{"id":887,"date":"2008-04-01T19:20:05","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=887"},"modified":"2008-04-01T21:13:24","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T20:13:24","slug":"the-best-of-the-specials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/?p=887","title":{"rendered":"the best of the specials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>       <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">when people stop me in the street and ask me  who\/what was my first true love (and its amazing as to just how often this  happens), i always give the same answer : <U>2-tone<\/U>.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">in 1979 i was 11 when the 2-tone monster hit the  radio, and i loved it all.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the music, the look, the dr martens, the logo,  all&nbsp;kickstarted my love affair with music.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the use of politics and social  commentary&nbsp;throughout the self penned songs probably had more of an impact  on my&nbsp;own&nbsp;teenage awakenings&nbsp;than&nbsp;lessons learnt in class or  home, and remain as compelling and relevant today as&nbsp;back  then.<\/FONT><\/DIV><\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">so this 2 disc compilation by the scenes leaders,  <STRONG>the specials, <\/STRONG>is a perfect catch all package.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">comprising of one cd of all the hits and  more,&nbsp;and a fascinating dvd which collects the videos for the classics,  along with a mini film for each track from the final&nbsp;<FONT color=\"#008080\">in  the studio<\/FONT> album.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">the music may be overly familiar, but there is no  denying that the compilation still provides a fresh blast of&nbsp;ska bounce and  punk attitude, not to mention the presence of the greatest single of the 80s,  the ever chilling, <FONT color=\"#008080\">ghost town. <\/FONT><\/FONT><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">all of which having been given a remastering by the main man,  jerry dammers himself, sounds even more vital in its &#8216;ultra stereo&#8217;  form.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\">utterly essential.<\/FONT><\/DIV> <DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><U>more detail<\/U> : <A href=\"http:\/\/www.thespecials.com\/\">here<\/A><\/FONT><DIV><FONT face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>when people stop me in the street and ask me who\/what was my first true love (and its amazing as to just how often this happens), i always give the same answer : 2-tone. in 1979 i was 11 when the 2-tone monster hit the radio, and i loved it all. the music, the look, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-album-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ireallylovemusic.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}