Is Mick Jones a non-starter? I never read anything about him in what little music scene dabbling I do.
I randomly got into Big Audio Dynamite when I was in high school only because I randomly really liked the first Big Country album (which wasn’t even current at the time) and the two were near each other in the alphabet at the record store. I also liked The Clash but didn’t know that they had anything to do with each other.
(This, PS, is the kind of musical taste that develops in a near-vacuum like my high school experience. Not only was I in Phoenix - insert lack-of-culture joke here - I was not really “music” friends with anyone. Ergo, I was completely dependent on myself to find new and interesting stuff, but then I was pretty isolated and clueless so wound up wandering around trying to guess what would be cool from CD covers . With the utter lack of context or guidance, you end up liking a bunch of stuff that you find out later was not only uncool to your peers but also like…feeling passionately about like shoelaces…like not things your peers were caring about.)
Anyway, back to Mick Jones. So I listened to all this B.A.D. stuff and I didn’t have any idea what the context of it was - or is, really - just clearly it was in line with what I still like to this day: layered choppy stuff with little bits and pieces thrown in, that has a good beat and you can dance to. And I feel like I so often hear stuff today that sounds like the person listening to it must have liked it to, but I don’t know enough about the music world to know if B.A.D.’s sampling and stuff influenced it or if the things that influenced B.A.D. are the same things that influenced today’s dancey pants type producers.
Like this Spank Rock, the end reminds me so much of Contact by B.A.D. but maybe they just used the same sample?
All this to say: even to this day I have no context. I’m a dilettante, a dabbler, an ass-talker-outer.
