This popped up on the mp3 player on the way home today, and fits in nicely with the Joe Strummer and Return To Brixton posts we've had at Bagging Area this week. The Bottom Line was one of the stand out tracks from B.A.D.s 1985 debut album This Is Big Audio Dynamite, and showed Mick forging ahead after being kicked out of the band he started, teaming up with reggae punk Don Letts. B.A.D. pioneered, certainly for a British band, using drum machines with guitars and using samples from films. Medicine Show, The Bottom Line and E=MC2 showed Mick in a burst of creativity, and all three and most of the rest of the album sound great today. This is the 12" version of The Bottom Line, stretched out over seven and half minutes but not feeling a second too long, and picks up from where the album version finished with 'I'm gonna take you to, I'm gonna take you to, I'm gonna take you to... part two'.
bottom line film & cinema version.mp3
bottom line film & cinema version.mp3