Artist	Song
Mick Jagger	Half A Life
Tim Finn	Fraction Too Much Friction
Imagination	Just An Illusion
Godley & Creme	Crime & Punishment
Fleetwood Mac	She's Changing Me
Texas	I Don't Want A Lover
Paul McCartney & Wings	My Love
Robert Palmer	Best of Both Worlds
Grace Jones	Use Me
Big Audio Dynamite	Beyond the Pale
Brand X	Masques
Basia	Time and Tide
The Selector	They Make Me Mad
Climax Blues Band	Horizontalized
Elvis Costello & The Attractions	Big Tears
Joan Armatrading	(I Love It When You) Call Me Names
Robin Trower	Passion

Comment:

At age 52, former Clash guitarist Mick Jones has embarked on another career turn lately, joining forces with Tony James, ex of Sigue Sigue Sputnik to put out a CD after several years of giving music away for free on the Internet. Hearing a couple of their songs prompted me to dig back into the collection, not to his first band but to Big Audio Dynamite, the band Jones fronted after Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon kicked him out of The Clash because they wanted the band to return to its punk roots.

B.A.D. was one of the first bands to mix club music and rock. Their calling card was a swirl of sound effects and audio verite, including a running motif of dialogue from such movies as A Fistful of Dollars. Jones still sang about the same political issues as with The Clash, but the emphasis was on dancing and rocking.

Anyway, that was the departure point for this mix which takes its title from a lyric in the B.A.D. song. Jones getting booted from The Clash could be seen as a happy accident unless, of course, you believe there are no accidents in life.

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