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VA - Trojan - Ska Revival Box Set
 Year: 2003 Country: England Genre: Ska Label: Trojan Records  Format: 3 CD Box set Type: MP3 Bitrate: 128kbps ID Tags: Yes Time duration: 2 hours 49 minutes 51 sec   Tracklist: Disc: 1 1. Gangsters - The Specials 2. Missing Words - The Selecter 3. The Tears Of A Clown - The Special Beat 4. My Girl Lollipop - Bad Manners 5. Blank Expression - The Coventry Automatics 6. Doesn't Make It Alright - The Specials 7. Three Minute Hero - The Selecter 8. Too Nice To Talk To - The Special Beat 9. Lorraine - Bad Manners 10. It's Up To You - The Coventry Automatics 11. Nite Klub - The Specials 12. Too Much Pressure - The Selecter 13. Ranking Full Stop - The Special Beat 14. Walking In The Sunshine - Bad Manners 15. Too Much Too Young - The Coventry Automatics 16. Monkey Man - The Specials 17. On My Radio - The Selecter Disc: 2 1. Long Shot (Bust Me Bet) - The Selecter 2. Concrete Jungle - The Coventry Automatics 3. Carry Go Bring Home - The Specials, Desmond Dekker 4. Wet Dream - Bad Manners 5. Double Barrel - The Specials 6. Sally Brown - Bad Manners 7. Tighten Up - The Selecter 8. King Of Ska - Desmond Dekker, The Specials 9. Feel Like Jumping - Bad Manners 10. Enjoy Yourself - The Special Beat 11. Skinhead Girl - The Specials 12. Everyday (Time Hard) - The Selecter 13. Don't Knock The Bald Head - Bad Manners 14. King Of Kings - Desmond Dekker, The Specials 15. Rough Rider - The Special Beat 16. Train To Skaville - The Selecter Disc: 3 1. Echo 4 + 2 - Bad Manners 2. The Selecter - The Selecter 3. Mirror In The Bathroom - The Special Beat 4. Dawning Of A New Era - The Coventry Automatics 5. Ghost Town - The Specials 6. This Is Ska - Bad Manners 7. Al Capone - The Selecter 8. Nite Klub - The Special Beat 9. Return Of Django - The Specials 10. Little Bitch - The Coventry Automatics 11. Skaville UK - Bad Manners 12. Easy Snappin' - Desmond Dekker, The Specials 13. Madness - The Selecter 14. Get A Job - The Special Beat 15. Do The Dog - The Specials 16. Can Can - Bad Manners 17. Celebrate The Bullet - The Selecter   Information about album: Entries in the Trojan Box Set series have bounced between "essential" and "purists only." Now Ska Revival comes along to screw it all up, greatly lowering the series' credibility. Despite the fact that none of the bands here were on Trojan proper, the label's influence on them was no doubt very heavy. The Specials and the Selecter were carrying on Trojan's spirit when the label wasn't, so maybe this collection isn't such a stretch after all. Bad news is that good old Receiver Records -- whose motto must be "Great Artists, Lesser Recordings" -- have gone back to their old ways and taken their latest acquisition, Trojan, down with them. The Specials, the Selecter, Bad Manners, and even the Special Beat tracks are live and often by later lineups of the bands. Worst of all, the limp Desmond Dekker tracks are from a poor 1995 team-up with what was left of The Specials. This could have been interesting and valid collection had all these tracks appeared in their original versions, not this hodgepodge of recordings that Receiver had already released on less prestigious compilations. The only thing the set has going for it is that it's the easiest -- and probably only -- way to hear the shambolic and rightfully forgotten Coventry Automatics.  
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