Electric Cafe's Tim Humphrey reviews and scores The Beat's 1982 album Special Beat Service

Electric Cafe's Album rating system:
90-100: Legendary status (You use it as the example for a genre / You even buy it for someone else)
80-89: Excellent. (An excellent complete album in so many ways. Hard to fault much here if anything. Each increment is more excellent)
70-79: Very Good (U don't mind have this on multiple formats. The album has some really excellent songs. It has some minor flaws or a few average tracks)
60-69: Good. (Some good things and perhaps a few excellent tracks but then there are some not so good moments)
50-59: ok (You are a completist on collecting so you might pick it up for a decent price. You might almost like half of the tracks. The other half is below average.)
40-49 - below average for the group, nothing really very good. Its mostly in the below average to ok range for the most part
30-39: Just not my thing / Not good (NR for music that I do not want to score or not a good album at all)
5-29: Crap (There are many levels to crap)
3-4: Complete shit
2: Offending (You hide it in the record shop preventing other people from buying it. It's that bad)
1: You start to question the world - you literally hate it with a passion)