My favourite track on Special Beat Service is Sole Salvation - just seems so effortless like all their best stuff.
Love that Blur track, by the way.
― Daniel Giraffe, Friday, 1 April 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Songwriting credits on "The Great Escape" are kind of "blurred" in that they are all credited as writers of all songs, but I would guess Alex James had more input on "Face Away" than most other non-instrumentals.
― You're Twistin' My Melody Man! (Geir Hongro), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Blur's credits usually ran "Lyrics Albarn, Music Albarn, Coxon, James, Rowntree"
Excepting stuff solely written by Coxon or James...
― Mark G, Friday, 1 April 2011 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
Mark is right. Albarn got nearly all the songwriting credits but shared 50% of it with the rest of the band.
― ford lopatin (dog latin), Friday, 1 April 2011 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
is the new one worth hearing at all?
― we're far from the challops now (voodoo chili), Monday, 18 February 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
Sure, it has its moments, and is an enjoyable listen, but it doesn't add to their legacy or anything.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 18 February 2019 20:03 (five years ago) link
It's up on Spotify if you have any access to that.
― Stevolende, Monday, 18 February 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
Another vote for "enjoyable but inessential"
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 18 February 2019 21:54 (five years ago) link
I couldn't really tell from hearing it on Spotify whether there was a single backing band line up throughout. Or the 3 original Specials who've been doing various interviews recently plus various pick up backing members depending on the track.
They get further into funk than I think they did previously.
― Stevolende, Monday, 18 February 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link