I'm going to dance to it always since I was a boy in the 80s pure class 👌👌👌

Brings back great memories, shining up the dm's, bottle of cheap cider and heading into the disco. If only i could go back to those days S P E C I A L memories. NOBODY HATES SPECIALS

Been listening to Ska for 40 years now. Thank you 2 tone!

1980 two-tone suits made to measure from market out to disco at youth club to listen to ska lol fantastic period to live in.

57 and still listen to ska every week .. have all my original vinlys ska'd for life ..

I'm a 17 year old from Doncaster , got into the scooter scene a few years ago because of my specials addiction , since then ive scene the beat , the specials , and a few others , SKA'd FOR LIFE

Im only 20 so I missed this music era in its hey day sadly, however I was fortunate enough to be introduced to it from a very young age and brought up with it all, thanks to my parents!! Best music ever, not like the cack released these days!! x

i can not believe how much time has passed and how this music is a great now as it was then! good times!

RIP John , best drummer ever.

Near the end, when they seamlessly kick up the tempo- that’s talent. Genius.

Thats my fav song.

Yet another classic ska-2 Tone track from the one and only The Specials!

one of the best tunes ever, always make you get up and dance. Best days of music.

I was working in the oilfield in Oklahoma. They had no good music there. I flew home and bought as much good music as I could.(especially all two tone music) we rocked Oklahoma!!

Wow if your feet and legs are not moving you are dead xx There guys are so special xxx i have adored them since their beginning lol Jane x

Qui ne peut pas aimer le ska ????a 56 ans je ne peux pas m en passer. ❤😅

Written by Gordon/Sidney Crooks/Jackie Robinson/George Agard. The original is by The Pioneers, (founding members Winston Hewitt, Derrick Crooks, Glen Adams). On The Pioneers record was Crooks, Robinson, & newest member Geo Agard (Desmond Decker's 1/2 brother).

ive been in love with these guys for a long time weve had a special bond ,,it will be until eternity xx lol

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are keeping SKA alive and I thank them for it. Old enough to have been around for The Specials. AWESOME

Raiding my uncles old clothes racks for 70s suites going out with the gang to stomp 1979 great times great music wow I want to go back

Im 15, I love this song, i wear docs, ben sherman/fred perry, bomber jacket, docs!! Such a skinhead i am and my friends hate it!

Amazing keyboards - had never heard this version before. Just addictive music, can't get enough, will follow me to the grave for sure

best music there is

Love this band, some of the best music ever recorded, also great live caught up w/ them @ the Icehouse and at Hollywood Bowl was able to meet them what a bunch great guys, absolutely PLEASANT!!!

😊😊😊😊this is my happy face ,who else us smiling along with me

ska rules forever! This is heaven!

My Dad had this in his 20's by the Pioneers & He is 70 this year

You will have a great time at T in the park watching the mighty Specials, they cracked America and the far east and for me have influenced a generation. Went to see them for the first time in April as I was just too young in 1980 and was blown away. Have a great time mate , wish I could be there.

the old ones are the best ! takes me back love it !

what a line from the specials, nobody is special rip mr hall

Two Tone blew my mind as an 11 year old.Out with the parents shit clothing...Stay press..loafers and Fred Perry jumper to school..oi oi..Jamaican ska that drove my old man mad..pre curser to being a casual...Happy fucking British Yourh in the 80"s..

Keep coming back to this! Takes me back

when you love it you love it never dies in ya heart

a true classic of the two tone era

There music still as good 35 years on!!

oh we are blessed those of us who were there in 1979 when the specials hit us like a tsuami of top ska tunes radical lyrics FUCKING CLASS

One of my fave tunes........

Addictive & rightly so! One of the very few two tone that meant something!!

I agree, I'm a 16 year old girl and I just live off of ska and reggae, all the tunes my parents listen to. Oh how I wish lived my parents lives ;_;

Amen to that....superb drummer..rip

Holy cow !!! I remember 1980 and I swallowed this music up ! Funny everyone I played ska for loved it but never as much as me I guess because I still love it

My Pork Pie hat lasted 2 days before a taxi klled it. Coventry restored, my love of Ska + Bluebeat + moonstomp fun, I wish Bodysnatcers were bigger and Paline Black' Selector elevated things ON MY RADIO! Love that energy and remember Ranking Roger exhorting the P.M. to "Stand Down Margaret". Special's version of Long Shot lifted my mood every time . Passing of Nev Staples was a downer; I liked him.

I loved those days. Music brought us all together. Rude boys, rude girls, black and white, it didn't matter. We were all there for the same reason.

Love it.. still have the single in my vinyl collection.

This tune gets better every time I here it.

12 holes was enough to Stomp in 🏁🏁💙Bring back those aTreasured memory's of the Day RIP Rico ❤️❤️Forever SPECIAL to me 💙👍😊😊

love this version

Yeah this is ten years later, but its not fake ska its 2tone and its brilliant the specials were great and are still gigging now albeit without jerry dammers.

it doesn't get better than this (13 in 1981)

This isn't the original but it's good! I was in a band once that got to open for The Specials..and I'll never forget it!!

nice to hear some skaaaaaa!!! on a Sunday night. .kick de bucket

Thank you Jamaica.

Thank you it was a wonderful time Ben shirt F.P.slacks D.M. 1ns and 2os and our whole life ahead of us a lot of us made it through all the pit falls and B.S.

I have not heard this in years! I actually bought the original 7 back in the day!

Good for you mate. Can't let the old traditions die.

Just got into the original of this through Trojan mixes here on YT.... then had to come back to a band of my youth to hear their version :)

saw them in 2011 they played this the crowd went funking mental

best song ever

Keep it real brother! Traditional punks and skins for life!!!

J.D. is a fuckin genius lol, English kids hav always loved black music

Forever special, Forever that stomp.

what a weepin, and a wailing.... 🏇.. a man got half his ear bitten off whilst watching these in Nottingham last year.. Rip.. john and Rico..

The specials 😍 Yes they're pretty damn special 💪😉💟💖💕

world class, brings back memories , newcastle riots in 1985, i was 19 , and the handiside archade was still there. cops, dogs, gas,

This is also a mighty fine tune, we all love it sooooooooooo much. Put your Braces on!!!

Godbless all the old tunes thay was fantastic. 1 love.

Thanks, a journey down memory lane.

It was a great statement, not violent just great British fashion. Where's fashion now? Great music, I was an original skinhead in '69, and I was so pleased when two tone came along and bands like the Specials brought it all back. Shame skinheads have been hijacked by the far right, not what the skinheads of '69 were all about.

i dont care what you say you cant beat a bit of old school ska !!!!!

Saw these guys doing this on a very very small stage! No social distancing back then just braces Fred's loafers and stay press!!! ⬛✊⬜

Brilliant Specials

Love the Specials, love this song and love the Harry J & The Allstars cover at 3.10.

Who could dislike this, seriously

Timeless!

Top class mate...loved it.

Just as brilliant today as it was then.

Top skankin' tune, very fresh! X

Never leaves ya, I thank British,music done us we'll SKA ForLiFE

Bring it on again, and again ... #SKA #Music

man this song takes me back to the dayzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Hasn't happened to me yet, and i must say to be a 16 year old carrying on the skinhead way fills me with pride! Shame most people my age don't see it that way and follow like sheep to the bullshit mainstream music and lifestyle..

Sheer bloody class

Great memories !

When we didn’t care about different colours of skin.

That Green Onions keyboard touch is Chef's Kiss , boiz.

Long Shot/Liquidator/Moonstomp - So good.

10 goons who pressed dislike(I'm hoping by mistake may I add) are either deaf or clinically insane!!

top quality coventry tune from the great time!

Ever towed a lambretta with another Lambretta, I had to tow my mate half way back from Matlock to Nottingham because he wound fuse wire around the fuse box and blew the magneto, you go very slowly !!!

im 15 and i walk around in my ben sherman, my harington jacket, docs and levi 501's, im proud to be a skinhead even if i wasnt around in the old days, thumbs up for skinheads

they were a class act

Tune..We had so much good stuff around in the late 70`s and early 80`s in comparison the shite nowadays.

Love it.........

Blooood Clarrrt....Gwaaaaaan!

classy version

saw them at Brixton academy way back and when they did this one,the place was bouncing.

this is fucking brilliant thanks for posting i cant stop listening to it!its go to be the catchiest groove ever its one o them you cant stop thinking about class!

Just, wow... CLASS

im wheepin and im wailin long shot kickin bucket Good Music Live forever

Faster because this version is Two tone (Reggae & Punk) whereas the Pioneers version is Ska ( Reggae & Rocksteady).