Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Too much too young - Special AKA
2. Mirror in the bathroom - Beat (1)
3. Start - Jam
4. Special Brew - Bad Manners
5. On my radio - Selecter (1)
6. Time for action - Secret Affair
7. You really got me - Kinks
8. Hit me with your rhythm stick - Dury, Ian & The Blockheads
9. Geno - Dexys Midnight Runners
10. Skinhead moonstomp - Symarip
11. Let's do rocksteady - Bodysnatchers
12. Banana republic - Boomtown Rats
13. Paint it black - Mo-Dettes
14. Millions like us - Purple Hearts
15. Tainted love - Jones, Gloria
16. Papa's got a brand new pigbag - Pigbag
17. Israelites - Dekker, Desmond & The Aces

Disc 2:

1. One step beyond - Madness
2. Going underground - Jam
3. Lunatics have taken over the asylum - Fun Boy Three
4. Lip up fatty - Bad Manners
5. Uptown top ranking - Althea & Donna
6. Double barrel - Collins, Dave & Ansel
7. Greatest cockney rip off - Cockney Rejects
8. Mantovani - Swinging Cats
9. Maybe tomorrow - Chords (2)
10. You need wheels - Merton Parkas
11. My world - Secret Affair
12. Feelings gone - Apollinaires
13. Carolina - Rico (1)
14. Guns of Navarone - Skatalites
15. Louie Louie - Kingsmen
16. Reasons to be cheerful (part 3) - Dury, Ian & The Blockheads
17. Ghost town - Specials

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59115 in Music
• Released on: 2002-03-16
• Number of discs: 2

Customer Reviews

Soundtrack of the anti-new romantics
This double CD brings together a charming variety of Two Tone Ska, punk rock, mod rock and late seventies soul plus classic reggae from the sixties and seventies. It recreates the dancefloor sounds of the rude boys and showcases the music of a strain of youth culture that co-existed with the new romantics in the early 1980s.

Disc One features hit tracks from Two Tone bands like Special AKA, The Beat, The Bodysnatchers and The Selecter. Symarip�s Skinhead Moonstomp and Desmond Dekker�s Israelites are classic 60s reggae, whilst the early 80s mod revival is represented by The Mo-Dettes, Purple Hearts, Secret Affair and The Jam. Gloria Jones and Dexy�s Midnight Runners provide the soul and The Kinks offer some genuine 60s mod sounds.

Bouncy reggae on Disc Two includes The Skatalites and Dave & Ansel Collins, while Althea & Donna weigh in with a catchy early 80s reggae it. The Merton Parkas and Secret Affair contribute some ace mod rock and The Specials, Madness and Fun Boy Three remind us of the ska revival.

Rudeboy Revival offers classics aplenty although some tracks might be obscure outside the UK. My favourites include Ian Dury�s two songs plus Double Barrel, Ghost Town, On My Radio, Israelites and Tainted Love, but there�s not a single dud amongst these 34 captivating tracks.

Real Music From A Lost Generation
I saw this advertised on the TV and thought to myself 'I have nearly all the tracks on the 2 discs but what the heck I'll buy it anyway'. Kicking off with the classic Specials anthem 'Too Much Too Young', it just goes from strength to strength. You've got the Jam (Start and the mighty Going Underground) Bad Manners (Special Brew and the excellent dance floor filler Lip Up Fatty), the late great Ian Duty and the Blockheads (Hit me with your rhythm stick and Reasons to be Cheerful (part 3). The list justs goes on. There are a few fillers on the two discs which don't belong (Cockney Rejects, Boomtown Rats), and also some older classics making a welcome return (Gloria Jones 'Tainted Love' and The Kingsmen 'Louie Louie'). All in all if you ever owned a Parker or Crombie, spent you youth in Harrington Jackets and loafers, grab a copy of this disc, turn the volume up full and relive those long gone days of real music which had some meaning. Keep The Faith.

A stomping good album
It's time to get out your tonic suits loafers slim ties,parka and rav up your scooters for this fantastic fest of late 70s/early 80s plus cool 60s Mod/ska sounds of Rude Boy revival
Classic mod anthems from The Jam, Secret Affair, Purple Hearts,The Chords and The Kinks.
With Rude boy two tone from the like of Madness, Specials, Body Snatchers and Bad Manners proving what stomping good dance music should be like.
So poke pie hats off for this Fab compilation