No. 10, Upping St.

No. 10, Upping St. is the second studio album by English band Big Audio Dynamite, led by Mick Jones, the former lead guitarist and 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.

No. 10, Upping St.
Studio album by
Big Audio Dynamite
ReleasedOctober 1986
StudioTrident One, London
Genre
Length42:29 (Vinyl)
59:50 (CD)
LabelCBS
ProducerMick Jones, Joe Strummer
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[1]

Album artwork

The cover painting, based on a still taken from the Brian De Palma film Scarface, was painted by Tim Jones and Deirdre McArdle.

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1."C'mon Every Beatbox"Jones, Letts5:26
2."Beyond the Pale"Strummer, Jones4:41
3."Limbo the Law"Strummer, Jones, Donovan4:44
4."Sambadrome"Jones, Letts4:48
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
5."V. Thirteen"Strummer, Jones4:54
6."Ticket"Strummer, Jones, Letts, Roberts3:28
7."Hollywood Boulevard"Jones, Letts4:29
8."Dial a Hitman"Jones, Letts5:04
9."Sightsee M.C!"Strummer, Jones4:55
Bonus tracks
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
10."Ice Cool Killer" (bonus track on the UK and US CD)Strummer, Jones, Donovan5:33
11."The Big V" (bonus track on the UK and US CD)Strummer, Jones, Donovan4:48
12."Badrock City" (bonus track on the US CD)Jones, Letts7:00

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
  • "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

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. Erlewine, Stephen Thomas and Ruhlmann, William. Review: No. 10, Upping St.. Allmusic. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  2. "BAD Samples". Retrieved 24 December 2011.
  3. 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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