Pointed Sticks – Perfect Youth

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This 1980 release from Vancouver’s Pointed Sticks hits all the right places in the New Wave scene.  It’s got the beat, pace & sound that made it one of my most played records at the time.  When I play it now, it’s the whole album, not a song or two….and …

The English Beat – I Just Can’t Stop It

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The English Beat’s first album came out in 1980.  The English Beat (“English” was added to the band’s name in North America to avoid confusion with an existing American band named “The Beat”) was part of the second wave of ska music in England, along with contemporaries The Specials,  Madness, …