The Selecter

The Selecter - Coventry based Ska band fronted by Pauline Black

Three Minute Hero - The Selecter

Reached number 16 in the UK chart spending 6 weeks in the charts. Released 02/02/80. Catalogue Number CHStt8. This, the bands second single for the label was released to promote their debut album Too Much Pressure. The only 2 Tone band not to have a brass section used session sax player Joe Reynolds for a brief solo during the track, a track which by no coincidence clocked in at exactly three minutes long. It got an average review from the critics and had the lowest chart position for the label since The Prince with both reaching number 16 in the national chart. For the singles B side the band strayed away from the labels tradition of covering old ska and reggae tracks and opted for a version the James Bond theme.

Missing Words - The Selecter

Reached number 23 in the UK charts spending 8 weeks in the charts. Released 29/03/80. Catalogue Number CHSTT10. This was the bands third and last single for the label. It is a slightly different mix from the version which appears on the album Too Much Pressure. The album was released in February 1980 but only five months later the band decided to leave 2 Tone. They thought the label had lost direction and had grown out of control, so they severed links with the label and signed directly to Chrysalis Records.

Carry Go Bring Come - The Selecter

The flip side to Missing Words which reached number 23 in the UK charts spending 8 weeks in the charts. Released 29/03/80. Catalogue Number CHSTT10. Recorded at Tiffanys in Coventry on the same night that The Specials recorded The Skinhead Symphony. Justin Hinds & The Dominoes released Carry Go Bring Come in 1967. Catalogue No. Treasure Isle 7005. It failed to reach the mainstream charts.

Too Much Pressure - The Selecter

The title track of the Selecter's first LP although the track appears as the first track on the flip side. Catalogue Number CDLTT5002. Reached number 4 in the UK Album charts.

Murder - The Selecter

This was an album track and also appeared on the B side of their Too Much Pressure LP released in 1980 on the 2 Tone label CDL TT 5002

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