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More Specials

More Specials
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Studio album by The Specials
Released October 1980
Recorded Summer 1980
Studio Horizon Studios,
Genre Ska, 2 Tone, post-punk,punk rock
Length 45:32
Label 2 Tone Records
Producer Jerry Dammers
The Specials chronology
The Specials
(1979)
More Specials
(1980)
In the Studio (as The Special AKA)
(1984)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 4.5/5 stars
Christgau's Record Guide B
Encyclopedia of Popular Music 3/5 stars
Mojo 4/5 stars
Q 4/5 stars
The Rolling Stone Album Guide 4.5/5 stars
Uncut 9/10

More Specials is the second album by ska band The Specials, released in October 1980. The album expanded the 2 tone sound of their self-titled debut to include lounge music and other influences. It featured collaborations with The Go-Go's members Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, and Jane Wiedlin; Rhoda Dakar from The Bodysnatchers; and Lee Thompson from Madness. The lyrics, like the previous album, were often intensely political.

On the charts, the album hit the Top Five in the UK, where "Rat Race", "Stereotype" and "Do Nothing" hit the Top Ten. "Rat Race" hit No. 89 on Billboard Music Chart's (US) Club Play Singles chart, while the album as a whole hit No. 98 on Billboard's Top 200 albums chart.

More Specials was a hit in the two-tone movement, a late-1970s revival of Jamaican ska from the 1960s. Along with bands like the Bodysnatchers and Madness, The Specials were leaders in this revival, and later heroes for two further ska-punk revivals on the opposite side of the Atlantic: the late 1980s Southern California scene (NOFX, Operation Ivy) and the mid-1990s "third wave of ska" (Sublime, No Doubt) which popularised the mixture in the US.


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