F-Punk

F-Punk is a studio album by Mick Jones' post-Clash band Big Audio Dynamite, released in 1995.^[5][6] 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.^[7]

F-Punk
Studio album by Big Audio Dynamite
Released	20 June 1995
Studio	Pavilion Studios, London
Genre	Alternative rock, post-punk
Length	62:17
Label	Radioactive[1]
Producer	Mick Jones André Shapps[2]
Big Audio Dynamite chronology
Higher Power (1994) F-Punk (1995) Planet B.A.D. (1995)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[1]
MusicHound Rock: The Essential Album Guide	[2]
The New Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]

Critical reception

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."^[8] 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."^[7] CMJ New Music Monthly thought that B.A.D. "has simply forgotten to draw the line between creative mixing and pure sludge."^[9] 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."^[10]

Track listing

• All songs by Mick Jones unless noted.

1. "I Turned Out a Punk" - 5:24
2. "Vitamin C" - 5:27
3. "Psycho Wing" 7:12
4. "Push Those Blues Away" (Mick Jones, Gary Stonadge) - 6:08
5. "Gonna Try" - 3:55
6. "It's a Jungle Out There" - 5:19
7. "Got To Set Her Free" - 3:51
8. "Get It All From My TV" - 4:04
9. "Singapore" - 5:25
10. "I Can't Go on Like This" (Mick Jones, Lauren Jones) - 5:54
11. "What About Love?" / "Suffragette City" (hidden track) (David Bowie) - 9:44 total

There is also a hidden track 3:47 into "I Turned Out a Punk".

Personnel

Big Audio Dynamite

• Mick Jones - guitar, vocals, producer
• Nick Hawkins - guitar, vocals
• André Shapps - keyboards, producer
• Gary Stonadge - bass, vocals
• Chris Kavanagh - drums, vocals
• Micky Custance - DJ, percussion, vocals

Others

• Henery Glover - engineer
• Jason Eyers - engineer
• Tim Burrell - mastering