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Year Title Details 1989 Selected Selecter Selections: Released: July 1989; Label: Chrysalis; Formats: CD, MC; US-only release; 1994 Rare: Released: October 1994
The Selecter is an English 2 tone ska revival band, formed in Coventry, England, in 1979.. The Selecter featured a diverse line-up, both in terms of race and gender, initially consisting of Arthur 'Gaps' Hendrickson and Pauline Black on lead vocals, Neol Davies and Compton Amanor on guitar, Desmond Brown on Hammond organ, Charley 'Aitch' Bembridge on drums, and Charley Anderson on bass.
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Too Much Pressure is the debut studio album by the English 2 tone ska revival band the Selecter.After the band's official formation in 1979 in Coventry, following the release of a song entitled "The Selecter" by an unofficial incarnation of the band, the band's hit single "On My Radio" prompted their labels 2 Tone and Chrysalis to ask the band to record their debut album.
String Theory is the thirteenth studio album by English ska band The Selecter, released on Vocaphone Music in 2013.After the discussion of multiculturalism and the racial equality of 2 Tone music on the band's previous album Made in Britain (2011), String Theory built upon on and extends from those themes, addressing contemporary issues in the United Kingdom such as riots and racial issues ...
Neol Edward Davies (born 26 April 1952) [1] is an English musician, composer and original member and founder of 2 tone ska revival band the Selecter.. Born in Coventry, [1] Davies wrote the instrumental tune "The Selecter" from which the band got their name in 1979.
The label stopped operating in 1986, though "2 Tone" is still used as an imprint for back catalogue issues. 2 Tone Records signed the Selecter, Madness and The Beat, but they all left within two years. 2 Tone Records acts signed a contract that allowed them to leave the label after releasing just one single, which was unusual in the record ...
B.J. Cole plays pedal steel guitar on "Sugar Town".. Pucker! marks another stylistic deviation for the band. According to Terry Rompers of Trouser Press, the album is mostly a "mild-mannered version" of the band's ska roots, "clinging to the familiar peppy keyboard, bass, guitar and snare syncopation of ska," but also adding giddy elements from new wave music and power pop. [2]