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3 of 4 found the following review helpful:
 Their Best I've Heard, And It's GREAT! Feb 01, 2006
The only other album I have by BAD is Phoenix Megatop, and F-Punk is actually the first one I got by these guys, and I was blown away. Coming from a Clash background, this was a great progression. Basically, if you love the Clash, this will fit in well, and their older stuff won't. "Vitamin C" and "I Turned Out a Punk"? CLASSICS! Wonderful tunes. "Chase Those Blues Away," too, ranks as upbeat a tune as Monty Python's "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life." How anyone can give this a bad review is beyond me.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Underrated Aug 26, 2005
This is BAD's last album and has the some great feel that their earlier albums had. Mick Jones is a true punk legend and though nothing like his earlier band The Clash, this is still classic punk. Some songs are a bit long, but the music is really cool. Favorites include I Turned Out a Punk, Vitamin C, Push Those Blues Away, Got To Set Her Free, Get It All From My TV, and I Can't Go On Like This. Recommended.
3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 One best forgotten from Jones and company Apr 15, 2005
I listened to this disc (my wife's) for the first time(s) today (after sampling THE GLOBE). One thing is apparent here...the samplefest of THE GLOBE is over. This record is more basic rock with just a sprinkling of samples. It's also less immediately hooky than THE GLOBE.
The problem with it is that it seems Jones and company are rudderless here. They can't decide if this is back to basics rock...or still "cutting edge" keyboard infused alterna-jams.
HIGHLIGHTS:
"Singapore" was B.A.D.'s comment on the caning of Michael Fay (Fay was an American college student who was caned by Singapore authorities after being convicted for vandalizing cars while he was visiting that country.) which made world news at the time. There's a slightly cheesy element to "Push Those Blues Away" (sorta like an early 90s "Steal my Sunshine") but it's fairly catchy. A hidden track cover of David Bowie's "Suffragette City" (after "What About Love?") is decent though it won't replace Bowie's. "Gonna Try" is a pretty basic alt-love song. "It's a Jungle Out There" has an off-kilter hookiness that settles in a bit over time.
LOWS:
"What About Love?" is a horrible lyric. It looks like it wanted to be a song about the vacuum inside modern youth but it just had too many insipid lines like "I'm schizophrenic manic depressive/Kids of today surely are aggressive/An alca/shoppa/workaholic/Most the music's really chronic". "I Turned Out a Punk" is as removed from the stripped raw energy that is punk music as, say, Mantovani. It's aggressively bland. "Vitamin C" is a pretty witty broadside against the culture that tries to synthetically replace the essential nutrients we fail to put in our diet ("Didn't used to eat so I'd take these...Guess I must be unhealthy..Have you got the time release please?") but the "gimme 'nother hit of Vitamin C" is so relentless that you begin to hope someone will lace Mick's pills with cyanide. "Got to Set Her Free" almost sounds like a lost Smokey Robinson track (without the falsetto vocal). But what could have been a nice soulful track is saddled with piffle like "My preoccupation was selfish extreme/It all comes down to a low self esteem".
BOTTOM LINE:
Too much lyrical tripe, too little catchy hooks, too much indulgence. Skip this one...
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
One of B.A.D.'s best releases. It's crazy to rate this low! Apr 09, 2005
I don't understand how anyone who likes Big Audio Dynamite cannot like this album. F-Punk features the best features of Mick Jones' early 80's Clash work and the style that made early Big Audio Dynamite work so fun, except that it's not nearly as sample heavy. That's it, it's not sample heavy, but it's great Mick Jones work.
The lead off track "I Turned Out A Punk" was the only track considered good enough to show up on Big Audio Dynamite's "Planet BAD - Greatest Hits" (although this album was only 3 months old at the time), but "Push Those Blues Away" and "Gonna Try" are probably my two favorites here, and they're worth the price of admission. The last track on the album entitled "What About Love?" also gives way to a hidden track, which is an excellent cover of David Bowie's "Suffragette City". (Not listed on the album description.) Really, there isn't a bad track on the album in my opinion.
F-Punk is out of print and incredibly hard to find in record shops, so I wholeheartedly recommend purchasing this one online here at Amazon. Take it from someone who owns every Clash album and has listened to a lot of Big Audio Dynamite, this one is much better than its low availability would suggest.
3 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 *sigh* What went wrong? Feb 20, 2004
Ok, F-Punk is probally the worst BAD album that was released, even Higher Power had its moments, but F-Punk is very poor, the song "I turned out a Punk" tells all, Mick is trying to retreat back to his early days by playing more heavily guitar based music, thats not why we love BAD, we love BAD for its innoative cutting-edge sounds, something they were all about in the '80s.
This is a very poor album and an album you should stear clear of. Its follow up "Entering the NewRide" was never released, though from what i have heard it is as good as anything from there early days, why couldn't have Radioactive Records refused to have released the instead of "Entering the Newride"!
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