I Just Can’t Stop It

The English Beat

1980: IRS 44797 0606 2

1. Mirror in the Bathroom
2. Hands Off…She’s Mine
3. Two Swords
4. Twist & Crawl
5. Tears of a Clown
6. Rough Rider
7. Click Click
8. Ranking Full Stop
9. Big Shot
10. Whine & Grine
    Stand Down Margaret
11. Noise in This World
12. Can’t Get Used to Losing You
13. Best Friend
14. Jackpot

Magical sounds from my adolescence. I only wish I could have been hearing them closer to the source, not in a dinky nowhere town where such records were only to be found at a divy one-room record store and where the music was only played on the one college radio station. It was music that got me thinking that there must be more interesting places to be, places where exciting music like that came naturally to someone. Not Walla Walla, that’s for sure.

HOME   •   MUSIC

Comments © 2005 Mark Ellis Walker, except as noted, and no claim is made to the images and quoted lyrics.