Best 2tone Ska Record Ever

[coventrygull]

Another vote for Ghost Town. Think it was about Coventry

 

[Dave the OAP]

2 Great local bands, been going for years,

'Hot Knives' and 'Too Many Crooks'

Saw Hot Knives supporting Neville Staples at the concorde 2 last year....superb!

My mates band, SkaToons we also on the bill.

Great night

 

[Beach Hut]

Saw the Beat supporting Bowie at Milton Keynes in 1986 ?

Excellent band as well

 

[Stinky Kat]

Sounds a tad dodgy. I'd maybe shell out for a Beat version of Rock The Kasbah, but only after having listened to it first. And a new Beat album a quarter century after their first lacklustre effort? REALLY don't think so somehow

Trust THPP me i heard them do it live and it is awesome

 

[OzMike]

Hands off she's mine. The Beat:dance:

 

[Skaville]

Nite Klub or Too Much to Young for me.

 

[Race]

anything by bad manners.

 

[NMH]

anything by bad manners.

You got any relatives in that band then, Butters Bloodvessel ?

 

[goring dazza]

TOO MANY TO MENTION BUT THE SPECIALS WERE AWESOME ESPECIALLY LIVE

 

[The Large One]

anything by bad manners.

Another band not on 2Tone.

But a good band nonetheless.

 

[Bob!]

Gangsters, the first & the best single on Two-tone

Bernie Rhodes knows, don't argue!

 

[London Calling]

Modern ska = Ghost Town

Old ska = Last Train to Skaville

 

[Mellor 3 Ward 4]

Another vote for Ghost Town. Think it was about Coventry

Correct

 

[Gwylan]

Ghost Town by miles - one of the best British singles ever.

 

[Yorkie]

Another vote for Ghost Town.

 

[Norman Baker suck my lozenge]

Ghost town - the specials

Friday night,saturday morning,great B side.

 

[London Calling]

The Specials at the Top Rank in 1979 - the same time as the Tory Conference was on - was one of the greatest concerts I have been to. I think they did 6 encores and I was amongst several of the stage invasions. Great nite!

 

[Bob!]

Friday night,saturday morning,great B side.

was a great 12" with 'Why' on it as well!

 

[Willow]

Outside of the more obvious choices, the track 'The Selecter' , by The Selecter is a fantastic instrumental. Seek it out.

Anything else by the Selecter I find too raucous with Pauline Black shouting all over it.

 

[The Large One]

Outside of the more obvious choices, the track 'The Selecter' , by The Selecter is a fantastic instrumental. Seek it out.

Anything else by the Selecter I find too raucous with Pauline Black shouting all over it.

It's on the B-Side of 'Gangsters'. That group called The Selecter on the first 2Tone record wasn't the Selecter we came to know. It was basically a session group featuring members of The Specials and what became The Selecter.

I DJ'd at Selecter and Bad Manners gigs a few times in the early 90s, and can definitely say that Pauline Black is much better to look at than to listen to. Know wot I mean?