F-Punk

by Stephen Thomas Erlewine For his first album for Radioactive, Mick Jones changed the name of his group back to Big Audio Dynamite and delivered F-Punk. While the name was a retreat back to the BAD's most creative and exciting days of the '80s, the music on F-Punk simply reiterated all of the ideas of their last few albums -- which means that it restated the same themes as all of their previous records. Far from being "punk," with all its classic rock references and allusions to the glory days of 1977, the album sounds tied to the past.