The Selecter

The Selecter are often considered 2-Tone's 'also ran's' behind The Specials. They were a top live draw in their own right though, and their 1980 album Too Much Pressure was full of sharp, organ-heavy ska pop such as Three Minute Hero and On My Radio (sampled by Basement Jaxx on their track of the same name).

Celebrate The Bullet (1981), meanwhile, was the ambivalent follow-up that tried to get serious (singer Pauline Black even stopped wearing a porkpie hat!). It was patchier by far, but in the doom-laden title track and Washed Up & Left For Dead they made probably the best music of their career.