| F-Punk | |
| Type: | Album |
| Artist: | Big Audio Dynamite |
| Cover: | F-Punk.jpg |
| Released: | 20 June 1995 |
| Studio: | Pavilion Studios, London |
| Genre: | Alternative rock, post-punk |
| Length: | 62:17 |
| Label: | Radioactive |
| Producer: | Mick Jones André Shapps |
| Prev Title: | Higher Power |
| Prev Year: | 1994 |
| Next Title: | Planet B.A.D. |
| Next Year: | 1995 |
F-Punk is a studio album by Mick Jones' post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite, released in 1995.[1] [2] 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.[3]
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."[4] 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."[3] CMJ New Music Monthly thought that B.A.D. "has simply forgotten to draw the line between creative mixing and pure sludge."[5] 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."[6]
There is also a hidden track 3:47 into "I Turned Out a Punk".