A DVD ?
I mean a real dvd about the story of BAD
Don't tell me how much
Just tell me when ?
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Re: This Is BAD
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Re: This Is BAD
by BR16ADE_R055E » 09 Feb 2010, 12:42am
THIS IS BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - LEGACY EDITION
(Columbia/Legacy 88697 48239 2, originally issued October 1985, as Columbia 40220)
Selections:
Medicine Show (3rd single, UK #29, U.S. Dance #42)
Sony
E=MC² (2nd single, UK #11, U.S. Dance #37)
The Bottom Line (1st single, UK #97, U.S. Dance #33)
A Party
Sudden Impact
Stone Thames
BAD.
Bonus CD:
Medicine Show (12-inch Remix)
Sony Dub (Dub Version previously unreleased)
E=MC² (12-Inch Remix)
The Bottom Line (12-inch Remix, Edit Version)
A Party Dub Edited dub version from UK Medicine Show 12-inch)
Sudden Impact (12-Inch Mix previously unreleased)
Stone Thames (12-Inch Mix previously unreleased)
BAD (Vocoder Version, Outtake previously unreleased)
Electric Vandal (Outtake previously unreleased)
Albert Einstein Meets The Human Beatbox (B-Side of UK E=MC² 12-inch Promo)
BAD (U.S. 12-Inch Remix)
This Is Big Audio Dynamite (7-Inch Non LP B-Side)
PRESS RELEASE:
THIS IS BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE: LEGACY EDITION
COMMEMORATES 25th ANNIVERSARY OF GROUND-BREAKING, SAMPLE-FORTIFIED 1985 DEBUT ALBUM
NEWLY REMASTERED VERSION OF CLASSIC 8-SONG, 43-MINUTE CD WITH "THE BOTTOM LINE," "E=MC²," "MEDICINE SHOW," "BAD"
Plus bonus second CD - 12 tracks (5 of them previously unreleased on CD) of rare U.S. and UK 12-inch remixes, dub versions, edits, outtakes, B-sides
Personal essays written by band members Mick Jones, Don Letts, Dan Donovan, Leo "E-Z Kill" Williams, and Greg Roberts - plus unpublished photos and shots of memorabilia from original album release
Available at both physical and digital retail outlets Starting April 27, 2010, through Columbia/Legacy
"Our sound was a blend of New York beats, Jamaican bass lines, English rock'n'roll guitar and me taking care of the sampled dialogue and movie stuff. The B.A.D. philosophy was to utilise all the elements of the media to create a fuller sound and write songs that were about something. With a foot in the future and a foot in the past we were dealing with the right now."
- From the liner notes essay written by Don Letts
"Born from the ashes of the Clash," is how Don Letts puts it, referring to the cosmic implosion in 1983, after seven glorious years, of the original lineup of 'the only band that really mattered.' Parting ways with the band for 'ideological differences' (as rock lore has always noted), free agent Mick Jones was free to set the stage for the arrival two years later of Big Audio Dynamite.
That arrival (October 1985) came in the form of This Is Big Audio Dynamite, a monumental and influential album of British post-punk rock revisionism 'clashing' head-on with hip-hop beatboxes (pre-Beastie Boys and Fatboy Slim and Run-DMC's hip-hop-rock fusion projects), dancefloor grooves, the Vocoder (precursor of T-Pain's Auto-tune), and eye-opening, ear-bending cinematic samples gathered up from spaghetti westerns, Nic Roeg films and more.
The 43-minute album (released on the cusp of the LP and CD eras) hit the UK and U.S. AM and FM, rock and R&B radio (and video) airwaves, club dancefloors, and mobile sound systems with a salvo of 12-inch singles - "The Bottom Line," "E=MC²," and "Medicine Show." B.A.D.'s debut was destined to take its rightful place as "the album that the Clash should have followed Combat Rock with" (as Letts writes).
Twenty-five years later (anniversary to be celebrated in 2010) the album's punch is commemorated with THIS IS BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - LEGACY EDITION. The 2-CD package presents a newly remastered version of the original 8-song album, plus a second CD of 12 bonus tracks comprising rare U.S. and UK 12-inch remixes, edits, dub versions, outtakes, and B-sides - five of them previously unreleased on CD. This latest entry in the critically acclaimed multiple-disc Legacy Edition series will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting April 27, 2010, through Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
Adding to the package is the full-color booklet containing essays written by original band members Mick Jones, Don Letts, Dan Donovan, Leo "E-Z Kill" Williams, and Greg Roberts, which mesh into a biographical portrait of the band. There are also unpublished photos and shots of memorabilia from the original album release.
The second CD, containing the 12 bonus tracks, will be especially interesting to B.A.D. aficionados as well as newcomers. The first eight tracks are alternate versions of songs following the album sequence: a 12-inch remix of "Medicine Show" (whose video, directed by Don Letts, featured former Clash members Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon, and Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited); the previously unreleased dub version of "Sony"; a 12-inch remix of "E=MC²" (the album's most successful single, hitting #11 in the UK for a 9-week chart stay, #47 in Australia, and #33 on the U.S. Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart); and so on
The Vocoder - at first confined to electronic music practitioners such as Walter (Wendy) Carlos and Robert Moog in the 1960s, came into wide use by rockers in the '70s and '80s, from Alan Parsons and Pink Floyd and Kraftwerk, to Electric Light Orchestra and Mike Oldfield. But B.A.D. were pioneers in bringing the device to the hip-hop beatbox genre, as heard in the previously unreleased Vocoder version outtake of "BAD."
The final four bonus tracks on CD two include the previously unreleased outtake of "Electric Vandal" (an unencountered B.A.D. song); the UK 12-inch promo non-LP B-side "Albert Einstein Meets The Human Beatbox"; the U.S. 12-inch remix of "BAD"; and the 7-inch non-LP B-side of "This Is Big Audio Dynamite."
This Is Big Audio Dynamite raised the curtain on a band that challenged the imprint of the Clash, in terms of both recorded output (11 albums, including those by B.A.D. II) and longevity (five years of B.A.D., another decade of B.A.D. II). Under the direction of Mick Jones, B.A.D. rallied "a call to arms for the troops," Greg Roberts writes, "with its clattering beatboxes, racing percussion, white lines bass and magnificent ringing chords that were the very essence of classic UK rock."
"From the outset B.A.D. was a breeding ground for ideas," Roberts sums up, "a crossroads where all good forms of music could and should diverge; New York, London, Kingston ...funky beats, reggae bass, rock guitar and classic songs shot through with cinematic vision. The diverse personalities in our West London clan made for a challenging and energetic fun filled ride in the short lived but bright burning star that was B.A.D. The first album has all the playful inventiveness of a group set free from musical constraints."
(Columbia/Legacy 88697 48239 2, originally issued October 1985, as Columbia 40220)
Selections:
Medicine Show (3rd single, UK #29, U.S. Dance #42)
Sony
E=MC² (2nd single, UK #11, U.S. Dance #37)
The Bottom Line (1st single, UK #97, U.S. Dance #33)
A Party
Sudden Impact
Stone Thames
BAD.
Bonus CD:
Medicine Show (12-inch Remix)
Sony Dub (Dub Version previously unreleased)
E=MC² (12-Inch Remix)
The Bottom Line (12-inch Remix, Edit Version)
A Party Dub Edited dub version from UK Medicine Show 12-inch)
Sudden Impact (12-Inch Mix previously unreleased)
Stone Thames (12-Inch Mix previously unreleased)
BAD (Vocoder Version, Outtake previously unreleased)
Electric Vandal (Outtake previously unreleased)
Albert Einstein Meets The Human Beatbox (B-Side of UK E=MC² 12-inch Promo)
BAD (U.S. 12-Inch Remix)
This Is Big Audio Dynamite (7-Inch Non LP B-Side)
PRESS RELEASE:
THIS IS BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE: LEGACY EDITION
COMMEMORATES 25th ANNIVERSARY OF GROUND-BREAKING, SAMPLE-FORTIFIED 1985 DEBUT ALBUM
NEWLY REMASTERED VERSION OF CLASSIC 8-SONG, 43-MINUTE CD WITH "THE BOTTOM LINE," "E=MC²," "MEDICINE SHOW," "BAD"
Plus bonus second CD - 12 tracks (5 of them previously unreleased on CD) of rare U.S. and UK 12-inch remixes, dub versions, edits, outtakes, B-sides
Personal essays written by band members Mick Jones, Don Letts, Dan Donovan, Leo "E-Z Kill" Williams, and Greg Roberts - plus unpublished photos and shots of memorabilia from original album release
Available at both physical and digital retail outlets Starting April 27, 2010, through Columbia/Legacy
"Our sound was a blend of New York beats, Jamaican bass lines, English rock'n'roll guitar and me taking care of the sampled dialogue and movie stuff. The B.A.D. philosophy was to utilise all the elements of the media to create a fuller sound and write songs that were about something. With a foot in the future and a foot in the past we were dealing with the right now."
- From the liner notes essay written by Don Letts
"Born from the ashes of the Clash," is how Don Letts puts it, referring to the cosmic implosion in 1983, after seven glorious years, of the original lineup of 'the only band that really mattered.' Parting ways with the band for 'ideological differences' (as rock lore has always noted), free agent Mick Jones was free to set the stage for the arrival two years later of Big Audio Dynamite.
That arrival (October 1985) came in the form of This Is Big Audio Dynamite, a monumental and influential album of British post-punk rock revisionism 'clashing' head-on with hip-hop beatboxes (pre-Beastie Boys and Fatboy Slim and Run-DMC's hip-hop-rock fusion projects), dancefloor grooves, the Vocoder (precursor of T-Pain's Auto-tune), and eye-opening, ear-bending cinematic samples gathered up from spaghetti westerns, Nic Roeg films and more.
The 43-minute album (released on the cusp of the LP and CD eras) hit the UK and U.S. AM and FM, rock and R&B radio (and video) airwaves, club dancefloors, and mobile sound systems with a salvo of 12-inch singles - "The Bottom Line," "E=MC²," and "Medicine Show." B.A.D.'s debut was destined to take its rightful place as "the album that the Clash should have followed Combat Rock with" (as Letts writes).
Twenty-five years later (anniversary to be celebrated in 2010) the album's punch is commemorated with THIS IS BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE - LEGACY EDITION. The 2-CD package presents a newly remastered version of the original 8-song album, plus a second CD of 12 bonus tracks comprising rare U.S. and UK 12-inch remixes, edits, dub versions, outtakes, and B-sides - five of them previously unreleased on CD. This latest entry in the critically acclaimed multiple-disc Legacy Edition series will be available at all physical and digital retail outlets starting April 27, 2010, through Columbia/Legacy, a division of SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.
Adding to the package is the full-color booklet containing essays written by original band members Mick Jones, Don Letts, Dan Donovan, Leo "E-Z Kill" Williams, and Greg Roberts, which mesh into a biographical portrait of the band. There are also unpublished photos and shots of memorabilia from the original album release.
The second CD, containing the 12 bonus tracks, will be especially interesting to B.A.D. aficionados as well as newcomers. The first eight tracks are alternate versions of songs following the album sequence: a 12-inch remix of "Medicine Show" (whose video, directed by Don Letts, featured former Clash members Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon, and Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols and Public Image Limited); the previously unreleased dub version of "Sony"; a 12-inch remix of "E=MC²" (the album's most successful single, hitting #11 in the UK for a 9-week chart stay, #47 in Australia, and #33 on the U.S. Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart); and so on
The Vocoder - at first confined to electronic music practitioners such as Walter (Wendy) Carlos and Robert Moog in the 1960s, came into wide use by rockers in the '70s and '80s, from Alan Parsons and Pink Floyd and Kraftwerk, to Electric Light Orchestra and Mike Oldfield. But B.A.D. were pioneers in bringing the device to the hip-hop beatbox genre, as heard in the previously unreleased Vocoder version outtake of "BAD."
The final four bonus tracks on CD two include the previously unreleased outtake of "Electric Vandal" (an unencountered B.A.D. song); the UK 12-inch promo non-LP B-side "Albert Einstein Meets The Human Beatbox"; the U.S. 12-inch remix of "BAD"; and the 7-inch non-LP B-side of "This Is Big Audio Dynamite."
This Is Big Audio Dynamite raised the curtain on a band that challenged the imprint of the Clash, in terms of both recorded output (11 albums, including those by B.A.D. II) and longevity (five years of B.A.D., another decade of B.A.D. II). Under the direction of Mick Jones, B.A.D. rallied "a call to arms for the troops," Greg Roberts writes, "with its clattering beatboxes, racing percussion, white lines bass and magnificent ringing chords that were the very essence of classic UK rock."
"From the outset B.A.D. was a breeding ground for ideas," Roberts sums up, "a crossroads where all good forms of music could and should diverge; New York, London, Kingston ...funky beats, reggae bass, rock guitar and classic songs shot through with cinematic vision. The diverse personalities in our West London clan made for a challenging and energetic fun filled ride in the short lived but bright burning star that was B.A.D. The first album has all the playful inventiveness of a group set free from musical constraints."
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Re: This Is BAD
by Still216 » 09 Feb 2010, 1:13am
FINALLY this thing has a release date! Thanks for the update BR!
Non-productive, irrelevant nitpicking of the press release to follow - BAD had 11 albums? Excise all the hits comps and you have seven BAD I & II albums (that were actually released...Entering A New Ride would make it eight...so would Kool-Aid, if you ignore that it's basically a CD of Globe demos...)
Non-productive, irrelevant nitpicking of the press release to follow - BAD had 11 albums? Excise all the hits comps and you have seven BAD I & II albums (that were actually released...Entering A New Ride would make it eight...so would Kool-Aid, if you ignore that it's basically a CD of Globe demos...)
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Re: This Is BAD
by Flex » 09 Feb 2010, 1:17am
I think it's funny that they want to claim responsibility for T-Pain.
I'm pretty damned stoked about this release.
I'm pretty damned stoked about this release.
The leads are fucking weak? You're weak.
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Re: This Is BAD
by Still216 » 09 Feb 2010, 1:38am
Flex wrote:I think it's funny that they want to claim responsibility for T-Pain.
I'm pretty damned stoked about this release.
"Fell In Love With A Stripper" was actually a Strummer/Jones track which surfaced on the limited pressing Australian 12" remix of Just Play Music. Consider the dots connected.
This is one of the only upcoming releases where I want to get the physical CD, just for the liner notes. I realize Itunes probably has a downloadable CD booklet, but, eh.
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Re: This Is BAD
by Marky Dread » 10 Feb 2010, 4:10am
At fucking last and it looks good too.
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Re: This Is BAD
by Heston » 10 Feb 2010, 11:37am
Marky Dread wrote:At fucking last and it looks good too.
Indeed, though I still feels it's a missed opportunity for live versions, more outtakes, bonus DVD etc.
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Re: This Is BAD
by Wolter » 10 Feb 2010, 11:40am
Heston wrote:Marky Dread wrote:At fucking last and it looks good too.
Indeed, though I still feels it's a missed opportunity for live versions, more outtakes, bonus DVD etc.
Agreed with both. Appreciate what I'm getting, wish it could have been a little more.
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Re: This Is BAD
by esmark » 10 Feb 2010, 3:35pm
Wolter wrote:Heston wrote:Marky Dread wrote:At fucking last and it looks good too.
Indeed, though I still feels it's a missed opportunity for live versions, more outtakes, bonus DVD etc.
Agreed with both. Appreciate what I'm getting, wish it could have been a little more.
I'd be the first to piss all over this one, hugely dissapointed over the Bonus Disc, missed opportunity indeed.... but what the Hell... it's a NEW BAD RELEASE FO FUCKS SAKE!!!!! Haven't been one of thoes for a very long time... Looking forward to it!
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Re: This Is BAD
by bazarboy75 » 10 Feb 2010, 4:51pm
May be it's just a beginning ?
How many hardcore BAD fan around here
50 ??
70 ?
100 ?
200 ?
more ??
Let's do some mathematics
If each BADfan hera buy 50 disc each Sony will make a dvd
That's for sure
How many hardcore BAD fan around here
50 ??
70 ?
100 ?
200 ?
more ??
Let's do some mathematics
If each BADfan hera buy 50 disc each Sony will make a dvd
That's for sure
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Re: This Is BAD
by SteveSatch » 10 Feb 2010, 9:00pm
I think the missed opportunity is not replacing the drum machine used on the album with a modern one.
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Re: This Is BAD
by Heston » 10 Feb 2010, 9:16pm
SteveSatch wrote:I think the missed opportunity is not replacing the drum machine used on the album with a modern one.
Very true. Though if we're in dream territory, I'd replace it with real drums.
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Re: This Is BAD
by Marky Dread » 11 Feb 2010, 12:10am
Heston wrote:SteveSatch wrote:I think the missed opportunity is not replacing the drum machine used on the album with a modern one.
Very true. Though if we're in dream territory, I'd replace it with real drums.
Then progess to Cut the Crap.....
Make Heston the new head of Sony now!
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Re: This Is BAD
by oliver » 11 Feb 2010, 10:17am
Still216 wrote:"Fell In Love With A Stripper" was actually a Strummer/Jones track which surfaced on the limited pressing Australian 12" remix of Just Play Music.
Is this available anywhere?
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Re: This Is BAD
by Silent Majority » 11 Feb 2010, 10:31am
oliver wrote:Still216 wrote:"Fell In Love With A Stripper" was actually a Strummer/Jones track which surfaced on the limited pressing Australian 12" remix of Just Play Music.
Is this available anywhere?
Only in Still216's imagination.
It does mean changing the bulb.
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