I watched your reaction to their song Our House and you actually decided to do a reaction to this song! Now you get to see all of the crazy SKA dance moves we all did from back in the day!
This is a cover of the Prince Buster (real name Cecil Campbell) song from the 1960s. He was a proponent of Ska music which was revived in the 70s in the UK by the likes of The Specials & Madness. Madness also took their name from another Prince Buster song which they in turn also covered.
Oh she has got to do The Specials. Also studying the original skinhead movement before Nazis appropriated it will teach her a lot about Jamaican Immigrants in England and the white dancehall kids who would curbstomp Nazis for them.
@Zippy Knowitall I am American, and I was more of a deathpunk than a SHARP but I would roll with SHARPS when business needed taken care of in the 80s and 90s
The spoken intro featured the words 'listen buster (mate, friend, pal, buddy)', and is of course a reference to Prince Buster who was the king of ska and had the original hit
Guy 'dancing' in front of red phone boxes was a mate of theirs who couldn't dance but was brought into it, to add some humour and normality amidst the lunacy
You have got to see, their live performance of madness 2011 festival in Redding. When they come on to the stage to like 50,000 teenagers and they go wild. Incredible energy & performance. One step beyond
Nice too see you back this manic Monday/ 2 tone in huh also check the specials / the English beat / the selector (who you will love) even the original "the skatilites" a whole world of Ska music from its original Jamaica roots thr the streets of England !!!
Thanks, India - this song is so much fun! "Our House" is a bit more mainstream.. but this band had so much energy and talent.. I'm glad you took a look -lol
By the time they had recorded Our House, they were 4 albums in and were progressing musically with each album. One Step was their starting point. “Absolutely” (second album) is no joke as a follow-up!
Two tone had great brass, Bad Manners, the late great Rico with the Specials but you need to do UB40 One in Ten. Great music and proper political lyrics.
Chelsea football club fans celebrate to this tune at Stamford bridge at end of important victory.the lead singer of madness is a fan and has written and sung a song called “blue day”which is sung at Stamford bridge too.
For those people, like me, who like to nerd out a bit: Ska shares a common origin with Reggae and Rocksteady (they even mention Rocksteady in this clip) in Jamaica, dating back to at least the 50s, but possibly the 40s, very likely, actually. What most people around the world identify as Ska is actually the second generation of Ska that spread from the UK; which Madness is a part of. The first wave came from Jamaica, but in the post-war period, Jamaica being a part of the British Commonwealth, was given preferential treatment for its immigrants to the UK to help rebuild the country after the war. That's how Ska made its way to the UK. And, because Jamaican immigrants settled in very working-class neighborhoods, many white Britons adopted the genre. Ska was, in essence, a very working-class youth genre in the UK in the first decade or so. In the 70s, when Punk music broke out in the UK, many of its aspects, like the high energy and electronic instruments (and some post-punk) fused with the earlier Ska to create what you see here: second-wave ska. Ironically, this also coincided with much of the Thatcher period. I say ironic, because Thatcher was very conservative in the Cold War drive while most UK Ska bands were very racially integrated; as were the audiences and tended to have a very strong working class and militant anti-racist stand. Third generation Ska isn't really that interesting (with perhaps my personal liking of the band Save Ferris). In general it was a 90s American suburbanite pop infused thing that was empty of any significant social lyrics. Most of you may not know this, but this song by Madness is actually a cover of Prince Buster's original version. In fact, their name "Madness" also comes from a Prince Buster song; along with their song of the same name. Prince Buster's considered the godfather of Ska. I leave the link below of the original version of "One Step Beyond." ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5ukZmiFKzog.html
I used to drink in that pub, the hope and anchor, can't remember how many hot hot nights watching bands I had there it was a basement and it was so hot down there you had to come upstairs for air. happy days lol
If you like Madness, you should also check out The Specials - "Gangsters" is almost constantly stuck in my head; "Ghost Town", "A Message to You, Rudy", and "Too Much Too Young" are great too.
When I was 15 I had friends in tower records I got 7 pins and I sold later for 300 dollars it was nice 👍 if I don’t like most music you gave it a chance and got one
The Specials* did also the famous hymn for the liberation of Nelson Mandela which was imprisoned for 20+ years on high security prison Robben Island just off the coast of South Africa. I believe that song was one of the reasons he was released in the end. It might not be up-to-date anymore but the song is still catchy (I still sing along whenever I got a chance to hear it): *Note that The Specials and The Special AKA is the same band. They did change their bandname for whatever reason I dunno. The Special AKA: Free Nelson Mandela Also related to that theme of apartheid and racism is the following song: Eddy Grant: Gimme Hope Joanna (Joanna being the code for South Africa)
The Special AKA was when Gerry Dammers left the band and maybe even after Terry and Lynval went to form the Funboy Three? Nelson Mandela is a Dammers tune for sure though.
In the 80's whilst we were all trying to look cool for the girls at school disco's. When this can on, that was it, forget the girls we were dancing like that pretending to be one of the 'nutty boys' aka Madness.
It is just a hype song :) The instructions are basic. It isn’t complicated just move your feet to the rockingest rocksteady beat of Madness … ah-hem now put one foot in front of the other and have some fun :)
