DeMille gave his audience what they expected from an "A" picture. He painstakingly produced authentic looking packages in which to wrap his vision - embellished by the "glitz" of what was, then, the "ideal" Hollywood portrait: Bluer than blue skies shimmering, jewel-encrusted costumes out-sized architecture dramatically convenient thunderbolts and perfectly lovely female leads, with make-up invariably and predictably un-smudged. America had an identity then.DeMille's vision was, always, of "an ideal". Today, it's students "shooting-up" in parking lots or shooting down their classmates in the halls. The biggest problem in schools was students chewing gum in class. there were virtues too, many reflected in the writing and performances of "The Ten Commandments": Virtues like courage, strength of character, personal honor, and endurance were paramount no pun intended. Polio, the continuing menace of poverty, the material and spiritual separateness of what we called "colored people", Communism, etc. For many, I'm sure, the nostalgia extends beyond the film itself.There were problems in the mid-fifties, as in every decade since the real Moses came down from Mount Sinai. Retrieved 4 January 2020.Sense of nostalgia that accompanies any new viewing of this one-of-a-kind Victorian pageant. ^ "End of Year Album Chart Top 100 – 2019".^ "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100".^ "Longplay-Chartverfolgung at Musicline" (in German).^ "Ultratop.be – The Specials – Encore" (in French).^ "Ultratop.be – The Specials – Encore" (in Dutch)."Saffiyah Khan: From EDL viral photo to The Specials". "British Ska-Punk Legends the Specials Return in Top Form on "Encore" ". Saffiyah Khan – guest vocals (10 Commandments).Nikolaj Torp Larsen – keyboards, vocals.Tracks 2-3, 2-6, 2-8, 2-11 Recorded at The Troxy, London " All The Time In The World" ( Hal David, John Barry) – 3:25." 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.