No. 10, Upping St.
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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
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Notes
- "Dial a Hitman" contains a spoken-word outro attributed to Matt Dillon and Laurence Fishburne (and with a reference to Jim Jarmusch)[1]
- "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 remix version of "C'mon Every Beatbox" and charted as a single on the US Dance Club charts
- "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.[2]
Big Audio Dynamite
- Mick Jones — vocals; guitar; producer
- Don Letts — vocals; effects
- Dan Donovan — keyboards; vocals; photography; artwork
- Leo Williams — bass; vocals
- Greg Roberts — drums; vocals
with:
- Joe Strummer — producer
- Matt Dillon — dialog
- Laurence Fishburne — dialog
- Sipho Josanna Johnson — human beatbox
- Adam "Flea" Newman — "dynamite"
- Sam Sever — remixing; drum programming
- Chep Nuñez — editing
- Alan Moulder, Cenzo Townshend, Dennis Mitchell — assistant editing
- Paul "Groucho" Smykle — engineer
- Mark "Spike" Stent — assistant
- Josh Cheuse — photography
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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