Happy
The Selecter - CD
- Artist: The Selecter
- Format: CD
- Year: 2005
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 664813307321
- Item Number: MSK330732
- Release date: 01/04/2005
- 1. Reselecterization [Instrumental]
- 2. Whip Them Down
- 3. Sweet and Dandy
- 4. Neurotica
- 5. California Screaming
- 6. I Want Justice
- 7. Trout
- 8. Copasetic
- 9. Mother Knows Best
- 10. Ladders
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The Selecter are still a ska band, but at this point other influences are being allowed into the mix as well, with mostly pleasing results. "Reselecterization" opens the album with an explicitly hip-hop-derived instrumental flourish, but the band soon settles into a ska groove that is far from the old school on its shiny surfaces but still deeply rooted in Jamaican verities. The best juxtaposition of old and new comes on a cover version of the old Toots Hibbert song "Sweet and Dandy," on which slick production is counterbalanced by a greasy trombone (courtesy of Rico Rodriguez!) and Pauline Black's husky vocals. A few songs, including the lackluster "Neurotica" and "California Screaming," are not strong enough on their own to support the weight of all that studio frippery, but "I Want Justice" and "Mother Knows Best" (with its faux orchestral strings and church bells) both manage to draw strength from the added bells and whistles. The final result is an album that will alienate some fans while, perhaps, attracting some new ones as well. Recommended. ~ Rick Anderson, Rovi
- Artist: The Selecter
- Format: CD
- Year: 2005
- Number of Discs: 1
- UPC: 664813307321
- Item Number: MSK330732
- Release date: 01/04/2005
- Label: Moon Ska Records
- Genre: Pop/Rock
- Style: Ska Revival
- Album Time: 34:04
- Best of the Selecter
- Celebrate the Bullet (Import)
- Cruel Britannia (Import)
- Greatest Hits [EMI]
- Hairspray (Import)
- My Perfect World
- Out on the Streets
- Requiem for a Black Soul (Import)
- Street Feeling
- Too Much Pressure
- Too Much Pressure [Captain Oi!] (Import)
- Too Much Pressure [Collection]
- Three Minute Hero (Import)
- BBC Radio 1 Live [Griffin]
- Perform the Trojan Songbook
- Perform the Trojan Songbook, Vol. 2
- Perform the Trojan Songbook, Vol. 3
- Selected Selecter Selections
- Real to Reel
- On My Radio
- BARKER,DAVE & THE SELECTER: KINGSTON AFF
- The Collection
- Unplugged for the Rude Boy Generation
- Ska: The Ultimate Collection
- Prime Cuts, Vol. 2
- Selecter : Perform the Trojan Songbook Vol 3
- SELECTER: BACK OUT ON THE STREETS (IMPORT)
- Very Best of Selecter
- Cruel Britannia (Import)
- VA-SKA : SKA-ULITMATE COLLECTION
- I Want Justice: Live
- The Perform the Trojan Songbook
- Too Much Pressure
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