The Selecter, "Three Minute Hero" from Greatest Hits (The Last Angry Rude Boy)
Skammentary: I'd never heard of The Selecter until they were mentioned in The Mighty Mighty Bosstones' song "Don't Worry Desmond Dekker" (also how I learned of Dekker), one of the new songs on their first post-hiatus album, Medium Rare. This is The Selecter's long overdue SKApril debut & I look forward to spotlighting more of their music in the future, possibly in the SKAfter Party & certainly in SKAprils yet to come.
"Three Minute Hero" is about dreaming of escaping the drudgery of one's workaday life by becoming a rock star, radio hits supposedly averaging about three minutes in duration. Think of it as a 2-Tone precursor to so much of Reel Big Fish's music.
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