No. 10, Upping St. Explained
No. 10, Upping St. is the second studio album by the English band Big Audio Dynamite, led by Mick Jones, the former lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the Clash. The album's title is a pun on 10 Downing Street, the headquarters of the Government of the United Kingdom. The album reunited Jones for one album with former Clash bandmate Joe Strummer, who was a co-producer of the album and co-writer of 5 of its 9 songs.
Album artwork
The cover painting, based on a still taken from the Brian De Palma film Scarface (1983), was painted by Tim M Jones MA(RCA)
Notes
- "Dial a Hitman" contains a spoken-word outro attributed to Matt Dillon and Laurence Fishburne (and with a reference to Jim Jarmusch)[2]
- "C'mon Every Beatbox" was remixed and released in the US as "Badrock City"
- "C'mon Every Beatbox", "V. Thirteen", and "Sightsee M.C!" were all released as singles in the UK
- "C'mon Every Beatbox" contains samples from the films The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971), The Harder They Come (1972), and The Cotton Club (1984)
- "Sambadrome" contains some samples from Brazilian football commentator Osmar Santos
- The original album version of "Hollywood Boulevard" opened with a sample of Peter O'Toole from My Favorite Year (1982)
- "Ice Cool Killer" is an instrumental version of "Limbo the Law"
- "The Big V" is an instrumental version of "V. Thirteen"
- "Badrock City" is an instrumental version of "C'mon Every Beatbox"
- "V. Thirteen" is named for the territorial tags drawn by members of Venice 13 (V13) is a Mexican-American street gang based in the Oakwood (aka "Ghost Town") neighborhood of Venice, a section of Los Angeles, California, with a substantial presence in East Venice as well as the Culver City/Los Angeles border, especially around Washington Blvd.
- Later pressings of the album substituted the original versions of "Hollywood Boulevard" and "V. Thirteen" with the remixed versions that were released as a single.
Personnel
Credits are adapted from the No. 10, Upping St. liner notes.[3]
Big Audio Dynamite
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The cover painting, based on a still taken from the Brian De Palma crime drama film Scarface (1983) was painted by Tim Jones.
Notes and References
- 26 October 1986. News Digest. Record Mirror. 20. 18 October 2022.
- Web site: BAD Samples. 24 December 2011.
- No. 10, Upping St.. Big Audio Dynamite. 1986. Columbia Records. CD booklet.
