F-Punk
| F-Punk | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 20 June 1995 | |||
| Recorded | Pavilion Studios, London | |||
| Genre | Alternative rock, post-punk | |||
| Length | 62:17 | |||
| Label | Radioactive[1] | |||
| Producer | Mick Jones André Shapps[2] | |||
| Big Audio Dynamite chronology | ||||
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| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [3] |
| The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | [1] |
| MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide |  [2] |
| The New Rolling Stone Album Guide | [4] |
F-Punk is a studio album by Mick Jones' post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite, released in 1995.[5][6] 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[edit]
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[edit]
- All songs by Mick Jones unless noted.
- "I Turned Out a Punk" - 5:24
- "Vitamin C" - 5:27
- "Psycho Wing" 7:12
- "Push Those Blues Away" (Mick Jones, Gary Stonadge) - 6:08
- "Gonna Try" - 3:55
- "It's a Jungle Out There" - 5:19
- "Got To Set Her Free" - 3:51
- "Get It All From My TV" - 4:04
- "Singapore" - 5:25
- "I Can't Go on Like This" (Mick Jones, Lauren Jones) - 5:54
- "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[edit]
Big Audio Dynamite[edit]
- Mick Jones - guitar, vocals, producer
- Nick Hawkins - guitar, vocals
- André Shapps - keyboards, producer
- Gary Stonadge - bass, vocals
- Chris Kavanagh - drums, vocals
- Micky Custance - DJ, percussion, vocals
Others[edit]
- Henery Glover - engineer
- Jason Eyers - engineer
- Tim Burrell - mastering
References[edit]
- ^ a b Larkin, Colin (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 1. MUZE. pp. 588–589.
- ^ a b MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. 1999. p. 102.
- ^ F-Punk at AllMusic
- ^ The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. 2004. p. 69.
- ^ "Big Audio Dynamite | Biography & History". AllMusic.
- ^ Thompson, Dave (8 March 2000). Alternative Rock. Hal Leonard Corporation. ISBN 9780879306076 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b CATLIN, ROGER. "BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE STILL STEEPED IN PUNK; LUNA IN A NEW REALM". courant.com.
- ^ "Big Audio Dynamite". Trouser Press. Retrieved 8 March 2021.
- ^ "Reviews". CMJ New Music Monthly. CMJ Network, Inc. 8 August 1995 – via Google Books.
- ^ "The Clash reunites (virtually) with EW's homemade Clash 'Black Album'". EW.com.
External links[edit]
- Article about B.A.D. and partially F-Punk Archived 25 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
