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Advantages: It's the Specials! Disadvantages: One or two tracks not so good.
Specials - The Specials
It's 1979 I am 16 going on 17, left school and am a scooter skin, which basically meant I rode a scooter (Lambretta SX 200) and had a skinhead.
I was into Ska in a big way, but old style skinhead Ska, The Pioneers, The Upsetters etc. Then something happened, we got British Ska, The Beat, Selector, Madness (early on) and the best of all, The Specials. I have two vinyl LP's left in my house, this one (very scratched) and one by a band called Back To The Planet. This LP rocked, it got played over and over from '79 to '81 (when The Jam took over for me).
~~~~~The Band~~~~~
The band themselves seemed to consist of hundreds of people, though in fact there were:
Jerry Dammers - Keyboards
Terry Hall - Vocals
Neville Staple - Vocals and percussion
Roddy radiation - Guitar
(Sir) Horace Gentleman - Bass ...
Advantages: inteligent varied original Disadvantages: their last record as a group
Some are born great,as the saying goes ,others have greatness
thrust upon them,and in the case of The Specials it seems not only did they achieve greatness with their debut album "Specials",but had even more greatness thrust upon them by an over expectant music press and ravenous fan base
all eager for more of their punk/ska riotous rapture ,however in
the spirit of true greatness and wanton defiance they delivered
"More Specials" in the autumn of 1980,and in direct conflict to its title could well have been called "Less Specials "
In the twelve months which had elapsed between their debut and this daring follow up the musical landscape had changed a great deal ,the fury of punk which gave rise to the groups foundations was now a fading memory as new sounds and movements splinterd into a varied buffet of sounds and movements ...
Advantages: Healthy and tasty Disadvantages: Expensive
Background:
We are always told these days breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so lately I had been making a conscious effort to start my day well. I think, as we all get older we become a bit more aware of our own mortality and start to think more healthily. So with that in mind I have started purchasing Special K, as I have seen the adverts and I would like to loose a little weight without having to seem like I?m on a diet.
About Kellogg?s:
I have known about the Kellogg Company since being a young boy. In those days you didn?t get shop?s own product like you do know you only got the original and genuine article. The company was founded in 1906 by Keith Kellogg with Corn Flakes being their first successful cereal that established the company.
Since then the company had gone from strength to strength ...
Product Information for "Specials Singles, The (The Best Of The Specials) - Specials (The)" »
Product details
Title
Specials Singles, The (The Best Of The Specials)
Performer
Specials (The)
Genre
Reggae
Sub Genre
2 Tone Ska
Release Date
27/08/1991
Recomended Retail Price
14.99 GBP
Original Release Year
1991
Label / Distributor
Chrysalis / EMI Operations/CEVA Logistics
Pieces in Set
1
Studio / Live
Mixed
Stereo
Stereo
Format
Performer
EAN
94632182326
Catalogue Number
CCD 5010
SPAR code
AAD
Additional notes
Album Notes
A collection of material released by The Specials (and its splinter group The Special AKA) from 1979 to 1984. The Specials: Terry Hall, Neville Staples (vocals); Lynval Golding, Roddy Radiation (guitar); Jerry Dammers (keyboards); Sir Horace Gentleman (bass); John "Brad" Bradbury (drums). Additional personnel: Rico Rodriguez (trombone). Producers: Elvis Costello, The Special AKA, Jerry Dammers, Dave Jordan, John Collins, Dick Cuthell.
Album Reviews
Q (10/00, pp.136-7) - 5 stars out of 5 - "...As straightforward a flab-free compilation as they come, adding some double-A-sides for ballast..."
Titles on disc 1
1.
Gangsters
2.
Message To You Rudy
3.
Nite Club
4.
Too Much Too Young
5.
Guns Of Navarone
6.
Rat Race
7.
Rude Boys Outa Jail
8.
Stereotype
9.
International Jet Set
10.
Do Nothing
11.
Ghost Town
12.
Why
13.
Friday Night
14.
Saturday Morning
15.
Racist Friend
16.
Nelson Mandela
17.
What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend
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