the specials

uhler · 04.22.2008, 11:34 PM

anyone like them? their first album is one of my favorite album of all time. an awesome combination of ska, punk, reggae, soul and just plain rock n roll. i think them and the selecter are my two favorite two tone bands. the first madness album is amazing as well.

Dead-Air · 04.23.2008, 12:22 AM

Yeah, I love all of that stuff. Pretty much everyone in the movie Dance Craze kicked ass. It's a shame how lame pretty much all ska since then has been though.

uhler · 04.23.2008, 12:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Dead-Air

Yeah, I love all of that stuff. Pretty much everyone in the movie Dance Craze kicked ass. It's a shame how lame pretty much all ska since then has been though.

i have a bootleg dvd of the movie and it's awesome. i wish i could dance just so i could dance to that movie all night long. i have the lp of the soundtrack too.

batreleaser · 04.23.2008, 12:49 AM

them and madness=good ska, everything else considered ska=bad ska

uhler · 04.23.2008, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by batreleaser

them and madness=good ska, everything else considered ska=bad ska

some of the other two tone bands are worth checking out like the selecter, the (english) beat and the body snatchers.

60's ska is pretty cool too. prince buster is the man.

MellySingsDoom · 04.23.2008, 03:02 AM

60's Ska is the shizzle. Me likey The Specials very much, and am very fond of their 2nd LP (The "easy listening" one). I'm old enough to remember "Ghost Town" being Number One here - ah, them were the days. In spite of me becoming increasingly resistant to band re-formations, I would certainly pay money to see the original Specials line-up play together again.

uhler · 04.23.2008, 10:12 AM

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Originally Posted by MellySingsDoom

60's Ska is the shizzle. Me likey The Specials very much, and am very fond of their 2nd LP (The "easy listening" one). I'm old enough to remember "Ghost Town" being Number One here - ah, them were the days. In spite of me becoming increasingly resistant to band re-formations, I would certainly pay money to see the original Specials line-up play together again.

yeah that would cool. i saw them about ten years ago play and they sucked but it wasn't the whole original group. neither terry hall or jerry dammers was there.

Rob Instigator · 04.23.2008, 10:29 AM

I love the specials.

LittlePuppetBoy · 04.23.2008, 11:40 AM

I like em. I have the first three albums on vinyl (stole them from my dad, who was very much into that kind of ska for some reason).

PAULYBEE2656 · 04.23.2008, 01:13 PM

classic. full stop!

Everyneurotic · 04.23.2008, 07:14 PM

yes indeedy classic shit, two tone was awesome.

last saturday, melt-banana covered "ghost town" for their encore, amazingness was unleashed then.

uhler · 04.23.2008, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic

yes indeedy classic shit, two tone was awesome.

last saturday, melt-banana covered "ghost town" for their encore, amazingness was unleashed then.

i would've loved to hear that.

EMMAh · 04.23.2008, 10:10 PM

LLiikkkee the Specials

Everyneurotic · 04.23.2008, 11:39 PM

on second listen, i'm pretty sure it was "gangsters", not "ghost town" the one melt-ba covered.

uhler · 04.23.2008, 11:40 PM

well i would love to hear that even more than if they covered ghost town.

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LittlePuppetBoy expwy. to yr skull Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Aylmer(now Gatineau), Quebec Posts: 1,756	I like em. I have the first three albums on vinyl (stole them from my dad, who was very much into that kind of ska for some reason). __________________
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Everyneurotic invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Mexico Posts: 15,713	on second listen, i'm pretty sure it was "gangsters", not "ghost town" the one melt-ba covered. __________________ Richard Clayderman found alive and still bland! Repo Man has all night! Photographic evidence of Monosodic's existance! New Kiddieriot shit after all! Never too late to share fave rex from the year before! David Keenan is a douchebag! Ron Asheton missed!
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uhler invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Brooklyn Posts: 3,615	well i would love to hear that even more than if they covered ghost town.
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