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.
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." 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." CMJ [New Music Monthly] thought that B.A.D. "has simply forgotten to draw the line between creative mixing and pure sludge." 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."Track listing
- 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" - 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" - 5:54
- "What About Love?" / "Suffragette City" - 9:44 total
Personnel
Big Audio Dynamite
- Mick Jones - vocals, guitar, producer
- Nick Hawkins - guitar, vocals
- André Shapps - keyboards, producer
- Gary Stonadge - bass, vocals
- Chris Kavanagh - drums, vocals
- Micky Custance - DJ, percussion, vocals
Others
- Henery Glover - engineer
- Jason Eyers - engineer
- Tim Burrell - mastering