The English Beat: Live in Jamaica, 1982

So the catalog of the English Beat (name discussion HERE) has been beautifully done over by BOTH Edsel Records and Shout Factory. The decision with which to purchase is going to be tough. In the meantime, here, via a soundboard recording from the Jamaica World Music Festival in 1982, is a reminder of why you NEED more Beat!





Setlist:
d1t01 - Introduction
d1t02 - Hands Off...She's Mine
d1t03 - Big Shot
d1t04 - Doors Of Your Heart
d1t05 - Save It For Later
d1t06 - Too Nice To Talk To
d1t07 - I Confess
d1t08 - Spar Wid Me
d1t09 - Ranking Full Stop

Encore:
d1t10 - Tears Of A Clown

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The English Beat: 12" Beat

Here's a batch of English Beat 12" rarities, including re-mixes, dub versions, live tracks etc. (This particular bootleg overlaps somewhat with the second disc of the now out-of-print collection, B.P.M.

1. Doors Of Your Heart (Dub)
2. Drowning (Dub)
3. Hands off She's Mine
4. Hit It
5. I Confess
6. I Confess (Live)
7. Jeanette
8. March Of The Swivelheads (Ferris Bueller's Day Off)
9. Psycadelic Rockers (Dubweiser)
10. Save It For Later
11. Spar Wid Me (Live)
12. Too Nice To Talk To (Dubweiser)
13. Twist And Crawl
14. Whats Your Best Thing

12" Beat material is available one Edsel Records and Shout Factory.

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The English Beat: Live in Amsterdam, 1980

Okay, fans of the Beat (English or not) here's an FM broadcast of a rockin' show from the boys circa 1980.

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The English Beat: Unity Rockers

Many of us who Just Can't Stop It (jumping about like idiots that is) when we hear the first English Beat album struggle with the rest of their catalog. Wha'ppen is an enjoyable calypso-reggae-pop record and Special Beat Service is one of the finer pop albums of the eighties but they both suffer from drastically diminished amounts of the driving ska-punk fusion that so invigorated their debut.

Whatever your Beat bias, you'll find something to your liking on this crisp-as-hell but never officially released recording of their show at The Hammersmith Palais in October of 1982.

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The English Beat: Peel Sessions

Since The Beat was a kinda dull band name shared by two very exciting late-seventies acts, North Americans got a rushing power-pop band named Paul Collin's Beat and a roaring ska-punk one christened, The English Beat. Nomenclaturaly, I'd say The English Beat won out as theirs was a peculiarly English beat, with rhythms learned from American R&B and Jamaican ska interpolated into the relentless forward-motion of the English strain of punk rock.

These three Peel Sessions show their early punkifed-ska sound as well as their later, smoother pop side, both of which are to be treasured for somewhat different reasons.

November 5, 1979
1. Tears Of A Clown
2. Ranking Full Stop
3. Click Click
4. Mirror In The Bathroom
5. Big Shot

September 22, 1980
6. Too Nice To Talk To
7. New Psychedelic Rockers
8. Monkey Murders
9. Walk Away

March 29, 1982
10. Spar Wid Me
11. She's Going She's Gone
12. Save It For Later
13. Pato And Roger A-Go Talk
14. Sole Salvation

Peel Session are available on Edsel Records and Shout Factory.

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