Dance Craze - The Best Of British Ska...Live!

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The film was directed by Joe Massot, [1] who originally wanted to do a film only about the band Madness, whom he met during their first US tour. The legendary concert film recorded at various venues in 1980 at the height of the 2 Tone movement, plus the unreleased 27 track film soundtrack and original 14 track album. But the first two decades of recorded blues were a veritable goldmine of acoustic guitar brilliance. And finally we get to hear the film’s rollicking renditions of “Swan Lake” and “Madness” in crystal clear audio mixes. This is an excellent 80's British Ska primer as well as one of the most lively and energetic live albums I've ever heard.

Well we all remember it as a lot of fun with a serious message behind it but I have to admit that I was unaware of 'Dance Craze' - a concert film featuring performances from all the greatest 2Tone acts including The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat and. CD 3 / LP 3 The Original 1981 Album These recordings were mixed for the original audio release of the soundtrack. Outside of rare screenings of well-preserved prints, most fans have seen it only via VHS bootlegs and hideous blurry YouTube uploads with muffled sound. Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Azerbaijan Republic, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belarus, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Fiji, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Somalia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U. Fabulous live performances of the ska bands of the late 70s early 80s Pure energy and fun a time when music made you think you could do anything and be anything you wanted to be.The next big trend to emerge a little later in the decade revolved around blues guitarists, virtually all of them originally hailing from the rural South, their approach closely related to field hollers and work songs. The extra tracks make this new release a compulsory purchase, the added tracks are from the film soundtrack so for the first time the complete film is available on cd, with the added bonus of a replica poster that came with the original vinyl. While mammoth memory-laners like 'Night Boat To Cairo' do feature here, there are also many lesser-spotted gems, such as Bad Manners' organ-scraping 'Inner London Violence' and 'Ranking Full Stop', a quadruple-time highlight from The English Beat.

The crushing poverty of the Depression brought the first boom of blues recording to an abrupt halt at the dawn of the 1930s. Read more about the condition New: An item that is still in its original shrink wrap from the manufacturer and the original manufacturer’s seal (if applicable) has not been removed. Brilliant versions of all the tracks on it, a personal highlight being the best ever version of Nite Klub by the Specials. Lonnie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Blind Blake, and Skip James mapped out the guitar-dominated long-term future of the idiom with every 78 they released. Dance Craze only ever made it to VHS, so a new 4K restoration by the BFI ( from original film materials) sees it newly available as a Blu-ray+DVD package.Dance Craze is a 1981 concert film recorded at various venues throughout 1980 at the height of the 2Tone movement featuring exclusive live recordings by The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat, Bad Manners and The Bodysnatchers.

This new expanded Deluxe Edition set features the previously unreleased 27 track film soundtrack, along with the original 14 track vinyl album. It features exclusive live recordings by The Specials, Madness, The Selecter, The Beat, Bad Manners and The Bodysnatchers. I still have the CD version that came out in the late 90s with jewel case and sleeve, this is the original soundtrack CD release. It brilliant first use of steady cams also done by a cinematographer who worked with Stanley Kubrick – also the bands are filmed from the stage showing the audience going absolutely mental.Both a CD and LP charting their contributions to the craze come courtesy of Chrysalis recordings here. The film, shot in 1980, comprised performance footage of Madness, The Specials, The Selecter, The Bodysnatchers, the Beat and Bad Manners on tour throughout the United Kingdom. At the height of the 2-tone ska movement came Dance Craze, a comprehensive music video film charting the best of the 1970s and 80s ska craze in Britain - a movement dominated by such greats as The Specials, Madness, The Selecter and Bad Manners. Performers popular enough to afford them acquired flashy steel-bodied National guitars that resonated louder than standard models. Uno de ellos un tanto redundante, porque 2 son la banda sonora del documental y el tercero el disco que salió en 1981 con canciones de la banda sonora.

The first and second CDs are the full soundtrack to the film, which have been remastered, and the third CD is the original album release.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH). Alas I was only 12 in 1979 and no matter how much begging and pleading I tried, I was never allowed to actually see The Specials et al at their very best. The audio packages are released on 24 March via Chrysalis and the Blu-ray/DVD edition is released by the BFI on 27 March. The legendary 1981 concert film Dance Craze is set for release as a DVD/Blu-ray set on March 27, 2023. For those keeping score, this will mark the first time anything Madness-related is available on Blu-ray Disc.