#dave wakeling

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Dave Wakeling *February 19, 1956

Ranking Roger

February 22, 1963 – March 26, 2019

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🌈‘80s Pride - Part 3🌈

Part 1

Part 2

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"Tenderness" is a song by English new wave band General Public, released as a single from their debut studio album All the Rage (1984). It slowly climbed the charts in the US, peaking at #27 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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The Beat - Two Swords (1980) Lionel Augustus Martin (Saxa) / Andy Cox / David Steele / Everett Morton / Roger Charlery ( Ranking Roger) / Dave Wakeling from: "I Just Can't Stop It" (LP|CD) (Deluxe Edition | CD: Disc1) (2012)

Ska | Ska Revival | 2 Tone | New Wave | Anti-Nazi

Tumblr (left click = play) (VBR)

Album Personnel: Dave Wakeling: Lead Vocals / Rhythm Guitar Ranking Roger: Toasting / Vocals Andy Cox: Lead Guitar Saxa: Saxophone David Steele: Bass Everett Morton: Drums

Bob Sargeant: Keyboards

Produced by Bob Sargeant

Album Recorded: @ The Roundhouse Studios in London, England UK during 1980

Album Released: on May 22, 1980 Go-Feet Records (UK) Sire Records (US)

Reissues: I.R.S. Records | Edsel Classic Records | Shout! Factory Records

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"I've never been one for the punch-up But look, I really hate those Nazis A certain something starts to wind me up How could I hate them oh so violently" - 'Two Swords', The Beat (1980)

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From a 2023 interview with Dave Wakeling of the Beat (link) - I really like how he describes Terry Hall's stage presence here

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stuff from a while ago

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Happy birthday to Dave Wakeling of the English Beat!

Here's a little English Beat tribute from FHA with "Save It For Later" in honor of his birthday

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Flexipop #14/ Welcome to the Working Week

Featuring:

Dave Wakeling of the Beat

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“Our songs were meant to be warnings, and now they’ve happened.”

Dave Wakeling joins me to talk about The English Beat’s reissues, the madness of ticket prices, and why he kept some of his best songs for himself.

Hit 👍 if Mirror in the Bathroom still gets you moving, ❤️ if Dave Wakeling’s voice is ska perfection, 🥰 if you love both The Beat and General Public, or share if you think ska never got the respect it deserved.

#TheEnglishBeat #MirrorInTheBathroom #SkaRevival #TwoToneLegend

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Dave Wakeling - I Want More - 1991

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The Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom (1980) (AKA The English Beat) Dave Wakeling / Everett Morton / Dave Steele / Roger Charlery / Andy Cox from: "I Just Can't Stop It" (LP) "Mirror in the Bathroom" / "Jackpot" (Single)

Ska | Ska Revival | 2 Tone | New Wave

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Dave Wakeling: Lead Vocals | Rhythm Guitar Saxa: Saxophone Andy Cox: Lead Guitar Ranking Roger: Toasting | Vocals David Steele: Bass Everett Morton: Drums

Produced by Bob Sargeant

Album Recorded: @ The Roundhouse Studios and @ The Ridge Farm Studios in London, England UK during early 1980

Releases: on April 25, 1980 (Single) in May of 1980 (LP) Go-Feet Records (UK) (Arista Records) Sire Records (US) I.R.S. Records (1990 CD Reissue) Edsel Records (2121 CD Reissue)

The Beat: Mirror In The Bathroom

[happylikeasadsong]

save it for later x sydney's decision

so we all know the song save it for later is everywhere this season so logically i was paying close attention to whenever the song would come out and try and read more into it.

i'll be analyzing eddie vedder's cover, released exclusively for the bear season 3.

let's dive in

of all scenes where they played it in, the one that really stuck to me was when it played in the bg while she was having a coffee with shapiro and he was offering her the job.

i saw this meta doing a deep dive in the fourth wall theory by @brokenwinebox that's based on @thoughtfulchaos773 meta on it too and they mentioned the songfacts interview where dave wakeling explains what the song is about and i couldn’t help but be even more intrigued by the meaning behind the scene in episode 7.

“So it was about being lost … and you'd have all sorts of people telling you this, that, and the other, and advising you, and it didn't actually seem like they knew any better. So it was like, 'Keep your advice to yourself. Save it for later.'”

so we know syd has been feeling under appreciated ever since carmy decided to take over the menu and started disregarding most of her ideas, if not all of them.

we see her talk to all people involved. we see her having her dad say the partnership agreement is flimsy, nat and cicero both having a friendly chat with her before telling her to sign the agreement, pete says is a good thing, carmy is being carmy, and then shapiro adding to her anxiety saying he wants her to run this new place and it all sounds incredibly good, but he plans to move fast…

it should be an easy decision if you look objectively at the situation. she’ll be getting a better pay, benefits, creative control and freedom to do as she likes, she’ll be seen as a partner from the jump, no circling around it, no doubts. chef adam shapiro wants her.

but chef adam shapiro doesn’t know her. doesn’t know her story or how she’s like. he doesn’t know about her failed business. and he definitely doesn’t know her history with carmy.

so for him i think this is a chance to have the cdc who’s working with carmy berzatto, the prodigy chef. it would look wonderful on paper. but he doesn’t know her.

sydney on the other hand has seen multiple articles on the near where they only show or talk about carmy’s accomplishments and gives only him the praise both of them should be getting.

i think that having her name erased from the restaurant she put her blood, sweat and tears in cause carmy was nowhere to be found, frustrates her even more (deservedly!).

sydney's lost. she doesn't know what to do or which path to follow.

all of these people around her don’t know what’s she’s going through because she won’t talk to anybody about it. she’s saving it for later, at her own demise.

she’s being pulled in all these different directions and she’s lost, she doesn’t want to leave her found family, but the offer is an opportunity for a fresh start in a place where she knows she’s gonna be running things as she sees fit and have the freedom to allow her creativity to flourish again.

cry, cry but i don’t need my mother just hold my hand while i come on a decision on it

this line makes me think she will eventually open up to someone that will help her once she finally makes a decision.

which can be her dad. he’s been calling and asking her about it and she said it herself her dad is the person in her life she can count on.

i don't know how i’m meant to act with all of you lot, sometimes, i don’t try

she gets tired of trying to reach carmy so she just detaches herself to make it through the day. we see that happening in ‘doors’, ‘violet’ and ‘legacy’ where she just accepts his final words and moves on, even though she’s frustrated.

sooner or later, your legs give way, you hit the ground save it for later, don’t run away, don’t let me down

we see her reaching her lowest in the last episode. quite literally, her legs give way and she hit the ground, cause she’s been bottling up all these feelings for so long that she cannot hold it in anymore.

we see flashbacks in her mind showing the family she found in the restaurant, she saw them grow so much with her these past months, they’re her family and she doesn’t want to runaway and let them down.

don't run away, don't run away, don't run away x4

this part of the song you can feel the desperation on eddie's voice, it's not an easy decision to make, running away.

she doesn’t want to let anybody down. that’s her biggest fear. so she says she’s gonna think about chef adam’s offer, she nods in agreement when nat and cicero tells her to sign the partnership agreement. she agrees when pete says it’s a good thing cause she doesn’t want to let anybody down, she can’t. and this takes a toll on her we see manifest in her panic attack.

for the second part of the song is where my delusion swoops in lmaoo

now, as i said before, the person who’s she’s finally gonna open up about her struggles can be her dad, but reading the lyrics, makes me want it so bad to be carmy.

maybe im projecting too much, idk, but it really fits them so perfectly.

two dozen other stupid reasons why we should suffer for this? don't bother trying to explain them just hold my hand while I come to a decision on it

i don't know why, but these lines makes me imagine a scene where they’re finally talking about their feelings and she express her frustration with carmy for the past months, she talks about how leaving is the best decision objectively and gives him her reasons.

she seems set on finally making a decision, but she needs him to help her through it cause this is the hardest thing she ever had to do.

she’s letting him down and she’s running away because this is the best thing for her right now.

why don’t you hold me? why don't you and kiss me now? why don't you just hold me?

as a hardcore sydcarmy i’m holding out hope for that big sydcarmy fight that’s for sure coming the next season so that we can finally see how they react to one another when they finally say what they’ve been meaning to say all this time.

hold me and kiss me now run away, run away and let me down x4

in this final part of the song eddie's voice sounds like he came to acceptance that she's leaving. he just needs to hold and kiss her to see her out.

maybe carmy will understand her reasonings and will let her know it's okay for her to go and find better things for her and though i'm a firm believer she's not leaving in the end, i think this would be a nice alternative solution to her problem if it comes to it.

sydney's so afraid of letting everybody down that she never thought they might want her see her happy in other places and that that's okay to leave. i don't think she has considered this option yet.

anyways this is just my first analysis on it, i may have to revisit once i think more on it. i'd love to know if anyone has thoughts on it too, i'd love to read them!

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"She's Having A Baby" - Dave Wakeling

[julio-viernes]

Calores para Dolores. Nunca presté demasiada atención a Big Audio Dynamite, ahora escucho su primer LP por recomendación de Tormento Caribeño y se lo estoy agradeciendo. Con la espantosa canícula me he puesto con el grupo que hizo Mick Jones tras ser expulsado de los Clash. En realidad, lo primero que hizo fue crear General Public con Ranking Roger y Dave Wakeling de The Beat, pero ese no era su grupo, y en mitad de la grabación se fue con Don Letts y compañía. "This Is Big Audio Dynamite" no es ninguna maravilla, pero es un entretenido elepé que tiene el inconveniente de un abuso de sampleo a veces de un modo tontaina y patocho (no al nivel de la ultra patochada de S. S. Sputnik) que estropea en parte el disco. En cualquier caso lo que hizo Jones me parece fresco y atrevido, y aunque suene en 24 un tanto trasnochado, Jones le ganó con claridad la partida a Joe Strummer con aquella cosa en LP que sacó a nombre de Clash en 1985. Esto es mejor, más lanzado, más vacilón, más divertido y bailón. En cierto modo creo que me gusta por la misma razón que me encanta "More Specials". "The Bottom Line", por supuesto, le debe todo al "White Lines" de Grandmaster Flash.