Tracklist: Our Lips Are Sealed (feat.

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.

The real meat of the collection is that CD of 20 hits and staples, the songs that made the Specials one of the most vital bands of the early '80s: all the early singles - "Gangsters," "Ghost Town," "Message to You Rudy," "Nite Klub" - but also "Rat Race," "Stereotypes," "What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend," "Racist. Friend," and "Nelson Mandela

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Nelson Mandela (Album version). Other Versions (5 of 5) View All. Cat.

British 2-Tone icons The Specials have announced their first album of new music in 20 years. Entitled Encore, the new album is due out on 1 February 2019 and it follows 2001’s Conquering Ruler. It also features the group’s first original material since 1998’s Guilty ’til Proven Innocent! Encore also marks the return of original lead vocalist Terry Hall, who entered the studio with the band for the first time since 1981’s classic ‘Ghost Town’. Originally known as The Coventry Automatics, The Specials formed in Coventry in 1977. Combining ska, reggae and rocksteady with punk energy, the band helped pioneer the 2-Tone sound and they enjoyed considerable success in the late 1979s and early ‘80s. In 1980, ‘Too Much Too Young’, the lead track on their The Special AKA Live! EP, reached No. 1 in the UK.

Brilliant new album out!! such good music and good vibes. and probably always will be. good vibes. One of the best live bands I’ve ever seen (and I’ve seen loads) and three almost.

Instead, the Specials now gathered in a gaudy fun pub clad in polyester leisurewear, an image carrying the pungent subtext that modern life was rubbish. Indeed, when the Specials appeared on Top of the Pops [to promote Do Nothing, the highest-charting of two singles from More Specials, they’d swapped their tonic suits and mod/rude-boy gear for fugly sweaters. One of the more upbeat tracks off More Specials, the single mix of Do Nothing added the contribution of Ice Rink String Sounds to a dreamy lovers’ rock glide harbouring a sharp lyric about the dangers of obliviousness. The penultimate song on More Specials – followed by a mirthless death-crawl reprise of music hall standard Enjoy Yourself, which opened the album – International Jetset made explicit the mindset within the group in 1980.