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  1. 2010-01-25 02:17 #1
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    The Specials

    a favorite I forgot about, if you don't know the specials you really need to:

    superior audio:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvaBRMj0Q1M

    candid TOTPs performance:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vte2mtO80ck
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    a favorite growing up:
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    Their cover of Pressure Drop is good but inferior to The Clash's cover.
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    you probably know this song but didn't know who it was:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIoHSu5v1Mo
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    another fave:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Howard Roark View Post
    you probably know this song but didn't know who it was:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIoHSu5v1Mo
    I've got a Clash cover of this on some bootleg somewhere.
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    this one used to be a favorite of my brothers:
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    last one for now, another of our favorites, especially for lines

    "naked woman, naked man, where did you get that nice sun tan" and
    something something "hanging out the nappies, I prefer to be.. UNHAPPY"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Shiroikage View Post
    I've got a Clash cover of this on some bootleg somewhere.
    pretty big song for them although Ghost Town apparently did better commercially for them


    I really have no idea what their best songs were, and if anything, a best of I got off what.cd is largely unfamiliar to me


    I think we really just grew up on the one album, possibly a 2nd
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    my dad had bizarre tastes in music, still does

    we grew up on tom waits, dire straits (largely forgettable, I couldnt name a tune tbh), talking heads (a LOT of this), men without hats, thomas dolby (SHE'S AN AIRHEAD), devo and I forget what else

    lots of the Specials though, due to us (my brothers and I) playing the shit out of it
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    Quote Originally Posted by Howard Roark View Post
    my dad had bizarre tastes in music, still does
    now he listens to the canadian equivalent of NPR you could say, CBC radio 1, I believe they have a 2 and a 3 now as well, basically he listens to whatevers more obscure

    15 years ago he was listening to hungarian childrens choirs, sincerely


    oh, and he LOVES frank zappa, got a signed record back in the day
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    Dire Straits are fuckin' sweet, mang.
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