3/3/23 YELLOW VINYL The most inventive, assured, and playful debut in hip-hop history, also expanded the palette of sampling material with a kaleidoscope of sounds and references culled from pop, soul, disco, and even country music.
Generation X's single 'Your Generation' was released in Sept. 1977. That got them on BBC TV's Top of The Pops, and then came 'Wild Youth' and 'Ready Steady Go'. All of which are in this box set based around their self-titled debut album from 1978.
Originally formed in 1977, as The Coventry Automatics, The Specials combined Jamaican ska and Rocksteady mixed with the energy of punk, launching a whole Ska Revival and helped likeminded bands Madness, The Beat, The Selecter to release their first single
