ragudave Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Was "Ghost Town" by The Specials the first ever Trip Hop track ? Or would Portishead / Massive Attack / Tricky take that honour ?Of course maybe twas Sons of Arqa ?Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Technically, I believe it was 'Jake the Peg', Rolf Harris.3/10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betamax Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Originally posted by ragudave:Was "Ghost Town" by The Specials the first ever Trip Hop track ? Or would Portishead / Massive Attack / Tricky take that honour ?Of course maybe twas Sons of Arqa ?Dave dont know ...but probablyalthough some Bootsy Collins stuff verges on trip hop....especially played at the wrong speedbut a guy we worked with in England, Jon Rivers produced Ghost Town and has the gold disc on his studio walllovely chap too, camper than a camper van but a fantastic bloke he had fond memories of making the Ghost Town and said non of the Specials thought it would have anything like the impact it had....a lot of it was made up on the spot too....plenty of weed was involved obviously.... and the real genius of the band was the black guy on vocals and not so much Terry Hall, the bands perceived main manone of the best records ever made probably Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.R.T Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 "and now for our national anthem..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-matthEw- Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Originally posted by ragudave:Was "Ghost Town" by The Specials the first ever Trip Hop track ? Or would Portishead / Massive Attack / Tricky take that honour ?Of course maybe twas Sons of Arqa ?Dave dunno whether it was the first ever or what not, but i do know its an absolutley fantastic record! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Jack Posted May 20, 2004 Report Share Posted May 20, 2004 Re: Re: Ghost Town by The SpecialsOriginally posted by betamax: and the real genius of the band was the black guy on vocals and not so much Terry Hall, the bands perceived main manone of the best records ever made probably Neville Staple? Or was it Lynval something? Can't remember.. Didn't they have 'Sir Horace' somebody too?And it is a fantastic record, although I may prefer 'Too Much Too Young'. Wouldn't have said so at the time of course, I was a 'metaller' and wasn't supposed to like 'mods', but they really stopped me giving a fuck about 'genres' and just appreciating all music. Weren't they the first band to do it all themselves, and form their own label? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkt Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 genius...pure genius...I was speaking to my Dad bout it and he can't appreciate it no more cos it's use in Father Ted which is a shame Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
betamax Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Re: Re: Re: Ghost Town by The SpecialsOriginally posted by Frosty Jack:Neville Staple? Or was it Lynval something? Can't remember.. Didn't they have 'Sir Horace' somebody too?And it is a fantastic record, although I may prefer 'Too Much Too Young'. Wouldn't have said so at the time of course, I was a 'metaller' and wasn't supposed to like 'mods', but they really stopped me giving a fuck about 'genres' and just appreciating all music. Weren't they the first band to do it all themselves, and form their own label? Twas Neville he was talking about....also said he was a genuine hard nut and quite intimidating...but nice with itGot some good snippits of info about the Buzzcocks of him too....but thats another thread Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ragudave Posted May 21, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 Re: Re: Re: Ghost Town by The SpecialsOriginally posted by Frosty Jack:Neville Staple? Or was it Lynval something? Can't remember.. Didn't they have 'Sir Horace' somebody too? About Ghost town - The release of the single Ghost Town in the summer of '81 hit a nerve in the U.K. Inspired by racial tensions and unemployment, it coincided with the race riots in Brixton and Liverpool of the time (guitarist Lynval Golding was a victim of a racial attack, having had his throat slashed, requiring thirty stitches). Although the single went to #1, it was banned from the BBC.Well Neville Staple was def a member of The Specials and has a great voice as those present @ the Ltree last year will testify. NS is actually a rather decent at dancehall style singing as is Ari Up...BTW Mark Lamarr was at Neville's last London show and was so impressed that he phoned up Suggs from Madness. Suggs got down for the last couple of tracks and ended up singing on stage for the last track,Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 'ghost town' still shits me up to this day especially the extended version, a band at the height of their powers and captured the paranoid mood of 1981 perfectly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kirkt Posted May 21, 2004 Report Share Posted May 21, 2004 I can def hear the trip-hop connection. This was shown 15 years later when Tricky did his "Nearly God" side project and Terry Hall guested as vocalist on one of the songs, if im right in thinking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre Von Mondragon Posted May 26, 2004 Report Share Posted May 26, 2004 Neville Staples was dead good at the Lemon Tree last year, even played 'Man at C & A'. Can't remember if Ghost Town came out before the 'More Specials' album, but 'I cant stand it' on said LP is even more proto "trip" hop (i always fukn HATED that label, there used to be a night at the Peli in the mid-90's on a Wed and they called it Dub Narcotic Jazz, much more aesthetically suitable. Rant over). In fact 'More Specials' is just one of the best albums made, just so Modern, perhaps more so now than it was; proto- loungecore, James Brown tributes, old school rock n soul workouts, nuclear paranoia and the proper version of International Jet Set. Most modern bands are dung by comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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