
" Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think)" ( Carl Sigman, Herb Magidson) – 3:33." Too Much Too Young" ( Jerry Dammers) – 2:04." Redemption Song" ( Bob Marley) – 3:53."Friday Night, Saturday Morning" ( Terry Hall) – 3:16."Nite Klub" ( Horace Panter, Jerry Dammers, John Bradbury, Lynval Golding, Neville Staple, Rod Byers, Terry Hall) – 4:49." A Message to You, Rudy" ( Robert Thompson) – 2:51." Gangsters" ( Horace Panter, Jerry Dammers, John Bradbury, Lynval Golding, Neville Staple, Rod Byers, Terry Hall) – 3:13.
"The Life and Times (Of a Man Called Depression)" – 5:27Ī deluxe version was released including a CD of live recordings. "Embarrassed by You" (Hall, Panter, Golding, Torp Larsen, Mark Adams) – 3:05. "10 Commandments" (Hall, Panter, Golding, Torp Larsen, Saffiyah Khan) – 3:53. "The Lunatics" ( Neville Staple, Hall, Golding) – 3:35. " Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys" ( Eddy Grant) – 3:17. The album entered at number 1 on the UK Album's Chart after its first week of release, falling to 5 the week after and spending 9 weeks on the charts.Īll tracks written by Terry Hall, Horace Panter, Lynval Golding, and Nikolaj Torp Larsen except where indicated. The Specials, in a different incarnation, previously released a cover of "Blam Blam Fever" on 2000's studio album Skinhead Girl. The album features three covers of older songs " Black Skin Blue Eyed Boys" (originally by The Equals), "Blam Blam Fever" (originally by The Valentines) and "The Lunatics" (originally by Hall and Lynval Golding's group Fun Boy Three, released in 1981 as "The Lunatics (Have Taken Over the Asylum)"). It is their first studio album of original songs since 1998's Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!, and their first new material with vocalist Terry Hall since 1981's " Ghost Town" single.
Encore is the eighth studio album by the English ska revival band The Specials.