CD Album - The Specials - The Specials Singles - 2 Tone

CD Album

Artist:	The Specials
Title:	The Specials Singles
Label:	2 Tone
Country:	UK
Date:	26 Aug 1991
Catalogue:	CCD 5010 / CDP 3218232
Barcode:	094632182326
Format:	CD Album
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	14 Own
Price Guide:	$4
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PRICE GUIDE

Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
01	The Specials	Gangsters	Dammers, Hall, Panter, Golding, Bradbury, Staples, Byers	10.0 Rate
02	The Specials	Rudi, A Message To You	R. Thompson	10.0 Rate
03	The Specials	Nite Klub	Dammers, Hall, Panter, Golding, Bradbury, Staples, Byers	10.0 Rate
04	The Specials	Too Much Too Young	Dammers	10.0 Rate
05	The Specials	Guns Of Navarone	Thompkin	8.0 Rate
06	The Specials	Rat Race	Roddy Radiation	10.0 Rate
07	The Specials	Stereotype	Dammers	10.0 Rate
08	The Specials	International Jet Set	Dammers	10.0 Rate
09	The Specials	Do Nothing	Golding	10.0 Rate
10	The Specials	Ghost Town	Dammers	10.0 Rate
11	The Specials	Why?	Golding	10.0 Rate
12	The Specials	Friday Night, Saturday Morning	Hall	10.0 Rate
13	The Special A.K.A.	War Crimes	Dammers	6.0 Rate
14	The Special A.K.A.	Racist Friend	Dammers, Cuthell, Bradbury	7.0 Rate
15	The Special A.K.A.	Nelson Mandela	Dammers	8.0 Rate
16	The Special A.K.A.	(What I Like Most About You Is Your) Girlfriend	Dammers	7.0 Rate

Notes

The Specials
John Bradbury – Drums
Jerry Dammers – Organ, Piano
Lynval Golding – Guitar, Backing Vocals
Terry Hall – Vocals
Horace Panter – Bass
Roddy Radiation – Guitar
Neville Staples – Vocals, Percussion

The Special A.K.A.
John Bradbury – Drums
Stan Campbell – Vocals
Rhoda Dakar – Vocals
Jerry Dammers – Keyboards
Gary McManus – Bass
Egidio Newton – Vocals
John Shipley – Guitar

Rico Rodriguez – Trombone (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 8 to 11, 16)
Dick Cuthell – Trumpet (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14 to 16)
Chrissie Hynde – Backing Vocals (track 3)
Paul Heskett – Flute (track 10)
Nick Parker – Violin (track 13)
Caron Wheeler, Claudia Fontaine, Naomi Thompson, Dave Wakeling, Ranking Roger, Elvis Costello – Backing Vocals (track 15)
Andy Aderinto – Saxophone (track 15)
Jerry Dammers – Lead Vocals (track 16)

Sleeve design executed by Dammers, Teflon, Mabey at Bouncing Ball
℗ & © 1991 Chrysalis Records Ltd.
Marketed by Dover Records Ltd., a divison of Chrysalis Records Ltd.
Manufactured in the UK

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Comments and Reviews


fixbutte 28th Mar 2014		The cover picture was apparently taken from the Ghost Town video: Although the song was mostly inspired by the band's hometown, Coventry, the video was filmed in June 1981 in London. From Wikipedia: "The video, directed by Barney Bubbles, consists of bass player Panter driving the band around London in a 1962 Vauxhall Cresta, intercut with views of streets and buildings filmed from the moving vehicle, and ends with a shot of the band standing on the banks of the River Thames at low tide. The video's locations include driving through the Blackwall Tunnel and around semi-derelict areas of the East End before ending up in the financial district of the City of London in the early hours of daylight on Sunday morning, where the streets were deserted as it was the weekend. ..." Or rather, starting in the financial district and, as said before, ending up by the Thames.



fixbutte 28th Mar 2014		This was my favorite English band in the early 1980s, good danceable music with insightful lyrics. As I had both Specials LPs (not the Special A.K.A. one though), this was the natural choice for my one and only Specials CD (actually I had Gangsters and Rat Race, non-album tracks in the UK, before because I had them as bonus tracks on my German and US LP respectively). The CD booklet is poor in substance, no lyrics and rather incomplete credits (e.g. no mention of Elvis Costello as the producer of the first album, no recording engineers etc.). Interestingly, it is the extended 12" version of Ghost Town (5:58) that is included here.

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