Category: Ska & 2 Tone

Live Reggae, Ska & 2 Tone Albums Played In 2015 2016 2017

I started to record the albums I was playing in February 2015 because I realised that there could well be a difference between those albums I think are excellent and those that I turn to play time after time.

The full listings of what I played are shown on these pages:

– February 2015 – March 2015 – April 2015 – May 2015 – June 2015 – July 2015 – August 2015 – September 2015 – October 2015 – November 2015 – December 2015

February 2015

No albums played this month.

March 2015

April to June 2015

No albums played in these months.

 

July 2015

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The Skatalites In The Mood For Ska The Moonska Years 1996

In The Mood For Ska The Moonska Years is an album by The Skatalites.

It includes songs recorded live at the 1996 Ska Splash Festival.

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Live From Planet Ska

I like Two Tone and ska so I think it’s worth getting full albums by The Specials, The Beat and Madness but others might prefer a live collection like Live From Planet Ska: The Best Of British Ska Live.

This collects together live performances from The Specials, The Selecter, The Special Beat and Bad Manners but I have two issues:

  1. Using tracks by Special Beat rather than the (English) Beat knocks down its authenticity.
  2. The absence of the early Madness songs that helped to popularise Two Tone in the late 1970s.

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The Specials More Or Less The Specials Live 2011

More Or Less The Specials Live is a live album by The Specials.

It was recorded on their UK and European tour in 2011 and was released in 2012.

While this reunion band didn’t include the main songwriter Jerry Dammers, it did include many of their 1979 band.

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The Selecter & The Specials BBC Radio 1 in Concert 1979

The Selecter & The Specials BBC Radio 1 in Concert is a combined special 2 Tone concert recorded by the BBC.

It was recorded at the Paris Theatre in London on the 5th December 1979 according to Discogs. However the BBC have released a very similar recording for The Specials and said it was recorded at the Palace Theatre on the 15th December 1979.

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The Specials Blue Plate Specials Live 1980

Blue Plate Specials Live is a live album by The Specials.

It brings together two live recordings by the group. The first eight tracks come from around about 1980 but the remainder come from an earlier time when they were probably called The Coventry Automatics or The Special AKA.

This earlier show reveals a transition phase between more conventional rock and their well known ska/reggae sound.

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Bad Manners Don’t Knock the Baldhead Live 1996

Don’t Knock the Baldhead Live is a live album by Bad Manners.

It was recorded at two concerts in Scandinavia in the summer of 1996 and was released in 1997. It has since been re-released under a different title – Feel Like Jumping! Greatest Hits Live!.

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The Specials BBC In Concert 15th December 1979

The Specials BBC In Concert 15th December 1979 is a live recording by The Specials.

It was recorded by the BBC at the Paris Theatre on 15 December 1979.

These songs appear to be the same as those that appeared on combined BBC 2 Tone In Concert album by The Selector and The Specials that Discogs says was recorded at the Palace Theatre on the 5th December 1979. They may be different but it seems unlikely to me.

While Live at the Moonlight Club was released six months before their debut album was released, this was recorded a month afterwards.

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