Release Date: Apr 23, 2021
Discs: 3
THE SELECTER’s debut album ‘Too Much Pressure’ was originally released in February 1980, to critical acclaim and launched the band onto the world stage.
Releasing their debut release was the AA side with The Special AKA’s ‘Gangsters’, which launched Jerry’s Dammers 2 tone Record label in the summer of 1979. At the time the band only consisted of Neol Davies and John Bradbury (later of The Specials) before quickly forming a full band by the summer of 1979. They released the follow up single, ‘On My Radio’, which reached No. 6 in the UK charts before releasing their debut album in February 1980. Three further hit singles were released in 1980, ‘Three Minute Hero’, ‘Missing Words’ and ‘The Whisper'.
This new Deluxe Edition of ‘Too Much Pressure’ has been expanded to a 3CD set. CD1 contains a new remaster of the original album. CD2 collects all the non-album singles, b-sides, John Peel session and some previously unreleased rarities. CD3 features a newly mixed concert recorded at Tiffany’s in Coventry on the Two Tone Tour in November 1979, along with some tracks recorded in 1980.
This has been packaged in a clamshell box set with a 20 page booklet featuring new liner notes from Daniel Rachel, including interviews with band members and the producers involved.
CD One:
Three Minute Hero
Everyday
They Make Me Mad
Missing Words
Danger
Street Feeling
My Collie (Not A Dog)
Too Much Pressure
Murder
Out On The Streets
Carry Go Bring Come
Black And Blue
James Bond
CD Two:
The Selecter
On My Radio
Too Much Pressure [B-side Version]
Street Feeling [Outtake]
They Make Me Mad [John Peel Session 22/11/79]
Carry Go Bring Come [John Peel Session 22/11/79]
Danger [John Peel Session 22/11/79]
Street Feeling [John Peel Session 22/11/79]
Three Minute Hero [Alternative Version] *
Missing Words [7” Version]
Carry Go Bring Come [Live]
A Live Injection/Mony Mony
Too Much Pressure [Soundcheck] *
The Whisper
Train To Skaville [7” Version]
Cool Blue Lady [Early Version] *
Train To Skaville [Extended Version]
On My Radio [Ready Mix Radio]
CD Three:
‘Live In Coventry 1979'*
Soulful 1 / Murder
Out On The Streets
James Bond
My Collie (Not A Dog)
Street Feeling
Everyday
The Selecter
Danger
They Make Me Mad
Carry Go Bring Come
On My Radio
A Live Injection / Too Much Pressure
‘Live In Hemel Hempstead 1980' *
Three Minute Hero
Black And Blue
Missing Words
Train To Skaville
* Previously unreleased.
