straight face that it sits with LC as far as I'm concerned.
Yep, agreed. It's the flow of words I love about this album. Nothing seems forced, it's like a musical commentary about everyday life.
I admire how forward-looking it is. Everything about it is Mick asserting where he thinks music can go. Joe and Bernie did him a favour in forcing him, giving him the freedom to pursue his interests more easily.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 5:59pm
Played the 2-disc remastered set this afternoon while installing a ceiling fan. It remains really fucking good. Striking how Mick and Joe produced such diametrically opposite results in their first post-CR albums. Mick could scarcely have done something more successfully forward-thinking, while Joe was stuck in a confused back-to-basics that also wasn't.
I always put that down to the opposite ends of spectrum when they came together, Joe folk / pub rock and looking back and Mick glam and forward looking.

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101Walterton wrote:
14 May 2019, 9:06pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 5:59pm
Played the 2-disc remastered set this afternoon while installing a ceiling fan. It remains really fucking good. Striking how Mick and Joe produced such diametrically opposite results in their first post-CR albums. Mick could scarcely have done something more successfully forward-thinking, while Joe was stuck in a confused back-to-basics that also wasn't.
I always put that down to the opposite ends of spectrum when they came together, Joe folk / pub rock and looking back and Mick glam and forward looking.
I think that's a sensible perspective, and it's that tension that made Mick and Joe such a successful partnership.
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Heston wrote:
14 May 2019, 7:25pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 8:07am
Heretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
It's definitely better than GEER and CtC. Breathing the same air as the others.
Better than CtC not even close to any Clash album.

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101Walterton wrote:
14 May 2019, 9:34pm
Better than CtC not even close to any Clash album.
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Flex wrote:
14 May 2019, 10:40pm
101Walterton wrote:
14 May 2019, 9:34pm
Better than CtC not even close to any Clash album.
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Flex wrote:
14 May 2019, 10:40pm
101Walterton wrote:
14 May 2019, 9:34pm
Better than CtC not even close to any Clash album.
A voice of sanity. 101Flexerton
101Floyerton. Might be a first time occurrence.
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matedog wrote:
15 May 2019, 12:20am
Flex wrote:
14 May 2019, 10:40pm
101Walterton wrote:
14 May 2019, 9:34pm
Better than CtC not even close to any Clash album.
A voice of sanity. 101Flexerton
101Floyerton. Might be a first time occurrence.
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Heston wrote:
14 May 2019, 7:25pm
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 8:07am
Heretical, I know, but for my money, TIBAD is as good as any Clash album
It's definitely better than GEER
:hmm:

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