Originally published at: Big Audio Dynamite II's 'Rush' | Boing Boing
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I loved that album when it came out. I’m sure glad I didn’t see that video until now.
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Yeah… it’s a long road from London Calling.
Also, I never noticed the keyboard riff near the middle is Baba O’Reilly.
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BAD, was and still largely underrated. They get the Dear Wife and I out on the living room floor every time, busting moves like a couple of teenagers.
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As was “Carbon/Silicon”, Mic Jones’s next band.
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Great band. This was one of my favorites by them:
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Saw them on The Globe tour along with The Cranberries. And I would add that the album Megatop Phoenix is very underrated as well as massively influential. Big Audio Dynamite - James Brown - YouTube
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they had some lousy songs, but they also had some great songs. This is another one of my favourites.
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i still love that album, but yeah, that video needs help.
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I literally haven’t listened to BADII since the 90’s, and I could still sing along to 100% of the entire song (even the interstitial “rhythm and melody” section)!
Looking back to when I got this on cassette tape, I’m surprised that it didn’t just burst into flame from constant use!
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It’s funny how a song can stay with you.
The line " Somehow I stayed thin while the other guys got fat" still goes through my head at least once a week.
While I’d put their first album amongst some of my favorites, I’ve also got a really soft spot for I Turned Out a Punk.
I’ve got the lab to myself today and was already having a sentimental 80’s music day, and This Is Big Audio Dynamite is now queued up next!
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Truth!
Better beans and freedom than cake and slavery
As long as we’re together that’s good enough for me
Every inch a battle, had to see it through
With some love and laughs and each other too
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Would love to know the long walk from creating the song and the very literal and very “art” directed video. I guess your public image may be limited.
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That’s a hard pil to swallow!
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Right? Tastes…rotten.
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Can’t complain as I may look worse with a vicious hang over
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I haven’t heard this song in a long time. I have a copy that’s a double A side with The Clash’s Should I Stay… with the Levi’s logo prominently placed on the front. The song was used in a jeans advert and became a hit again on the back of that
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I like The Clash, but BAD has more songs that are my favorites, and this greatest hits album is in my desert island collection.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_B.A.D.
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Man, oh man, do I love Megatop Phoenix. I think there’s a very strong argument to be made for “Start” / “Rewind” being one of the best album-opener-as-statement-of-purposes that’s ever been. (Definitely on par with similar openers “Airbag” or “Race for the Prize”.)
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