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ub40 and ska music

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By *im halpert OP   Man
over a year ago

redditch

Off to see a ska band sat night,so listening to the beat etc on my ipod on my day off-just come across ub40s "signing off" the music you grew up to in late 70s early eighties-the sound to me of birmingham at that time .great album still 30 years ago

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me and Kate met on a blind date way back in 1981.

I took her to a club in Dudley to see a ska band called Weapons Of Peace.

I've seen the Specials a few times and although I'm really a "rock" fan, I always tell people that they're one of the best bands I've ever seen

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds

always been a rocker but used to love the Specials way back when especially Ghost Town, just was sommat about it.

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By *im halpert OP   Man
over a year ago

redditch

im a rock fan too foo fighters,chillis,its the music of your youth that hits the spot at times ....I wonder if that night club in dudley is still there?as for ghost town by the specials it kinda reflected the mood of the times for me xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

If the club in question is JB's then 30 plus years and it's still there, in a new building now and fighting for it's survival. Shame it if goes.

Always hated UB40, mainly because they were such a political band and then totally sold out with awful crap that was so dull and bland. Their early stuff was good though.

The Specials are incredible, sad that lyrically still relevent 30 years on, has society not moved on at all?

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By *im halpert OP   Man
over a year ago

redditch

I was just mulling that over,the society they sang about was it worse than now or have we never had it so good?

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By *im halpert OP   Man
over a year ago

redditch

but please dont want to start a political thread ....it was a great time for music ...check out the videos on you tube for some of these songs ..theyre great

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

UB40 fooled a lot of music journalists when they first surfaced as Ali Campbell was at first perceived to be black.

Their Reggae covers were sometimes very good but never as good as the original versions.

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden

I'm a bit of a Ska fan both old Jamaican stuff and the UK 1980's scene.

To this day the best gig I have ever been to was The Selector in a very dark and sweaty room above a night club in Sunderland that had a capacity of 100 but had about 150 people in. I've never seen so much mass hysteria and enjoyment before or after. We barely escaped with our lives! Awesome!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I grew up with my mum and dad constantly playing UB40, and ill never forget listening to red red wine on holiday. Changed my life, i play alot of their songs on guitar. Such a great band

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By *im halpert OP   Man
over a year ago

redditch


"I'm a bit of a Ska fan both old Jamaican stuff and the UK 1980's scene.

To this day the best gig I have ever been to was The Selector in a very dark and sweaty room above a night club in Sunderland that had a capacity of 100 but had about 150 people in. I've never seen so much mass hysteria and enjoyment before or after. We barely escaped with our lives! Awesome! "
I used to love gigs like that eh the days before health and safety took over!bet you could really feel the energy

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm a bit of a Ska fan both old Jamaican stuff and the UK 1980's scene."

Funky, I'm trying to get some old Jamaican ska, been trying Prince Buster but is there anything you'd recommend? Ta

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Prince Buster....Madness

Prince Buster....Al Capone

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden


"I'm a bit of a Ska fan both old Jamaican stuff and the UK 1980's scene.

Funky, I'm trying to get some old Jamaican ska, been trying Prince Buster but is there anything you'd recommend? Ta"

Have a listen to Skatalites, Toots & The Maytals or Desmond Dekker.

Even Bob Marley's VERY VERY early stuff is ska/rocksteady as reggae hadn't been invented yet! lol

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

The Ethiopians....Train to Skaville

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Clarence Hyman....Ska Rhythm

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

I don't need your love....Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"If the club in question is JB's then 30 plus years and it's still there, in a new building now and fighting for it's survival. Shame it if goes."

Yes, it was JB's. Spent many a night there back in 70's and early 80's

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

love Kingston Town..

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Just for you _iew xx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvDZ8U-7A1A

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By *unky monkeyMan
over a year ago

in the night garden


"love Kingston Town.."

The song or the town?

The actual place is an utter shit tip lol.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

i loved the whole ska music stuff of the late 70's early 80's and regard it as one of the best era's in music.not only did we have madness,the beat,specials,the selecta etc massive bands like blondie,the police,roxy music were filling the charts too .compare the charts then to what we have today

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loved ska and it takers me back to the edgy days of the early 80s.

The early 80s is when I liked UB40 aswell although the lounge-reggae/naff cover route they took in later years I found toe-curlingly embarassing.

Listen to an early one like "One in Ten" and it's a steep fall to knocking out crap versions of middle class rugby hymns.

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By *emima_puddlefuckCouple
over a year ago

hexham

have a fab night,i love ska,and with the sun out today it sunds so right.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"I'm a bit of a Ska fan both old Jamaican stuff and the UK 1980's scene.

Funky, I'm trying to get some old Jamaican ska, been trying Prince Buster but is there anything you'd recommend? Ta

Have a listen to Skatalites, Toots & The Maytals or Desmond Dekker.

Even Bob Marley's VERY VERY early stuff is ska/rocksteady as reggae hadn't been invented yet! lol"

Why thank you

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By *im halpert OP   Man
over a year ago

redditch


"have a fab night,i love ska,and with the sun out today it sunds so right."
thank you xx going with my brother who being older than me was allowed to go to top rank in bham to see such bands as the beat etc.he was well into the music at the time xx

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn


"Just for you _iew xx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvDZ8U-7A1A

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thanks Jane x

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn


"love Kingston Town..

The song or the town?

The actual place is an utter shit tip lol."

the song dude... do you think a batty boy like me would venture there.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ska. The perfect antidote to Northern Soul. Strange how the Mods effectively split into two distinct groups although Ska came to be linked, equally strangely, with Skinheads.

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By *aucy3Couple
over a year ago

glasgow

i saw ub40,in concert.twice just before they got big.

it was in dance hall in glasgow,called tiffany's.they were brilliant.

there was a balcony,at the back of the hall,with a bar.we went up for a beer,when we looked down on the dancefloor.it looked like it was breathing,everybody was moving.

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By *oantrimcpl2010Couple
over a year ago

Lisburn

more of a rock chic myself

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By *ee_awMan
over a year ago

newcastle

good place to start is a triple album called (imaginatively) best of ska - it has a really good mix of old jamaican ska and 70's/80's UK ska... I'm surprised no-one has mentioned early madness - they were heavily influenced by Prince Buster and their early stuff was pretty much ska (their first single 'The Prince' was dedicated to him and their second single a cover of Buster's)... Love a bit of ska and a bit of skanking on the dance floor!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

love UB40 still have more of them then any1 else playing in the car

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By *umpkinMan
over a year ago

near the sounds of the wimborne quarter jack!


"I'm a bit of a Ska fan both old Jamaican stuff and the UK 1980's scene.

Funky, I'm trying to get some old Jamaican ska, been trying Prince Buster but is there anything you'd recommend? Ta

Have a listen to Skatalites, Toots & The Maytals or Desmond Dekker.

Even Bob Marley's VERY VERY early stuff is ska/rocksteady as reggae hadn't been invented yet! lol"

Toots and the Maytals appeared at a music festival held near me last year! If anyone gets the chance to go, try and get tickets for the concerts at The Larmer Tree in Dorset! Jools Holland appears every year.

Going back to the early stuff, I have a couple of double CDs that I picked up in Tescos of all places that are full of early and later Ska tracks. I`m into the more modern stuff, Selecter, Specials and The Beat for example, but cut my teeth listening to Desmond Decker and the Aces singing probably the best miss-heard lyric song ever, listened to on a manky transistor with glorious Medium wave reception, wooly speaker and knackered batteries!

"Get up in the morning

"Baked beans for breakfast

"So that everyone can be fed

"Oh-oh, me ears are alight!

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ


"more of a rock chic myself "

We need a new bed err sorry thread then babe?

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

loved the late seventies early 80's for music. loved a whole host of music then and spent my weekends in record stores going through their collections. too easy for todays youth who just type what they want on a keyboard. prefered my day where i tramped the streets mile after mile to physically get my hands on my music i desired

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By *leasureDomeMan
over a year ago

all over the place


"I'm a bit of a Ska fan both old Jamaican stuff and the UK 1980's scene.

Funky, I'm trying to get some old Jamaican ska, been trying Prince Buster but is there anything you'd recommend? Ta"

Prince busters fabulous hits is an all time classic album I love orange street ,along with The Handsworth Revolution by Steel Pulse is amazing and many say was the match that lit the touch paper of the handsworth riots.

I used to work for the beat and still remember Rankin Roger jumping up on stage toastin in some packed backroom bar.I engineered there 1990 gig at the earth day concert ,in LA along with bad manners and have good memories of fun times.

Andy and shuffle moved on to form the fine young cannibals another good band.

Saw madness a few months back in brum

They were as brilliant as ever.I love ska.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

They still play Harry J Allstars' Liquidator before every home game at Chelsea

I remember 'borrowing' my brothers records when i was a kid. Dave & Ansell Collins,The Valentines,Pioneers,Skatalites. He still has most of them.

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