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Thanks for the well written article. I love the original saw it on MTV when I was starting to get into New Wave and punk and only recently got on a jag of listening to it again.
A really beautiful and off-kilter song. I only just discovered Townshend's cover version and have to agree with Neil that it's mix of both restraint and bite make it a powerful version. The original is rather joyous, the cover more towards melancholic anger. It's rare that a song that can work in quite disparate registers like that. Post a Comment. The Beat's third album 'Special Beat Service' remains the most ambitious and diverse of the three records they released between and While both 'I Just Can't Stop It' and 'Whappen' stayed true to the band's manifesto of mixing politics with punky reggae and world beat sounds, by early things were changing and they were moving into the realm of personal politics with their third record.
While their 2-Tone brethren were quickly falling by the wayside and imploding, The Beat and to a certain extent Madness , seemed prepared for the change in listeners tastes. While there were certainly internal issues within The Beat and some resistance from certain band members about their new direction, the band embarked on a musical journey that left their frenetic punky reggae and tropical sounds behind to embrace guitar driven pop music.
While there were still flourishes of ska, reggae and Caribbean sounds, they now added touches of color rather than dominating the sound. While the band was struggling to gain traction with their new sound in the UK, it was a very different story in the U.
Two songs in particular resonated with American audiences -- 'Save It For Later' and 'I Confess' -- though they could not have been farther afield from what audiences and critics had come to expect from them. These were not ska songs by any stretch of the imagination, but they were brilliant pop songs and soon took on a life of their own that established the band in the U. The videos for both songs were played widely on MTV and they soon entered the American music consciousness.
It seemed to connect with listeners in a way that earlier songs by the band had not. The song sounded like the love child of The Byrds and The Velvet Underground and included double entendre and innuendo that was novel for a song on the pop charts. He replied, "I wrote it when I was a teenager. I wrote it before The Beat started. And it was about turning from a teenager to someone in their 20s, and realizing that the effortless promise for your teenage years was not necessarily going to show that life was so simple as you started to grow up.
So it was about being lost, about not really knowing your role in the world, trying to find your place in the world. So, you couldn't find your own way in the world, 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. However, like any great song, 'Save It For Later' soon took on a life of its own separate from the band.
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