This Is Big Audio Dynamite

This is Big Audio Dynamite
Studio album by Big Audio Dynamite
Released	October 1985
Genre	Alternative dance, post-punk, dance-punk
Length	43:09
Label	Columbia
Producer	Mick Jones
Big Audio Dynamite chronology
This is Big Audio Dynamite (1985) No. 10, Upping St. (1986)
Singles from This is Big Audio Dynamite
"The Bottom Line" b/w "BAD" Released: 1985 "E=MC²" b/w "This Is Big Audio Dynamite" Released: March 1986 "Medicine Show" b/w "A Party" Released: June 1986

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[1]
Mojo	[2]
PopMatters	[3]

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.

Side one
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Medicine Show"	6:29
2.	"Sony"	4:30
3.	"E=MC²"	5:54
4.	"The Bottom Line" (written by Mick Jones)	4:35

Side two
No.	Title	Length
5.	"A Party"	6:40
6.	"Sudden Impact!"	5:03
7.	"Stone Thames"	4:05
8.	"BAD"	5:54

Legacy Edition bonus tracks
No.	Title	Length
1.	"Medicine Show (12-inch Remix)"	7:10
2.	"Sony Dub"	4:15
3.	"E=MC2 (12-Inch Remix)"	6:31
4.	"The Bottom Line (12-inch Remix, Edit Version)"	7:20
5.	"A Party Dub"	7:01
6.	"Sudden Impact (12-Inch Mix)"	6:07
7.	"Stone Thames (12-Inch Mix)"	6:18
8.	"BAD (Vocoder Version)"	6:28
9.	"Electric Vandal"	3:22
10.	"Albert Einstein Meets The Human Beatbox"	5:35
11.	"BAD (US-12-Inch Remix)"	6:16
12.	"This Is Big Audio Dynamite" (7-Inch Non LP B-Side)	3:44

Personnel

• Mick Jones – vocals, guitar
• Don Letts – sound effects, vocals
• Dan Donovan – keyboards, photos
• Leo Williams – bass, vocals
• Greg Roberts – drums, vocals

Samples used on the album

Medicine Show

Sampled liberally throughout this song are sound bytes 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.^[4]

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

References

1. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. Review: This is Big Audio Dynamite. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2010-04-09.
2. Ian Harrison Mojo, June 2010.
3. Fairall, Jer. Review: This is Big Audio Dynamite. PopMatters. Retrieved on 2010-06-11.
4. This Is Big Audio Dynamite – esmark.net.