This Is Dynamite

Product Description
Reissue of popular 1994 collaboration features 31 tracks total from Funeral Dress (Belgium), Zakarrak (Spain), Moped Lads (Switzerland) & The Templars (USA). Step-1 Music. 2004.

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Average customer rating: Lives up to its title - Big Audio Dynamite The first of several great records A true classic! E=MC2=absolutely amazing! Genius!

This Is Big Audio Dynamite Big Audio Dynamite Manufacturer: Sony ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Alternative General | Alternative Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Alternative General | Alternative Rock | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Alternative Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Dance & DJ | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Rock | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: No. 10, Upping St. The Globe Megatop Phoenix Tighten Up, Vol. 88 Big Audio Dynamite - Planet BAD: Greatest Hits ASIN: B00000265U Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

1. Medicine Show
2. Sony
3. E=MC
4. The Bottom Line
5. A Party
6. Sudden Impact!
7. Stone Thames
8. Bad

Customer Reviews:

Lives up to its title - Big Audio Dynamite.......2006-12-14

What a great blast of beat-heavy weirdness. This album was a sensation when it hit; "The Bottom Line" was a big favorite in the clubs. Great dance music. "This is..." turned out to be an unforgettable album, perfect for parties, or for just hanging out with friends. An unbeatable traveling album as well. Only 43 minutes in length, it's great from start to finish. The songs are layered and unique, and the beats (and the super-fun sound effects) are varied and even funny. The lyrics are excellent. With one bold step (surely made up of a million agonizing minutes in the studio) Mick Jones launched himself beyond the Clash. He brought good company with him, making "This is Big Audio Dynamite" one of the very best records of its decade, of all time, and definetly a classic.

The first of several great records.......2006-05-15

BAD went on after this witty, original, melodic, rhythmic release to produce at least two other superb works: Megatop Phoenix and The Globe. Mick Jones is a really creative fellow, with some of Frank Zappa's humor and ability to write a great tune. Wanted to point out - since many reviews refer to the Good/Bad/Ugly sampling - that the dialogue in E=MC2 (you're Jack the Lad...give them a bit of stick) comes from the Nicholas Roeg film Performance, with James Fox, Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg, set in 60s London. Jones evokes the Swinging London era quite often; there's a hilarious sequence on The Globe where Cathy MacGowan, or someone like that, is rambling on about dolly birds and with-it clubs.

A true classic!.......2005-11-13

When this album came out, many people were surprised that Mick Jones had done something so different. Everyone knew he had a more poppy taste than Joe Strummer, and he indulges it here to great effect.

At the time, it was one of the first albums I had heard that used sampling on such a large scale. Medicine Show kicks off the album with its samples of "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." Even my non-music lover husband likes this because he's a big Clint fan. I just love the way the music grooves so mellow and happy under the shootout you hear above! Sony is a classic 80's retelling of the prototypical Japanese worker, at the same job for 40 or 50 years. Of course, at the time, there was a lot of fear economically of the Japanese; however, they were revered in their work habits, inventory control procedures, and quality circles. This song is pretty stereotypical but it's tongue in cheek as well, which is what makes it great.

E=mc2 is wonderful! The beat starts in and never lets up the entire 6 minutes of the song. The samples this time are from an English film, "Performance," and are a nice complement to the pulsating beat of the song. And The Bottom Line... "the horses are on the track!" Who can forget that line?

What a breath of fresh air in 1985--and a biracial band as well. DJ/filmmaker Don Letts was a driving force in the band and the one behind all the samples.

If you like "Inoculated City" from the Clash's Combat Rock, you'll love "This is Big Audio Dynamite." It has the same funky feel and Mick Jones vocals, but a whole album's worth this time!

E=MC2=absolutely amazing!.......2005-06-16

This is almost exactly what I look for in a sampling-based album - strong vocal, strong song structure, and catchy beats. "This is Big Audio Dynamite" definetely delivers in all aspects - unimaginably catchy, intoxicating beats that really get into your soul.

"E=MC2" is now one of my favorite 80s tracks - brilliantly put together with a strong vocal and amazing beat.

Why did it take me so long to find such an amazing-sounding album? I thank the wonderful "Listmania" creators on Amazon.com for this amazing discovery.

Besides "E=MC2", the best tracks are "Sony" and "The Bottom Line." Download or buy ASAP!!

Genius!.......2005-04-12

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!

Average customer rating: Sensational Vocal Album by Carole Farley and William Bolcom Great Songs, but Mind the Singer The Songs of William Bolcom

William Bolcom: Songs Carole Farley , William Bolcom , Farley , and Bolcom Manufacturer: Naxos American ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Bolcom, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Jazz General | Jazz | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Jazz | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan School of Music Blue - The Complete Cabaret Songs of William Bolcom and Arnold Weinstein William Bolcom: Violin Sonatas William Bolcom: Symphony No. 1; Symphony No. 3; Seatlle Slew Orchestral Suite William Bolcom: Music for Two Pianos ASIN: B0009F4UBQ Release Date: 2005-06-21

Tracks:

1. You Cannot Have Me Now - Or, the Military Orgy
2. Night, Make My Day
3. The Digital Wonder Watch
4. My Father The Ganster
5. The Last Days Of Mankind
6. This Is A Face
7. Since I Have You
8. The Rabbit
9. I Am Not Free
10. For Me
11. From Wandering
12. Beware
13. I Wouldn't Die
14. I Remember
15. For Everything
16. I Have Climbed
17. Pity Me Not Because The Light Of Day
18. How To Swing Those Obbligations Around
19. The Crazy Woman
20. Just Once
21. Never More Will The Wind
22. The Sage
23. O To Be A Dragon
24. The Bustle In A House
25. Night Practice
26. I Saw Eternity
27. The Fish
28. Costa Del Nowhere
29. Table
30. Mary
31. River Song
32. Messing About In Boats
33. Rat's Song
34. When We Built The Church

Customer Reviews:

Sensational Vocal Album by Carole Farley and William Bolcom.......2007-02-13

Carole Farley and William Bolcom have recorded this landmark CD, and I can easily understand why this CD received a GRAMMY nomination in the "Best Vocal Recording of the Year" and a 2nd GRAMMY nomination in the "Best Engineered Recording of the Year" category. It's indeed one of the best vocal albums of contemporary songs ever made. Carole Farley, who made her MET debut in the MET's first LULU production, seems to be just at home with Puccini, Poulenc, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich and even Latin American popular songs (her Lecuona songs album is extremely beautiful).
William Bolcom's accompaniment is brilliant, and the songs are a revelation.
J.B. (Pittsburgh, Pa)

Great Songs, but Mind the Singer.......2006-07-04

This is one of those discs where the listener has to balance the advantages of the program with the disadvantages of the performance. Bolcom is one of this country's most versatile and brilliant composers, and those qualities are demonstrated to great effect in the songs on this album. His piano playing is, as one would expect, also solid and expressive. The drawback here is Carole Farley. Although her diction and intonation are good, as far as tone-color goes, she seems to be a one-trick pony; and if you don't like that trick (opera singer trying to sound like what she thinks a musical theater singer sounds like), listening to her can get very tiring. So while I highly recommend the disc for its content, I suggest listening to excerpts first before buying just to make sure that the singer's voice doesn't drive you batty.

The Songs of William Bolcom.......2006-02-14

The American composer William Bolcom (b. 1938) is best-known for his large-scale setting of William Blake's "Songs of Innocence and Experience," which is available on a 3-CD Naxos set. This new collection of Bolcom's songs also on Naxos shows the composers's lifelong fascination with Blake. It includes an early lyrical setting of Blake's poem, "Mary" which deals with a beautiful and intelligent young woman and her rejection by her society. In the several torch and cabaret-style works it includes, the collection also shows Bolcom's attempts to fuse classical with popular styles of music. Bolcom also has done so in his piano music, much of which is heavily influenced by ragtime.

The songs on this CD are performed and selected by soprano Carole Farley with Bolcom himself at the piano. Ms. Farley has also recorded for Naxos' "American classics" series a selection of the songs of Ned Rorem with Rorem at the piano. Ms. Farley and Naxos are doing listeners a service by introducing them to the world of the American art song.

The highlight of this CD is the 20-minute song-cycle "I will breathe a mountain" in which Bolcom sets 11 poems by American women. The poems were selected by Alice Fulton, and they include Fulton's own "I will swing those obligatos around" in which the young singer describes a come-on from a boor. The song writing is declamatory in character with many twists, turns, and shouts in the vocal line. Only the setting of H.D.'s "Never More Will the Wind" is lyrical and flowing. Besides Fulton and H.D. the settings include poems by Millay, Gwendolwn Brooks (a poem called "The Crazy Woman" with appropriately wild shrieks) Anne Sexton, Denise Levertov, Marianne Moore (listen to what Ms. Farley makes of the poets wish to be a DRA' GON), Emily Dickinson (in a moving poem of the stillness of a home after death),Louise Bogan, May Swenson, and Elizabeth Bishop. "I will breathe a mountain" is an outstanding and moving contemporary American song-cycle and is in itself sufficient reason for hearing this recording.

The CD also includes a second exquisite cycle, "Songs to Dance" which sets ten miniature poems by George Montgomery. This is a work to be danced as well as sung, and it has apparently been performed live only once, by the composer, his wife, the soprano Joan Morris, and dancer, Dan Wagoner. It has never been recorded before. The work deserves to be heard and seen.

Many of the remaining works on this CD are cabaret-style theatrical pieces that Bolcom composed in collaboration with lyricist Arnold Weinstein. The best of these are two torch songs from a show called "Casino Paradise": Night Make my Day (a parody of the torch style which is sometimes performed straight) and "My Father the Gangster", in which a young woman laments how men are, understandably, worried about her father and afraid to approach her. The collection opens with a scream by Ms. Farley in the erotic novelty "You cannot have me now", about the affairs of the wife of a German officer, sung with a heavily inflected German accent and also set to words by Weinstein.

I enjoyed Bolcom's short setting of May Swenson's poem "The Digital Wonder Watch" with the tick-ticking in the piano. This song is a satire of technology, with the poet describing the features of her "wonderful watch" while asking: "Does it show how to wind up/a broken heart?" The other songs on the CD include the passionate "The Last Days of Mankind", conceived for rock singer Marianne Faithful, two eloquent settings of poems by Richard Tillinghast, and four concluding early collaborations between Bolcom and Weinstein.

This CD offers an opportunity to explore the world of American song in the works of a leading contemporary composer. The cycle, "I will breathe a mountain" will be a lasting achievement in American art song.

Robin Friedman

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Girl Stephen Mercer Manufacturer: WhipperSnapper Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Classic Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B0004LJLZA Release Date: 2000-11-07

Tracks:

1. Cynthia
2. One More Time
3. Pain
4. Guitar Intro
5. Dance Dance
6. Mellotron
7. Jules
8. Under Her Spell
9. Word Is Out
10. It's You
11. Hollywood Swing
12. Nova Jet

Product Description

12 Tracks

Average customer rating:

This Is Big Audio Dynamite Big Audio Dynamite Manufacturer: Import [Generic] ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Alternative Dance | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Dance Pop | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Alternative Rock | Imports | Stores | Music Dance & DJ | Imports | Stores | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00009VGHS Release Date: 2003-07-15

Tracks:

1. Medicine Show
2. Sony
3. E=MC2
4. Bottom Line
5. Party
6. Sudden Impact!
7. Stone Thames
8. Bad

Album Description

Aussie compilation includes their 1985 debut album, 'This Is Big Audio Dynamite' & 1989's 'Megatop Phoenix', which is out of print domestically. Standard double jewel case. 2001.

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This Side of Heaven Rudy Lacy Manufacturer: Rudy Lacy ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music Gospel | Christian & Gospel | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAKRHY Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

1. You Can't Take It with You
2. Undeniable
3. Tomorrow Means Today
4. I'll Pray for Them
5. This Side of Heaven
6. Month of Sundays
7. Make No Mistake
8. Bottom of Myself
9. With You
10. Called Out
11. God Only Knows

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If Not Now Fertile Ground Manufacturer: Oasis ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Country | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Country | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Jazz | Indie Music | Stores | Music General | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000YHQQW Release Date: 2003-08-24

Tracks:

1. UPS Man
2. South of Houston
3. Rainstorm
4. Same Old Wheel (Jodie)
5. Piece of Clay
6. One Chance
7. These Old Doors
8. Cooley Drive
9. Meant To Be
10. Crushed (Featured on WKMX 106.7)
11. Sure Gets Cold

Album Description

All original tunes. Featuring "Crushed", "UPS Man", and "South of Houston".Our songs tell a story and most of the material came from experiences of the band members. Great tunes and harmony. Reserve your copy today!

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This Is Dynamite Various Artists Manufacturer: Step 1 UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B000055XCH Release Date: 2004-02-24

Tracks:

1. Salinsbrukis
2. Skinhead
3. Perros
4. Estrella del Rock
5. Bajo Control
6. Fin de Semana
7. Desengano
8. Milli
9. Skinhead Girl
10. Si los Schicos Estan Unidos
11. Time - The Moped Lads
12. O Schaltung - The Moped Lads
13. No Reason - The Moped Lads
14. Nine to Five World - The Moped Lads
15. Answer for Everything - The Moped Lads
16. Dear My Son - The Moped Lads
17. 52nd & 3rd - The Moped Lads
18. Just Another Rebel - The Templars
19. Unemployed Again - The Templars
20. Hopeless - The Templars
21. Only Way Out - The Templars
22. Terror Tactics - The Templars
23. Fight for Your Freedom - Funeral Dress
24. Real Enemy - Funeral Dress
25. Sex, Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll - Funeral Dress
26. I'm in Love With Oi! (I Feel Fine) - Funeral Dress
27. Cops Are Here - Funeral Dress
28. Brainwashed - Funeral Dress
29. Watch Your Back - Funeral Dress
30. Pogo Never Stops - Funeral Dress
31. Punk's Back in Town - Funeral Dress

Album Description

Reissue of popular 1994 collaboration features 31 tracks total from Funeral Dress (Belgium), Zakarrak (Spain), Moped Lads (Switzerland) & The Templars (USA). Step-1 Music. 2004.

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'Joey Dynamite' Bazooka Joe Gotti Manufacturer: rugged legend records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music ASIN: B000CAF44K Release Date: 2005-05-31

Tracks:

1. Pre Game Show
2. Joey Dynamite
3. Who's on the Mic?
4. Radio Skit
5. Do That Shit (184 BPM Fast Version)
6. Freestyle Rip: w/Kevvy Kev Mike Nice Genstar
7. When I Pull Through
8. Buy Ya Own (Don't Bootleg Skit)
9. Survivalist of the City Streets
10. Return of the Big Cat
11. Livewire
12. Chicano Funky Worm (Break)
13. Shootin the Gift
14. Rap Actors
15. Witness Protection w/Donlo Mannie Doreang
16. Do That Shit (Slow Gangsta Bangin Version)
17. City Streets [Leipzig Remix]

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Oi! This Is Dynamite Manufacturer: Step-1 (UK) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Punk | Hardcore & Punk | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Punk | Compilations | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000J5VT Release Date: 1999-05-26

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This Is Big Audio Dynamite Manufacturer: Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Dance & DJ | Styles | Music ASIN: B000BRAHG4 Release Date: 2003-07-15

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