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In 2008, BBC Music agreed that the economic and political conditions of the day had heightened the record's impact, saying, "To understand the impact of this spearhead of the ska revival on early Thatcherite Britain you have to imagine something so left field and yet so apt occurring today. Other tracks are reworkings of Jamaican originals: "Too Much Too Young" was based on Lloyd Charmers' "Birth Control" and "Stupid Marriage" draws heavily on the Prince Buster hit "Judge 400 Years" (also known as "Judge Dread"). Originally, the lead part was done on Jerry's guide organ before the flute was dropped in on the brass track. On some US releases, the song "Gangsters" (Dammers, Cecil Campbell) appears between "Too Much Too Young" and "Little Bitch". Hardly anyone would have predicted that a musical form so tied to its Afro-Caribbean heritage (as well as its less cool skinhead connections) could, almost overnight, become the trendiest thing across the nation".

The only reasonable explanation is that they were obviously abducted by aliens for that entire year, during which they were likely replaced with clonedroids, which as everybody knows, can only mimic the more superficial human attributes. Contemporaneous reviews identified the song's impact as an "instant musical editorial" on recent events (the 1981 England riots). I wanted the drums in mono on one track, the bass in mono on another and the rhythm – that shuffle organ and Lynval's DI'd guitar – on another. Friday Night, Saturday Morning" was written by lead singer Terry Hall and describes a mundane night out in Coventry.The extra CD features the Too Much Too Young EP plus an 11 track live set - BBC in concert at the Paris Theatre from 79.

He also suggested the two-handed shuffle rhythm played by Dammers on the Hammond organ throughout the song. It was as if depression-era dustbowl ballads suddenly became hip again in this era of global economic meltdown. The Specials—a great band to party to—can't sustain the shock of having the speed of certain numbers halved. Every little bit was worked out and composed, all the different parts, I'd been working on it for at least a year, trying out every conceivable chord.Evoking themes of urban decay, deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities, the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots were occurring in British cities.

Internal tensions within the band were also coming to a head when the single was being recorded, resulting in the song being the last single recorded by the original seven members of the group before splitting up. During this period Hall, Staple, Golding and Dammers all turned up at the house at various times to add further vocals.Although it has been revived several times since then for "best of" releases and a singles box-set, The label is now defunct. In 2002 Dammers told The Guardian, "You travelled from town to town and what was happening was terrible. Dammers grew up in The Midlands area of The UK during the late 1960s/early 70s and became influenced with the sounds of Jamaican Ska Music that was now being heard in the UK mainly as a direct result of the Government policy at that time which saw big cultural changes in the area as a whole due to the influx of immigration in cities such as Birmingham and Coventry.

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