Guilty 'til Proved Innocent!
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Guilty 'til Proved Innocent! is an album by The Specials
, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music
). It is the first studio album of new songs by the group since 1984. The song "It's You" was promoted on Modern Rock radio stations upon the album's release.
The Specials
The Specials are an English 2 Tone ska revival band formed in 1977 in Coventry, England. Their music combines a "danceable ska and rocksteady beat with punk's energy and attitude", and had a "more focused and informed political and social stance" than other ska groups...
, released in 1998 (see 1998 in music
1998 in music
This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1998.-Events:*January 28 – "Weird Al" Yankovic gets LASIK surgery to cure his myopia...
). It is the first studio album of new songs by the group since 1984. The song "It's You" was promoted on Modern Rock radio stations upon the album's release.
Track listing
- "Tears in My Beer" (Roddy Byers/Specials) - 3:30
- "Call Me Names" (Mark Adams/Specials) - 2:47
- "Fearful" (Horace Panter/Specials) - 2:20
- "It's You" (Tom Lowry/K. Smith/Neville Staple) - 3:09
- "Bonediggin'" (Byers/Specials) - 4:40
- "All Gone Wrong" (Adams/Specials) - 3:53
- "No Big Deal" (Adams/Specials) - 3:23
- "Leave It Out" (Lowry/Smith/Staple) - 4:03
- "Keep On Learning" (Adams/Byers/Lynval Golding/Specials) - 2:39
- "Fantasize" (Adams/Adam Birch/Specials) - 3:27
- "Place in Life" (Lowry/Smith/Staple) - 3:07
- "Stand Up" (Lowry/Smith/Staple) - 3:02
- "My Tears Come Falling Down Like Rain" (Golding/Panter/Specials) - 3:17
- "The Man with No Name" (Byers/Specials) - 2:44
- "Running Away" (Lowry/Smith/Staple) - 2:53
- "Rat Race" (Live) (Roddy Byers) - 2:53
- "Concrete Jungle" (Live) (Roddy Byers) - 3:25
- "Gangsters" (Live) (John Bradbury/Byers/Jerry DammersJerry DammersJeremy David Hounsell "Jerry" Dammers is a British musician who is a founder and keyboard player of the Coventry, England based ska revival band The Specials, The Special A.K.A...
/Golding/Terry HallTerry HallTerry Hall may refer to:*Terry Hall , English singer with The Specials, Fun Boy Three, The Colourfield*Terry Hall , English ventriloquist who worked with his puppet, Lenny the Lion...
/Panter/Staple) - 3:54
Personnel
- Neville Staple - vocals
- Roddy Byers - vocals, guitar
- Lynval GoldingLynval GoldingLynval Golding is a British musician. He is best known as a rhythm guitarist and vocalist with the British 2 Tone Records band, The Specials....
- guitar, vocals - Horace PanterHorace PanterHorace Panter also known as Sir Horace Gentleman, is the bassist for the Coventry 2 Tone, ska revival band The Specials....
- bass guitar - Mark Adams - organ, piano, backing vocals
- Adam Birch - trombone, trumpet, backing vocals
- Jon Read - trumpet, accordion
- Charley H. Bembridge - drums (credited as Harrington Bembridge)
- Tim ArmstrongTim ArmstrongTimothy Lockwood Armstrong is an American musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known for his work with punk rock bands Rancid, Operation Ivy, Downfall, and the Transplants. He is also the owner and operator of Hellcat Records.-Personal life:Armstrong was born November 25, 1965 and was...
- vocals - Lars FrederiksenLars FrederiksenLars Erik Frederiksen is an American guitarist and vocalist, most notably for the punk rock band Rancid, and as the frontman of Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards and The Old Firm Casuals. He was also briefly a member of the UK Subs in 1991...
- vocals - Stoker - producer, mixing, engineer
- Billy Bowers - assistant engineer
- Mike McQuaid - assistant engineer
- Paul Q. KolderiePaul Q. KolderiePaul Q. Kolderie is a record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with Pixies, Radiohead, Orangutang, Hole, Dinosaur Jr., Juliana Hatfield, Wax, Warren Zevon, Uncle Tupelo, Throwing Muses, Morphine, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Abandoned Pools, and The Go-Go's...
- mixing - Sean SladeSean SladeSean Slade is a record producer, engineer, and mixer. He has worked with artists including Hole, Radiohead, Warren Zevon, Juliana Hatfield, Dinosaur Jr., Uncle Tupelo, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Boo Radleys, Sebadoh, Lush, the Go-Go's, and The Dictators among others. In 2005 he produced The...
- mixing - Mark TrombinoMark TrombinoMark Trombino is a rock music producer. He started his career as the drummer of Night Soil Man, before playing for Drive Like Jehu. He also played in a Long Beach-based punk rock band called First Offense which released a seven inch on Mystic Records entitled "Broken Home."-Bands:*Alive in Wild...
- mixing - Thom WilsonThom Wilson-Thom Wilson:Thom Wilson is a now-retired American punk rock record producer and engineer.-Career:Wilson began his musical career in the mid-1970s, engineering recordings by soft rock artits Burton Cummings and Seals & Crofts. He began working on punk rock albums in the early 1980s while producing...
- mixing - Scott Gutierrez - mixing assistant
- Gavin Lurssen - mastering
- Shepard FaireyShepard FaireyFrank Shepard Fairey is an American contemporary graphic designer, and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene. He first became known for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign, in which he appropriated images from the comedic supermarket tabloid Weekly World News. His...
- artwork, art direction, design, layout design, photography - Dave Kinsey - art direction, design, layout design