Today I write about the English ska band (The) Specials (the "The" there is only one part of the publications, so I've simply bracketed the times).
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Today I write about the English ska band (The) Specials (the "The" there is only one part of the publications, so I've simply bracketed the times).
Today I write about the English ska band (The) Specials (the "The" there is only one part of the publications, so I've simply bracketed the times).
The Specials played, as I said, Ska. And for me they are even the ska band in general.
they founded in 1977, during the period, as in England, the punk had high culture, from punk, they are also affected slightly (but significantly less than ten years later emerging Ska-Punk). They also toured before the release of a debut album with the legendary and now here already several times mentioned herein punk band The Clash . After this tour then they got a lot of inquiries from record labels, but instead of a join of these, founded by the keyboardist of the band, Jerry Dammers, the label "2 Tone", but more on that later. The ideas brought in its original line-out only two albums ("Specials" from 1979 and "More Specials" in 1980). 1981 left most of the band members and the rest named in "Specials AKA" around. In the 90s, after several years of separation, the band was called back for "The Specials", made but by far not so good music. In 1999, she parted up for good.
The Specials were the first band of the so-called "2-Tone Wave" of ska. The name of the "wave" came, as you can imagine already, by the above-mentioned label. Almost all the bands of this wave (the best known are likely to be Madness) were on the record deal, which, however, did not see a record label, but as a "parody of a record label.
The specials were, which the black and white checkerboard pattern that is found today in various band logos and also as typical of Ska is one introduced by their publications so adorned. The pattern is the relationship and the unity of people of different colors show (hence the name 2 Tone: two (color) tones), a very commendable and beautiful metaphor.
The texts of the ideas were quite varied. On the one hand, there were humorous and fun feel-good lyrics (eg "Too Much Too Young", "You've done too much a great feeling my vinyl version of the first album to put on my turntable and listen to me. When I hear their music, bad mood is direct as gone.
covert also one of my other favorite bands, namely, Tocotronic, a song by the Specials, namely the anti-racism song "Racist Friend".
The first two albums, "Specials" and "More Specials", are recommended without compromising anyone who likes ska heard. The later albums, especially from the 90s, are not as good. Especially recommended
Songs: A Message to You Rudy, Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think), Gangsters, Little Bitch (my favorite song by them), Nite Club, Rat Race, Rude Boys Outa Jail, Too Much Too Young
Links:
Wikipedia article
official website (with a few live mp3s download)
2 Tone detailed discography
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