The Specials

khfreek · 06-01-2010, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Mancini Scratch

To my knowledge The Specials never released an album called 'Guilty until proved innocent'.

You are referring to The Specials, a 2Tone Band Straight outta Coventry?

Guilty 'til Proved Innocent! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mancini Scratch · 06-01-2010, 10:27 PM

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Originally Posted by khfreek

Guilty 'til Proved Innocent! - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I plead Guilty To Lack of Knowledge of this album.
Never heard of it until I read your post.

I'll have seek it out I think.

Thanks for info.

SBWNik · 06-02-2010, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Mancini Scratch

To my knowledge The Specials never released an album called 'Guilty until proved innocent'.

You are referring to The Specials, a 2Tone Band Straight outta Coventry?

Yes, and who I have been a fan of since the tender age of 14 in 1979.
They were hardly 'a 2-Tone band'. Without them there would have been no 2-Tone.

wexy · 06-07-2010, 07:42 PM

I saw them in April at Terminal 5 in NYC. Great show though they went on about an hour late.

Lots of fellow 'old folks' there but lots of fun

DoesntReallyMatter · 02-21-2014, 04:41 PM

As Gavin so cleverly pointed out, their first album was produced by Elvis Costello.

Also, 'ILIKEPEEPEE', or whateva.... YES!

2nd album was tops. As well as the 1st.

Ready? trip down memory lane, commencing in.... 5,4,3,2...1

And, how could we forget:

Woopiking · 02-25-2014, 02:32 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mancini Scratch

I plead Guilty To Lack of Knowledge of this album.
Never heard of it until I read your post.

I'll have seek it out I think.

Thanks for info.

It wasn't really The Specials as you'd know it on this album. Some members regrettably reformed the band during the 90s (without key members Terry Hall and Jerry Dammers), releasing 2 albums, neither of which compare to the Specials' original albums. You'll rarely even find a mention of these 90s albums when these same band members are interviewed today, the band's name shouldn't have been used on those 90s albums.

Dylstew · 02-26-2014, 07:39 AM

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Originally Posted by hiu

My second favourite two tone band behind the Selecter. They had a great sound and some good tunes although I do like the cover songs better than their original songs.

But most of their songs are covers anyways :P.

My favourites are ''Little Bitch'', ''Monkey Man'' and ''A message to you rudy''.
But that song with tim armstrong in it on the album ''guilty t'ill proven innocent''(forgot which) was pretty damn cool too, because it had tim's awful vocals. I love tim's awful vocals

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Psychedub Dude · 02-26-2014, 09:37 AM

The specials really blew my mind when I first heard them (I was a freshman). Until then the only ska I knew of was all the ****ty pop punk bands with horns during the 90s/ early 2000s. They converted me to real ska and I've been a huge fan since.

Woopiking · 03-02-2014, 01:05 PM

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Originally Posted by DoesntReallyMatter

As Gavin so cleverly pointed out, their first album was produced by Elvis Costello.

Also, 'ILIKEPEEPEE', or whateva.... YES!

2nd album was tops. As well as the 1st.

Ready? trip down memory lane, commencing in.... 5,4,3,2...1

And, how could we forget:

Top youtube choices, you've picked my 2 favourite Specials tunes!

The_Playground · 10-08-2014, 07:06 AM

Managed to catch Neville Staple a couple of months back down in Kingston, such a pleasure to see him!

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wexy Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2010 Posts: 77	I saw them in April at Terminal 5 in NYC. Great show though they went on about an hour late. Lots of fellow 'old folks' there but lots of fun

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The_Playground Groupie Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 6	Managed to catch Neville Staple a couple of months back down in Kingston, such a pleasure to see him!