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Specials — Ghost Town
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msymmes
(Toronto, CA)
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 09:19
 
Ground breaking stuff from these guys !

WonderLizard
(2,755.46 mi. due east of Paradise)
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 09:17
 
Great band. Winner of the objective truth medal.

Zonkers
(Cornfieldville, IL)
Posted: May 16, 2013 - 09:17
 
Rude Boy! More ska plz!

ManU4ever
(Manchester, England)
Posted: Apr 15, 2013 - 02:04
 
Tidy, very Tidy indeed!

bb_matt
(Hampshire, England)
Posted: Mar 27, 2013 - 06:40
 
Huge memories from this, as I was very much into Ska in my early teens. 

Jamaican calypso, american jazz & blues, reborn in Coventry, England :)

spiggy
Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 06:43
 
 overlandrover wrote:
I'm sorry - every time I hear this song it makes me think of that Father Ted episode!
 
nothing to be sorry about!!! it always reminds me of Father Ted too... :D... as for the song...well...meh...soso...

ick
(...out of the primordial ooze)
Posted: Feb 11, 2013 - 06:41
 
They're coming to the U.S.!  Can't wait to see them live.

plaid
(Tech nexxus o' my house)
Posted: Jan 23, 2013 - 12:16
 
If I never hear this song again... well. That'd be OK.

funkyalfonso
(Vancouver Island)
Posted: Dec 10, 2012 - 13:25
 
6.6! You're kidding.

d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Dec 10, 2012 - 13:17
 
2 > 1

richlister
(Here, there, pretty much everywhere.)
Posted: Nov 09, 2012 - 04:46
 
 Bobert_ParkCity wrote:
Early dub - with a social/political message. What's not to love?  
 
You meant 2 Tone, right? You're welcome.

Stingray
Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 19:53
 
 Carl wrote:

True, and, once again, like Yoda, you speak.
 

Thanks for being my lone friend, Carl.

Together we could reach any summit!

Master-class tongue...!



Carl
(The Summit City)
Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 19:50
 
 Stingray wrote:
A great SPECIALS album this was!
 
True, and, once again, like Yoda, you speak.

Stingray
Posted: Oct 08, 2012 - 19:45
 

A great SPECIALS album this was!

 

PS

Why we never hear Linton Kwesi Johnson



joelbb
Posted: Sep 19, 2012 - 22:01
 
You're just jackin' with our heads on this one, Bill.  It's a nonevent.

blackjackshellac
(Montreal)
Posted: Aug 19, 2012 - 10:16
 
 Proclivities wrote:

Not that it matters much, but Toronto is, on average, colder than NYC in the winter, and it gets much more snow.  Great tune.
 
Toronto does not get that much snow, it on the wrong side of the lake, Buffalo on the other hand gets oodles.

That said, I remember hearing the Specials like it was yesterday back at Uni in Waterloo (near toronto, FWIW) and I love it as much now as I did the first time I heard it.




iTuner
Posted: Jul 18, 2012 - 23:45
 
 Bobert_ParkCity wrote:
Early dub - with a social/political message. What's not to love?  
 



Exactly. Love The Specials and if your understand where they were coming from you can appreciate their music even more.

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 08:46
 
 apd wrote:

Summers are quite hot in Toronto (but not as hot as NYC), winters are cold (but not as cold as NYC); we have an embarrassing mayor and the most far-right federal government in our history, but the mayor will be gone in the next two years, and even extreme-right Canadians make American Democrats look like Republicans, so... c'mon up.
 
Not that it matters much, but Toronto is, on average, colder than NYC in the winter, and it gets much more snow.  Great tune.

bluecshells
Posted: Jul 06, 2012 - 08:39
 
{#Sunny}

apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 13:32
 
 Byronape wrote:

Typically for the US, we are about 20 years behind the UK.  This current bout of Union busting is doing the same damage Thatcher did.  Except over here, our politicians are smart (ie corrupt) enough to be sure that they are getting paid fat bank for it too.

 Only in politics can you sell out the people you promised to protect, lie about it publicly, and then get even more money for doing the same thing again.

And people thought lying about getting a BJ was bad.  Of course, NAFTA didn't do us any favors either...

So, what's the weather like in those northern countries with a decent government and national healthcare?
 
Summers are quite hot in Toronto (but not as hot as NYC), winters are cold (but not as cold as NYC); we have an embarrassing mayor and the most far-right federal government in our history, but the mayor will be gone in the next two years, and even extreme-right Canadians make American Democrats look like Republicans, so... c'mon up.

gypsyman
(just passing through....)
Posted: Jun 04, 2012 - 13:25
 
Could have sworn this was the Clash.

Bobert_ParkCity
(Park City Utah)
Posted: May 05, 2012 - 17:51
 
Was heading out for the night (to see the Wombats) but now I have to delay a song.

Bobert_ParkCity
(Park City Utah)
Posted: May 03, 2012 - 19:35
 
Early dub - with a social/political message. What's not to love?  

dew34
(Wisconsin-quite woodsy)
Posted: May 03, 2012 - 19:33
 
These last three songs in the set have been awful. But many like them and that's what counts. Stay true Bill{#Wave}

Bobert_ParkCity
(Park City Utah)
Posted: May 03, 2012 - 19:33
 
 fredriley wrote:

It still is, going by the last time I saw the centre last year. A necessary correction: the industries didn't wither, they were deliberately destroyed by the Thatcher administration which systematically promoted Finance Capital at the very real expense of Manufacturing Capital. Manufacturing industry in the UK has never recovered from the destructive onslaught of the Thatcher regime.
 
Thatcher and Reagan held hands as they jumped us both off the cliff....

jim1964
(1379 miles to Wall Drug)
Posted: Apr 14, 2012 - 21:53
 
 Byronape wrote:

Typically for the US, we are about 20 years behind the UK.  This current bout of Union busting is doing the same damage Thatcher did.  Except over here, our politicians are smart (ie corrupt) enough to be sure that they are getting paid fat bank for it too.

 Only in politics can you sell out the people you promised to protect, lie about it publicly, and then get even more money for doing the same thing again.

And people thought lying about getting a BJ was bad.  Of course, NAFTA didn't do us any favors either...

So, what's the weather like in those northern countries with a decent government and national healthcare?
 
...cold.

cohifi
(Denver)
Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 01:08
 
 GrooVy wrote:
Fun! Great horn work too! ...i just wish he told me where this place is... i'd love to buy more land where no one is! =)

 
I agree.....great trombone work

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Apr 04, 2012 - 01:05
 
This song reminds me of Siobhan smiling and well if you knew what that meant you'd smile too

Byronape
("post-capitalist wreckageville")
Posted: Apr 02, 2012 - 02:39
 
 fredriley wrote:
It still is, going by the last time I saw the centre last year. A necessary correction: the industries didn't wither, they were deliberately destroyed by the Thatcher administration which systematically promoted Finance Capital at the very real expense of Manufacturing Capital. Manufacturing industry in the UK has never recovered from the destructive onslaught of the Thatcher regime.
 
Typically for the US, we are about 20 years behind the UK.  This current bout of Union busting is doing the same damage Thatcher did.  Except over here, our politicians are smart (ie corrupt) enough to be sure that they are getting paid fat bank for it too.

 Only in politics can you sell out the people you promised to protect, lie about it publicly, and then get even more money for doing the same thing again.

And people thought lying about getting a BJ was bad.  Of course, NAFTA didn't do us any favors either...

So, what's the weather like in those northern countries with a decent government and national healthcare?

justin4kick
(The Netherlands)
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 06:12
 
freddyfender wrote:

This song is so horrible and annoying that I created another user just so I could rate it sucko-barfo twice.

 
Although I totally disagree with you, I find your comment very funny

overlandrover
(Norfolk... Nelson's County!)
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 06:06
 
I'm sorry - every time I hear this song it makes me think of that Father Ted episode!



fredriley
(Nottingham, UK)
Posted: Mar 14, 2012 - 06:05
 
 vaiodon wrote:
Dark.. I attended college in the Specials' home town around the time this came out (turn of the 1970s/1980s). Coventry was becoming a ghost town as the established big manufacturing industries withered and died. 
 
It still is, going by the last time I saw the centre last year. A necessary correction: the industries didn't wither, they were deliberately destroyed by the Thatcher administration which systematically promoted Finance Capital at the very real expense of Manufacturing Capital. Manufacturing industry in the UK has never recovered from the destructive onslaught of the Thatcher regime.

apd
(Toronto, On)
Posted: Mar 03, 2012 - 09:03
 
 prettyvacant wrote:
is it from this album even?
 
nope - not from either of the first two albums. In fact, I'm not sure what album it's from - it may have been a single-only release. But it's certainly on all of the "Best of" albums.

prettyvacant
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 10:18
 
is it from this album even?

lemmoth
(NYC)
Posted: Mar 01, 2012 - 10:16
 
 hschlossberg wrote:
Good song, but way overplayed on RP.
 
Yeah, once a month for the last few months.  Get real..


George_Tirebiter
(Phoenix)
Posted: Feb 11, 2012 - 11:37
 
Drink! Feck!  Gerrls!  {#Drunk}

hschlossberg
(Los Angeles)
Posted: Jan 31, 2012 - 16:32
 
Good song, but way overplayed on RP.

belalugosi
(Bogotá (Colombia))
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 16:59
 
Great song!

GrooVy
(Planet Earth, Mainly...)
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 16:56
 
Fun! Great horn work too! ...i just wish he told me where this place is... i'd love to buy more land where no one is! =)


jt1
Posted: Dec 28, 2011 - 23:43
 
This song certainly seems to divide opinion.
I remember it fondly as an reflective classic from my youth...and for me it seems to have stood the test of time.

mrdak
(Middle GA)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 21:55
 
nice riddums mon

freddyfender
(Colorado Springs....deep inside the belly of the Evangelical beast)
Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 21:53
 

This song is so horrible and annoying that I created another user just so I could rate it sucko-barfo twice.



Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Nov 29, 2011 - 04:08
 
 That_SOB wrote:
 Amazing lyrics if your deaf. . .
 
...or if you understood what they're about.


vaiodon
(Halfway to Paradise)
Posted: Nov 27, 2011 - 07:56
 
Dark.. I attended college in the Specials' home town around the time this came out (turn of the 1970s/1980s). Coventry was becoming a ghost town as the established big manufacturing industries withered and died. 

That_SOB
(In at least 2 places at once)
Posted: Nov 27, 2011 - 05:59
 
 Amazing lyrics if your deaf. . .

cc_rider
(Austin Texas. Y'all.)
Posted: Oct 28, 2011 - 14:01
 
 Proclivities wrote:

I didn't think they even allowed trombone players into Texas; I figured there's some kind of trombone-detector at the Louisiana border.  Great song.
  When Bob Wills went to play at the Opry, they almost refused to let him take the stage. Why? Horns. Bob had the temerity to bring 'gasp' a horn section to the home of Country music.

The rest, as they say, is history. To this day, Bob Wills is still The King.

"What kind of music? We've got both kinds: Country AND Western."



bluecshells
(EARTH)
Posted: Oct 28, 2011 - 13:55
 

Es perfecto!



ajlept
(Athens, GA)
Posted: Oct 28, 2011 - 13:55
 
UB40.....no, you B52s

Stephenater
(Marin County, CA)
Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 15:40
 
 coy wrote:
is this intended to be annoying or is it my suicidal tendencies coming to the fore

 
Personally I love the song, as it reminds me of some great days in my past. Love your comment though...


Cynaera
(In a hammock under my own vine and fig tree.)
Posted: Oct 26, 2011 - 15:29
 
 superfido wrote:


WIERD...hit the meds again man.
 
I still hate this song. I know it's good ska and it's the Specials and allathat - it scares me in ways I don't want to divulge here. You don't know me. No amount of meds will make this song good. BTW - I'm not a "man."