I'm a 17 year old from Doncaster , got into the scooter scene a few years ago because of my specials addiction , since then ive scene the beat , the specials , and a few others , SKA'd FOR LIFE
Damn I am late. I started driving truck to the Islands this year and already spent some time near Doncaster at Stockyard truck stop. How is the scene there? I would love to enjoy the ska concert with the locals.
Brings back great memories, shining up the dm's, bottle of cheap cider and heading into the disco. If only i could go back to those days S P E C I A L memories. NOBODY HATES SPECIALS
Im only 20 so I missed this music era in its hey day sadly, however I was fortunate enough to be introduced to it from a very young age and brought up with it all, thanks to my parents!! Best music ever, not like the cack released these days!! x
I was working in the oilfield in Oklahoma. They had no good music there. I flew home and bought as much good music as I could.(especially all two tone music) we rocked Oklahoma!!
Love this band, some of the best music ever recorded, also great live caught up w/ them @ the Icehouse and at Hollywood Bowl was able to meet them what a bunch great guys, absolutely PLEASANT!!!
Written by Gordon/Sidney Crooks/Jackie Robinson/George Agard. The original is by The Pioneers, (founding members Winston Hewitt, Derrick Crooks, Glen Adams). On The Pioneers record was Crooks, Robinson, & newest member Geo Agard (Desmond Decker's 1/2 brother).
You will have a great time at T in the park watching the mighty Specials, they cracked America and the far east and for me have influenced a generation. Went to see them for the first time in April as I was just too young in 1980 and was blown away. Have a great time mate , wish I could be there.
Holy cow !!! I remember 1980 and I swallowed this music up ! Funny everyone I played ska for loved it but never as much as me I guess because I still love it
My Pork Pie hat lasted 2 days before a taxi klled it. Coventry restored, my love of Ska + Bluebeat + moonstomp fun, I wish Bodysnatcers were bigger and Paline Black' Selector elevated things ON MY RADIO! Love that energy and remember Ranking Roger exhorting the P.M. to "Stand Down Margaret". Special's version of Long Shot lifted my mood every time . Passing of Nev Staples was a downer; I liked him.
this is fucking brilliant thanks for posting i cant stop listening to it!its go to be the catchiest groove ever its one o them you cant stop thinking about class!
Two Tone blew my mind as an 11 year old.Out with the parents shit clothing...Stay press..loafers and Fred Perry jumper to school..oi oi..Jamaican ska that drove my old man mad..pre curser to being a casual...Happy fucking British Yourh in the 80"s..
Yeah this is ten years later, but its not fake ska its 2tone and its brilliant the specials were great and are still gigging now albeit without jerry dammers.
you need to listen to the original,(The Pioneers) two things will happen...1, you will never bother listening to this crap and 2, you will click on dislike to make it 137 and counting
Ever towed a lambretta with another Lambretta, I had to tow my mate half way back from Matlock to Nottingham because he wound fuse wire around the fuse box and blew the magneto, you go very slowly !!!
Thank you it was a wonderful time Ben shirt F.P.slacks D.M. 1ns and 2os and our whole life ahead of us a lot of us made it through all the pit falls and B.S.
blimey, I went through so many pairs of '14's in the '80s :) Great days, as i remember i used to pay £39.99 for them (Famous Army Stores) :) .... i dread to think what they cost nowadays :)
57 and still listen to ska every week .. have all my original vinlys ska'd for life ..
ska never dies and I'm from 1959
I'm a 17 year old from Doncaster , got into the scooter scene a few years ago because of my specials addiction , since then ive scene the beat , the specials , and a few others , SKA'd FOR LIFE
Quality pal.
I'm from Doncaster too and I'm an old rude boy..😎
Damn I am late. I started driving truck to the Islands this year and already spent some time near Doncaster at Stockyard truck stop. How is the scene there? I would love to enjoy the ska concert with the locals.
I am 61:years old , The Soecials are very very good , Saludos amigo from Mexico
Bro. Now you"re 27...
Get yourself a vespa
Brings back great memories, shining up the dm's, bottle of cheap cider and heading into the disco. If only i could go back to those days S P E C I A L memories.
NOBODY HATES SPECIALS
love it !!!!!!
Word!
Your still in the pink! Oi.
still enjoying myself@@johnathanlivingstonseagull5524
I'm going to dance to it always since I was a boy in the 80s pure class 👌👌👌
Time machine
Im only 20 so I missed this music era in its hey day sadly, however I was fortunate enough to be introduced to it from a very young age and brought up with it all, thanks to my parents!! Best music ever, not like the cack released these days!! x
32 now...do you still listen to Ska
Been listening to Ska for 40 years now. Thank you 2 tone!
Same here brother
1980 two-tone suits made to measure from market out to disco at youth club to listen to ska lol fantastic period to live in.
RIP John , best drummer ever.
RIP Terry, best singer ever.
i can not believe how much time has passed and how this music is a great now as it was then! good times!
Near the end, when they seamlessly kick up the tempo- that’s talent. Genius.
it segues into skinhead moonstomp...
Yet another classic ska-2 Tone track from the one and only The Specials!
Wow if your feet and legs are not moving you are dead xx There guys are so special xxx i have adored them since their beginning lol Jane x
one of the best tunes ever, always make you get up and dance. Best days of music.
Aubrey Lanham Aubrey'Uncle Strawberry' Lanham.....long live.
I was working in the oilfield in Oklahoma. They had no good music there. I flew home and bought as much good music as I could.(especially all two tone music) we rocked Oklahoma!!
And what did they think about it over in America
There's still no good music.
My Dad had this in his 20's by the Pioneers & He is 70 this year
Wow.
I never had expected the people in this band to have collaborated they way they did to form this excellent band.
What a GREAT GROUP!!!
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are keeping SKA alive and I thank them for it. Old enough to have been around for The Specials. AWESOME
Amazing keyboards - had never heard this version before. Just addictive music, can't get enough, will follow me to the grave for sure
When you're Spark Out!
Before the grave, listen to the live version (special A.K.A live), and you will get back on your feet instantely. may be it help......😎
Rude boys/grrls don't die, they just kick the bucket and keep stomping in the other side
Used to run my brother's Too Much Too Young EP on his girlfriend's suitcase turntable, when I was flat-sitting theirs. Best version imo
Love this band, some of the best music ever recorded, also great live caught up w/ them @ the Icehouse and at Hollywood Bowl was able to meet them what a bunch great guys, absolutely PLEASANT!!!
Im 15, I love this song, i wear docs, ben sherman/fred perry, bomber jacket, docs!!
Such a skinhead i am and my friends hate it!
Brilliant
Your friends hate it cos this is SKA and not Skinhead......want some Skin or Oi listen to 4 Skins, Last Resort, Booze and Glory
I bet you were just the coolest.
@@Nog311 you do realise ska is Skinhead music?
@@MagnerCarter yeah I was replying to a guy that said that ska was not skin music, without ska skinheads would not exist at all
Written by Gordon/Sidney Crooks/Jackie Robinson/George Agard. The original is by The Pioneers, (founding members Winston Hewitt, Derrick Crooks, Glen Adams).
On The Pioneers record was Crooks, Robinson, & newest member Geo Agard (Desmond Decker's 1/2 brother).
Keep coming back to this! Takes me back
ive been in love with these guys for a long time weve had a special bond ,,it will be until eternity xx lol
You will have a great time at T in the park watching the mighty Specials, they cracked America and the far east and for me have influenced a generation. Went to see them for the first time in April as I was just too young in 1980 and was blown away. Have a great time mate , wish I could be there.
when you love it you love it never dies in ya heart
Fact
the old ones are the best ! takes me back love it !
This isn't the original but it's good! I was in a band once that got to open for The Specials..and I'll never forget it!!
wat was your band called?
Kid Unconscious :)
💀 ..VERRRY Cool..!!..Peace to you..!
42 years of ska under my belt. All waves. Ska'd 4 life!
Thats my fav song.
oh we are blessed those of us who were there in 1979 when the specials hit us like a tsuami of top ska tunes radical lyrics FUCKING CLASS
There music still as good 35 years on!!
Still love them to this day !
Love it.. still have the single in my vinyl collection.
Addictive & rightly so! One of the very few two tone that meant something!!
ska rules forever! This is heaven!
a true classic of the two tone era
saw them in 2011 they played this the crowd went funking mental
as they funking should!
Holy cow !!! I remember 1980 and I swallowed this music up ! Funny everyone I played ska for loved it but never as much as me I guess because I still love it
what a line from the specials, nobody is special rip mr hall
Raiding my uncles old clothes racks for 70s suites going out with the gang to stomp 1979 great times great music wow I want to go back
60s
I agree, I'm a 16 year old girl and I just live off of ska and reggae, all the tunes my parents listen to. Oh how I wish lived my parents lives ;_;
My Pork Pie hat lasted 2 days before a taxi klled it.
Coventry restored, my love of Ska + Bluebeat + moonstomp fun, I wish Bodysnatcers were bigger and Paline Black' Selector elevated things ON MY RADIO! Love that energy and remember Ranking Roger exhorting the P.M. to "Stand Down Margaret".
Special's version of Long Shot lifted my mood every time . Passing of Nev Staples was a downer; I liked him.
Thanks, a journey down memory lane.
Saw them live, 1979.... 2009... 2019 💥
This tune gets better every time I here it.
One of my fave tunes........
Still?
Top class mate...loved it.
About a horse that died at a race held at Caymanas Park Kingston.
what a weepin, and a wailing.... 🏇.. a man got half his ear bitten off whilst watching these in Nottingham last year.. Rip.. john and Rico..
💀..Well, DAMN, Baby.., That musta hurt like hell..hope he had some ointment with him..!! ..
I have not heard this in years! I actually bought the original 7 back in the day!
nice to hear some skaaaaaa!!! on a Sunday night. .kick de bucket
David Rose wats wrong with Friday night or Saturday mornings?
Amen to that....superb drummer..rip
I loved those days. Music brought us all together. Rude boys, rude girls, black and white, it didn't matter. We were all there for the same reason.
Just got into the original of this through Trojan mixes here on YT.... then had to come back to a band of my youth to hear their version :)
12 holes was enough to Stomp in 🏁🏁💙Bring back those aTreasured memory's of the Day
RIP Rico ❤️❤️Forever SPECIAL to me 💙👍😊😊
Good for you mate. Can't let the old traditions die.
Godbless all the old tunes thay was fantastic. 1 love.
love this version
The first single I ever bought.
best music there is
Top skankin' tune, very fresh! X
Forever special, Forever that stomp.
Could do with a stomp ASAP
This is also a mighty fine tune, we all love it sooooooooooo much. Put your Braces on!!!
Keep it real brother! Traditional punks and skins for life!!!
this is fucking brilliant thanks for posting i cant stop
listening to it!its go to be the catchiest groove ever
its one o them you cant stop thinking about
class!
world class, brings back memories , newcastle riots in 1985, i was 19 , and the handiside archade was still there. cops, dogs, gas,
Newcastle riots in 1985,really?? It was the Handyside Arcade you knacker!!
Brilliant Specials
Chris Edwards are we related
it doesn't get better than this (13 in 1981)
Two Tone blew my mind as an 11 year old.Out with the parents shit clothing...Stay press..loafers and Fred Perry jumper to school..oi oi..Jamaican ska that drove my old man mad..pre curser to being a casual...Happy fucking British Yourh in the 80"s..
The specials 😍 Yes they're pretty damn special 💪😉💟💖💕
😊😊😊😊this is my happy face ,who else us smiling along with me
saw them at Brixton academy way back and when they did this one,the place was bouncing.
There is a video on you tube from the 60s showing how to do the new dance craze...skanking and there is the most beautiful girl demonstrating😛
Love the Specials, love this song and love the Harry J & The Allstars cover at 3.10.
best song ever
Qui ne peut pas aimer le ska ????a 56 ans je ne peux pas m en passer.
❤😅
Black white blue or green when this band played nobody seen colours
Love it.........
top quality coventry tune from the great time!
Timeless!
Saw these guys doing this on a very very small stage! No social distancing back then just braces Fred's loafers and stay press!!! ⬛✊⬜
Great memories !
Just a special mix
Yeah this is ten years later, but its not fake ska its 2tone and its brilliant the specials were great and are still gigging now albeit without jerry dammers.
Blooood Clarrrt....Gwaaaaaan!
J.D. is a fuckin genius lol, English kids hav always loved black music
Just, wow... CLASS
10 goons who pressed dislike(I'm hoping by mistake may I add) are either deaf or clinically insane!!
They got that burner fever
They're breeding...
you need to listen to the original,(The Pioneers) two things will happen...1, you will never bother listening to this crap and 2, you will click on dislike to make it 137 and counting
No - they prefer the original and best version.
Mate I’m deaf and clinacaly insane , but I think this funky ska music is terrific !!
they were a class act
are*
ye boi no, were!
Yes boi what an amazing show.
Dad brought me up on this, im sorry but you can't beat this
Ever towed a lambretta with another Lambretta, I had to tow my mate half way back from Matlock to Nottingham because he wound fuse wire around the fuse box and blew the magneto, you go very slowly !!!
That Green Onions keyboard touch is Chef's Kiss , boiz.
man this song takes me back to the dayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Thank you Jamaica.
Never leaves ya, I thank British,music done us we'll SKA ForLiFE
Ska'd for life
Bring it on again, and again ... #SKA #Music
Superb record. I also have the original by The Pioneers. That one is also a classic!
Steve W much harder to dance to, the original is a great song but just a little too slow for a good skank!
Thank you it was a wonderful time Ben shirt F.P.slacks D.M. 1ns and 2os and our whole life ahead of us a lot of us made it through all the pit falls and B.S.
Who could dislike this, seriously
LOVE IT
Long Shot/Liquidator/Moonstomp - So good.
blimey, I went through so many pairs of '14's in the '80s :) Great days, as i remember i used to pay £39.99 for them (Famous Army Stores) :) .... i dread to think what they cost nowadays :)