Truth be told, Cocker's actual BBC sessions only happened in 19. It so happens that's exactly when he did his BBC sessions. As I mentioned in previous postings about him, I think his peak musical years were 1968 to 1971. Joe Cocker is another musician who hasn't had any of his BBC performances officially released. I wonder if I'll ever post all of the ones I like that are worthy of posting. The cover art is based on a 1982 publicity photo. I think this album is good enough to stand along side their three studio albums.Ġ2 Stand Down Margaret (English Beat)Ġ7 March of the Swivel Heads (English Beat) In my opinion, the band didn't leave a big discography behind, but virtually everything they did was solid, including their rare tracks. I investigated the band, and it seems they almost never played songs in concert that they didn't record in the studio. I think the only ones that aren't are "Pussy Price," as mentioned above, and "Night and Day," a version of the classic Cole Porter song. In the end, I decided both versions had their charms, so I included both. That had all the lyrics, but the sound quality wasn't as perfect as the B-side version.
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I found another version they did on a TV as a stand alone song instead of part of a medley, as usual. But it's a dub version, which means a lot of the lyrics aren't sung on it. There is a nice version released as a B-side, and I've included that here as the second song. It was part of a medley with "Whine and Grine," so it's really only half a song. But the version of it on "I Just Can't Stop It" was less than ideal, in my opinion. I wasn't quite sure what to do about the song "Stand Down Margaret." It's a great song, in my opinion, with a great anti-Margaret Thatcher message.
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For the same reason, I didn't include "Tears of a Clown" or "Ranking Full Stop." Originally, those were single releases only, but they were added to the 1980 album "I Just Can't Stop It" before long.
But it was soon added as the opening track to their 1981 album "Wha'ppen," and nearly everyone who has that album has that on it, so I figure it isn't needed here.
"Pussy Price" is a cover, but they later wrote their own words to it and turned it into their own song "Ranking Full Stop." Still, I figure this is different enough to merit inclusion.īy the way, this does not include the song "Too Nice to Talk To." That originally was the A-side of a single in 1981. Maybe it's just that I'm biased, but I think it's a more clarifying name, since Paul Collins also had a band called the Beat.Īnyway, this is the usual motley bunch of bonus tracks, A- and B-sides to singles, and live tracks. But I'm born and raised in the United States, so I know them as the English Beat. To make things even more confusing, in Australia, they're known as the British Beat.
But I recently found a few more songs, enough for a single such album.īy the way, I realize that in Britain, they're known just as the Beat. For a long time, I didn't think there was enough non-album material for a stray tracks album. My only "issue" is that they didn't do more. The English Beat put out three solid albums in the early 1980s.
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