"Somebody I've never met but in a way I know"

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This bugged me for years, this opening line of E=MC2 Big Audio Dynamite...

1) did he read an interview with this person?
2) Vaguely acquainted? but then he'd have met them.

Then I thought, theres loads of people here I've never met but in a way I know. But the internet wasn't going, back in 1985 or whatever. not as big anyway. Then I thought, he must mean a penfriend. Bless.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I think he was being poetic like.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

it's about god, innit?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:35 (twenty-two years ago)

What if Mick Jones was one of us?

― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:36 (twenty-two years ago)

do-de-do-de-do-de-do

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Huh?

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a great record though. There's something really naff about BAD in general but that one single is terrific.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

did they do "groovy train"?

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

no wait that was the farm

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

us radio played a lot of this crap 89-92

― strongo hulkington (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:43 (twenty-two years ago)

NAFF would have been a better name than BAD - what would have stood for however? New Audio Freedom Fighters or some such crap.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

To dig Nicholas Roeg's films is to know him, in a way, I guess.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, but according to the record, the person didn;t think you could get so much from a picture show. (Nic Roeg's done OK from it...)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

To dig Nicholas Roeg's films is to know him, in a way, I guess

totally. Isn't this whole song about "Performance"? Having said that, I love "E=MC2"; therefore, I should be shot.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

i love "innocent child" by big audio dynamite II. therefore, i should probably be imprisoned indefinitely in guantanamo bay.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd always assumed Jones meant that he was a big fan/admirer of this person (I'd always assumed a famous director) and had followed his career in print (hence "in a way knowing" him).

I can't hear the name, Big Audio Dynamite, without thinking of a quote from a friend of mine. He taped B.A.D's first album, This Is Big Audio Dynamite, over a recording of some other album. "In retrospect," he said, "that was a Big Audio Mistake!"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

... ha ha, I think they belong in a Big Audio Dustbin personally

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Hadn't realized it was uncool to dig BAD. Well, color me uncool yet again.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

It's hip to be uncool

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I like select portions of the B.A.D. catalog.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

that's a good way to put it. F'rinstance, "Rush" is by the side project NAFF, while "The Bottom Line" is allowed in the BAD canon

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rush" is BAD 2, for what it's worth.

"Looking for a Song" is Big Audio...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 16 March 2004 16:13 (twenty-two years ago)

seven months pass...

fuck it. i dont care about the hate. BAD released some fine records in some seriously crap sleeves - hence a lot of the reason for the associated Naffness admittedly.
i would even go so far as to say that their unreleased album 'entering a new ride' was back on track, with Ranking Roger adding his vocal styles all over the right places ..
anyway .. having spun The Globe/Entering todays lots along with some of the recent Sputnik sounds i have realised i need to hear some of these :
http://www.carbonsiliconinc.com/discography/discography.aspx
anybody got these ? i heard a crappy lo-fi mp3 ages ago .. whcih was all-reeeet. just.
so ILM .. anyone know the C/S story ?
and i wonder if any of the libertines diehards are out their scouring the racks for that last BAD 12" remix ... what a surprise they are in for if they are tempted ..

― mark e (mark e), Tuesday, 19 October 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

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