Today's Specials

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Today's Specials
Cover album by The Specials
Released	May 14, 1996
Genre	Ska
Label	Virgin
Producer	Tom Lowry, Neville Staple, Stoker
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The Specials chronology
Too Much Too Young: The Gold Collection (1996) Today's Specials (1996) Guilty 'Til Proved Innocent! (1998)

Today's Specials is a cover album by The Specials, released in 1996 (see 1996 in music). It is the first studio album by the group since 1984 although not in the full original line-up.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Take Five" (Paul Desmond) - 3:56
2. "Pressure Drop" (Toots Hibbert) - 4:18
3. "Hypocrite" (Bob Marley) - 3:25
4. "Goodbye Girl" - 3:57
5. "A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You" (Neil Diamond) - 4:32
6. "Time Has Come" - 5:09
7. "Dirty Old Town" (Ewan MacColl) - 3:33
8. "Somebody Got Murdered" (The Clash) - 3:06
9. "Shanty Town 007" (Desmond Dekker/Leslie Kong) - 3:57
10. "Simmer Down" (Marley) - 3:46
11. "Maga Dog" (Peter Tosh) - 2:54
12. "Bad Boys" (Beckford Bailey) - 5:08

[edit] Personnel

• Neville Staple - vocals, producer
• Roddy Byers - vocals, guitar
• Lynval Golding - guitar, vocals, harmonica, mixing
• Horace Panter - bass guitar
• Mark Adams - organ, keyboards, backing vocals, programming, mixing
• Adam Birch - trombone, trumpet, horn, flugelhorn
• Aitch Hyatt - drums, backing vocals
• Sheena Staple - backing vocals
• Stoker - producer, mixing
• Tom Lowry - producer, programming, engineer
• Jim Lansberry - programming, mixing, engineer