“The Bottom Line” by Big Audio Dynamite

"The Bottom Line" came off This Is Big Audio Dynamite, the 1985 debut album by the English dance-rock crew Big Audio Dynamite. Mick Jones wrote and produced it, and it was his first single fronting a band since the Clash fired him in 1983. It's a jittery, dance-floor strut, with Jones gleefully plugging his rock instincts into the club.

At home it limped to number 97, but it went top 40 in Australia and New Zealand. The 12-inch is the one to own, which runs to 8:40 and tacks on the promised second part the album version only hints at as it fades. In 1990 a remix became the title track of the film Flashback, starring Dennis Hopper and Kiefer Sutherland, though it never made the soundtrack album.

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