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F-Punk

F-Punk is a studio album by Mick Jones' post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite, released in 1995. It was the first album to be released under the name of Big Audio Dynamite since 1989's Megatop Phoenix. The title is a pun on the funk group P-Funk, and is supposed to imply "Fuck punk." The album cover lettering takes influence from London Calling, one of Mick Jones' albums with The Clash, which in turn was a copy of Elvis Presley's debut album.

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F-Punk
Studio album by
Big Audio Dynamite
Released20 June 1995
StudioPavilion Studios, London
GenreAlternative rock, post-punk
Length62:17
LabelRadioactive1
ProducerMick Jones
André Shapps2
Big Audio Dynamite chronology
Higher Power
(1994) 		F-Punk
(1995) 		Planet B.A.D.
(1995)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusicStarStar3
The Encyclopedia of Popular MusicStarStarStar1
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album GuideStarStarHalf star2
The New Rolling Stone Album GuideStarStarHalf star4

F-Punk is a studio album by Mick Jones' post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite, released in 1995.56 It was the first album to be released under the name of Big Audio Dynamite since 1989's Megatop Phoenix. The title is a pun on the funk group P-Funk, and is supposed to imply "Fuck punk." The album cover lettering takes influence from London Calling, one of Mick Jones' albums with The Clash, which in turn was a copy of Elvis Presley's debut album.7

Critical reception

Trouser Press called the album "an attempt to cash in on a formidable legacy by largely abandoning dance sounds for unexceptional, straight-ahead rock — it’s emblematic of the band’s stylistic change that 'Push Those Blues Away' drops a promising jungle beat for plain-jane rock."8 The Hartford Courant wrote that "there's too much that sounds like demo tapes for a future album, fiddling around on keyboards, messing with volume dials, punching up experiments that don't always work."7 CMJ New Music Monthly thought that B.A.D. "has simply forgotten to draw the line between creative mixing and pure sludge."9 Entertainment Weekly wrote: "Beginning with a '1,2,3,4' count-off, the low-fi garage hum of 'I Turned Out a Punk' could act as a biography for any of the four members of the Clash."10

Track listing

  • All songs by Mick Jones unless noted.
  1. "I Turned Out a Punk" - 5:24
  2. "Vitamin C" - 5:27
  3. "Psycho Wing" 7:12
  4. "Push Those Blues Away" (Mick Jones, Gary Stonadge) - 6:08
  5. "Gonna Try" - 3:55
  6. "It's a Jungle Out There" - 5:19
  7. "Got To Set Her Free" - 3:51
  8. "Get It All From My TV" - 4:04
  9. "Singapore" - 5:25
  10. "I Can't Go on Like This" (Mick Jones, Lauren Jones) - 5:54
  11. "What About Love?" / "Suffragette City" (hidden track) (David Bowie) - 9:44 total

There is also a hidden track 3:47 into "I Turned Out a Punk".

Personnel

Big Audio Dynamite

Others

  • Henery Glover - engineer
  • Jason Eyers - engineer
  • Tim Burrell - mastering
References

References

  1. Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. pp. 588–589.
  2. MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 102.
  3. F-Punk at AllMusic
  4. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 69.
  5. "Big Audio Dynamite | Biography & History". AllMusic.
  6. Thompson, Dave (8 March 2000). Alternative Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306076 – via Google Books.
  7. CATLIN, ROGER. "BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE STILL STEEPED IN PUNK; LUNA IN A NEW REALM". courant.com.
  8. "Big Audio Dynamite". Trouser Press. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
  9. "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly. CMJ Network, Inc. 8 August 1995 – via Google Books.
  10. "The Clash reunites (virtually) with EW's homemade Clash 'Black Album'". EW.com.
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