Medicine Show (song)

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"Medicine Show"
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Single by Big Audio Dynamite
from the album This Is Big Audio Dynamite
B-side "A Party"
ReleasedJune 1986
Genre
Length6:29
Label CBS
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Mick Jones
Big Audio Dynamite singles chronology
"E=MC2"
(1986)
"Medicine Show"
(1986)
"C'mon Every Beatbox"
(1986)
Music video
"Medicine Show" on YouTube

"Medicine Show" is a song by the English band Big Audio Dynamite, released as both a 7" and 12" single from their debut studio album, This Is Big Audio Dynamite (1985). Written by Mick Jones and Don Letts about a fictitious medicine show, and following the success of "E=MC2", "Medicine Show" was released as the third and final single from the album, peaking at No. 29 on the UK Singles Chart, and No. 42 on Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks chart. [1] [2] It was their final top 40 single in the UK with the original line-up.

Contents

Music video

The music video for "Medicine Show", directed by Don Letts, featured two other former members of the Clash, Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon as police officers as well as Neneh Cherry and Andi Oliver of band Rip Rig + Panic, and John Lydon of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd.

Samples used on the track

Sampled liberally throughout this song are sound bites from four motion pictures, three of them Spaghetti Westerns. This list is based on order of appearance.

Track listing

7" single

  1. "Medicine Show" – 4:25
  2. "A Party" – 4:44

12" single

  1. "Medicine Show" – 8:58
  2. "A Party (Dub)" – 10:20

Chart performance

ChartPosition
UK Singles Chart [4] 29
US Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart42 [A]

References

  1. "Big Audio Dynamite - Full Official Chart History". Official Charts Company . Official Charts Company . Retrieved 14 November 2018.
  2. "Big Audio Dynamite Songs ••• Top Songs / Chart Singles Discography ••• Music VF, US & UK hits charts".
  3. This Is Big Audio Dynamite – esmark.net. [ usurped ]
  4. Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 11. ISBN   1-904994-10-5.