Greatest Hits

Artist: Selecter
Label: EMI Gold
Category: Music

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Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars

2 reviews
Sales Rank: 9592

Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

UPC: 724385202520
EAN: 0724385202520
ASIN: B0000073OU

Release Date: May 13, 1996
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
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Tracks:

•	Three Minute Hero
•	Too Much Pressure
•	Celebrate The Bullet
•	Bomb Scare
•	Deep Water
•	Time Hard
•	They Make Me Mad
•	Bristol And Miami
•	Missing Words
•	James Bond
•	On My Radio
•	Whisper
•	Carry Go Bring Home
•	Murder
•	Washed Up And Left For Dead
•	Last Tango In Dub

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars

On My Stereo May 1, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Like all cut price compilations they are most telling for their omissions rather than what they include. This one has only one glaring omission debut side `The Selecter' the instrumental on the b-side of The Specials 45 `Gangsters' which created the initial excitement to start the band in the first place. Also absent is the classic version of the cover of `Train to Skaville' which with its 12" dub version was definitely a high point of the bands career.

However gripes aside it manages to include the non album singles `On My Radio' and my personal favourite `The Whisper' along with the best eight cuts from the debut LP `Too Much Pressure'. The remaining six songs are drawn from the bands disappointing second LP `Celebrate the Bullet' which is perhaps too many. Still at least it doesn't contain anything from the bands reformation.

The best Selecter compilation available and at a price so low it would be rude not to buy it.

5 out of 5 stars

Select this! November 1, 2002
24 out of 27 found this review helpful

They only really produced the one proper album, and this album is really just the best tracks from that album plus some singles - but what an album. Look at all these great tracks - 'Three Minute Hero', 'Missing Words', 'On My Radio' - all on the radio during the ska revival of the late 70's/early 80's, and along with the Specials, the band that really made it happen.

The multi-racial nature of the band and the diverse influences made it flow smoothly from punk to ska without the punks even caring where it went, or the rude boys (and girls) caring where it came from.

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