The Bodysnatchers stood out from the rest of the 2 Tone pack for a simple and important reason: they were an all-woman band, the only one in that scene. Sadly, they only recorded a couple of singles before disbanding (most of the members later regrouped to form The Belle Stars), but they did appear on the Dance Craze documentary, and their most popular song shows their talent and skill. Let’s Do Rock Steady is a blues-based midtempo tune that harks back to the late-60s transition period between ska and reggae, when the galloping offbeats of ska were beginning to slow and thicken into something new.

– Rick Anderson