#The English Beat

[olipeaksforever]

some eighties album covers i redesigned with characters from twin peaks/david lynch stuff

#twin peaks #dale cooper #phillip jeffries #harry truman #harold smith #tommy hawk hill #will hayward #blue velvet #jeffrey beaumont #kyle maclachlan #michael ontkean #lenny von dohlen #the smiths #siouxsie and the banshees #new order #tears for fears #the english beat #new wave #goth #music #eighties peaks #my edits

[nugothrhythms]

The old and the new performing together in Southern California again

#new wave #gothgoth #darkwave #coldwave #New Order #Soft Cell #London After Midnight #TSOL #Twin Tribes #She Wants Revenge #Cold Cave #Glass Spells #Urban Heat #Clan of Xymox #The Human League #The English Beat #Drab Majesty #45 Grave #Tears For Feats #Mareux #and more #Darker Waves Fest #Darker Waves Festival #Huntington Beach #Devo #The Psychedelic Furs #Skeletal Family #Molchat Doma #X #Depresión Sonora

[superherokiller]

#dance craze #ska #two tone #the specials #the selecter #the english beat #bad manners #madness #the bodysnatchers

[homesickhalfling]

Prices: $17 per day, $35 for the weekend

US Festival 1982

#COULD YOU IMAGINE #HOLY SHIT #US 82 #us festival #music #the police #talking heads #the b52s #oingo boingo #the english beat #80s #where's my delorean #i am so jealous of anyone who went to this

[wildergrimm]

#songs #the beat #the english beat #tears of a clown #this is what the inside of my brain has sounded like for an hour #my audio #???

[thepastprotracted]

#the specials #terry hall #madness #the english beat #the selecter #the bodysnatchers #ska #1980's music

[big-low-t]

#adam ant #the english beat #tour #2024 #antmusic

[2tonerecords]

stuff from a while ago

#some of it is fucky i am but a humble doodler #my art #2 tone #ska #2 tone ska #the specials #terry hall #lynval golding #jerry dammers #the beat #the english beat #dave wakeling #ranking roger #madness band #chas smash #bad manners #buster bloodvessel #sorry for million tags lol

[wamnak]

The English Beat “I Just Can’t Stop It” 1980

More 80’s showing! The label says “1980” but I refuse to believe it. This one still gets played often. Still sounds fresh to my ears! “Mirror In The Bathroom” is one of my favorites.

#the english beat #the best #mirror in the bathroom #ranking Roger #my record collection #vinyl collection #vinyl #records #Spotify

[the-birth-of-art]

The (English) Beat, Boston, 1982

#the beat #the english beat

[flashbackvixen80s]

Happy birthday Dave!

Happy birthday to Dave Wakeling of the English Beat!

Here's a little English Beat tribute from FHA with Save It For Later in honor of his birthday

#80s rock #80s #1980s #80s music #birthday #happy birthday #dave wakeling #the english beat

[sp00ky-p00ky]

🪞🦇

#the english beat #i just can't stop it #mirror in the bathroom #ska #two tone #music #Spotify

[superherokiller]

The Beat.

#the beat #the english beat #two tone #go feet #dave wakeling #ranking roger

[spilladabalia]

The Beat - Save It For Later

#the beat #the english beat #save it for later #dave wakeling #ranking roger #andy cox #david steele #saxa #wesley magoogan #dave blockhead #ska #ska revival #2 tone #pop #special beat service #1982 #Youtube

[foxingpeculiar]

It’s time again. Shuffle big playlist, 20 songs, favorite lyric from each.

1. “Don’t wanna let the dark night cover my soul.” - The War on Drugs, “Red Eyes”

2. “Can’t have the cream when the crop and the cream are the same.” -Andrew Bird, “Measuring Cups”

3. “Idle kids with idle hearts; some of them went too far and some are still waiting there.” -Secret Machines, “Alone, Jealous & Stoned”

4. “And I’ll stop writing songs, stop scratching out lines. I won’t have to think and it won’t have to rhyme.” -Low, “When I Go Deaf”

5. “Although she may be cute, she’s just a substitute, cos you’re the permanent one.” -Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, “The Tracks of My Tears”

6. “Monuments put from pen to paper turns me into a gutless wonder.” -Manic Street Preachers, “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next”

7. “I used to act like I was in a movie: so mysterious and misunderstood.” -Dr Dog, “Shame, Shame”

8. “So we carry every sadness with us, every hour our hearts were broken, every night the fear and darkness lay down with us.” -Hem, “Half Acre”

9. “We were winding up the road to the site with the windows down and the cigarettes alight, singing some rubbish about ‘my soul’s alright.’ I didn’t know what I could do.” -Augie March, “Just Passing Through”

10. “Where were you when I was in so much trouble with myself? And do you still believe in me like I believe?” -Descendents, “Good Good Things”

11. “Buy me a flute and a gun that shoots.” -The Byrds, “You Ain’t Goin’ Nowhere”

12. “I was lying in a burned out basement with the full moon in my eyes.” -Neil Young, “After the Gold Rush”

13. “I keep the hurt I’d rather feel and watch the shadow from my knees.” -DYAN, “Absence”

14. “Soft as a pillow, touch her there where she won’t dare. Somewhere.” -My Bloody Valentine, “Only Shallow”

15. “Just hold my hand while I come to a decision on it.” -The English Beat, “Save It for Later”

16. “She says ‘America’s a spoiled child that’s ignorant of grief,’ but then she gives out full size candy bars on Halloween.” -Wednesday, “Quarry”

17. “She holds the hand that holds her down. She will rise above.” -Pearl Jam, “Daughter”

18. “Loving you is easy, watching you is nice, but everything I seem to do is wrong.” -Nick Garrie, “Can I Stay With You”

19. “I don’t know what it is that makes me run, that makes me want to shatter everything I’ve done.” -First Aid Kit, “Rebel Heart”

20. “Tuesday afternoons are the hardest, when time seems to stand still. They’ve piled up quite a few of them now, 20 years of not quite 3 o’clocks, but time moves fast as it ever did and you can’t just slow it down.” -Charlie Parr, “Over the Red Cedar”

#personal #music game #lyrics #the war on drugs #andrew bird #secret machines #low #smokey robinson #manic street preachers #dr dog #hem #augie march #descendents #the byrds #neil young #dyan #my bloody valentine #the english beat #Wednesday #pearl jam #Nick garrie #first aid kit #Charlie parr

[enchanted-teaforest]

#the english beat #mirror in the bathroom #80s music #ranking roger #dave wakeling #Youtube