#1,584
Big Audio
“Looking for a Song”
Chart Debut: November 19, 1994
Chart Peak: 24
Artist Appearance: 1 of 4
As the singer on of two of the three most played Clash songs (at least on these shores), and two massively popular Big Audio Dynamite tunes, Mick Jones had a huge hand, and key voice, in what Modern Rock radio sounded like in the early 90s.
But instead of doubling down on his punk bonafides in 1994, Jones dropped the “Dynamite” from his band’s name and returned with an incredibly unmemorable song about how hard it is to write a memorable one: “Looking for a song/About 3:30 long/A song that I can sing/It don’t need no complicating theme…It ain’t as easy as it looks/Coming up with all these hooks/Remember that it has to swing/It don’t need no complicating theme.”
As anyone who ever listened to the Clash can tell you, sometimes it do need a complicating theme.
