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8 unusual facts about One Step Beyond...


Chiastic Slide

The third track from this album "Tewe" was featured as the opening song for Adio's One Step Beyond skate video which was released in 2002.

I Feel the Spirit

"Madness" was covered and released as a single by the British ska group Madness, for their 1979 album One Step Beyond....

One Step Beyond...

#"Don't Quote Me on That" – 4:31 (Smyth/Barson/Foreman/McPherson/Bedford/Thompson/Woodgate) (Work Rest and Play EP)

#"The Young and The Old" – 2:04 (McPherson/Barson) (Work Rest and Play EP)

#"Deceives the Eye" – 2:00 (Bedford/Foreman) (Work Rest and Play EP)

The bonus disc contains various B-sides as well as all three songs previously only released on the Work Rest and Play EP in April 1980.

Work Rest and Play

After the release of "My Girl", the band felt that they had exhausted the material from One Step Beyond..., and did not want to release any more singles from the album.

The 2010 re-release of the band's first studio album One Step Beyond... includes the three original songs from the Work Rest and Play EP as bonus tracks on a second CD.


Girl Why Don't You

"Girl Why Don't You" is a song originally performed by Prince Buster, covered by ska band Madness for their 2005 album, "The Dangermen Sessions Vol. 1. It was the third cover of a Prince Buster song to be released by the group, following "Madness" and "One Step Beyond".


see also

Benton-C Bainbridge

Their projects include visuals for one week of concerts at the gate of Daming Palace in Xi'an and "One Step Beyond" an immersive audio visual event in the "Hall Of The Universe" at American Museum of Natural History, at which they are the resident visual designers and live visualists.