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[@DeanBros]

WHERE ARE THE REAL UK FANS COMMENT BELOW THIS COMMENT NOW IF YOU LOVE THE SPECIALS!!

[@Alsatiagent]

Monkey Man! I mean the song you know. Or English Beat Stand Down Margaret/Jackpot.

[@happymethehappyone8300]

THE SPECIALS "PRESSURE DROP",, "NELSON MANDELA" & "MONKEY MAN"

[@happymethehappyone8300]

THE ENGLISH BEAT "SAVE IT FOR LATER"...GENERAL PUBLIC "TENDERNESS"

[@happymethehappyone8300]

DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES "ISRAELITES" & 007 (SHANTY TOWN)

[@Isleofskye]

Real UK English fan here and a London one and a South London one and a South East London one and this was filmed 3 miles from where I used to live in The Rotherhithe Tunnel in S E London in The 1980s though the band are from Coventry in County of Warwickshire in The West Midlands in the heart of England. Unbelievably (from this video) the street scenes you saw originally (well the Lady saw after introducing us, proudly, to her nails (haha ) ) , were filmed in, possibly, the richest square mile in The World: !!! that is The City Of London but they closed it for this video @ 5am before the Commuters arrived in THe Financial Centre like your "Wall Street" lol

[@saintsataniko2116]

Brit Ska! This has nothing to do with ghosts and everything to do with economic recession in 80's Britain and the loss of clubs and the music scene in their home city of Coventry.

[@s.fernandes7560]

Just like now you mean

[@f-wingkingunclejohn6199]

Well said Rudeboy.

[@f-wingkingunclejohn6199]

@@s.fernandes7560 it was much tougher in the 80s. Especially in England. You have no idea. Its easier today. The 80s was the most deprived and most violent decade of the 20th century for the UK. Fact, look it up. God bless you and keep you. ♥️ 🙏

[@notamused3715]

@@f-wingkingunclejohn6199 I know what you mean because all my friends that weren't training to be nurses were unemployed! Not one of my non-nurse friends had a job and for a while, it seemed like none of them ever would but from the mid-80s on that changed and they all found work and started doing OK! As the mother of a young adult now I'm worried sick for him and for all young people and children! If the shite we're being put through now keeps going, what future will they have? Owning nothing and having no privacy in Klaus Shwab and the W.E.F.s "4th Industrial Revolution" world doesn't sound like a recipe for happiness to me anyway! Hopefully, it won't happen and things will drastically improve for them!

[@maya438]

Funny how history repeats itself. They should have re released it for the covid lockdown, lol

[@ripleyjlawman.3162]

I’ve always loved the Specials, as I’m from the UK, it’s actually about economic recession, hence the title Ghost Town.

[@robbiecarroll5491]

And Thatcherism

[@willrichardson1809]

also a lot to do with the Riots of 81 creating Ghost towns.

[@thesoundlikechameleons2082]

it's about the split of the band too.

[@OblivionGate]

The Specials are from Coventry in England UK, formed in 1977.

[@raesmith145]

You do realise this band, specifically gerry dammers started the 2 tone record label, and the second wave of ska music. Plus the madness song the prince came out on 2 tone.

[@erict956]

Two Tone or Brit Ska from the 70's/80's was just brilliant. We were in the middle of a recession there were riots in London and Liverpool shops were closing down and there was no place to go like the song says the people were getting angry so this song fitted the atmosphere of the whole country. So band's like the Specials, The Beat (USA called them the English Beat), The Selector and even Madness were what we needed at that time to get us through.

[@lifelongred7056]

Not much has changed really.

[@erict956]

@@lifelongred7056 sadly just the music

[@lifelongred7056]

@@erict956 yeah even that seems to dying. Maybe I'm just getting old or becoming more and more cynical. Always loved guitar music, reggae, soul and R&B,I have an eclectic taste in music but music today is rubbish remakes and remixes.

[@erict956]

@@lifelongred7056 I've always been cynical so I've no excuse lol

[@lifelongred7056]

@@erict956 best way to be,don't be a sheep find out for yourself. Dont believe all you see or all you hear keep an open mind and live your life how you see fit.

[@helenjarvis7755]

Two tone music my favourite from the early eighties.

[@philippepalmer2968]

I'm in my late 50s now I remember going to see the Specials live half a dozen times especially the late 70s/early 80s and fighting with the NF who would turn up at their gigs. The Specials were one of the most important British social commentary bands, this song and then Special AKA with the song Free Nelson Mandela are two of the most iconic tunes ever released in the UK. On a footnote in the early 90s I lived with my wife in Lambert road Brixton and jerry Dammers was our next door neighbour and when my wife went into labour(he heard her screaming through the walls) he's the one who called for the ambulance and then called me at work to let me know so I could shoot straight up to the hospital and see my son being born

[@kadathsmith]

This just reminds me of going to youth club, drinking cider, and smoking weed for the first time. 80's London.

[@leeperola7023]

Two tone at its greatest!!! Pure masterpiece! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧

[@hahatoldyouso]

Hi from London! My dad loved them when he was younger

[@ronpaizley9349]

My dudes THE SPECIALS who need to be in the ROCK n ROLL HALL OF FAME !!!

[@marypetrie930]

Why?.....the place is a joke!

[@MarkFarm]

The specials, are very special. Sums up late 70's early 80's in some towns in the UK. I think you guys need to look up what a 'ghost town' is!

[@seandail1879]

Yo, I'm proud of yall for diggin deep into this old school stuff. 🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯keep it up

[@natalieo-s8908]

Hi! Thank you for the video!Please pay attention to the young singer Diana Ankudinova.Make a reaction to the songs Wicked game, Human 🌞 🌞 🌞 DIANA ANKUDINOVA is a talented young singer. I would like to know your opinion. I think you'll be surprised. Diana has a very unusual voice for her age and an artistic presentation. 🌹 🌹 🌹 Thank you in advance

[@sergeykot8753]

Diana Ankudinova 😊👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥💥💥💥🎉💫💯

[@stasmarine1638]

1000000%!!!🔥🔥🔥🎤🎤🎤🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶.......Diana-beauty in every minute!!!💖💕💖💕💖💕💖👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@vdubrovskiy9092]

Diana Ankudinova is an amazing singer,her voice fascinates!

[@meatfruit1123]

Eh?

[@user-xz2px9xs6r]

Diana is awesome!

[@jasonturner8509]

Hey from the UK guys 🇬🇧

[@ejcecil1305]

YES YOUNG PEOPLE. Black and white people sang and danced and talked and laughed together and hung and CRIED together. Do not listen to other people that tell you how to feel.

[@jasonturner8509]

This song can be heard in Shaun of the dead zombie movie BTW....

[@LA80sMike]

Love love love Shaun of the Dead!!!

[@fernand_ducci]

Better yet, in the movie SNATCH

[@LeoGer94]

Please, make a reaction to the songs of the singer Diana Ankudinova.

[@user-xz2px9xs6r]

Diana is amazing!!!

[@stasmarine1638]

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[@LaptopLarry330]

I watched this music video on MTV back in latte-1981. I really could identify with the lyrics in the song, as it reminded me of the ghost towns of Youngstown, Ohio and nearby Warren, Ohio, when the steel mills closed in 1977. The music in the song and music video was also great. unlike anything else on the radio in the US at that time.

[@echopryme]

If these two heard "Mirror in the Bathroom" by The Beat... 😎

[@adamweston4152]

I totally agree!😉

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

That’s the one.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

@@adamweston4152 the English Beat. Mirror in the Bathroom. Just the best.

[@adamweston4152]

@@Hartlor_Tayley the best of all the two tone bands in my book.

[@erict956]

@@Hartlor_Tayley here in the UK they were just known as The Beat the had to add the English part for the US as there was already a band called The Beat over the pond. Oh and personally I loved myself a bit of The Selector - On My Radio, Train to Skaville and others.

[@joannedwyer3595]

Thàtcher the milk snatcher brought britain to its knees when this song came out

[@alanandrews8098]

This is the epitome of Thatcher's britain. Massive job losses and urban decline. The Specials were one of the leading political groups at the time. One of the best songs of the 80s.

[@2opler]

Originally the ``Coventry Automatics` from my home town Coventry. I remember when they worked in the Virgin record store. I knew Horace the bass player years back. The song is about Coventry, a car building `boom town` that had mass unemployment in the late `70s. Turned into a `Ghost town` Going to town on a saturday night for fight was what a lot of bored kids did. It happened in Detroit in the US too. Race relations were terrible at the time. The Specials did a lot to unite people., Formed in 1977 ( i was sixteen).Terry Hall and Neville Staple on vocals, Lynval Golding and Roddy Radiation on guitars, Horace Panter on bass, Jerry Dammers on keyboards, John Bradbury on drums, and Dick Cuthell and Rico Rodriguez on horns. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude". Lyrically, they present a "more focused and informed political and social stance" The Selecter are another Coventry 2tone band. `On my radio` is on youtube. And the old city is doing ok again now.

[@TimoVERSION]

What a gentleman, Horace, at least on the bass!

[@2opler]

@@TimoVERSION Horace,lovely bloke I saw him play with the Mosquitos a couple of times after the Specials

[@itsweetabixday7550]

Specials led the harder edge of the UK Ska revival back in the day- written about the devastation in their home town of the 1980s economic crash. Brilliant

[@Wesker1984]

Three of these guys split off to form The Fun Boy Three and helped to introduce Bananarama to the world lol. Really Saying Something It Aint What You Do (It's The Way That You Do It) The Lunatics

[@Isleofskye]

I did not know the Fun Boy 3 connection, Richard !

[@baylessnow]

Bananarama were already known artists by the time they made a record with 'the fun boy 3'. Bananarama started in 1980 and made a few records with TFB3 in 1982.

[@seanjonesy180]

@@baylessnow it's not a particularly fascinating debate to have BUT Bananarama had only released one single before their colab with FB3 which charted around 90 in the UK charts so they weren't very well known tbh

[@stasmarine1638]

Diana Ankudinova is a young performer who shocks us with her pleasant voice and takes us into the abyss of events!!! Diana Ankudinova is unique and inimitable, goosebumps from her voice!=)))) Diana sings as if she lives in the song! The soul freezes or opens with Diana's voice.=))))))) I am a musician who has been with music for years, and believe me, I have not heard such a tone in all these past years.

[@user-xz2px9xs6r]

Diana is gorgeous!!! )))

[@jacklynazure689]

The video was filmed in London. The early 1980s was tough in the UK. RIP Rico Rodriguez ( played the trombone) and Terry Hall😢

[@SkrillzDon]

I’ve seen a few reactions to this but this one is my favourite. U too would fit right in at a uk dance. Big up!

[@harripalomaki8796]

Hey, if you like the voice of that "white boy", here's a hot tip for you: Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed. The same guy with a couple of his mates from the Specials.

[@SpikeMatthews]

1st single I ever bought. You need to listen to Too Much Too Young (live) next.

[@waynegibbons339]

Snap got madness 7 on lp with it

[@AnyangU]

The Specials are awesome. Feel free to listen to more!

[@baconrasher6650]

I love that you both love the SKA Music! You both get proper into the music, representing the UK Scene how it’s supposed to be! 👏🏻👏🏻❤️🥓🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@happymethehappyone8300]

Welcome To The World Of "Ska" Music.

[@lisacorbett7502]

Wow!! I haven't heard this in years! Awesome!

[@f-wingkingunclejohn6199]

The Specials were special back in the 80s when I was a Two-tone skinhead Rudeboy. Times were tough then but the music and culture got us through it.

[@krs181067]

Too much too young, gangsters, all great tunes

[@Albert64]

This song wonderfully sums up the despair of the young in the summer of 1981. This was number one when the royal wedding occurred (Prince Charles & Lady Diana) at the same time there was a recession and riots going on in most towns and cities particularly Toxteth (Liverpool) and Brixton (London).

[@Isleofskye]

Real UK English fan here and a London one and a South London one and a South East London one and this was filmed 3 miles from where I used to live in The Rotherhithe Tunnel in S E London in The 1980s though the band are from Coventry in County of Warwickshire in The West Midlands in the heart of England. Unbelievably (from this video) the street scenes you saw originally (well the Lady saw after introducing us, proudly, to her nails (haha ) ) , were filmed in, possibly, the richest square mile in The World: !!! that is The City Of London but they closed it for this video @ 5am before the Commuters arrived in THe Financial Centre like your "Wall Street" lol

[@danielrhodes7550]

Literally what London was no jobs but luckily I’m became a cab driver, I lived in Battersea, Wandsworth in London, and we was the borough that had the worse economy, it was a shithole in battersea where I lived

[@Isleofskye]

It was great up to around 1983 when I moved just 10 miles to the edge to THe S E London/Kent Suburbs where our street is full of London Cabbies :) By 1983 I saw " a' change a 'coming" and that prompted the move though my heart will always be there as I lived over a busy market and had The Walworth Road on top of me and THe Old Kent Road at the other end. When I walked from Clapham Junction to Battersea High Street 4 years ago I was within a whisker of being mugged by 3 boys on bikes but turned around just in time on the pavement and I heard the nearest one kiss his teeth...

[@danielrhodes7550]

@@Isleofskye yeah there’s a local gang in Battersea now called 37/OJB, there located on the Winstanley Estate that’s just in front of Clapham Junction

[@fullcircle3357]

My old stomping ground

[@Isleofskye]

Thanks, M8 Lovely :( To think I could walk home around 1972 from nearby Brixton/Peckham@ 4am on my own without a care :)

[@TimoVERSION]

Now we're talking. The Brits lived in closer quarters to West Indian immigrants than we did, and so were quicker to mix calypso/ska/reggae/dub into the popular culture. The culture was racist as fuck, but the younger generations didn't have time for that. In the 60's they were deep into Motown, followed soul and funk, and were into reggae long before Americans were. By the late 70's many English bands combined reggae and rock, most famously the Police. The Specials went back 10 years earlier than reggae to mine the ska/rude boy Jamaican styles of the 1960's. This one, though...this song was a little different. This wasn't a sharp-dressed skank. These guys have seen their city, their life history, their country sink into economic gloom, and the party is way over. Despair, drugs, dub and dreams, with some weird carnival shit for nightmare/British effect. And it must have captured something a lot of people recognized, because it was a hit: number one in England for several weeks, and making quite an impact. But if you're interested, there's quite a slew of rather great bands from England during this time whose roll was equally reggae/dub and rock. The Police have their merits, but they weren't the best, and you can tell just by listening to this that here was some deeper shit going on in England then. Cheers!

[@breandanmaguire3335]

Great post

[@isotobex5703]

the truth right here

[@OblivionGate]

Is this channel turning into a British music channel... Everything you do seems to be British!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 Not that I'm complaining, I'm from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@davidsavage6910]

The Specials live with Amy Winehouse is classic

[@johnriley7312]

The song refers to the riots that happened in Liverpool, Brixton and Bristol in the UK in 1981

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

Not quite true. It was written and recorded before the ‘81 riots. It references the 1980s riots as well as the supposedly urban decay the group witnessed on their 1980 tour.

[@kingquinn3897]

@@normandavidtidiman9918 It is neither! This song was written in Coventry by a Coventry group about Coventry. The deterioration from a boom town in the 60's to the Thatcher era!

[@normandavidtidiman9918]

@@kingquinn3897 Not so.

[@stevewebster5219]

Fight Fight Fight Fight

[@nobbycheeseman2915]

“Britain was falling apart,” said Dammers. “The car industry was closing down in Coventry. We were touring, so we saw a lot of it. Glasgow were particularly bad.” In Liverpool he saw shops closing down, more beggars on the streets, little old ladies selling their cups and saucers on tables outside their homes and he started to see the frustration and anger in the young faces of those who came out to see his band. He felt that there was something very, very wrong affecting the country. “The overall sense I wanted to convey was impending doom. There were weird, diminished chords: certain members of the band resented the song and wanted the simple chords they were used to playing on the first album, It’s hard to explain how powerful it sounded. We had almost been written off and then ‘Ghost Town’ came out of the blue.” The genesis of the song started back in 1980, after Dammers had witnessed the St Pauls riots in Bristol. For most of the 1970s, St Pauls - a predominantly black and white working-class area - had been the victim of deteriorating housing, poor education services and an increasingly strong police presence. Racial tension was high, as the Afro-Caribbean community felt victimised. Although the exact cause remains unclear, in early April, a riot erupted, involving nearly 2,000 people. It was this event that started Dammers thinking of “Ghost Town”, a song that would go on to define him, his band, and two-tone in general. from a GQ magazine article.

[@Adonnisjamalspage]

3:05 when you're like WTF but everybody else is vibing out so you pretend like you still vibing out. 😂🤣

[@valiantv2897]

RIP the great Terry Hall

[@rokit430]

❤

[@madambutterfly4352]

So proud of my countries diversity so much talent we wouldn't have it any other way🙏 blessing from the UK 🙏 this was about the loss of employment in the 80s when our towns lost everything...

[@NRTSean]

This was about Britain, particularly the Midlands and Coventry .. Living at this time... The Midlands and The North suffered and many peop0le had to move South to work... I was one of those that did

[@stephenpowell5912]

Economic ressession was what this was about during the 1970s into the 1980s ,A Classic from 1981 the SKA gen aka The Specials 🤣🤟🎸🎚️🥁

[@a13xxgrey12]

Hello, I would like to see your reaction to the performances of Diana Ankudinova. Her amazing voice surprises everyone, she performed covers of the famous songs "Wicked Game", "Human", "Havana","Take on Me". She also has her own songs "Into the sky" (В небо), "Your Voice" (Голосом твоим), "Happiness" (Счастье).

[@user-xz2px9xs6r]

Diana is incredible! )))

[@stasmarine1638]

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[@alanstrom2221]

I recommend that people listen to "The Boiler" by Rhoda Dakar & The Specials. It's about a woman who knows she's not much to look at, she calls herself an old Boiler several times during the song. Rhoda describes how a man chats her up, buys her new clothes and takes her to a Nightclub. He insists that she stay the night at his place, she resists, then gives in to his demands, he then drags her along at a brutal pace up a lane way. It's then that Rhoda Dakar gives one of the more convincing vocal performances in music history. If there was an award category, then she would win it. She paints a picture that I don't want to visualise.

[@clarenceflam]

The accent is a mix of Jamaican and English. There was a large influx of Jamaicans in the 1950s called the windrush generation.

[@marcharley6465]

Most of The Specials' songs were sung by the white vocalist (Terry Hall). If you like the vocals on this one, which was sung by Neville Staple, check out their song "Do nothing".

[@jeffcandy2479]

It makes me so happy to see kids enjoying the same music we enjoyed in that magic era (77-84)

[@thesound-chameleonman3580]

I have the vinyl sleeve of Ghost Town signed by 3 original members of The Specials!

[@robertogreen8769]

This was filmed on a Sunday in the " City of London " the financial district of London. At the weekend the place is practically empty, whereas during the week is packed with office workers.

[@goldenvas]

The rock steady reggae and ska music scene in the UK back in 70s and 80 was big. The Clash were heavily influenced also. Rudy, a message to you is the original title of this tune first recorded back in 1967 and sung by Dandy Livingston. It would be awesome if you went into some original Jamaican reggae of the late 60s and 70s. The rock-steady style of Jamaican reggae and Ska has influenced all music scenes on a global scale and it is only fair someone would pay homage to this great musical genre.

[@howardkrumholtz285]

R.I.P. Terry Hall

[@grantchristy1946]

It was a bad time for working class kids like us but we were united in music.

[@jacklancaster8622]

Madness the happy Mondays similar Vibe

[@johnbanjo5772]

UK Specials fan here.The 2 tone/ska scene in the late 70s/early 80s was a great time and place for music.You've checked out The Specials and Madness,you need to hear Mirror in the bathroom by The Beat or Lip up fatty by Bad Manners now.

[@rog2849]

2 tone legends reached number one 1981 40 years later still relevant today

[@alankilbey68]

Hello from London 🖐️... love the channel ❤️

[@bonolover360]

Rest in peace Terry

[@Govanmauler]

Thatchers Britain summarised in one bad ass song , anthemic

[@sean3691]

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[@sean3691]

Thatchers britain in a nut shell.

[@danielw5850]

The pain, in music, of the world’s 1st industrial society becoming the world’s 1st post-industrial society. The music stands as an emblem of that time; Britain changed, for better or worse.

[@michaelzwiek4608]

Thatcher's Britain? How wrong you are. Recorded in early 81. After years of decline, the country elected Thatcher in 1979 and thankfully she turned the country around. Maybe you didn't live through the dark days of the 70s?

[@SNLL811]

Big up two tone ska an Coventry an all of the midlands, big tune

[@portland-182]

You might like to try 'The Beat' - known in the US as 'The English Beat' - 'Mirror in the Bathroom, Ranking Full Stop, Tears of a Clown, Hands Off...She's Mine

[@notamused3715]

Yes, they were brilliant too! R.I.P. Rankin' Roger!

[@christhornycroft3686]

Don’t mind me, just rockin’ out to you guys and a little Temptations - The Way you do the things you do.

[@octaviussludberry9016]

2 black guys in the band - Neville Staple and Lynval Golding.

[@youcefbela9023]

And now, The specials - Rat race!

[@bigcolappleton]

Britain in the early 1980’s was in areal mess and this song summed up how the youth felt about state of play, it’s a real shame to say that Britain in 2023 is in the same mess and this song is as relevant now as air was then !!

[@martyp8941]

This tune is about the city I'm from, Coventry!

[@nealwillis4361]

Basically described what was going on in every industrial town in the U.K. at the time . All the factories been closed bad times produce great music.

[@creativitycell]

Ghost Town was a city called Coventry in 1980s Britain......no jobs, record unemployment, crime, grey, drab, depressing......rough clubs.....not much has changed, was there for one night in the 1990s...... couldn't believe how grim n dark it was.

[@michaelwyatt5482]

Great reaction. Still rocking the two tone sound. Much love from the U.K..

[@KevinPugh-bk1bv]

Coventry UK 1979, the whole economy had collapsed . . . The centre of the city was empty after 6pm . . . A ghost town.

[@bobly]

Ghost Town by The Specials it had to do with the recession, riots, unemployment and violence in inner city areas that what the song means. Troubled times in the UK in 1981

[@echopryme]

HELL YEAH!!!! 😎😎😎😎

[@michaelthibault6106]

Saw them live a couple years ago, still got that rock-steady groove.

[@StonefieldJim4]

Context: early 80s Britain; economically devastated; racism at every corner; the UK ska revival was also part of a multi-ethnic reaction TO that racism, to the cynicism that was blighting this beleaguered nation of ours. Darkness and light. Repression and freedom. Masterpiece. And it was a MASSIVE hit. R.I.P. Terry Hall.

[@ChelseaPensioner-DJW]

Funny that people equate nightclubs closing to the recession, when it states in the song, 'to much fighting on the dance floor', not saying that there wasn't a recession, I just don't blame everything on it. I live in Leeds, but at the time went all over the country and the violence that they're singing about had by that time become endemic. It had begun in the early 70s reaching it's peak in the mid to late 80s.

[@inyourfacespacecoyote1061]

First time I’ve ever posted a st George. Just cos, the specials 🤘

[@philboyce1582]

Band from Coventry video filmed in London.....great tune 👍

[@claymor8241]

Some of the accents on that song are Caribbean (Jamaican).

[@wcsxwcsx]

A great, atmospheric song. If you can, listen to the full 12" version with the trombone solo.

[@brianlumsdon]

a flute as lead, we are cool

[@joecaruso9990]

Yes, 2nd wave ska!!

[@paularmstrong6435]

Great review..I've been to see the specials..they were great..sadly the singer terry Hall (white lad)..passed away..two tone was a black/white kids movement..ska/punk in the late 70s early 80s..and the specials were the best..thanks for the KZbin video really enjoyed your reaction ❤

[@ronturner9850]

‘Too Much Too Young’ please!!

[@gvsmith63]

perfect pandemic song

[@Wrangzilla]

Y’all need to watch the movies “Snatch” and then “Lock, Stock, and 2 Smoking Barrels” if y’all like this. Epic movies...

[@TheFrem1]

Welcome to the UK in the late 1970's, No jobs, Poor housing and Social unrest, This track by The Specials just told it how it was back then, A really dreay place to live, Especially for me as a teenager back then.

[@TaSwavo]

A very same time as punk thing, the ska movement so speaking of the result of the 70s but very much in the early 80s. Started in 78-9 but was an early 80s thing. Ska was the mod/reggae choice for many and the alternative was rock (and harder rock) that had started early 70s but got wider in late 70s

[@creativitycell]

Friend of mine knows Terry Hall (white co- lead singer), he's struggling with mental health issues.....hope he get well soon. The Specials did a lot of positive social good for race relations in 1980s Britain.

[@badtzmarutattoo]

So random! I love that you guys are discovering all this British 2Tone Ska!!

[@heatherconley6944]

not from the UK but have loved the Specials since I was a teen in the 80's!

[@OblivionGate]

The Specials are from Coventry in England and the last time I heard England IS in the UK. Formed in 1977 in Coventry. Where the fuk did you get your info from???!!

[@winnywin]

@@OblivionGate I think Heather was saying that she's not from the UK.

[@meatfruit1123]

@@OblivionGate calm down chief, think she was saying she’s not from the uk , not the specials

[@heatherconley6944]

@@OblivionGate apologies, that could have been more clear. should have read, "I am not from the UK" certainly didn't mean to offend, was just saying I love the Specials too. and am well aware that they ARE from the UK! cheers! (also, why so aggro? seems a bit much, especially for this channel which is consistently the opposite of that)

[@heatherconley6944]

@@winnywin yup, and thanks! appreciate you!

[@TheSpikehere]

"Ghost Town" was to us Limeys, what "Strange Fruit" was to the U.S.

[@hawklord100]

The Two Tone sound, some great bands came out with some great sounds

[@michalbotek]

Great. Now I want to watch Snatch. Thx for the reaction.

[@vernonrabbetts]

So many early 80's songs from Britain were seriously political, but you could still dance to it. Guns of Navarrone and Too Much Too Young next...

[@michaelstarr7717]

At this point I'm sure people have already told you that a Ghost Town has nothing to do with Ghosts! It's an abandoned town!

[@natashahibbit326]

The specials, from my home county! Apparently They had a massive, positive impact on local race relations back in the day.