outstanding ska revival compilation!
in the 1960s, Jamaican immigrants to Great Britain brought their unique dancehall music with them.  They mingled with working-class British kids and a new, hybrid sound was born - "ska" - that predates the Bob Marley-style reggae we're more familiar with today and is both faster and more conventionally danceable, mingling Jamaican percussion and rhythm with an almost amphetamine-crazed Brit sensibility.  2-tone records, a british label formed in 1979, specialized in releases by late 1970s/early 80s SKA revival bands such as the SPECIALS, the SELECTER, MADNESS, the BEAT (later the ENGLISH BEAT), and so on never, ever released a bad record.  here are 23 examples proving that!
Rating: 5 stars