Artist	Song
The English Beat	Big Shot
from I Just Can't Stop It (2004)
The English Beat	Sole Salvation
from Special Beat Service (2004)
The English Beat	Rough Rider
from I Just Can't Stop It (2004)
The English Beat	Drowning
from Beat This! The Best of The English Beat (2004)
The English Beat	Click Click
from I Just Can't Stop It (2004)
The English Beat	Two Swords
from I Just Can't Stop It (2004)
The English Beat	Walkaway
from Wha'ppen? (2004)
Fine Young Cannibals	Suspicious Minds
from Fine Young Cannibals (2010)
The English Beat	Spar Wid Me
from Special Beat Service (2004)
The English Beat	Pato and Roger a Go Talk
from Special Beat Service (2004)
Fine Young Cannibals	Johnny Come Home
from Fine Young Cannibals (2010)

Comment:

Like so many groundbreaking bands, the English Beat wasn’t built to last. After three albums they literally split, dividing up into Fine Young Cannibals and General Public. Both bands pursued a poppier direction, with an R&B twist whose roots can be heard in the final Beat album’s pulsing, Motown-motivated “Sole Salvation.” Former Beat frontmen Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger scored in ’84 with the smooth-but-snappy bounce of General Public’s “Tenderness,” while ex-Beats Andy Cox and David Steele recruited soul-powered singer Roland Gift and soared to #1 with the postmodern R&B of both “Good Thing” [i]and[/i] “She Drives Me Crazy.”

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