Name: More Specials
Brand: The Specials

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

CHRTT5003

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Colour

black

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

180 Gram Black Vinyl. 2015 Remastered Version.

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2017-12-01

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Proper

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

5060516090747

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

The Specials

Genre GB

New Wave / Post Punk

Label GB

Chrysalis

The Specials were formed in Coventry in 1977 as The Coventry Automatics. True innovators of the punk era, the band began the British ska revival craze, combining the highly danceable ska and rocksteadybeat with punk's energy and attitude. The Specials had seven consecutive UK Top 10 singles between 1979 and 1981, including the number 1 hits Too Much Too Young and Ghost Town. The band's second album More Specials (UK No.5, 1980) was a change in musical direction to their debut. Less frenzied and hard-hitting, it was more musically adventurous and varied, bleaker lyrics reflecting British life at the time.

The album features a classic cover of Carl Sigman and Conrad Magidson's 1940s chestnut Enjoy Yourself and a brooding version of the same song featuring the Go-Go's. Includes: the Northern soul-esque instrumental Sock It to 'Em JB and the Mexican-flavoured Holiday Fortnight; the intriguing International Jet Set; the apocalyptic Man at C&amp;A; the mournful, spaghetti western feel of Stereotypes; the emotional despair of Do Nothing and the bright and breezy Hey, Little Rich Girl (with fabulous sax solos from Madness' Lee Thompson). The immortal line from Pearl's Cafe by Terry Hall and Bodysnatchers' Rhoda Dakar, sums up their own, and the country's frustration - 'It's all a load of bollocks, and bollocks to it all'.

2CD - Expanded version approved by Jerry Dammers with new sleeve notes and unseen photos. The extra CD features 13 tracks - B Sides, Single Versions, Extended Versions and Kid Jensen and John Peel Session cuts. 

More Specials

Music GB