#466/2116
October 1986
Big Audio Dynamite
No. 10, Upping St.
Genre: Dance Rock
3.5 out of 5
Highlights:
C’mon Every Beatbox
V. Thirteen
Ticket
The first thing that struck me about the lead single is how much it sounds like it could be a latter day Clash song. And also just how far a stretch “The world’s most important band” moniker was. It’s that moment when, as a fan, you realize you were marketed to and everything is advertising and nothing really matters and punk was never real and fuck everything, pass the Cheetos.
It’s hard to get past the 80s sounds on this spinner. “Limbo the Law” and “V. Thirteen” really suffer here. The samples, the drum machines, it’s all so of the era and I really wish the Jones/Strummer tracks were just 4 guys thrashing the way they did just 6 years before.
But, listen to “Ticket” and tell me that Scott LeRock and Boogie Down Productions didn’t listen to this record 100 times. Hip Hop is about to explode and this record has that all over it.
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