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
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
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
