#126

Stupid Marriage and Little Bitch on the first album are particularly unpleasant, and Too Much Too Young has a bit of the same thing to it, and Blank Expression. It’s a sort of sneering contempt for women which I find difficult to listen to.

#127

Stupid Marriage was the one that jumped out at me. Along with a couple of lines in Nite Klub.

#128

Do The Dog’s a great drum intro as well.

#129

Here you go. Ended up being more ska/reggae than 2tone but give it a whirl

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#130

Nice, I see some Toots on there so seems good!

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#131

Sorry if I’ve put it in your head and ruined it for you.

#132

The Specials were/are very enjoyable and I rated them a 5, because of that.

This thread, however has inspired me to dig out some old Trojan mix tapes, which as well as being in Bristol, were a big part of my early getting into the reggae genres. I think they probably release different versions of the same misses every so often, but at the time, they were doing some great 3 CD mixes of root, dub, ska, dancehall, etc. Dub has always been my favourite, but listening back to a ska mix will ALWAYS make the sun shine. always.

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#133

Gave them a 4, maybe a bit generous but for nostalgic reasons, played In the Studio to death back in the day and loved Stan Campbell’s solo album.

#134

Abstaining this time, but I remember hearing ghost town for the first time on Zayn Lowe’s radio 1 show and having my mind blown. It’s a serious achievement, absolutely wild what they pulled off with it in terms of the arrangement and the production imo.

Didn’t one of those dudes go on to be in fun boy three? Truly one of the worst bands of all times

#135

Have stuck a best of playlist on and a lot of this is top shelf material

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#136

Saw them when they reformed with everyone except Jerry and was amazed at the energy they still had. Although I think most of them have now left…

#137

LOL not as good as destiny’s child says DiS

#138

This jimmy cliff version is much better than the Walkman one

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#139

Gonna shut this down in a bit.

#140

yep, I saw them then as well and it was terrific. 2009!

#141

3.26 I’ve given up trying to work you chumps out.

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#142
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#143

Me when “emo” went mainstream in 2002

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#144

I was too late but I’d have gone for four

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#145

And that’s why you’re the best. Specials are easily a 4/5 band. They’re at least way better than the fucking Smashing Pumpkins.

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