one of the first tapes i got was my moms fucked up 2 tone mixtape. the ribbon was patchy from being eaten by hungry tape decks. anyway the first track was The Beat's Too Nice To Talk To, if you dont want to dance when you hear it you are out your damn mind.
The Beat were formed in Birmingham, England in 1978, during a period of high unemployment and social upheaval in the United Kingdom. Ranking Roger, one of the band's vocalists, added a Jamaican vocal flavour to the band's sound with his toasting style. Jamaican and saxophonist Saxa (b. Lionel Martin, 1930, aka Papa Saxa) added a Jamaican ska instrumental sound. Saxa had played saxophone with Prince Buster, Laurel AitkenDesmond Dekker in the first wave of ska (as well as with The Beatles in their Liverpool days). He joined The Beat to record their first single, "Tears of a Clown",] a cover version of the Motown hit by Smokey Robinson.
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