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friday mixed tape: ska

August 10, 2007 in audio, mixed tape, video by Hugh

Get your porkpie hats, your stovepipe pants, skinny ties and a nice pair of heavy-frame glasses, and start skanking. Two-tone rules.

The Specials: Gangsters

Madness: One Step Beyond

The Beat: Mirror in the Bathroom

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August 10, 2007 at 5:43 pm

kara

Wow! Mirror in the Bathroom! That’s a great song, and one I’d completely forgotten about. I’d never seen the video. Thanks!

August 11, 2007 at 12:41 am

zura

Loving the “dancing black guy” in Mirror in the Bathroom. He seems to have no other purpose in this video. :)

August 11, 2007 at 1:02 am

aj

That’s Ranking Roger, he was the co-lead singer with Dave Wakeling (the shore-haired white guy). He isn’t given much to do here. Featuring crazy-legs dancing from guitarist Andy Cox!

Cox of course went on to found Fine Young Cannibals with the Beat’s bassist, David Steele, and singer Roland Gift.

But of course no ska retrospective would be complete without: the MiniPops Colgate Gel commercial, set to the tune of Madness’ Baggy Trousers - complete with them doing the Nutty Train dance!

August 11, 2007 at 8:31 am

Hugh

oh man that colgate ad is amazing. i want to brush my teeth now.