Looking for a Song

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Looking for a Song
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Compilation album by
Released1994
Recorded1984-1994
Genre Alternative rock
Length60:50 / 31:14
Label CBS
2SK 6567
Producer Mick Jones, André Shapps
Joe Strummer, Bill Price
Dan Donovan, Oliver "Olimax" Maxwell
Big Audio chronology
The Lost Treasure of Big Audio Dynamite I & II
(1993)
Looking for a Song
(1994)
Higher Power
(1994)

Looking for a Song is a 2CD promo only compilation album by Big Audio Dynamite released in the US in 1994. [1] The compilation was recorded over the previous decade, starting in 1984. It comprises Greatest Hits - The Radio Edits and Looking for a Song EP and was issued under the shortened band name Big Audio. [2]

Contents

Track listing

Greatest Hits - The Radio Edits

  1. "Looking for a Song" (Radio Mix) - 4:46
  2. "Innocent Child" (Edit) - 3:55
  3. "The Globe" (Edit) - 3:46
  4. "Rush" (Edit) - 3:08
  5. "Free" (Edit) - 3:30
  6. "Contact" (Edit) - 4:12
  7. "James Brown" (Remix Edit) - 3:58
  8. "Other 99" (Edit) - 4:27
  9. "Just Play Music!" (Edit) - 3:56
  10. "Hollywood Boulevard" - 3:57
  11. "V. Thirteen" - 4:38
  12. "C'Mon Every Beatbox" (Edit) - 4:31
  13. "E=MC²" (Edit) - 4:32
  14. "Medicine Show" (Edit) - 4:27
  15. "The Bottom Line" (Edit) - 3:46

Looking for a Song EP

  1. "Looking for a Song" (Album Version) - 3:46
  2. "Mirror Man" - 4:19
  3. "Looking for a Song" (The Zonka/Shapps Remix) - 7:18
  4. "Medicine Show" (Live) - 8:36
  5. "RusH" (Live) - 7:08

Notes

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  2. "Images for Big Audio - Greatest Hits - The Radio Edits / Looking For A Song". Discogs.com. Retrieved 2012-02-29.