Better than Coffee: “One Step” and 2 Tone
Good morning, rude boys and girls. Just a wee bit o’ Madness to help you start your week off on the right foot…then the left foot… then the right foot…all the way to school:
I’d actually never seen this extra silly extended version of the “One Step Beyond” video before stumbling across it on YouTube recently. Now I’m reveling in a full-on personal 2 Tone revival. Must. Stop. Skankin‘. (I’ve already kicked the cat twice.)
Join me in looking like a right fookin’ idiot getting that sluggish blood pumping with an assortment of rocksteady beats beyond the jump. Oi!
The Beat: Mirror in the Bathroom
The Bodysnatchers: Do the Rocksteady
The Specials: Gangsters
The Selecter: Missing Words
Swinging Cats: Mantovani
Elvis Costello & the Attractions: Radio Radio
Bad Manners: Lip Up Fatty
The Selecter (yes, again, because Pauline Black is the BEST): On My Radio
The Specials (again, again!): Ghost Town
Gleeee!
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:05 am
I think it would be cool if Mer played some ska music with the theremin, that would really wake us up.
September 22nd, 2008 at 2:28 am
don,t forget to brush your teeth before you leave for school.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gdcVRueT2cw
September 22nd, 2008 at 3:51 am
The neighbors are not liking these. I will have to play them louder.
Maybe I can incite one of those “everyone comes out of their house to dance” scenes like you see in movies.
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:00 am
That’s like an entire eighteen months of my childhood right there.
Bad Manners are still touring.
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:46 am
After a rough weekend, I needed this. Thank you.
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 am
I completely lost my shit after watching the intro to One Step Beyond. Thanks, you made my day!
September 22nd, 2008 at 5:00 am
Oh, thank you thank you for all of this (esp. “One Step Beyond”). I desperately needed something to get THIS out of my head:
Sonseed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-NOZU2iPA8
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PS if I botched the formatting on that link, I apologize ahead of time.
September 22nd, 2008 at 7:32 am
Thank you for this awesome way to open the day.
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:49 am
wow. I am seriously messed up by how young Elvis looks. Jesus I’m old. Thank you anyway for this delightful treeet!
September 22nd, 2008 at 8:55 am
So funny that I just last week put “This Is Two Tone” AND “Madness: 7” on my itunes at work.
I had no idea there was ever a video for Missing Words! Youtube, you can be such a treasure chest sometimes.. Now if only I could fins a decent video for Fishbone’s “Skankin to the Beat”.
Pauline Black IS the best! And if I could a find a drummer like Charley H. Bembridge, my world would be complete.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:26 am
Yeah, it amazes me to think that Bad Manners are still touring, I would have thought Buster would have busted a pretty major bloodvessel by now.
Warren: Please tell me you were dancing in your studio for a few minutes there?!
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:36 am
Me? Dancing?
You remember that bit in the old Willy Wonka movie where Gene Wilder comes out and he’s this knackered hunched-over old geezer with a cane who shuffles along and everyone is sad and then he leaps up and starts dancing and everyone is happy?
I’m that guy, except without the leaping up and starting dancing.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:39 am
@ Warren: I LOL’d.
That is so going in our secret stash of best-ever Coilhouse Quotes.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:44 am
and everyone is sad and then he leaps up and starts dancing and everyone is happy?
Heee. I can totally see it. We just need to put actual amphetamines in your Red Bull.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:50 am
MOAR.
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Well, we may not get the leaping up and dancing, but at least we get the “And everyone is happy” part.
Cheers!
September 22nd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Goo, meant to say. I really wanted include “Party at Ground Zero” here but they’re technically third wave, and Californian, so no dice. But I’ll definitely post it some future Monday….
September 22nd, 2008 at 1:07 pm
Totally, I understand.
You’re right, Fishbone were never really part of the Two Tone scene, the California thing kinda got in the way. Which it was unfortunate, cuz they’d been together since ’79, and put out “Party at Ground Zero” same year as Madness put out “Our House”.
And the Third wave was definitely viewed as the California Skaquake, and it pained me to have Fishbone lumped in with the likes of Sublime and No Doubt (Op Ivy? Sure!). Fishbone have definitely needed their own spot.
Not they never get the love they deserve, anyone who grew up in Southern California in the 80’s knows that, it was just.. there was the ska scene, and then there was Fishbone.
Thews: Thanks for posting the Baggy Trousers Toothpaste ad, I had no idea!
September 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 pm
@Thews…a theremin version of Ghost Town sounds like it could work. Someone poke Mer with a stick until she agrees to try it!
Hmm…Warren skanking…oh what a youtube treat that would make…or at least a fun lil gif. Not that I would ever make such a thing of course…
Neighbors are liking the songs better now…or at least pounding the walls to the beat anyhow.
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I could watch that fat bee-man dance for what feels like days.
September 22nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
You guys are totally skawesome.
(Boooooo… but seriously, skawesome.)
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
I skanked all mornin’ and thought I’d come back for more! :D
Good thing MY cat is not around >.>
Thanks Mer! <333333
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:48 am
oldschool ska rocks my arse around the room
Cheers