Label: Chrysalis
Release date: 11.11.2022
Format Info: CLEAR VINYL
The Selecter's second album, Celebrate The Bullet, was released in February 1981 as the follow up to the successful 2 Tone debut album Too Much Pressure. Switching labels to Chrysalis Records, the band returned to On My Radio producer Roger Lomas, moving into a more melodic slower pace, whilst keeping their lyrical commentary on racial and social issues. Original members Desmond Brown and Charley Anderson departed before the recording began, with Lomas and Norman Watt- Ray (Ian Dury) helping on bass before new members James Mackie and Adam Williams joined to complete the recording. This forgotten classic from the 2 Tone era is a timely reissue and will give time for a re-evaluation.
Hugely under-rated second album by the 2-Tone pioneers. I saw them live in early 1981 around the time of the album's release. My first ever gig - happy memories.
LP Tracks: (Who Likes) Facing Situations (2022 Remaster) / Deep Water (2022
Remaster) / Red Reflections (2022 Remaster) / Tell Me What's Wrong (2022
Remaster) / Bombscare (2022 Remaster) / Washed up & Left For Dead (2022
Remaster) / Celebrate The Bullet (2022 Remaster) / Selling Out Your Future (2022
Remaster) / Cool Blue Lady (2022 Remaster) / Their Dream Goes On (2022
Remaster) / Bristol and Miami (2022 Remaster)
CD Tracks: (Who Likes) Facing Situations / Deep Water / Red Reflections / Tell Me
What's Wrong / Bombscare / Washed Up and Left For Dead / Celebrate The
Bullet / Selling Out Your Future / Cool Blue Lady / Dream Goes On / Bristol And
Miami / Celebrate The Bullet [Single Version] / Last Tango In Dub / Deepwater
[Single Version] / Deepwater [Version] (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980) /
Selling Out Your Future (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980) / Tell Me What's
Wrong (BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980) / Washed Up and Left For Dead
(BBC Session John Peel 11/10/1980) / Deep Water (BBC Session Mike Read
14/11/1980) / Bombscare (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980) / (Who Likes)
Facing Situations (BBC Session Mike Read 14/11/1980) / Cool Blue Lady (BBC
Session Mike Read 14/11/1980) / Selling Out Your Future (Live at the NEC,
Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / Out On the Streets (Live at the NEC, Birmingham,
27/12/1980) / Danger (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / Deepwater
(Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / Missing Words (Live at the NEC,
Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / Washed Up And Left For Dead (Live at the NEC,
Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / On My Radio (Live at the NEC, Birmingham,
27/12/1980) / Celebrate The Bullet (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980) /
Selling Out Your Future (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / Street
Feeling (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / They Make Me Mad (Live at
the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / Bristol and Miami (Live at the NEC,
Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / (Who Likes) Facing Situation (Live at the NEC,
Birmingham, 27/12/1980) / Bombscare (Live at the NEC, Birmingham,
27/12/1980) / Too Much Pressure (Live at the NEC, Birmingham, 27/12/1980)