I'm 53..was bang into 2 tone as a teenager...The Selecter are still one of the very best bands I've ever seen live.Pauline and Gaps still rock any venue..Missing Words..Too Much Pressure..as relevant in 2022 as it was in the early 80's...The best ska band bar none..and that is no disrespect to the wonderful Specials..both bands resonated with a council estate kid from Essex..
Hammersmith Odeon, saw them open for Ian Dury and the Blockheads, I yelled out "hit me with your rhythm stick... when everyone else was quietly waiting for the concert... differences between a concert in the USA and English scenes I guess... everyone looked at me like I was nuts and scowled and Dury even said something like.. Is this going to be an issue... I swear to GOD! I was like is this the royal Philharmonic here? I never felt so out of place...
Saw the Selecter live in 2004. They were excellent. Pauline said at the gig this was her favourite Selecter song.Remember drunkenly asking for her autograph and she told me to buy it on e-bay. Then she laughed and signed my flier. Great gig and my favourite band on the 80's
I was a young teenager when 2Tone broke. I loved the Selecter and the Specials and have never stopped loving their songs and the image. I liked Madness, the Beat and Bad Manners too, but not to this extent. Always wanted a fender bass like Charley’s. A few years ago I started a ska cover band and we were fortunate enough to play gigs at the Hootananny, including support slots to Pauline Black one night and Bad Manners another.
The greatest thing about Ska and Two Tone is the people like us! I'm 41 and I have a apprentice with me in work and his life has been transformed by my massive collection of awesome Two Tone music on the I Phone that I play through the stereo in the van.........He's like a kid in a sweet shop! lol
1981 for me. Had never heard of Ska until someone played the "Dance Craze" album at a party (piss up). I'm in my 60's now and still singing along with all the tracks. Had it on vinyl, then cassette, then CD. It's now on my 'Puter as a WAV file. Cheers Brutha!!!
@@s.e.wagger3888 You may have been listening to SKA Music long B4 you realize. Millie Smalls version of My Boy Lollipop '63 and Desmond Decker's Israelites. But I did get to see the movie Dance Craze in a theater at a midnight showing. When have you ever seen people dancing in the movie theater.? Over the years I have become friends with English Beat and Bad Manners. I'll fill you in if you want. The 2tone scene in NYC was great. Toasters, Urban Blight and so many others. I highly recommend a band out of the Boston area called Bim Skala Bim. I got lots of stories about SKA, even met the Satellites after seeing them in concert. Look for mixed SKA CD's, one I picked up is called SKA for SKA's sake, great mix. The O. C. Supertones are great too. So put on your dancing shoes and Lip Up Fatty!!!
Anyone heard of Leicestershire Lumpy and the ska beat. I was in a new relationship in 1999 with a Portuguese keyboardist who joined this couples new band, they might have been from Anstey. They were playing around UK. Think we're 5 altogether.
Best thing about ska and two-tone is that it doesn't age. My stepdad brought me up on ska so I'm a 23 year old girl begging for concert tickets every christmas for The Specials, The Selector, Madness, The Beat and Bad Manners. Last year I got The Specials. This year I got The Selector. Just one week to wait to see these guys! (again!)
steamsearcher She used to come into Warwick Uni and watch the bands while I was there. She always seemed friendly and down to earth. Lovely indeed to revisit old memories.
A lovely walk out from Coventry even to a strange building!! A friend as desperate as me called it a cattle market as you could look down on girls from above!!!!
I had the great privilege of meeting Pauline Black last year, being a support band where she was playing. Really down to earth and friendly lady who commented on how cool my beard is!
first single I ever bought, i have been taken back in time by listening to this, still got it superb band great times and still wish i kept my vespa!! thanks for sharing this vid!
Saw them in NYC (guessing 1979 maybe 1980 age 16) at a small venue around 42nd street. A nerd friend got the tickets, I had never heard them before, that was a great concert! I was at the stage looking up at Pauline rock out. Got to love chicks who can dance and rock! Too bad they didn't stay around long at the time. I doubt I'd like them now that they are old and I want to keep those youth memories alive. BTW great video at a time when most bands made crap vidoes! Thanks for sharing it with us.
I met Pauline quite a few years ago, lovely woman, She never seems to have aged since the 1970’s, I asked if She would sign an album for Me, and She was more to happy too.
I saw her not too long ago in concert. A guy in the audience shouted to her 'come on darling'. Without missing a beat she said 'Don't call me darling with ears like that.' He did look like a wingnut hahahahahahaha.. Yep and she still has it :)
why dont you get great music like this anymore, and great bands, glad I was a teen when all this was happening, nowadays its all Simon Cowell acts and boybands, perhaps the late 70s/80s were the last era for proper music.
I was wondering why I never saw this on MTV, then I realized it was an all black group with a token white guy and MTV didn't air black artist for its first few years. Great song!
saw them live and they were fucking fantastic, they had the place jumping. pauline sighned a flyer for me and i still have it, what a warm and decent human being she is.
Great comment Leah - and it's refreshing to see someone so young appreciates decent music and isn't allowing themselves to become brainwashed by the media into believing dross such as JLS, Bieber, etc. are muscially talented.
I got a chance to hang out with Paul Black after she played Ska parade in Riverside she has to be one of the chillest peeps out there. Getting to party with made me love this band so much more. Fucking amazing music!
you are right to look up to pauline she is very very bright and did fabulously and was much admired across the board in a time where men were still largely in power. as weel great voice great band.
Jezzus, missing this in.2020, no original music really since 70s 80s, 90's Pushing on, 40+ yrs later hip hop/ rap is old, too old And destructive. Sorry, not sorry ! Love you Ms. Black & company. 🇯🇲
That's really funny, as soon as this song came on, I was tapping my feet then I saw your comment , I was really into Two Tone, I'm 45 now, it was a great label
I'm 53..was bang into 2 tone as a teenager...The Selecter are still one of the very best bands I've ever seen live.Pauline and Gaps still rock any venue..Missing Words..Too Much Pressure..as relevant in 2022 as it was in the early 80's...The best ska band bar none..and that is no disrespect to the wonderful Specials..both bands resonated with a council estate kid from Essex..
Hammersmith Odeon, saw them open for Ian Dury and the Blockheads, I yelled out "hit me with your rhythm stick... when everyone else was quietly waiting for the concert... differences between a concert in the USA and English scenes I guess... everyone looked at me like I was nuts and scowled and Dury even said something like.. Is this going to be an issue... I swear to GOD! I was like is this the royal Philharmonic here? I never felt so out of place...
Saw the Selecter live in 2004. They were excellent. Pauline said at the gig this was her favourite Selecter song.Remember drunkenly asking for her autograph and she told me to buy it on e-bay. Then she laughed and signed my flier. Great gig and my favourite band on the 80's
I was a young teenager when 2Tone broke. I loved the Selecter and the Specials and have never stopped loving their songs and the image. I liked Madness, the Beat and Bad Manners too, but not to this extent. Always wanted a fender bass like Charley’s. A few years ago I started a ska cover band and we were fortunate enough to play gigs at the Hootananny, including support slots to Pauline Black one night and Bad Manners another.
Mate my daughter is 10 and shes a massive Ska and Two Tone Fan, brings a tear to my eye sniff!!! Proper skankin !!!!
She still into Ska?
Good man x
That's a beautiful thing mate. My 14 yo daughter is into the smiths but also loves Elvis Costello.
You raised her properly
63 years of age, still dancing to this music, the best ever, and what a beautiful woman, Pauline was....
Big the Selecter! Love you
I remember being in high school in the late 90's and discovering the infectious sound of 2-Tone. My life changed after that.
Pure class,SKA will never die.
I have had this on the car for the past two weeks! great in the sunshine with the windows down,
yours truly, a child of the eighties!!
Can’t believe she is 67 just saw her on tv looks great!
The greatest thing about Ska and Two Tone is the people like us! I'm 41 and I have a apprentice with me in work and his life has been transformed by my massive collection of awesome Two Tone music on the I Phone that I play through the stereo in the van.........He's like a kid in a sweet shop! lol
It's 2020 now and I have been into Selecter for 40+yrs . Still Great.😎📻🎷🎹🎸🎺🎤🎵
1981 for me. Had never heard of Ska until someone played the "Dance Craze" album at a party (piss up). I'm in my 60's now and still singing along with all the tracks. Had it on vinyl, then cassette, then CD. It's now on my 'Puter as a WAV file. Cheers Brutha!!!
@@s.e.wagger3888 You may have been listening to SKA Music long B4 you realize. Millie Smalls version of My Boy Lollipop '63 and Desmond Decker's Israelites. But I did get to see the movie Dance Craze in a theater at a midnight showing. When have you ever seen people dancing in the movie theater.? Over the years I have become friends with English Beat and Bad Manners. I'll fill you in if you want. The 2tone scene in NYC was great. Toasters, Urban Blight and so many others. I highly recommend a band out of the Boston area called Bim Skala Bim. I got lots of stories about SKA, even met the Satellites after seeing them in concert. Look for mixed SKA CD's, one I picked up is called SKA for SKA's sake, great mix. The O. C. Supertones are great too. So put on your dancing shoes and Lip Up Fatty!!!
Quality tune. LOVE The Selecter! Loved this era. I was only 7-8, big brother had the music. I listened to it over and over again.
My favourite Selecter song, wish we could go back to the eighties, best decade❤
Such a deep and moving song. Do we all read between the lines when we enjoy this masterpiece?
I was there when it happened, On my radio truly rocked my world.
Anyone heard of Leicestershire Lumpy and the ska beat. I was in a new relationship in 1999 with a Portuguese keyboardist who joined this couples new band, they might have been from Anstey. They were playing around UK. Think we're 5 altogether.
The legend that is Pauline Black & SELECTER .... "Missing words" classic 😎✌️.
Best thing about ska and two-tone is that it doesn't age.
My stepdad brought me up on ska so I'm a 23 year old girl begging for concert tickets every christmas for The Specials, The Selector, Madness, The Beat and Bad Manners.
Last year I got The Specials. This year I got The Selector.
Just one week to wait to see these guys! (again!)
Bought the vinyl for well under a pound when first
released,still got it,what a brilliant record a timeless classic.
Awesome tune by an awesome band!!
An absolute classic!
Love this song.
great tune back in the day, still listen to at least a couple times every week
Love The Selecter. Since the 80's when I first heard them and up till recently when they played live in my town. Ska'd for life, keep it up xx
I last saw bad manners live in 1982 I was 14 and hogmanay 2017 I'm seeing them again live 37 years have past I'm now 50 years old and can't wait
Ah my Pauline crush way back then, a band that I feel was never given enough kudos as to how well they played that SKa
Pauline was the deal! Fck gwen stefanie. Not even in the same galaxy.
Drop Dead Gorgeous! The song,band,and front woman! Pauline!!!!!
@@lawrencefeldman7744 When music was music.
Great song! Takes me back to the days of discos at the youth club: loafers, fred perry shirts and braces lol :)
Happy days but hard times
the drummer in this band is amazing!
Pauline was in our year at the Poly and was at an early concert with the Specials.
Lovely to revisit old memories!!!
David.
steamsearcher She used to come into Warwick Uni and watch the bands while I was there. She always seemed friendly and down to earth. Lovely indeed to revisit old memories.
A lovely walk out from Coventry even to a strange building!! A friend as desperate as me called it a cattle market as you could look down on girls from above!!!!
Great Raw Sound! this is giving me goose bumps and send me back in time! Pauline Black you legend.
Really and truly, one of the best songs of the 1980s.
They dont make music like this anymore.
Thats very sad.
This song rocks.
13 seconds in and my head is nodding already, great times, great band , where are my tonics?
Well...maybe the best ska-song forever.Classic.Brings back so much memories 1981....
Pauline Black, amazing...best two-tone band ever
I had the great privilege of meeting Pauline Black last year, being a support band where she was playing. Really down to earth and friendly lady who commented on how cool my beard is!
OMG I Love this band... great style guide video too!
first single I ever bought, i have been taken back in time by listening to this, still got it superb band great times and still wish i kept my vespa!! thanks for sharing this vid!
classy song from the great ska period xx
I saw Pauline last year in Brisbane. She looks better now than then and she rocked!
Magnífico video, grupo, cantante, canción... Qué tiempos aquellos
Saw them in NYC (guessing 1979 maybe 1980 age 16) at a small venue around 42nd street. A nerd friend got the tickets, I had never heard them before, that was a great concert! I was at the stage looking up at Pauline rock out. Got to love chicks who can dance and rock! Too bad they didn't stay around long at the time. I doubt I'd like them now that they are old and I want to keep those youth memories alive. BTW great video at a time when most bands made crap vidoes! Thanks for sharing it with us.
love grace jones, love the selecter, what a great idea my freind.
What a song, I saw these back in the mid 90's
Amazing.
I met Pauline quite a few years ago, lovely woman, She never seems to have aged since the 1970’s, I asked if She would sign an album for Me, and She was more to happy too.
the drummer in this band was one of the best ever
I saw her not too long ago in concert. A guy in the audience shouted to her 'come on darling'. Without missing a beat she said 'Don't call me darling with ears like that.' He did look like a wingnut hahahahahahaha.. Yep and she still has it :)
why dont you get great music like this anymore, and great bands, glad I was a teen when all this was happening, nowadays its all Simon Cowell acts and boybands, perhaps the late 70s/80s were the last era for proper music.
I was wondering why I never saw this on MTV, then I realized it was an all black group with a token white guy and MTV didn't air black artist for its first few years. Great song!
Brilliant Video
Bless Up Star
Great and underappreciated band.
It's all about sharing the love. Well done, and keep banging the tunes out to the next generation.
saw them live and they were fucking fantastic, they had the place jumping. pauline sighned a flyer for me and i still have it, what a warm and decent human being she is.
now this is some very cool music...
the selector were great i remember them back when i was in comprehenshive school between sept 79-may 82.great songs.
We danced and had our day in the sun that's something they can't take away from us RUDE BOY FOREVER
Loved the Selector! Good memories! 💕
Awesome tuneage. Takes me back to when I was 15 sitting at home on my PC because noone I knew was into Ska :( Much better now, that im sitting...Ohhh
Super Ska raggae !! My memories of my summer school in London of 1990 ,I also discovered Fischer Z in those times .
I've been told they sound just as good live as they do here, now that's talent & a love 4 music 2 the fact they're still touring...
WOW!!!
Great comment Leah - and it's refreshing to see someone so young appreciates decent music and isn't allowing themselves to become brainwashed by the media into believing dross such as JLS, Bieber, etc. are muscially talented.
You are so right MrSteviedan, I can see her in my minds eye performing this!
Nice to see a line-up actually featuring Aitch on drums !
Too much Pressure 1980 album get it ... its fantastic. I have seen the Selecter 6 times since 1980 and they are fantastic
John Peel favourite, played often..👍
This is SO AWESOME! I can't believe I was 1 year old when this came out. :-P
Great memories!!
GR8 days, takes me back to good old west LONDON........
I enjoy this song
So do I
best translastion in french! les mots me manquent! vive le Ska!
Saw them in Bedford a couple of months ago. They've still got it you know. Tight.
I forgot how good this one is!
I hadn't heard of this. Now I'll definitely have to pick it up. Thanks!
Happy Birthday to Pauline! You rock! ❤️🌺✌🏻
I got a chance to hang out with Paul Black after she played Ska parade in Riverside she has to be one of the chillest peeps out there. Getting to party with made me love this band so much more. Fucking amazing music!
Coventry the new city of culture...about time too...Tunnnnnnne....XX :)
you are right to look up to pauline she is very very bright and did fabulously and was much admired across the board in a time where men were still largely in power. as weel great voice great band.
My first 2 tone CD was a Selecter one! I got into 2 tone in the late 90s.
I love Pauline Blacks vocals, such a great singer
neol is the coolest, and remains so, brilliant!!!!
I hadn't this heard this song for so long, I'd totally forgotten about it.
Fantastic though yeah?lol
It is still amazing today :)
this song comes from an era when music WAS music...great song....
very underestamated band
+Steve Mcniel how do you make that out..They hey had hit after hit and a tremendous following after many years touring xx
+Francis Goodall seen the specials 5 times selecter twice. specials were a class act. selecter were good. id like to see both these bands once more.
iiiiiiiii love it!!! the selecter play the best SKA!
Wow... My dad heard my Metal..so he challenged me with his ska... Im not disappointed :D
reminds me of when I was a kid, so soo pleased I got brought up with this...keep it going!
2:23!!!
Jezzus, missing this in.2020, no original music really since 70s 80s, 90's Pushing on, 40+ yrs later hip hop/ rap is old, too old And destructive. Sorry, not sorry ! Love you Ms. Black & company. 🇯🇲
A 5 días de que estén en la CDMX!💓💓💓💓
What a song!! proper rude boy!!
nice uplOad .... goOd classic music !!!
seen Pauline Black with the Neville Staples band in Nottingham last week..she even better and has hardly aged it seems...
love this song too! Brings back so much memories.....
That's really funny, as soon as this song came on, I was tapping my feet then I saw your comment , I was really into Two Tone, I'm 45 now, it was a great label
1979-1981 - 2-tone era. Best times ever!!
the drummer in this band was on of the best ever
my favorite band along with the specials and madness
fantastic 80's mixed tape staple.
1st album I bought,it's got a special place in my heart
best band of the whole 'ska revival' period.
Pauline black would definitely have been on the back of my lambretta jet 200 in 1980❤😎