(Ska, Reggae) [LP] [24/96] The Specials - More Specials - 1980, FLAC (image+.cue)

Personnel
Terry Hall - vocals
Lynval Golding - vocals, guitar
Neville Staple - vocals, percussion
Jerry Dammers - organ, piano, keyboards, producer
Roddy Byers - guitar
Sir Horace Gentleman - bass guitar
John Bradbury - drums, producer of one track
Rico Rodriguez - trombone
Dick Cuthell - cornet, flugelhorn, horn
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Kix Thompson (Madness) - saxaphone
Paul Heskett (Swinging Cats) - saxaphone
Rhoda Dakar (Bodysnatchers) - vocals
Belinda, Charlotte and Jane (The Go'Go's) - background vocals
Dave Jordan - producer, engineer
Jeremy (The Blade) Allom - engineer
Chalkie Davies & Carol Starr - cover photos & artwork
Rick, Sarah, Pat, Rob, Pete - special thanks to
Released: October 1980
Recorded: Horizon Studios, Coventry, Summer 1980
Mixed: Wessex Studios, London
A Jerry Dammers and Dave Jordan Production.
from wiki:
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 includes
collaborations with The Go-Go's members Belinda Carlisle, Charlotte Caffey, and Jane Wiedlin; Rhoda Dakar
from The Bodysnatchers; and Lee Jay 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 #89 on Billboard Music Chart's (US) Club Play Singles chart, while the album
as a whole hit #98 on Billboards Pop 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.