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No. 10, Upping St.

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No. 10, Upping St.
Studio album by
Big Audio Dynamite
Released27 October 1986 (1986-10-27)[1]
StudioTrident One (London)
Genre
Length42:29 (Vinyl)
59:50 (CD)
LabelCBS
Producer
Big Audio Dynamite chronology
This Is Big Audio Dynamite
(1985) 		No. 10, Upping St.
(1986) 		Tighten Up Vol. 88
(1988)
Singles from No. 10, Upping St.
  1. "C'mon Every Beatbox" b/w "Badrock City"
  2. "V. Thirteen (Remix)" b/w "Hollywood Boulevard (Remix)"
  3. "Sightsee M.C!" b/w "Another One Rides The Bus"
Professional ratings
Review scores
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

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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

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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

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  • "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

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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

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  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". Archived from the original on 21 December 2004. Retrieved 24 December 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  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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