One of the greatest tracks ever made. BBC has a nice article about it here.
Ska’d For Life
The great original 2-Tone band, The Selecter, has a brilliant new single. Buy it now and help it climb the Amazon singles chart! Check in on the FB group “get the Selecter new single in the charts.” Two paws up.
Heaven just got a whole lot more danceable with the addition of Lloyd Knibb, longtime drummer for the Skatalites. Respect and love to his whole extended family, and to fans the world over who loved and enjoyed his music. Lloyd Knibb, more than anyone else, invented and continually refined and re-invented the ska beat, thus making the world, quite simply, a better place. Bon voyage to a great man.
The Life & Times of Jimmy Scott: From Inspiring The Beatles ‘Ob La Di Ob La Da’ to Playing Percussion With Bad Manners
A most exskallent read. For the record, I like O Bla Di! What’s not to love? Some people just gotta hate on pop. Beatles did exactly one ska song in their career, they did it well, and it was an original and a great tribute at a time when ska music was still young. Two-Tone happened fully ten years later. Props, babies. Read on and skank on.
Mor
e ska wonderfulness from Marco On The Bass. Here he revisits Smash Hits Magazine’s coverage of the Two-Tone era.
Brrrrrilliant.