Big Audio Dynamite

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风格: #电子舞曲　#另类舞曲　#学院摇滚
地区: 欧美

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by Stephen Thomas Erlewine and John BushAfter Mick Jones was fired from the Clash in 1983, he formed Big Audio Dynamite (B.A.D.) one year later to continue the more experimental funk elements of the Clashs Combat Rock. The groups original incarnation included Jones, video artist and Clash associate Don Letts (effects and vocals), Greg Roberts (drums), Dan Donovan (keyboards), and Leo E-Zee Kill Williams (bass). Adding samplers, dance tracks, and found sounds to Jones concise pop songwriting, B.A.D. debuted on record with the single The Bottom Line in September 1985 and the album This Is Big Audio Dynamite later that year. E=MC2 and Medicine Show became sizable hits in England, and reached the dance charts in America.When it arrived in late 1986, Big Audio Dynamites second album, No. 10, Upping St., boasted co-production and co-writing from Joe Strummer, Jones former bandmate in the Clash. It was a much better fusion of contemporary production techniques with Jones songwriting, and the two biggest singles — Cmon Every Beatbox and V. Thirteen — performed well both on the British pop charts and American dance charts. After a two-year break, the band returned with a less free-form work, Tighten Up, Vol. 88, but righted the ship with 1989s Megatop Phoenix, their biggest performer in America (thanks to the singles Contact and James Brown).After Megatop Phoenix, the band split apart at the end of 1989. Jones quickly added Gary Stonadge (bass/vocals), Chris Kavanagh (drums/vocals), and Nick Hawkins (guitar/vocals) to form Big Audio Dynamite II, while Letts, Williams, and Roberts formed Screaming Target and Donovan joined the Sisters of Mercy. Releasing The Globe, the first full-length album with the new lineup, in 1991, B.A.D. II experienced their greatest success yet with the American Top 40 hit Rush. In 1994, Jones truncated the bands name to Big Audio and released Higher Power.After Higher Power, Big Audio parted ways with Epic, signing with Radioactive in early 1995 and releasing F-Punk. The single I Turned Out a Punk became a college radio hit, even when it was initially released anonymously (granted, Jones voice was immediately recognizable). That conglomeration also split shortly afterward, Jones later appearing in the production chair of notable records including the Libertines Up the Bracket.

Big Audio Dynamite

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