This Are Two-Tone

Various Artists - International - Reggae - Ska | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 31, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000008LTV
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #288,882 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. A.K.A. Gangsters

2. Madness

3. On My Radio

4. Tears of a Clown

5. Message to You Rudy

6. Too Much Pressure

7. Too Experienced

8. Ranking Full Stop

9. Too Much Too Young

10. The Selecter

11. Stereotype

12. Mantovani: Mantovani/Hear My Song Vioeta/Speak to Me My Love

13. Do Nothing

14. Jungle Music

15. The Boiler

16. Ghost Town

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Simply Smashing Pop-Reggae, July 17, 2001

By 

Keeley Stevens - See all my reviews

This review is from: This Are Two-Tone (Audio CD)

This Are Two Tone is the summary disk put out by the record company that goes by that name. It's all of the hits by famous groups of that time period.

The music is hard to explain. Some would say "ska", or others "pop-reggae." I say it's just plain good!

There are happy songs, there are sad songs. But all of them are fast, jumping songs. Serious mood-music.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ruder Than You, August 22, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: This Are Two-Tone (Audio CD)

Still have the original LP!!!! Great ska compolation, nothing like the original SKA Era.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Two Tones of Fun, July 27, 2007

By 

Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: This Are Two-Tone (Audio CD)

At the start of the 1980s Two Tone was the UK's most exciting new musical movement. Bands like Madness, The Selecter, The (English) Beat and The Special AKA, all on the Two Tone label, revived the Jamaican ska beat and created a new rhythmic sound that took youth culture by storm.

This is a valuable introduction to the Two Tone beat, but unfortunately anything but complete, although all the classic early hits are here: Gangsters, Madness, On My Radio, Tears Of A Clown, etc. The group Madness is underrepresented as they're the band that ultimately achieved the greatest success.

Worst of the omissions in my opinion: The Prince by Madness, Let's Do Rocksteady by The Selecter. There is another incomplete Two Tone compilation titled Too Much Two Tone but the most complete and thorough is The Two Tone Compilation: A Checkered Past.