The Beat (or The English Beat) “Save It For Later” b/w “What’s Your Best Thing? (Dub Style)” 1982, 12″ single on Go Feet Records. “Save It For Later” appeared on Special Beat Service and became one of their biggest US hits with a sound far less ska-influenced than their previous singles, instead it focused on an awesomely infectious jangly hook and an upbeat, memorable, double entendre-ladened chorus.

Singer/guitarist Dave Wakeling said about “Save It For Later,” “I wrote it when I was a teenager. I wrote it before The Beat started. And it was about turning from a teenager to someone in their 20s, and realizing that the effortless promise for your teenage years was not necessarily going to show that life was so simple as you started to grow up. So it was about being lost, about not really knowing your role in the world, trying to find your place in the world. So, you couldn’t find your own way in the world, and you’d have all sorts of people telling you this, that, and the other, and advising you, and it didn’t actually seem like they knew any better. So it was like keep your advice to yourself. Save it – for later.” Also, “The actual hook line itself was just a dirty joke, I just thought it was hilarious that you could get in a song: ‘save it – comma – for later – F-E-double L-A-T-O-R.’ So I thought it’d be really neat to get that in a song and everybody would be singing it. I didn’t know it was going to be a joke that lasted for 30 years.“