Best Specials Tune?

[Firky]

I love 'Man at C&A', proper dubby sounds and loads of reverb on the guitar. Not sure what my favourite is however

NUCLEAR NUCLEAR ATTACK!

 

[dodgepot]

i don't know, firky my love, i really can't choose.

could you maybe give me a handy list to choose from, possibly in the form of a poll?

 

[JTG]

Gangsters 'cos it makes me dance like nothing else

 

[SpookyFrank]

Nite Klub for the bassline or You're Wondering Now for the vocals...

 

[Firky]

i don't know, firky my love, i really can't choose.

could you maybe give me a handy list to choose from, possibly in the form of a poll?

Well I download The Best of the Specials as it looked like it had all my favourite tunes on, and do you know what? I Think it has. There's too many for a poll sadly.

1. The Specials - Gangsters (2:51)
2. The Specials - A Message To The Rudy (2:54)
3. The Specials - Nite Klub (Album Version) (3:25)
4. The Specials - Concrete Jungle (3:21)
5. The Specials - Too Much Too Young (Live) (2:08)
6. The Specials - Blank Expression (2:46)
7. The Specials - Doesn't Make It Right (3:29)
8. The Specials - Rude Buoys Outa Jail (2:42)
9. The Specials - Rat Race (3:12)
10. The Specials - Man At C&ampA (3:40)
11. The Specials - Do Nothing (Single Version) (3:43)
12. The Specials - Stereotypes (7:28)
13. The Specials - International Jet Set (Album Version) (5:42)
14. The Specials - Friday Night, Saturday Morning (3:36)
15. The Specials - Why? (2:58)
16. The Specials - Ghost Town (Full Version) (6:03)
17. The Specials - What I Like Most About You Is Your Girlfriend (Album Version) (4:54)
18. The Specials - Racist friend (Single Version) (4:05)
19. The Specials - War Crimes (Single Version) (4:05)
20. The Specials - Nelson Mandela (Album Version) (4:17)

 

[Fedayn]

Concrete Jungle.

End of thread.....

 

[Firky]

Concrete Jungle.

End of thread.....

you're going home in a fucking ambulance

 

[Fedayn]

you're going home in a fucking ambulance

Am I really?

 

[Firky]

You wouldn't hurt a flee, fed

 

[JTG]

It's all a load of bollocks

 

[Fedayn]

You wouldn't hurt a flee, fed

Or a flea even. Well it depends, but you, no.

 

[danny la rouge]

I dunno, Gangsters, I suppose.

Firky, some of those tracks are Special AKA. Is that allowed?

 

[Callie]

It's all a load of bollocks

and bollocks to it all

 

[dodgepot]

Well I download The Best of the Specials as it looked like it had all my favourite tunes on, and do you know what? I Think it has. There's too many for a poll sadly.

well i thought that as you have an extra long tagline you'd be able to make an extra big poll?

hmm.

"gangsters" for me. or "ghostown". or "too much too young". or another one

 

[JTG]

I was thinking of Ghost Town today. The line about all the clubs closing down is uncomfortably close to home

 

[badseed]

Ghost Town
Too Hot
Little Bitch

Will probably change my mind in about 10 minutes. Can I just say all of them up to Ghost Town.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

Gangsters 'cos it makes me dance like nothing else

why must you wreck all my phone calls? are you planning a group lp?

swot i thought it said for ages

my fav is A Message to You, Rudy

 

[danny la rouge]

why must you wreck all my phone calls? are you planning a group lp?

Classic.

We haven't had a misheard lyrics thread for ages.

 

[brianx]

Message to you Rudi. They did brillaint covers of brilliant records.

 

[Firky]

Message to you Rudi. T

 

[brianx]

"Bernie Rhodes guns don't argue" has to be the best first line in a first record ever.

 

[El Jefe]

Do Nothing

 

[Fedayn]

why must you wreck all my phone calls? are you planning a group lp?

swot i thought it said for ages

Hehehehe

my fav is A Message to You, Rudy

if you've not heard it get hold of Dandy Livingstone's original.

 

[boohoo]

gansters

 

[JTG]

If we're doing covers then Enjoy Yourself.

 

[SpookyFrank]

if you've not heard it get hold of Dandy Livingstone's original.

Same horn player on both versions don'tcha know

 

[Fedayn]

Same horn player on both versions don'tcha know

Indeed, step forward Mr Rico Rodriguez.

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

if you've not heard it get hold of Dandy Livingstone's original.

to be fair, he did say 'tune' so i assumed it was something they'd done rather than written. but thanx i haven't heard so willl look out for the original cos their cover is tops. same as lots of the bluebeat stuff really eh?

if we're into simply specials, then i reckon Stereotype (is that there's?).

 

[Firky]

stereotypes is too long but it is a good tune

 

[killer b]

that first specials album is, imo, the closest thing we've come to the perfect album.

'monkey man', or 'nite klub'