This concert took place the same week the band released their third and last studio album, "Special Beat Service," so it has a few songs from that. But the songs are pretty much evenly split between their three albums, making this a good live best of collection.
As usual with the BBC, the sound quality is excellent. The only editing I had to do was remove some BBC DJ talking between songs a couple of times.
This album is 47 minutes long.
01 Big Shot (English Beat)
02 Doors of Your Heart (English Beat)
03 talk (English Beat)
04 Jeanette (English Beat)
05 talk (English Beat)
06 I Confess (English Beat)
07 Spar Wid Me (English Beat)
08 talk (English Beat)
09 Get a Job - Stand Down Margaret (English Beat)
10 Tears of a Clown (English Beat)
11 Drowning (English Beat)
12 Twist and Crawl (English Beat)
13 Walk Away (English Beat)
14 talk (English Beat)
15 Save It for Later (English Beat)
16 Ranking Full Stop (English Beat)
17 Mirror in the Bathroom (English Beat)
The cover photo is from an appearance on the US TV show "American Bandstand" near the end of 1982. Only five of the seven band members are pictured.
Thank you, really, for all the great music from The (English) Beat you posted. I think they were the best Ska band ever, skilled, original and on an evolution path - if one could ever talk of 'Progressive Ska', they were it.
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