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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I know I'm in the minority here but I have never liked Medicine Show. I like Stone Thames the best. Que knives and daggers! I think that the 2cd legacy version really really brought the album together for me. Not really one of my favorites, but then again I like Higher Power and F-Punk.

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coffeepotman wrote:
14 May 2019, 9:58am
I know I'm in the minority here but I have never liked Medicine Show. I like Stone Thames the best. Que knives and daggers! I think that the 2cd legacy version really really brought the album together for me. Not really one of my favorites, but then again I like Higher Power and F-Punk.
Very outre BAD opinions all around, to say the least.
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I listened today and I found Stone Thames the underrated rave up.
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Silent Majority wrote:
14 May 2019, 11:04am
I listened today and I found Stone Thames the underrated rave up.
The first song about AIDS? I love that sampled noise in it, don't know what it is but sounds like a demented chicken.
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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Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 10:37am
coffeepotman wrote:
14 May 2019, 9:58am
I know I'm in the minority here but I have never liked Medicine Show. I like Stone Thames the best. Que knives and daggers! I think that the 2cd legacy version really really brought the album together for me. Not really one of my favorites, but then again I like Higher Power and F-Punk.
Very outre BAD opinions all around, to say the least.
Indeed, I'm struggling to imagine why anyone could have those two above the debut!
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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Silent Majority wrote:
14 May 2019, 6:30am
BitterTom wrote:
14 May 2019, 4:12am
Silent Majority wrote:
14 May 2019, 3:39am
BitterTom wrote:
14 May 2019, 3:34am
Hit and miss album for me, a mix of brilliance and mundane.

First to go for me is A Party, a bit dull, doesn't go anywhere far and is far too long.
Great, meaningful lyrics, though
One of my many flaws is being oblivious and ignorant to a good lyric, will have to read them in a bit.
It's about apartheid.
Read them, certainly made me appreciate the song more.

Same with Stone Thames, dismissed it on the first listen but really took the time to listen with lyrics in front and it did help complete it, if you get what I mean.

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I hope Sudden Impact makes it a decent distance, though I have no illusions about it winning anything.
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E=MC^2 and Medicine show are very good, but Bottom Line just seems head and shoulders above everything else.
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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I had no illusions about Sony winning but I'm surprised it's going out so early.

When I first got TIBAD I'd already bought the e=mc2 and Medicine Show singles and so I thought I knew what to expect but Sony was like nothing I'd ever heard before.
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oliver wrote:
14 May 2019, 1:30pm
I had no illusions about Sony winning but I'm surprised it's going out so early.

When I first got TIBAD I'd already bought the e=mc2 and Medicine Show singles and so I thought I knew what to expect but Sony was like nothing I'd ever heard before.
I love Sony and love the singing on it.
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, 11:18am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
14 May 2019, 10:37am
coffeepotman wrote:
14 May 2019, 9:58am
I know I'm in the minority here but I have never liked Medicine Show. I like Stone Thames the best. Que knives and daggers! I think that the 2cd legacy version really really brought the album together for me. Not really one of my favorites, but then again I like Higher Power and F-Punk.
Very outre BAD opinions all around, to say the least.
Indeed, I'm struggling to imagine why anyone could have those two above the debut!
Oh no, no, no...don't get me wrong, I didn't say above, that's like comparing apples and tomatoes. I like everything under the BAD moniker, I can't really compare them. It just depends on what mood I'm in. Each BAD release reminds me of a certain point in my life, I remember exactly where I was and what was happening at that time. Good memories all around

As for Stone Thames, that's the first time I heard the word Extacy! and my life was forever changed

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Silent Majority wrote:
14 May 2019, 6:30am
101Walterton wrote:
14 May 2019, 5:27am
I fucked up already :rolleyes:
What's your actual choice?
Sony

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Wolter wrote:
14 May 2019, 7:55am
Sony. The vocal delivery is a little cringe now.

I’m baffled by people voting E=mc2 and Medicine Show in the first round.
As above was me I fucked up and voted favourite :rolleyes:

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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.
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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.
Is the 2-disc worth buying? It's mostly 12" mixes right?
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