“Dub Be Good To Me” by Beats International

Beats International's "Dub Be Good to Me" came out on Go! Beat in January 1990, the first single from the British outfit's debut album, Let Them Eat Bingo, with Lindy Layton singing. Frontman Norman Cook's name sits on the writing credit, but the song is the SOS Band's 1983 hit "Just Be Good to Me" in all but name, rebuilt almost note for note as dub, with the title bent to match.

The fun is in the magpie work around it: the track stitches in pieces of the Clash's "The Guns of Brixton", Ennio Morricone's "Man with a Harmonica" from Once Upon a Time in the West, and Johnny Dynell's "Jam Hot". It went to number one in Britain and topped Billboard's Dance Club Play chart in America, and MTV Dance later counted it among the biggest dance anthems of the '90s.

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