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Post by Lord Emsworth on Oct 4, 2021 7:18:27 GMT
I really enjoyed The Special last night
A low key gig in a small venue
Lynval is a legend
Terry is brilliantly deadpan and permanently pissed off, but very funny too
A few old classics in amongst the Protest Songs
Great way to finish the weekend
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Post by Billy Idle on Oct 4, 2021 15:02:21 GMT
Sounds great Lord E . You lucky bleeder .
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Oct 5, 2021 9:01:42 GMT
Thanks Billy
This is a good review of Protest Songs which sums up its many charms....
Waylaid by writers’ block and Covid, the Specials have been unable to make their planned Jamaican reggae follow-up to 2019’s Encore. So they’ve recorded some covers instead, shapeshifting through blues, folk, country and rock. It’s odd that most of the songs are American, when this band are so good at delineating a particularly British experience. And your definition of a protest song may be very different from theirs.
It doesn’t matter. The Specials have always balanced calls to action with jaundiced observation; intertwined the personal and political. For every Racist Friend, a Ghost Town. Their take on Frank Zappa’s tartly cynical Trouble Every Day works surprisingly well alongside the impassioned exhilaration of Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around. Terry Hall delivers a huskily seductive reading of Leonard Cohen’s bleak, hard-won aphorisms on Everybody Knows, while Hannah Hu shines through an imaginative rework of Talking Heads’ Listening Wind. There’s the odd misstep – a pounding version of the Staples Singers’ delicately rousing Freedom Highway will sound far better live – but the raw immediacy of Lynval Golding’s vocals on Get Up, Stand Up is as powerful and stirring as his BLM monologue on Encore.
www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/26/the-specials-protest-songs-1924-2012-review-genre-hopping-calls-to-action
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Post by stu77 on Oct 5, 2021 15:57:10 GMT
The song about the next door neighbour isn't a cover is it ? That's the only one I've heard , quite clever lyrics.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Oct 5, 2021 16:23:06 GMT
The song about the next door neighbour isn't a cover is it ? That's the only one I've heard , quite clever lyrics. Yes. They're all cover versions. Really interesting selection - not at all obvious
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Dec 1, 2021 8:13:09 GMT
The Specials, Seaside Tour, Blackpool, 1980. Photograph: Janette Beckman
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Post by trigger on Dec 9, 2021 10:55:12 GMT
My favourite tune
The Specials "Concrete jungle"
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Post by Billy Idle on Dec 10, 2021 10:29:52 GMT
So many classics Trig
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Post by doug61 on Dec 10, 2021 15:57:54 GMT
The Specials, Seaside Tour, Blackpool, 1980. Photograph: Janette Beckman Great photo.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 10, 2022 9:32:42 GMT
Always loved this early Madness beaut...
Madness - Bed and Breakfast Man
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Post by Lord Emsworth on May 10, 2022 9:37:15 GMT
OGWT version
Chas really did have the moves
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Post by oldpunk on May 17, 2022 18:34:37 GMT
of all the bands ive seen. i reckon the selecter was my fav. first time i seen madness i thought these guys r brillant. went afew years after to see them and they was rubbish. put me of them big time.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 20, 2022 7:54:10 GMT
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Post by jonpunk on Jul 21, 2022 6:24:20 GMT
The only band of this genre I really listened to was The Specials .Saw The Selecter supporting The Stranglers at Halesworth ,early 2000's and to be frank I thought they were awful .The singer , if I can call it that , did nothing but screech. Madness were really more pop based imo .I suppose it was almost a new variation of the punk era as it was politically motivated , but bar The Specials it didn't interest me .
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 21, 2022 7:27:35 GMT
The only band of this genre I really listened to was The Specials .Saw The Selecter supporting The Stranglers at Halesworth ,early 2000's and to be frank I thought they were awful .The singer , if I can call it that , did nothing but screech. Madness were really more pop based imo .I suppose it was almost a new variation of the punk era as it was politically motivated , but bar The Specials it didn't interest me . Surprised to read that Jon I though it was all a breath of fresh air at the time Madness were pop based but c'mon, they were a lot of fun - and a lot of those tunes have really stood the test of time What about The Beat? Arguably the pick of the bunch in my opinion Here's one of their absolutest bestest.... The Beat - Save It For Later
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