The last two soundtrack Saturdays have been post- Clash solo affairs, Big Audio Dynamite with the song Free from the film Flashback in 1990 and Joe Strummer's songs for Sid And Nancy in 1986. Today's soundtrack is Mick Jones in 1993 and a low budget 1993 film Amongst Friends. Directed by Rob Weiss the film tells the story of three childhood friends who get involved in low level drug dealing, nightclubs and local mobsters, shot on location around the Five Towns of Nassau County (Long Island and Queens).
The soundtrack is a very 1993 blend of hip hop and alt- rock, with The Lemonheads, The Pharcyde, Bettie Serveert, Tone Loc and MC Lyte all rubbing shoulders, Mott The Hoople jammed in and three Mick Jones tracks not available anywhere else plus Big Audio Dynamite's Innocent Child. This one can be considered something of a lost Mick Jones solo gem, just Mick and a porta- studio, drum machine, understated electronics, softly sung and rather sweet.
No Ennio is a soundtrack incidental music, some echo pedal guitar with synth and drum machine
BAD's Innocent Child is from the post- first line up years, Mick recruiting a new B.A.D., calling them Big Audio Dynamite II and carrying on. Innocent Child featured on the new BAD's 1990 album Kool Aid and then again on the reworked The Globe a year alter. Innocent Child is a heartfelt Jones song.
It would be remiss of me to finish this post without The Pharcyde's Passin' Me By, one of 90s hip hop's best tracks- one of the best 90s tracks in any genre actually- and one that in 1993 I played to death. It samples Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones and Weather Report but the self- deprecating, unlucky in love lyrics and verbal flow are entirely the work of the four Pharcyders. If you don't play Passin' Me By at least five times today I will have failed.
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