THE SPECIALS

LP + 7"

MORE SPECIALS

LIMITED EDITION

180 GRAM AUDIOPHILE PRESSING

Heavyweight LP Vinyl plus 7" Single.

+ PROMO INFO SHEETS

This is the 2014 180 Gram heavyweight audiophile pressing of More Specials. It includes the Limited 7" single -  Braggin' & Tryin' Not To Lie /  Rude Boys Outa Jail.

The Specials were formed in Coventry in 1977.

True innovators, 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.

This album has been digitally remastered from the original analogue stereo masters and the new vinyl cuts have been made using those new masters. Careful comparison was made to the first pressed copies of the original albums throughout the process to maintain the sound as the band had originally envisaged.

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-flavored ‘Holiday Fortnight’; the intriguing ‘International Jet Set’; the apocalyptic ‘Man at C&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’.   

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Tracks -

Side 1

1.  Enjoy Yourself (It’s Later Than You Think)

2.  Man At C&A

3.  Hey, Little Rich Girl

4.  Do Nothing

5.  Pearl’s Café

6.  Sock It To ‘Em J.B.*

Side 2

1.  Stereotypes/Stereotypes - Pt. 2

2.  Holiday Fortnight

3.  I Can’t Stand It

4.  International Jet Set

5.  Enjoy Yourself (Reprise)

 

Bonus 7”

A1/ Roddy Radiation & The Specials featuring Paul Heskett on saxophone - Braggin’ & Tryin’ Not To Lie

A2/ Neville Staples aka Judge Roughneck - Rude Boys Outa Jail (version)

Condition - MINT / UNPLAYED  (SEALED)

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