This Is Big Audio Dynamite is the debut studio album by the English band Big Audio Dynamite, led by Mick Jones, the former lead guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the Clash.

"The Bottom Line" released a month before the album, barely made the Top 100, peaking at No.

The music video for "Medicine Show", directed by Don Letts, featured two other former members of the Clash, Joe Strummer and Paul Simonon as police officers as well as John Lydon of the Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd. A remastered Legacy Edition was released in 2010 with a second disc composed of alternate mixes and versions.

"[14] All tracks are written by Mick Jones and Don Letts, except where notedCredits are adapted from the This Is Big Audio Dynamite liner notes.

[15] Big Audio Dynamite Production and artwork Medicine Show Sampled liberally throughout this song are sound bites from four motion pictures, three of them Spaghetti Westerns.