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The English Beat – Beat This (CD)

$ 19.95
$ 19.95
Est. 1974, Curated by Heads
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Birmingham's finest exported something the American market barely had a name for when "Mirror in the Bathroom" and "Save It for Later" started landing on college radio in the early '80s, turning a generation of kids onto the Jamaican rhythms and two-tone politics that shaped the whole movement. Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger built a sound that hit harder live than almost any of their contemporaries, and these tracks still carry that urgency decades later.

In the second coming of ska (c. 1979-1983) The English Beat ruled supreme. The Beat used ska as a foundation on which they used R&B, punk, rock, dub and Afro-beat as material to build three superb albums and a handful of singles. This collection does a marvelous job of distilling their all too short career highlights into one disk.

Tracklist
1. Mirror In The Bathroom (3:07)
2. Best Friend (3:00)
3. Hands Off She's Mine (3:00)
4. Too Nice To Talk To (3:08)
5. Doors Of Your Heart (3:46)
6. I Confess (4:31)
7. Twist And Crawl (2:35)
8. Rankin Full Stop (2:48)
9. Drowning (3:51)
10. Save It For Later (3:34)
11. Sole Salvation (3:05)
12. Click Click (1:29)
13. Tears Of A Clown (2:38)
14. Can't Get Used To Losing You (3:01)
15. Stand Down Margaret (3:38)

UPC: 809274073525
Label: Rhino
Release Date: 9.11.01
Format: CD