Big Audio Dynamite, April 1986

Open-ended brilliance.

I was a big fan of The Clash but when they split up it was the right time. I was heartbroken watching the band that Joe Strummer kept going for a while under the same name: it wasn’t the same.

Meanwhile, Mick Jones was pursuing a new path and it came to fruition with BAD. (And Strummer did a lot of good stuff later, too.)

Back in the 21st century, Mick Jo…