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| | I Just Can't Stop It | | | Music Artist : | | The English Beat | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | Rhino / Wea | | Release Date : | | 1999-10-26 | | Store Price : | | $13.96 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.96 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Mirror in the Bathroom
2. Hands Off...She's Mine
3. Two Swords
4. Twist and Crawl
5. Rough Rider
6. Click Click
7. Big Shot
8. Whine & Grine/Stand Down Margaret
9. Noise in This World
10. Can't Get Used To Losing You
11. Best Friend
12. Jackpot
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Missing tracks
Submitted on: 2009-09-21 |
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| Tears of a Clown and Stand down Margret are missing from this release! I wore out my tape of this album back in the 80's and was excited when the CD came out. But where are the missing tracks? These two are a major part of why I liked the album in the first place. Once again, I'm very disappointed in the lp/tape transfer to CD. I give it 2 stars for screwing up a great album. Otherwise this album gets 5 stars. |
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 Defined a sound and left us all wanting more
Submitted on: 2009-05-06 |
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Everytime this CD finds its way into my player, it stays there for weeks. The vibes and lyrics are infectious. Their 1-2 Ska sound is utterly amazing. Give me Jackpot and Two Swords every day!!!!
p.s. The track listing is wrong. The two songs everyone complains about are there....just not in the track listing. |
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Their ska album
Submitted on: 2008-10-30 |
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| Released in 1980, the English Beat's debut, I Just Can't Stop It, is their best album and a classic of the ska genre. Whether you have the 12 song version or the 14 song version that contains their awesome reading of The Miracles' "Tears of a Clown" and "Ranking Full Stop", you can't go wrong. Everything here is great. The opening "Mirror in the Bathroom" is one of many ska classics here, thanks to David Steele's addictive bass line and Saxa's sax lines. The tracks "Hands Off...She's Mine", "Two Swords", "Click Click", "Twist & Crawl", "Noise in this World", and "Best Friend" are all excellent and feature great rapport between vocalists Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger and tasty lines from Saxa. The tunes "Jackpot" and their covers of "Rough Rider" and "Can't Get Used to Losing You" slow the pace down to reggae and are just as impressive. Finally, "Whine and Grine/Stand Down Margaret" is a ska classic, starting out as traditional before delving into call for unity. All told, I Just Can't Stop It is a must own ska album and is just as irresistible today as it was when first released. Highly recommended. |
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 Full Stop, Tears
Submitted on: 2007-09-22 |
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| I really thought that "Original Recording Re-Issued" meant it would have these tracks put back on. I got the disc years ago without even realizing the hack. I guess I'm still stuck with my mp3's from vinyl. |
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Fantastic music -- the listing is a mess
Submitted on: 2007-06-02 |
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I.R.S. CD 70606 [UPC: 0 4479-70606-2 5]
01. MIRROR IN THE BATHROOM
02. HANDS OFF . . . SHE'S MINE
03. TWO SWORDS
04. TWIST & CRAWL
05. TEARS OF A CLOWN [Cosby/Robinson/Wonder]
06. ROUGH RIDER [Prince Buster, Arr. and adapted by The English Beat]
07. CLICK CLICK
08. RANKING FULL STOP
09. BIG SHOT
10. WHINE & GRINE / STAND DOWN MARGARET
11. NOISE IN THIS WORLD
12. CAN'T GET USED TO LOSING YOU [D. Pomus/M. Shuman]
13. BEST FRIEND
14. JACKPOT [Asgard/Crooks/Robinson/English Beat]
The Beat are: Saxa, Andy Cox, David Steele, Everett Moreton.
This is the original U.S. release, which inserted "Tears of a Clown" and "Ranking Full Stop" (both singles in the U.K. but unreleased in the States) to the original U.K. version.
This CD is out-of-print now and has been replaced by a reissue of the original U.K. form of the album with only twelve tracks. The two songs left off the reissue are available on BEAT THIS: THE BEST OF THE ENGLISH BEAT.
If, like me, this is the version you wore out on vinyl in the early '80's, I think you'll miss "Tears of a Clown" and "Ranking Full Stop" if you buy the reissue.
If you order this version, be sure you get 14 tracks; you'll probably have to pay more, but it's worth it. |
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