WHAT DID RUDY DO?! Americans React To "The Specials - A Message To You, Rudy"
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The Specials... Ghost Town... got be one of the best of the British Ska / Two Tone revolution
Mirror in the bathroom, too much too young, ruder than you, do rock steady…. Definitely others to look at my friend.
especially since the specials pretty much founded two tone
Rudy is short for rude boy - Jamaican slang for a naughty man/criminal
Totally agree!
Was rudy not a band member that started rows about town
@Ann. U beat me to the explanation. Good call. It basically means Street Boys. Petty Criminals.
@@garethmcgirr6756 the specials covered the original, which was by Dandy Livingstone. I named my son after it, because I knew he was gonna be naughty as soon as he was born lol.
@@ciaraellis9504 haha good name! Not sure were i got my idea was probably drunk loooking at youtube 😅
On My Radio - The Selector. Night Boat to Cairo - Madness. Special Brew - Bad Manners. Mirror in the Bathroom - The Beat. That'll do ya
Busta bloodvessel. Now that’s a reaction I want to see 😂😂😂😂
Ghost town is brilliant. Also check out the band madness.
Ghost Town is a masterpiece, along with Rudi. Also must do Too Much Too Young (live version) + Guns of Navarone. All Specials songs.
Ian Drury and the Blockheads you should definitely check out.
Too much too young is a great track by the specials, l promise.
Try the original by Lloyd chambers called Birth Control
The live version is far superior to the studio version.
The beat mirror in the bathroom is a good tune
The Beat anything really. I love singing Too Nice to Talk to in the car - love that song.
The Specials Much too Young live version 👊
The Specials. From my home town, Coventry. Proud to call the 2 guitarists, Roddy and Lynval, good friends. Never made a bad track.
The Ska and Two Tone sound of the late 70s and early 80s was out of this world along with the Mod revival. A great time to be a teenager in the UK.
Urgh. Absolute legendary tune.
If we are heading down this route, A Town Called Malice, The Jam.
Most anything by The Jam - Going Underground, Down in the Tube Station at Midnight, Start, Eton Rifles etc. Or maybe something by The Clash.
They have to do the jam at some point,an absolute ton of banging tunes!
That’s entertainment.. malice ..beat surrender
I'm going to see the Specials in their Home town of Coventry in September. Check out Ghost Town, it's a classic.
Is that in the old Cathedral?
@@gustoaudio8711 No It's In the Ricoh Arena. It was sold out but they are selling standing now as the Covid restrictions will have been lifted by then.
@@Si_Vert it’s a big one then, it will be epic! I think they did concerts in the old cathedral before, I’m from Coventry but moved away years ago
@@gustoaudio8711 they did a few gigs at the cathedral summer 2019!
Listen to Ghost Town by The Specials. That’s banging tune.
I’m so lucky that my childhood days were in the 1980’s. It was a great decade for music.
This ^ This ^ This ^ This ^ This ^ This ^
And after The Specials, do the gem of Britain,the band "Madness".A bridge between reggae,ska,pop,funk,electro..so interesting.And also "the Blondie" who add up punk and rap to this brilliant mixture..
Madness are awful and cringey.
@@markw6369 They are not King Crimson,but they are definitely funny and innovative for their time.They express very accurately the feeling of Camden Street of their time.As for cringey,one could apply this term to all old music.But even the cringey feeling of old music is better quality then today's autotune times..for me at least.if you like something,you don't give a penny to what cringey really means, because i hear this term a lot.and in the end there is no dispute when we talk about musical or any other personal taste.
Rudy means "Rude boys"....Jamaican gangsters.
Prince Buster,the king of Jamaican ska who most influenced the "2 tone" ska bands did recordings berating their thug culture which many musicians in Jamaica lauded,as with gangsta rap in USA today.
I saw Prince Buster &the Skatalites ,which the trombone player in the video(Rico Rodriguez) was in,in 1980s Reggae Sunsplash festival in London .Excellent,if you like Jamaican ska
They used to tour together ,Suggs equated madness as flying around like idiotic wasps and the specials as cool bees
And what about grey day by madness ( about Coventry ) pretty bleak
@@cherrymcgregor535 Cardiac Arrest? Upbeat, but dark as all holy hell lyrically.
You’ll like Mirror in the Bathroom by the Beat (aka the English Beat stateside)
YES. Any of theirs is cool.
The Beat were great! Think you have to look for The English Beat in the States!
You’ve gotta do Geno by Dexys Midnight Runners!
Yes!!!! Played this to death when it came out
Have you had a look at Madness - One Step Beyond?A fun band.
This is the music I grew up with, for all the crap politicians and social workers tried, the British Ska "wave" of the late 70's and early 80's did more for integration than anything else. It gave black kids and white kids something they both loved and could relate to together. I only realized years later the reason I have so many black friends and why I have a love of Caribbean culture, all started with bands like the Specials, the Beat, Selecter, Madness etc. They made me explore back into the routes of Ska, bands like Toots and the Maytals and Symarip are the standard music blaring through my house every day now. Love the channel, keep on, keeping on guys
This was a message to the “Rude Boys” (skinheads) to stop fighting and accept the “Two Tone” (black and white) attitude.
SKA was my thing! Listen to the specials, the beat (english beat), the selector, the bodysnatchers, madness and anything on the “Two Tone” record label.
If you want to go further back… look at Desmond Dekker and blue beat! Peace
@Jay spot on
Rude boys doesn’t mean skinheads. In an interview the specials said they wanted to cover it and it made sense to them because at the time football (soccer) violence was rising so they covered the song.
Nowt to do with skinheads
@@frostyhkd at the time, the Specials had a lot of issues with skinheads causing problems at their gigs, the song was “aimed” at them.
@@kevinjackson6387 Really? What planet are you living on?
The Specials - Ghost Town lads. Captured a snapshot of the UK at that post industrial time. 👍😀👍
That song is so evocative. I hear it and I am right back there as a kid in 80s Britain
Song of it’s day. Dark grim no future and the riots in the U.K. Superb choice.
Also kinda apt for the lockdown ghost town too😁 life is like oral sex. One slip of the tongue and your in the sh!t
Takes me back to my youth. Madness, Specials, Selecter, The Beat ...etc fun times.
You've reminded me of some excellent bands I've not listened to for ages - I'll remedy this error now, many thanks!
The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom is a great tune.
definitely ;-)
This is 2 Tone, took it off us older skins, pressure drop, long shot kick de bucket, don't call me scar face, Prince buster, ffs where's me docs, keep the faith, spirit of 69, try some northern Soul out lads, Durham Lad here
The specials cover of pressure drop is good but I prefer the clash’s version
Before my time but you should defo listen to Up the Junction by the squeeze. Also the specials were amazing glad you enjoyed it
'Ghost Town' by The Specials is an incredible song as others have mentioned. It totally sums up the mood of Britain during the '80''s, not onlyconvey the country's dark
There is nothing better in this life than Ska, a cold cider, sitting on freshly cut grass and the sun on your face.
Sounds like an awesome summer day!
🙌🙌
You should give madness a listen as well.they are fantastic and funny
definitely :)
100% madness.
The original version was by Dandy Livingstone called Rudy Message to Rudy in 1967
Yeah I prefer this version
@@bradders9743 I also prefer Birth Control by Lloyd Charmers that Too Much Too Young which is based on
Dandy originally wrote this song because other artists were having success in the UK with "Rudeboy" lyrics. He wanted to share in the success but was not happy with the positive encouragement other artists were giving them so his idea was to tell them basically to reign in and calm it down.
I’ve been lucky to see The Specials live...epic, the music was and is legendary but what the music did by bringing races and cultures together was on another level
Definitely give Madness a listen, one of the best bands ever
Ghost Tone is legitimately one of the most uniquely genius songs ever produced. It's not a sweet ditty like this one, but it's kind of on another level genre wise.
This song honestly just works perfectly in the summer. It’s such a tune! Love your reactions guys!
Everyone's right in suggesting "Ghost Town" but for something more ska maybe try "Gangsters"
you nailed it!
@@MacStoker Seconded.
Sooo glad you did Specials. Ghost town. Ska and mod music in Britain was the thing in 70's . Madness have a wide selection of amazing tracks. The Beat , Mirror in the bathroom. Then as a desert course try Bad manners.
Rudy as in RUDE BOI.
The Specials and The Beat were my teenage Idols.
All guys loved the ska stuff. You have to do The Beat, fantastic band from then; do Save it For Later or Best Friend or Mirror in he Bathroom or, or.... so many and all great. (You might find them under "The English Beat"). And you sounded more like Foghorn Leghorn!
This is my time growing up. About 12 maybe 13. 10 miles from coventry
The heart of two tone. Its two tone that got me into reggae ska rocksteady.
Love ska try the selector. 👍
Lads, I may be hungover, but I almost cried watching this. It's so strange to see English speaking people react to things which are so woven into the cloth of what it is to be British.
The keyboardist is Jerry Dammers, the main songwriter of the band, he wrote Free Nelson Mandela etc
One of my favourite bands of all time. Please don’t give up on ska and please try more!!
The specials and the the two tone movement did more for race quality than any government or any media outlet
He is was messing around
Definitely needed a rewatch...R.I.P Terry Hall ✝️🙏
Ska is speeded up Reggae. The reason for the white back drop and the clothes is to promote "TwoTone" the record label and scene. It was part of the 80s Mod revival which included the film Quadrophenia, the clothing was a mix between 60s mod and Jamaican Rude Boy the jacket of choice was the parka or the Harrington, trousers shorter, white socks and doc martins or suits and desert boots. Scooters and Scooter clubs had a massive revival.
The Brit pop scene was a rebirth of this fashion wise.
Rudy/Rudi = Rude boys it's from 60's Jamaican street culture and filtered into British street culture with the migration of Jamaicans to the UK. A Rudeboy is a lover of Two-tone Ska but can also mean a Gangster/thug. The UK has a wealth of Ska in bands like The Selecter, The Specials, The Beat, Bad Manners and Madness. The Ska influence also fed into Punk with bands like The Clash doing a cover of Police and Thieves by Junior Murvin and also songs like Bank Robber, not to mention Stiff Little Fingers cover of Bob Marley's Johnny was. Welcome to the UK Two-tone Ska scene :)
love it, these were my teenage years. Some great suggestions already made. Ghost Town is a banger
After WW2 the UK was in a terrible state. We were economically at rock bottom, huge areas, especially in London, had been bombed to bits. Rationing started in 1939 lasted until 1954. (It was a huge success but was hard. People had starved to death during WWI because we haven't the space to grow all the food we need. The govt in 1939 didn't want there to be hunger so rationing started immediately. (The government was well prepared, with rationing books printed & some food stockpiled in distribution centres months before the war so they hit the ground running when it started. The food was nutritious with enough calories for people to thrive, but the food was often full or unappetising. This is where the myth came from that we have bad food. GIs stationed here took home stories of how bad our food was when really they didn't see our food but rather our rations.) I digress though. We had a lot of work to do, rebuilding & getting the country back on track & also paying off the debts incurred during WW2. We turned to the colonies of our Empire, which still existed at the time, asking for people to emigrate & live in the UK. Many came to 'help the motherland', just as they'd flocked to help during the war. They settled mainly in industrialised cities, like London, Birmingham, Liverpool. In the 1960s & 1970s there was a lot of poverty. We were known as the 'sick man of Europe'. As always when life is hard, people looked for a scapegoat & immigrants were chosen, especially black people. We ended up with racial tensions, boiling over into race riots at times. We saw the rise of hate groups, like the National Front, & later the BNP (British National Party). Even though most people despised these groups & would never consider joining them, racist attitudes were still everywhere. Even on TV, racist jokes were common, an everyday part of life. It was in this environment that The Specials formed, in Birmingham, a city with a lot of black immigrants & just as many problems as everywhere else in the UK, if not more. The group wanted to use their music to bring together the white & black communities. They spent their short career singing songs with this message or about political themes. They split reasonably quickly, active with this line up only between 1977-81. The lead singer, Terry Hall, backing singer Neville Staple, & guitarist, Lynval Holding left to form Fun Boy Three, with a more pop sound. The rest changed their name to The Specials AKA. The biggest hit for The special AKA was 1984's Free Nelson Mandela. Just after this song, Jerry Dammers, the founder, keyboard player & main songwriter dissolved the group & got involved in political activism.
Fun Boy Three had wider musical appeal as they weren't restricted to only ska or 2tone. In the 2 years this group existed, they released 9 singles, 8 of which were huge hits in the UK. They also helped launched the career of Bananarama, the biggest UK girl group of the 1980s. Their biggest hit was 1982's "It Ain't What You Do (It's the Way that you Don't It", with the follow-up single "Really Saying Something" being a hit in the US.
The Specials reformed later but Dammers never rejoined. Unfortunately it's all over now. The singer, Terry Hall, died a couple of days ago. John Bradbury, the drummer, died in 2015, the same year as the trombonist, Emmanuel "Rico" Rodriguez.
Used to follow the boys round the pubs great days great music !
Along with Madness the Specials were the biggest Ska bands in the UK. Madness are often thought of as a 'fun' or 'silly' band but they are fantastic musicians and had some deep heavy stuff too, like the song 'Embarrassment' about a white familys reaction to thier daughter having a mixed race baby.
Excellent choice! This was a brilliant era for British music, socio-economic & -cultural strife finding a release through musical creativity - nothing quite nails it like Ghost Town, highly recommended.
The British version of Ska Music is also known as Two Tone.
Two Tone was the label much like Motown was, then the label essentially became the genre.
Great song! Thanks for this guys! Try "Too much too young" by these guys. Or "Do the dog" Watching from Tasmania, Australia. Just about to go say goodnight to my daughter and enjoyed seeing this before I've gotta go. Cheers
Rudy refers to Rudeboys the subculture of ska imported from Jamaica. They had short crew cuts, snappy clothes and wore loafers though some crossed over to the skinhead look with doc martens.
The man with no legs = Jerry Dammers. One of a kind. Genius song writer and still keeping on!
I remember seeing the Specials in the early eighties and can promise that opened my eyes at the age of 13….I’ve never seen so many fights…. It looks very happy looking back but this was in the dirty period of Thatcher, the NF and massive unemployment. So we shaved our heads and danced 😊
At a stretch Rudy might have been responsible for `Much too Young`😂 another Specials belter.
The song `Ghost Town` is about their town, which is my town.
wasn't specifically about Cov, but might as well of! 😂
Hi guys👍Rudy is originated in 1960s Jamaican st culture still used today with variations such as rudeboy, rudi it's basically a song about boys/girls making careless decisions with there lives and to behave or face the consequences✌️🇬🇧✌️🇺🇸
I love you two finding out about so many good British bands. Two tone came out after punk/mods stuff and was anti-racism due to how bad it was then, the National Front were big, race riots in the major cities etc. Watch 'Breaking Glass' with Hazel O'conner and it will give you a good glimps into the time (late 70's / early 80's) and go frakin grim it was in the UK.
The keyboard player is the songwriting genius Jerry Dammers, central to what made the Specials special.
Listen to it full blast on a summer day with a beer in hand laying on the grass in your garden 😂👍
Hey, so glad to see you enjoying this, The Specials, Madness, The Selector, UB40 all bands I think your'd enjoy!
Further Specials songs that are as great as Rudi: Ghost Town, Too Much Too Young (live version) + Guns of Navarone. All bangers.
RIP TERRY HALLD DIED YESTERDAY, U MUSIC WILL LIVE FOREVER
This is British youth back in the day. The landscape of the Uk was changing.Working class, political, job opportunities,black,white, mod,skins….all interwoven. Popped up all over the country. You’re correct about groups of friends. Most of the bands were just groups of friends who picked up instruments. A lot of music around that time were like branches coming off the same tree. Styles,attitude and values. Some tune though.
I am going to see the Specials in August at Margate. The 'first wave of ska' was in the early sixties in Jamaica. The music then changed to rocksteady which has a slightly slower beat and then around 1968 reggae was born - you could say that ska is the 'grandparent' of reggae. The 'second wave of ska' occurred in post-punk Britain between 1979-1981. The Specials most famous song is probably 'Ghost Town' and reached number one at a time when Prince Charles and Lady Diana married but there were also serious riots in a lot of British Cities due to recession and the despair of the young at the time and seemed to capture that moment in history. I do like 'Gangsters' which was their take on a record by Prince Buster. Other ska groups from that period were The Selecter, Madness, Bad Manners and The Beat who you may know better as The British Beat as there was an American group called The Beat. The 'third wave of ska' occurred in the nineties in America and probably the most well known group to come out of that was No Doubt whose lead singer was Gwen Stefani. I believe they were great fans of Madness. I have also watched Madness at various venues and they are probably best known in America for 'Our House' but I prefer 'One Step Beyond' 'Madness' which is another cover of a Prince Buster record and gave the group its name, 'Baggy Trousers' and they always end their gigs with 'Night Boat to Cairo' - Great songs.
You've gotta do "Ghost Town" lads. Get the lyrics up as well, they fit really well in this covid world we're living in. Love your channel 👍
I recommend Gangsters by The Specials. Thanks gents!
Excellent ! Some 2nd Wave UK Ska...
The Second Wave can also be called "2 Tone", due to the strong contingency of mixed-race within the bands.
2 Tone is also the main Record Label.
Though, one of the problems with Ska was there where so many members in a band, that there where alot of wages to payout.
2 Tone is also much aligned with the 70's UK Punk Rock Scene too. The Clash played quite-a-bit of the Ska / Reggae Tunes. Quite a few Punk Band play / played Ska Tunes.
Actually, the very first Record I ever bought was The Specials "Ghost Town"👻
Two Tone Ska Tunes --
The Specials "Gangsters"
The Specials "Ghost Town"
The Beat "Mirror In The Bathroom"
The Selector "Too Much Pressure"
The Specials AKA "Free Nelson Mandela"
The Clash "Bank Robber"
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I think that's the first time I've seen you watch out the video till the end... you almost looked like you where hitmitized by the song....... with really big smiles on your faces..... lol did you have a good time boys.
The guy with the trombone is Rico, as mentioned in Ian Dury's Reasons to be cheerful (part three).
'Gangsters', the Specials first hit. Killer tune!
The Selecter are a 2 Tone ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in mid-1979. seen them live once, my house less than only 4 miles from there home town/city Coventry so looking forward to see them play again sometime. The Selecter - Too Much Pressure - ruclips.net/video/sZmWGJDsBWs/видео.html
Please do Idles-"never fight a man with a perm"
preferbly live at glasto with the crowd going off!
I was 20 years old when this album reached Regina, Saskatchewan around 1980. Ska changed my world. Thanks for sharing.
Take a look at Madness and The specials . I was lucky enough to grow up with these bands. Early to mid 80’s was great.
The bloke on keyboards is Jerry Dammers, he was also the founder of Two Tone records.
Great reaction lads. A good suggestion might be Embarrassment by Madness and if you do it then definitely read on Wiki what the song is about, fkin awesome that they had the balls to do it.. I agree with the genre thing, I mostly like thrash, death etc BUT also love a bit of Madness and a lot of Kate Bush (please do Breathe by her and definitely read what it's about too) :)
The Specials are iconic here in the UK! You need to hear 'Ghost Town'
Too Much Too Young is my favourite Specials song and Night boat To Cairo is my favourite Madness song
Yay, my two favourite youtubers reacting to my fav Specials song! Listen to Ghost Town, you won't be disappointed.
Check out “Hit me with your Rhythm Stick” by Ian Drury and the Blockheads.
Rudy is a Rudeboy - Jamaican delinquents and streetgangs in the 1960s who invented the skinhead look - boots, braces, buzzcuts - which British working class young people then adopted in fraternity with Afro-Caribbean immigrant neighbours and friends, partly as a rejection of the scruffiness of the hippy look being adopted by middle class kids at the same time. Both skinhead and ska songs refer to rudeboys habitually, or they did in the first wave and this, the British ska revival led by the Two-Tone record label, aka the 2nd wave.
Rude boy, rudeboy, rudie, rudi, and rudy are slang terms that originated in 1960s Jamaican street culture, and that are still used today. In the late 1970s, there was a revival in England of the terms rude boy and rude girl, among other variations, being used to describe fans of two-tone ska.
Ghost town.... And when you get a chance - back to Manic Street Preachers, you stole the sun from my heart (the video)
Gotta go for Too Much Too Young by The Specials (or The Special AKA as they released this under) next. Then go for One Step Beyond by Madness. You won't regret it! I promise!
Nice reaction as usual and a good genre to get into.
Ska, reggae, jazz, soul - Paolo Nutini - Iron Sky - live abbey road session - has it all , an old song but it is so fitting for these crazy days. Guitars, brass band, amazing backing singers and of course - Charlie Chaplin
Nite Klub...... PLEASE!!!
Roll on September can't wait to see Terry again 😍😍
Look up Bad Manners. They were on the scene with the likes of the Specials and Madness. Great Ska band and more upbeat The lead singer is called Buster Bloodvessel (awesome name).
Lovin' you're work fellas. Back in 1980 the Specials invited the Go-Gos to open on their UK tour. From this Jane Wiedlin and Terry Hall wrote 'Our Lips Are Sealed' and both bands released their own versions, for me I think I prefer the Go-Gos version but both are great tracks. You should also checkout 'Mirror in the bathroom' by the Beat.
Both original Jamaican Ska, and British ska are well worth getting into.
A whole different culture and dance style grew with it.
The dark side was the skinheads who caused chaos , also known as rude boys ( Rudy ).
You asked for it, Toots and the Maytals... classic.
Rip Terry Hall who passed away recently.let his music live on
New sub, I've heard this song since I was a young lad in 80s
YES!!! The Specials. Try the tracks Gangsters , Ghost Town and Nightclub. Other bands are Selecter , Madness, The Beat and Bad Manners
"gangsters"
is the Specials! track you need in your life..
and try not to dance!
RIP Terry Hall (lead singer)
The specials are performing live at the end of the month near me in Coventry.
Ghost town is one of my favourite song by these guys.