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The Specials Ska 1980 UK
The Specials - The Specials flac album
  • Performer The Specials
  • Title The Specials
  • Date of release 1980
  • Country UK
  • Style Ska
  • Other formats DMF MP4 MP2 VOX XM WMA AC3
  • Genre Rock
  • Size MP3 1747 mb
  • Size FLAC 1768 mb
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The Specials is the debut album by British ska revival band The Specials. Released on 19 October 1979 on Jerry Dammers' 2 Tone label, the album is seen by some as the defining moment in the UK ska scene. Produced by Elvis Costello, the album captures the disaffection and anger felt by the youth of the UK's "concrete jungle"-a phrase borrowed from Bob Marley's 1972 album Catch a Fire but equally apposite used here to describe the grim, violent inner cities of 1970s Britain.

Thank you for making this a very Specials album.

Encore is the eighth studio album by the English ska revival band The Specials. It is their first studio album of original songs since 1998's Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!, and their first new material with vocalist Terry Hall since 1981's "Ghost Town" single

Embarrassed By You. The Specials. Vote For Me. Guilty 'Til Proved Innocent! The Specials. Or Less: The Specials Live. BBC in Concert (15 December 1979). Ghost Town - Greatest Hits. 2009 Re-Recorded, Remastered Versions. Relaxing & Romantic Pop Songs - Best Love Album.

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It’s an unequivocal triumph on an album that mixes the great and the so-so, the former outweighing the latter enough to appease fans, if not, one suspects, ex-bandmates. And We Sell Hope’s title fits: while it plays, the Specials sound like a band with a future, not just an illustrious past. This week Alexis listened to. Working Men’s Club: Bad Blood There’s a real alchemy to how this Yorkshire trio take well-worn ingredients – the Fall, Gang of Four, NY punk-funk – and it turn it into something more than the sum of its parts.

When the Specials’ Jerry Dammers’ launched the 2 Tone label in Britain in 1979, his group was more than just a ska revival band with good taste in covers - they were a multi-racial spearhead of a post-punk movement combatting skinhead racism (fueled by far-right groups like the National Front) and the craven business-first classism of the Thatcher government. Now, with racist nationalism on the rise amidst the Brexit debacle, the Special’s third album - 38 years since the last one, More Specials - is well timed. As frontman Terry Hall puts it, the band remain horribly relevant.

Brilliant new album out!! such good music and good vibes. They got ever better over time Specials !!! Enjoy yourself! IT's later than you think!!!

The Specials’ first album of new material in 37 years, Encore is their first ever UK Number 1 album, clocking up 89% physical sales and, coincidentally, it’s 39 years ago this week since their single Too Much Too Young topped the Official Singles Chart. Check out their full Official Charts history here. Receiving the award, The Specials told OfficialCharts. com, Recording the album has been one of the most amazing trips of our lives. Busted are runners-up with Half Way There, their third album to reach Number 2 – 2002’s self-titled debut and 2003’s A Present For Everyone also just missed the top spot on the Official Albums Chart. Another three brand new albums end their first week in the Top 10: Ripples by Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown (4), London rapper Fredo’s first full-length album Third Avenue (5), and Claire Richards’ debut solo project My Wildest Dreams (9). MORE: Every Official Albums Chart Number 1.

Tracklist Hide Credits

A1 A Message To You Rudy
Written-By – R. Thompson*
 2:53
A2 Do The Dog
Written-By – R. Thomas*
 2:09
A3 It's Up To You
Written-By – J. Dammers*, Specials*
 3:25
A4 Nite Klub
Written-By – J. Dammers*, Specials*
 3:22
A5 Doesn't Make It Alright
Written-By – B. Goldberg*, J. Dammers*, M. Harrison*
 3:26
A6 Concrete Jungle
Written-By – R. Radiation*
 3:18
A7 Too Hot
Written-By – C. Campbell*
 3:09
B1 Monkey Man
Written-By – Hibbert*
 2:45
B2 (Dawning Of A) New Era
Written-By – J. Dammers*
 2:24
B3 Blank Expression
Written-By – J. Dammers*, Specials*
 2:43
B4 Stupid Marriage
Written-By – J. Dammers*, M. Harrison*, N. Staple*
 3:49
B5 Too Much Too Young
Written-By – J. Dammers*
 2:16
B6 Gangsters
Producer – The SpecialsWritten-By – J. Dammers*
 2:43
B7 Little Bitch
Written-By – J. Dammers*
 2:31
B8 You're Wondering Now
Written-By – Clement Seymour*
 2:36

Companies, etc.

  • Engineered At – T.W. Studios
  • Mastered At – Allen Zentz Mastering
  • Published By – Plangent Visions Music Inc.
  • Published By – Melodisc Music Ltd.
  • Published By – Carbert Music, Inc.
  • Published By – Wb Music Corp.
  • Published By – Copyright Control
  • Marketed By – Chrysalis Records Ltd.
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Chrysalis Records
  • Copyright (c) – Chrysalis Records
  • Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Santa Maria

Credits

  • Bass – Horace*
  • Drums – Brad*
  • Engineer – Dave Jordan
  • Guitar – Lynval*, Roddy*
  • Horns – Dick Cuthell, Rico Rodriguez
  • Lacquer Cut By – CB*
  • Organ – Jerry*
  • Producer – Elvis Costello (tracks: A1 to B5, B7, B8)
  • Sleeve – Chalkie Davis And Carol Starr*
  • Vocals – Neville*, Terry*

Notes

Black and white labels version with 3 lines of publishing info on side A and 4 lines on side B. Also exists in a slightly different pressing with 2 and 3 lines of publishing on labels: The Specials

The USA re-release LP version contains bonus track "Gangsters" (B6), a much shorter (and faster) re-recorded version of "Too Much Too Young", and different cover art.

℗ & © 1980 Chrysalis Records
First published by Chrysalis Records Limited in UK 1979
Engineered at TW Studios.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Printed): 0 7558-51265-1
  • Barcode (Scanned): 0075585126513
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, Etched, Variant 1): IS CHR-1265-AS SM-1 AZ CB E6
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, Etched, Variant 1): IS CHR-1265-BS SM-1 AZ CB H8
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, Etched, Variant 2): IS CHR-1265-AS SM-1 AZ CB A X5
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, Etched, Variant 2): S2 CHR-1265-BS SM-2 AZ CB D X5
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched, variant 3): S2 CHR-1265-AS SM-2 AZ CB SXT
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched, variant 3): S/ CHR-1265-BS SM-1 AZ CB SXT
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched, variant 4): S1 CHR-1265-AS SM-1 SXT AZ CB 6B
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched, variant 4): S2 CHR-1265-BS SM-2 SXT AZ CB B1

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
CDL TT 5001, CDL TT5001 Specials* Specials ‎(LP, Album) Two-Tone Records, Two-Tone Records CDL TT 5001, CDL TT5001 UK 1979
CCD 5001, CDP 321265-2 The Specials Specials ‎(CD, Album, RE) Chrysalis, Chrysalis CCD 5001, CDP 321265-2 UK Unknown
none The Specials Specials ‎(CDr, Album, Promo, RE) EMI Music France none France 2002
202 685 The Specials Specials ‎(LP, Album, RE) Chrysalis 202 685 Europe Unknown
WWS-81288, CDL TT 5001 The Specials Specials ‎(LP, Album) Chrysalis, Chrysalis WWS-81288, CDL TT 5001 Japan 1979


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There is a 1980 U.S. Chrysalis 8-track tape of this release as well. Cat. # 8CH 1265
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