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Artist: SpecialsEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Enhanced, Original recording reissued, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2002-05-21
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
- Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)
- Man At C And A
- Hey, Little Rich Girl
- Do Nothing
- Pearl's Cafe
- Sock It To 'Em J.B.
- Stereotypes/Stereotypes Pt.2
- Holiday Fortnight
- I Can't Stand It
- International Jet Set
- Enjoy Yourself (Reprise)
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Free Music Review: An odd, odd album...but great!
Hit: 5 Stars
I agree with everybody else that the first Specials album was probably the greatest ska album ever--a fist-pumping pleasure from beginning to end. However, I cannot help but admire Jerry Dammers' artistic courage in refusing to repeat himself, and instead driving the band into new territory on this album. The result was a unique work--incorporating hard ska, dub, lounge singing, and muzak (!) influences into one really strange trip of a record.
Like the first record, it is a journey from beginning to end. But while the debut album was a studio recreation of a live gig, this is a dyspeptic trip into studio hell, opening with a lively cover of the standard "Enjoy Yourself", and ending in a sardonic port-mortem version of the same. In between the band meanders through all sorts of studio space, harsh and mellow, on their way to their ultimate demise, with the same biting lyrics (but darker here) and great playing that the band displayed on its debut.
It's fantasticly weird art-rock album, done by the world's best ska band. It's a terrific companion to the first record, and if the band pretty much dissolved afterward at least they finished playing their "A" game, in my opinion. If you wanted a repeat of the first record, well, small wonder that you're disappointed. But then, you would have been anyway.
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