B.A.D. Big Audio Dynamite

B.A.D. Big Audio Dynamite formed in 1984 after Mick Jones left The Clash. Jones wanted to move beyond punk's constraints, pulling together a group that mixed guitar rock with electronic beats and sampled sounds. Their first album, 'This is B.A.D.,' came out the next year and included 'E=MC2,' a track built around a driving rhythm and Albert Einstein samples that got some radio play.

They put out three more albums through the late '80s: 'No. 10, Upping St.,' 'Tighten Up, Vol. 88,' and 'Megatop Phoenix.' The lineup shifted around Jones, with people like Don Letts and Tim Simenon coming through. Songs like 'C'mon Every Beatbox' and 'Limbo The Law' kept that mix of danceable grooves and sharper, sometimes political, lyrics.

The band called it quits around 1990. You can still hear bits of their approach in later acts that tried to bridge rock and dance music, but mostly they're remembered for a handful of singles that didn't sound quite like anything else at the time.