And the winner of the English Beat rare vinyl contest is…

The folks behind the English Beat once again came through with a really cool price pack just in time for the Black Friday edition of Record Store Day. It’s an extremely limited double Red & Blue Vinyl for Record Store Day BLACK FRIDAY 11/29 of SPECIAL BEAT SERVICE (Contains the hits “Save It for Later” and I Confess” along with “March of the Swivelheads” which appeared in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.

Using a complicated random number generator system of my own making, I went through all the entries and found a winner in Steve Bakker of Toronto! Congratulations! You’ll be mailed your Beat package from the US (when this stupid postal strike is over, of course.)

We’ll have to do this again sometime.

Side 1:

1. I CONFESS [4:35]
2. JEANETTE [2:49]
3. SORRY [2:44]
4. SOLE SALVATION [3:24]
5. SPAR WID ME [5:17]
6. ROTATING HEADS [3:25]

Side 2:

1. SAVE IT FOR LATER [3:37]
2. SHE’S GOING [2:10]
3. PATO AND ROGER A GO TALK [3:26]
4. SUGAR & STRESS [2:54]
5. END OF THE PARTY [3:30]
6. ACKEE 1 2 3 [3:10]

Side 3:

1. WHAT’S YOUR BEST THING [3:48]
2. MARCH OF THE SWIVEL HEADS [EXTENDED] [5:14]
3. IT MAKES ME ROCK [2:51]
4. I CONFESS (UNITED STATES OF AMERICA REMIX) [5:46]
5. WHAT’S YOUR BEST THING (DUB STYLE) [3:50]

Side 4:

1. DOORS OF YOUR HEART (LIVE) [4:04]
2. I CONFESS (LIVE) [5:46]
3. SPAR WID ME (LIVE [3:22]
4. SAVE IT FOR LATER (LIVE) [3:28]

Recorded Live in London at the Hammersmith Palais.. October 1982