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  • man had this on tape from John peel but pigs had it off me...blessed

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  • I'm skin since 16 years, never been a facist, fuck facist, proud to be skin

  • Manga de putos. Tanto bardo por la palabra skinhead? Forros.

  • STAY S.H.A.R.P

    This is the cover of long shot kick de bucket.

  • I thought this was called Long Shot Kick The Bucket?

  • @koga9376 Longshot Kick de Bucket is the first part. after that, the blend it into Liquidator (where Jerry has the awesome organ solo), and finish with Skinhead Symphony (give me some of that old moonstomping)

  • tHE DUB YA IS 2-TONE...AND '84 changed the lifestyle altogether, IN '86 I had my 16th , my boyfriend the lead singer of Whipping Boy, Invited EVERYBODY to the party , the ska's; the bloods the Crypts; the skins; the hawks and the bikers, but the fact that we were alll friends and rebels and oKay with it, cHANGED: Sooo there you are "Mom this is my friend (she has a safety pin in her nipple and in her ear- iN 1985-)"

  • Skinhead Pride!

  • OI from Singapura SHARP SKINS

  • 2 Tone Ska, is probably the best genre of music.

  • Im hungry

  • shut up unless you know what you are talking about

  • @matero30 why the fuck should we change our style just for the dumb fucks who know nothing about skins? let them jump to conclusions, and do what i do when they question you about it, laugh at them! we wear what we want, when we want, and nobody has the right to say otherwise!

  • @timothybizzles well I was more replying to the guy who was complaining about all the ignorant comments he gets for wearing his flight jacket, so I was saying if it's a problem for him there's a lot of variety people wore in the original days before the skinhead style became as defined as it is now, which wouldn't get those same reactions he was talking about.

    Not saying everybody needs to stop wearing a flight jacket or ben shermans or fred perrys,braces or whatever else.

  • I know they stole the style, but if that's what everybody associates with flight jackets nowadays, why not just adopt a style from the earlier days of skinheads/mods/rude boys which people don't jump to conclusions about?

    The old days people had #2 hair cuts and all sorts of jackets, parkas and trenches, suits and different kinds of shoes and coloured socks besides boots,all kinds of hats like trilbys and bowlers and no idumbass is gonna ask you "hey are you a nazzi?" every time you go outside.

  • @matero30 Cos then they call you other things, mainly fag,quadrophenia wanna be,fag again,and the other week some screamed is that a group of pissed off rockers??

    take it from a MOD its annoying but worth it to be able to wear your suits

    So really its up to them to decide what they want to wear

  • yeah this is specials live in manchester

    

  • specials rnt about nazis or antifa, get a life and enjoy, just ska

  • i love your comment scottichdubliner i myself am a skin head and have been all my life im dark skined and people laugthwhen i tell them im a skin head they seem to think you have to be white to be one these nazi,s giving all skin heads a bad name

  • Bad ass song! this is cool shit :)!!

  • why dose there have to be a hidden agenda,i love ska madness dose that make me racist,no music is for the people.

  • yo tambien soy SPECIAL.

  • wow people figting about the character they re building, dont matters the ska always made my dayndnights wooohooOOOioioioioi

  • I'm a skinhead, so I must be politically classified? WTF are you saying people? SMASH POLITICS, SKINS AGAINS EVERYTHING

  • @GenLodA

    Oi! SKINHEADS AGAINST BUTTER! WE HATE TRAFFIC STOPS!

  • TO ALL WHOM DO NOT KNOW REGGAE WAS COMMON SKINHEAD MUSIC AND SO WAS SKA. RUDE BOYS/GIRLS WERE NOT THE ONLY ONES ON THE SCENE

  • Im too young to really comment, but ive spoke to loads of people who were/have been skinheads, and they werent skinheads cause they were racist, or against racists, they were skinhead cause they were working class, fuck all to do with politics

  • This song just made my day!!

  • techincally, people you lot aren't skinheads....if you love ska/reggae you are a "rude boy".....the whole scene was hijacked by the far right.........

  • is the melody that comes in at 3.00 from another song ?

  • @0lethalghost0 yes its called liquidator, originally by the Harry J all-stars........

  • @RaveyDave99 tyvm i knew it was from someplace been looking for ages 

  • @RaveyDave99 Good call..I totally missed that!

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  • im a hairhead but still like playing this kind of music.

  • Two tone!

  • Zigga Zagga Zigga Oi! Oi! Oi!

  • Brilliant tune! Oi, Oi, Oi !!!

  • Oi From America! Traditional till i die!

  • Passion yessssss!!!

  • Lambchop!

    

  • <-- skanks better than ur mom

    Best version.

  • Nice!

  • @gunslinger136 Thank you, fuck you too =)

  • @gunslinger136 you weren't even a glint in the milkmans' eye when this came out , 20 years old lol - do some music history research ffs - Jerry Dammers wrote " Free Nelson Mandela" .

  • love ittttttttttttttttttttttttttttt­tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt­tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt­tttttttttttttttttt!

  • Rude Boys make more noise!!!........ specials.

  • rude boys and skins rule!

    Cheers!

  • The interesting thing about the skinhead movement was that it started as a black culture thing, the white racists got hold of it when white people started adopting the style for the music they were listening to and its militant look was favoured by those who were aggressive thugs. So it's an interestign culture overall because u sort of have racists and non racists side by side indulging the same culture.

  • Skinheads Rule !!

    I've been asked umpteen times if I'm a Nazi/Neo-Nazi because I wear a green bomber jacket, the morons stole our style !!

    SkinHeads Against Racial Prejudice - We'll claim it back

  • @ScottishDubliner Right on! People don't understand that racist boneheads adopted the skinhead culture...NOT the other way around. Skins FOREVER!!

  • @ScottishDubliner STAY S.H.A.R.P

  • @ScottishDubliner Real skinheads weren't political in any way , fuck RASH, NAZI, SHARP. Skinheads are skinheads fuck the politics and the bollocks.

  • @irjawz Ok, then please tell me what the songs Concrete Jungle, Ghost Town & Stand Down Margaret (by The Beat) are about if they are not political, because if I remember correctly they were about the lower classes being shafted in what became angry young Britian. Just because it's not about getting out and voting does not mean it ain't political.

  • @ScottishDubliner Okay i guess i got that message across the wrong way, of course skinheads had their personal political views but what i meant was that politics did not come into being a skinhead.

  • gonna see the specials on the 27th

  • @ScottishDubliner Stay S.H.A.R.P, brother!

  • 1 of the best in the 80s

  • True skins wern't racist they just enjoyed ska and the fashion. It was mindless morons who hijacked the look and said that they were skins when all they were was mindless pricks who couldn't find a look or style of thier own, this was said by one who was there at he time a true skinhead with my braces together and boots on my feet!!!! anyone want to argue!!

  • @ArnieMcSarnie True Skins don't die, mate!

  • @ArnieMcSarnie Too true mate!!

  • @ArnieMcSarnie in germany (where I'm NOT from) the far right pinches all the left style stuff they can - right down to the antifascist flag emblem . The german state effectively subsidises these scum through the Verfassungsschutz (succesor to the Gestapo) on the excuse that paid informants are indispensible . Similar excuse for not banning the NPD ( legal neo-nazis ) .

  • wis, ndang di inggirno becak-e, cepetan!!!, selak joged iki ...!

  • the especials are the beast ska ska ska ska this is the best song of they

    skinheads forever ska ska ska ska ska ska ska

  • 178 like's 1 dont like becouse he's a racist!

  • Put your braces together and your boots on your feet

  • @truesaint what? so you're a nazi?

  • @skroobius What makes you say that? They are the song lyrics..Derr think your just looking for a argument personally

  • @truesaint no, you replied to my comment about nazi skinheads giving me abuse, so i just assumed you were a nazi....

  • Fuck the boneheads and long live the true skinheads !!! Blacks and whites, punks and Skins UNITED, listening to the "spirit of 69". Cheers from Paris, France.

  • RUDE BOY classic

  • Fuck the skinheads ! greats Jamaica and original ska music

  • All time classic !!

  • SAY NO MORE RUDE BOY THIS TUNE SAYS IT ALL!

  • FUCK NAZI SKINHEADS!

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  • Common guys do another gig ...............you need to do a concert with Madness ....bring it on 

  • ska ska ska ska!!!

    the specials baby!!!

  • que buen mix.. ¡¡

    genial...¡¡

    saludos

    mexico ¡¡

  • best mix i have heard

  • this is my anthem! Jah Jah JAH

  • The pioneers- Long shot kick de bucket:

    thats the real version.....

    its much better

  • ruuddeee booyyss!

  • Best version ever!

  • You gotta love this ska type tunes of the specials!!!And how they can get down for us skinheads!!

  • One of the best Ska Band´s ever!!!Oi

  • Great version ... I have two live versions but not this one .. which album is this one off please? Thanks me dooks!

  • it's off the bbc sessions album.

  • Cheers for the fast reply, mate!!! Will get!

  • kick the bucket means to die, same as popping your clogs, buying the farm etc.

  • It's about a race horse.

  • longshot...kick de bucket... ? :)

  • means a man that has been employed with a single company most his working life gets made redundant occurred allot in the Thatcherite eighties and nineties

  • What does the term long shot kick the bucket mean?

  • Legendary!!

    Oi from england!

  • Oi from ireland! too bro

  • @SEANBANOG4 oi from ireland aswell

    (dubliner born and bred)

  • Nazi you prick look at the band ..  you fucking wanker

  • The Spirit of 69.

  • choice mate

  • Go antifa!!!

  • fuck antifa, fuck nazis :>

  • how can they be racist liekek when they sang free nelson mandela some people no brains no idea ha ha

  • haha well if you actually read what i said you'll realise that its you who has no brain ^^

  • @Liekkek Antifa is anti-fascism right....?

  • @Peterpib2Music antifa is antifascists in EU mainly but the name originated in USSR though now its a mainly anarchist organisation& controlled by anarcho punks,skins& students,travellers+trade unionists.Though sadly some in it get into "left right""ira,uvf" struggles&can end up making things worse, especially as mutliculturalism is generally successful they need to be better disciplined,organised& less macho

  • @joni9780 Oh right...thanks for imformin' me.

    

  • rudeboys,rudegirls  go go

  • top vid !! 5*****

  • la neta del planeta

  • 2 tone!

  • Pioneers - Long Shot Kick the Bucket

    Harry J All Stars - The Liquidator

    Mr. Symarip - Skinhead Moonstomp

    Long live the Specials.

  • this is live version the original one started with trumpet live was always keyboard as rico was not always there and not realy a member of the specials good though

  • There's a live version with Rico starting on trombone on the Special a.k.a Live E.P. from 1980.

  • true but special aka were not the specials, think the best is special live in mancheater album, red label lp no gaps in groove one track..........have to say another blast from past recently is skas on 45 by the skadows give it a listen :)

  • @SuperDoubleDD The Specials (sometimes called The Special AKA and formerly The Coventry Automatics) are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England.[1] Their music combined a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy & attitude", & had a "more focused and informed political & social stance" than other ska groups. The group was formed by songwriter/keyboardist Jerry Dammers, with Terry Hall, Lynval Golding & a rhythm section.

  • the specials were never called special aka not even somtimes ? mate i lived and breathed this stuff the specials aka were a later reformed group with couple of original members and called them sefs this.....were as in there current refomed group they called the specials...........specials aka were spin off and should not be mistaken as original group as most were not present in it and did not have there sound...................

  • @SuperDoubleDD, The Specials were founded in England's industrial Coventry and originally called themselves the Automatics. After a dispute with another band of the same name, they changed to The Special AKA the Automatics, which was shortened to The Special AKA--and then simply The Specials, as the band was known from 1978 on.

  • Good sound never kick the bucket

    Ska mi Jah

  • great music! I see a new light shinned on "skinhead" I always presumed them as Nazis out of social ignorance. now i know. love ska! love Jah!

  • @TheRaizen33 the original skinhead culture comes from the jamaican "rude boy" culture, it would be hard to be a nazi knowing this. the nazi- label was aplied much much later

  • @grinsomx Thanks man:)

  • @grinsomx well close. the skinheads were the working-class mods...so this puts them squarely in the 2nd-wave ska (2 tone ska) scene of england. the rich mods had long hair...went on to be new romantics then new-wavers. (notice boy george still rocks the pork pie hat). the working-class mods had shaved heads (better for working, fighting)....and people started calling them skinheads (and lemonheads). they went on to start the punk scene. there were plenty of black skinheads.

  • @jbgandhi2 where exactly did you come up with that load of bollocks?

  • @TheRaizen33 :finally ey? :D

  • @TheRaizen33 Glad to see another person with their eyes open!haha Now to convince another 3 million haha

  • @TheRaizen33

    I used to be a skinhead by choice, now it's by necessity LOL always loved The Specials tho!! BIG UP BOYS JA JA JA LMAO

  • @TheRaizen33 Now that's what I like to hear my friend! A REAL Skinhead could NEVER be a nazi.

  • Wahey

  • love it all brings back the days in beduff in1979

  • triffick ex south london skinhead proper sounds circa 19 8 and mandies!!!

  • To everyone who voted BNP ...Terry and the boys are back to kick yer mindless shite aaalll the way to fuck! DANCE!!!!

  • A little bit of paranoia Coby ?

  • No thanks mate, got some....

  • Oh i know you have some big time..............

  • "Oh i know you have some big time .."

    What the hell is that supposed to mean? Are you fucking daft or something?

  • do you suffer from tourettes syndrome?

  • Do you honestly think that Tourettes sufferers write the same way as they speak?

  • hahaha good call

  • @weecoby3 Ahahaha, stompin' mate!

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  • @weecoby3 ..... Couldnt have put it better myself!! The impact The Specials had in bringing Black and White together at a time the National Front were popular, shouldnt be underestimated!...Excellent days....Ruuudde Boooyyys!!!

  • oooooooooooooh

  • Saw them at Brixton last week - mental!

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  • I HOPE THAT SOMEDAY SPECIALS COME TO ARGENTINA!!

    mods!

  • I'm going to see them in December. I've been to Argentina seven times - B. Aires is superb. River Plate, Gab Sabatini, the Belgrano Sports Club and the best-looking girls in the world ... you are so lucky!

  • This is fukin great!!

    oioi!!

  • this was on the B side of the single "too much too young " ......

  • I can't wait, these guys are playing at T In The Park, i mean i love them and im 14 lol

  • Im 14 too : )

    Went to go see em play in Leeds , Manchester, Sheffield , Coventry and Brixton : D

    FUcking ace!!

  • I didn't know the Specials did a cover for this old Ska classic, thanks! I have about 8 or 9 Specials albums and not one of them has this.

  • thats because it was never an album track..its from an EP they did back in the day..the B side of Too much too young....and i still have the original 7" single... but my all time favourite 7" is Do nothing...the single version is a lot different to the Album version..it sounds a hundred times better....TUNEEEEEEE.

  • Such a good song!

  • awesome

  • R I P Sir JOHN PEEL

  • SIR Peel.

    Couldn't agree more.

  • yeah well said.

  • Saludos desde Chile

    Muy buena la canción

    Viva el SKA!

  • longshot. havent heard this in ages. thanks.

  • NOBODY IS SPECIAL!  Happy days!

  • this sums the 80s up in 5 and a half minutes.Raw and Revolutionary-awesome

  • that was just too cool for words.

  • This is some good shit.

    Real music!

  • Thanks for posting and RIP John Peel.

  • get up and put yer braces together and yer boots on yer feet!

  • When & Where r they playing? Is it the original line-up?