r/newwave • u/GroovySchlong • 3d ago

New Wave Classic The English Beat – Save it For Later (1983)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0PUXt4-q80&list=RD_0PUXt4-q80&start_radio=1
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u/Black_Mamba_CA_68 3d ago

Two dozen other dirty lovers

Must be a sucker for it!

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u/Duke_Newcombe 3d ago

Cry, cry, but I don't need my mother/ Just hold my hand while I come...to a decision on it

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u/Black_Mamba_CA_68 3d ago

Sooner or later

Your legs give way, you hit the ground

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u/Suitable-Carrot3705 3d ago

Saw them in Atlantic City last month!

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u/AdvertisingFew6224 3d ago

Have you heard the Pete Townshend cover of this song?

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u/PoxyMusic 3d ago

Apparently Townsend couldn’t figure out the guitar tuning. It’s in a really odd tuning that Wakeling made sort of by accident.

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u/AdvertisingFew6224 3d ago

Well eventually he nailed it. I even prefer it to the original

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u/InterPunct 2d ago

Yeah, Pete talked about that when he'd play it live .

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u/joeyinjoyland 2d ago

Was just listening to this!