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The Beat aka The English Beat (in America) stood among the most popular of those bands from the "2 Tone/Punk" period of British popular music.

Along with The Clash they are easily my favorites.

This is Ranking Roger on vocals, Dave Wakeling on guitar and vocals, David Steele and Andy Cox (founding members of Fine Young Cannibals who scored international hits with Good Thing and She Drives Me Crazy) on bass and guitar, Everett Morton on drums and Saxa on sax.

The Beat.

Stand Down Margaret. 

I couldn't help myself.

Having spent the appropriate amount of time empathizing with poor Hamid ... (OK that'll do it)

I flew straight to days gone by.

This is Pauline Black, Neol Davies and Compton Amenor on guitars, Desmond Brown on organ, Arthur "Gaps" Hendrickson getting beat up on stage (not really) et. al.

From the 1981 movie Dance Craze

The Selector 

Its gonna work out Hamid, you just gotta trust me on this one.

Ok, here's how it works.

I subscribe to almost never less than four, sometimes as many as eight or ten newsletters, sites or services having mostly to do with trading Stocks, Bonds, Currencies, Commodities, Options, ETFs, Royalty Trusts, MLPs, you name it.

After years of collecting sites, I also get a raft of email alerts from many of the legitimate news organizations out there, everything from the WSJ to Debka, as well as what is probably an unhealthy number of conspiracy mongers, doomsday prognosticators and/or just plain haters.

I collect this stuff all week, plus whatever comes my way from friends.

Then I sit in my office on Saturday, skim damn near every word of it and actually read a no kidding 20%.

OK, Ok, more like 10%.

Searching of course for the occasional blinding revelation to advance my business or to trade with.

After which I have typically shared that revelation with my friends, mostly because like everybody else, I like people to think I'm a lot smarter than I really am.

So anyway.

Today I get to the end of all that crap and ............................................ nothing.

Not a damn thing!!!!!

Emptiness.

Finally it occurred to me to wonder,

"Is there any good Dance Hall Crashers video out there?"

"A little Third Wave Ska beat?"

Yes!!!!!

This is Elyse Rogers, (the almost incredibly adorable, and strangely coiffed) Karina Denike', Jason and Gavin Hammond on lead guitar and drums respectively, Mikey Weiss on bass, and Billy Bouchard on the second guitar.

The Dance Hall Crashers. 

About 1998 ... ish.

Lost Again.