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Megatop Phoenix is the fourth and final studio album by the original line-up of English band Big Audio Dynamite, released on 4 September 1989 by CBS Records. Mick Jones and Bill Price produced the album. It was recorded at the Kinks' Konk Studios in Hornsey, London, who were considered an inspiration in the album's liner notes.
Megatop Phoenix was the last album to be released under the name of Big Audio Dynamite for six years (until 1995's F-Punk). A year after this album's release Mick Jones formed Big Audio Dynamite II with totally different members. The phoenix in the title is a reference to a near-death experience of Jones, who had developed chickenpox and pneumonia, and spent several months in hospital prior to recording this album.
The album reached #26 on the UK album chart and #85 on the Billboard 200 albums in the USA.




Track listing






Samples


The album makes copious use of sampling from various musical and other sources. Many of the tracks listed are created mainly from samples. Some of the samples are identified with their source below.

"Start" – Opening moments of Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death
"Rewind" – Much of what is being tape-rewound during the latter part of the song is from "Stalag 123"
"Union, Jack" – Rule Britannia, Charlie Watts' drum opening from the Rolling Stones' "Honky Tonk Women", Richard II, "You wouldn't know Karl Marx from a toffee apple" – from the film Britannia Hospital and "Heritage in motion" etc. from The Knack ...and How to Get It
"Contact" – Brief use of the beginning to "I Can't Explain" by the Who
"Dragon Town" – George Formby from "Mr Wu's a window cleaner now" and 'aaah aaah' portion of "S.F. Sorrow Is Born" by the Pretty Things
"Is Yours Working Yet?" – Alfred Hitchcock
"Around the Girl in 80 Ways" – "Right Said Fred" by Bernard Cribbins
"James Brown" – "Living in America" by James Brown
"Mick's a Hippie Burning" – The Hole in the Ground, again by Bernard Cribbins and Withnail and I
"The Green Lady" – Snippet of instrumental break from "S.F. Sorrow Is Born" by the Pretty Things
"London Bridge" – "London Pride" by Noël Coward
"Stalag 123" – The Great Escape Theme Music
"End" – Listen with Mother
According to the NME review of 2/9/1989 there are also samples of Arthur Scargill and BAD interviews.




Personnel


Big Audio Dynamite
Mick Jones – vocals, guitar, producer
Don Letts – sound effects, vocals
Greg Roberts – drums, vocals
Leo 'E-Zee-Kill' Williams – bass, vocals
Dan Donovan – keyboards, photography, vocals
Technical
Adam "Flea" Newman – sound effects
Bill Price – producer, engineer, mixing
George Holt – assistant engineer, mixing assistant
Andy Strange – compilation assistant




References






External links


Megatop Phoenix at Discogs (list of releases)
Interview with the original lineup of Big Audio Dynamite after the release of Megatop Phoenix

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Megatop Phoenix
• Big Audio Dynamite
• The Thin Red Line (Battle of Balaclava)
• Dan Donovan (keyboardist)
• F-Punk
• Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist)
• Contact
• Konk (recording studio)
• Tenor Saw
• Big Audio Dynamite discography