RHODA DAKAR & THE SPECIAL AKA - THE BOILER - THEME FROM THE BOILER

RHODA DAKAR & THE SPECIAL AKA - A SIDE - THE BOILER - B SIDE - THEME FROM THE BOILER.
2 TONE - CHSTT 18 - JAN - 1982 - CHART POSITION - 35

[@NormAppleton]

I always called it "the grooviest nightmare you will ever hear" Had it on 7 inch 45, was also the first to digitize it and upload to Napster way back in 1999

[@kimgayler1478]

OMG.How me and my Uni pals played this record time after time after time

[@ste52s]

Bought it played it once and never played it again. Great musicianship and compelling vocal but disturbing as hell. I can't think of any other song that ever unsettled me so much as this and I still can't listen to it even now 30 years later.

[@OutOnTheTiles]

I agree. There is an instrumental version which I love.

[@dilzappa]

Rhoda Dakar (Rode a Car,get it) from The Body Snatchers.Features an uncredited trumptet from Miles Davis.

[@steveaston516]

aint it funny some of the fantastic tracks that slip your mind over the years, i had completely forgotten about this one and how brilliant it is.... big up, ska2tone1 this is just the best....

[@vganner]

Just heard it for the first time. Like a sledgehammer even though I knew it was coming

[@TONEBHURT]

THE LEGEND & THE TRUE . . .

[@garygosse6786]

best ska band ever

[@johnmckeen60]

it's good that all the s.k.a bands are still going the slecter put out subculture we need the our bands to do the same.

[@MrLocolaca67]

Pura crema ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡

[@sofiadorrell99]

this is so important

[@DistantCousin]

I found out about this song after reading Jo Brand's autobiography "Can't Stand Up For Sitting Down" :-)

[@ska2tone1]

oh yes def agree g parker

[@lennyw99]

Harrowingly beautiful. See 2 Tone wasn't all lighthearted ska tunes

[@SuperChapple]

great political music from my era

[@ska2tone1]

cheers steve aston

[@Raidercat3]

Greatest 2 Ska songs with Ghost Town... ever made

[@ska2tone1]

oh didnt know that

[@JWC-AirWalker]

Milo and WHFS.

[@dawnydoodah]

I never understood the point this track was trying to make, I listened to it once, just like someone said in the comments below, and couldn't bring myself to listen again until today... and it's still just as disturbing.

[@shack7631]

The story is of date rape, which unfortunately is all too common. The producer of the record, Jerry Dammers, himself called it a listen only once record. It was also released at a time when some judges were making some very disturbing comments about rape victims such as 'you shouldn't have been wearing that (dress)'.

[@sunny70299]

​@shack7631 Must have been hard and very triggering for Terry Hall to listen to Rhoda perform this song on stage every night on tour. It never would have accoured to Jerry that one of his own bandmates might be a rape survivor which tells it's own unfortunate story about the ignorance around rape at the time (and still now) even today it's still defined by most as something that women experience.

[@ska2tone1]

yes i know Sophie Johnstone its very disturbing

[@maldororfiend]

Great track, but electronic drums ruin it and the vocals are too high in the mix. Prefer the instrumental version.

[@ska2tone1]

there still going chris - just not as good lol