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SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
The Great Rock Discography6/10[4]
MusicHound3.5/5[5]
Q[6]
Record Mirror4.5/5[7]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[8]
Smash Hits8/10[9]

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)

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."C'mon Every Beatbox"
5:26
2."Beyond the Pale"
4:41
3."Limbo the Law"
4:44
4."Sambadrome"
  • Jones
  • Letts
4:48
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."V. Thirteen"
  • Strummer
  • Jones
4:54
6."Ticket"
3:28
7."Hollywood Boulevard"
  • Jones
  • Letts
4:29
8."Dial a Hitman"
  • Jones
  • Letts
5:04
9."Sightsee M.C!"
  • Strummer
  • Jones
4:55
Total length:42:29
Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
10."Ice Cool Killer" (bonus track on the UK and US CD)
  • Strummer
  • Jones
  • Donovan
5:33
11."The Big V" (bonus track on the UK and US CD)
  • Strummer
  • Jones
  • Donovan
4:48
12."Badrock City" (bonus track on the US CD)
  • Jones
  • Letts
7:00
Total length:59:50

Notes

  • "Dial a Hitman" contains a spoken-word outro attributed to Matt Dillon and Laurence Fishburne (and with a reference to Jim Jarmusch)[10]
  • "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.[11]

Big Audio Dynamite

with:

The cover painting, based on a still taken from the Brian De Palma crime drama film Scarface (1983) was painted by Tim Jones.

References

  1. ^ "News Digest" (PDF). Record Mirror. 26 October 1986. p. 20. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  2. ^ Erlewine, Stephen Thomas and Ruhlmann, William. Review: No. 10, Upping St.. AllMusic. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  3. ^ Larkin, Colin (2011). "Big Audio Dynamite". Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Omnibus Press. ISBN 9780857125958 – via Google Books.
  4. ^ Strong, Martin C. (2004). "Big Audio Dynamite". The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Canongate Books. p. 133. ISBN 1-84195-615-5.
  5. ^ Graff, Gary; Durchholz, Daniel, eds. (1999). "Big Audio Dynamite". MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide. Visible Ink Press. p. 102. ISBN 1-57859-061-2.
  6. ^ Bradley, Lloyd (December 1987). "Big Audio Dynamite: No. 10 Upping St". Q.
  7. ^ Reid, Jim (1 November 1986). "Big Audio Dynamite: No. 10 Upping St". Record Mirror. Vol. 33. Retrieved 19 July 2024.
  8. ^ Considine, J. D. (2004). "Big Audio Dynamite". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 69. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  9. ^ Sippitts, Deborah (5 November 1986). "Big Audio Dynamite: No. 10 Upping St". Smash Hits. No. 207. Retrieved 13 July 2024.
  10. ^ "BAD Samples". Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  11. ^ No. 10, Upping St (CD booklet). Big Audio Dynamite. Columbia Records. 1986.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
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