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The Selecter

The Selecter, a ska revival band from Coventry, England, formed in the late 1970s as one of the essential bands of the British ska movement. The profilic lead singer is Pauline Black. The Selecter are known for hits as 'On My Radio', 'Too Much Pressure', 'Missing Words', 'Three Minute Hero' and 'Celebrate The Bullet'. The Selecter featured a racially mixed line up, and the name of the band is a reference to the Jamaican word for a music selecter, known elsewhere as the DJ. Read more on Last.fm

Track: Too Much Pressure

Album: Too Much Pressure

Album Details:
Album Too Much Pressure
Label
Release Date 1980-02-23
Total Tracks 13
Track Listing:
1Three Minute Hero03:03
2Time Hard03:06
3They Make Me Mad02:49
4Missing Words03:24
5Danger02:40
6Street Feeling03:15
7My Collie (Not a Dog)02:47
8Too Much Pressure03:51
9Murder02:41
10Out on the Streets04:30
11Carry Go Bring Home02:57
12Black and Blue03:20
13James Bond02:18

Most Played Tracks as Scrobbled to Last.fm

# Title Plays
1On My Radio
364768
2Too Much Pressure
197975
3Three Minute Hero
160780
4Missing Words
136762
5James Bond
87955
6Celebrate The Bullet
79502
7Murder
52097
8The Selecter
46253
9They Make Me Mad
43152
10My Collie (Not A Dog)
37662

Other Album Releases:

Human Algebra
Celebrate The Bullet (Deluxe Edition) [2022 Remaster]
Too Much Pressure [Deluxe Edition]
Live At The Roundhouse
Daylight
Subculture
String Theory
'Made In Britain'
BBC in Concert (15 December 1979)
The Selecter's The Tide Is High

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