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{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2022}} {{Infobox album | name = I Just Can't Stop It | type = studio | artist = [[The Beat (British band)|the Beat]] | cover = I Just Cant Stop It.jpg | border = yes | alt = | released = {{Start date|1980|5|23|df=y}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = * [[Ska]] * [[two-tone (music genre)|two-tone]] * [[new wave music|new wave]] | length = {{duration|m=36|s=24}} | label = * [[Go-Feet Records|Go-Feet]] * [[Sire Records|Sire]] | producer = [[Bob Sargeant]] | prev_title = | prev_year = | next_title = [[Wha'ppen?]] | next_year = 1981 | misc = {{Singles | name = I Just Can't Stop It | type = studio | single1 = [[The Tears of a Clown#The Beat version|Tears of a Clown]]"/"Ranking Full Stop | single1date = 30 November 1979 | single2 = [[Hands Off...She's Mine]]"/"Twist and Crawl | single2date = 14 February 1980 | single3 = [[Mirror in the Bathroom]] | single3date = 25 April 1980 | single4 = [[Best Friend (The Beat song)|Best Friend]]"/"[[Stand Down Margaret]] | single4date = 8 August 1980 }}}} '''''I Just Can't Stop It''''' is the debut studio album by the British [[Two-tone (music genre)|two-tone]] band [[The Beat (British band)|the Beat]], released on 23 May 1980{{citation needed|date=May 2025}} by [[Go-Feet Records]] in the United Kingdom. It was released the same year in the United States on [[Sire Records]], with the band credited as "The English Beat"; in Australia, it was released on Go-Feet under the band name "The British Beat". The album was well-received; ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' raved that the music was "wild and threatening, sexy and sharp,"<ref name=RS1980>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theenglishbeat/albums/album/219758/review/5941384/i_just_cant_stop_it |title=The English Beat: I Just Can't Stop It |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |issue=325 |date=4 September 1980 |access-date=12 August 2007 |last=Rose |first=Frank |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080422234001/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/theenglishbeat/albums/album/219758/review/5941384/i_just_cant_stop_it |archive-date=22 April 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref> while [[AllMusic]] later wrote it "was a stunning achievement" which had not been diminished by time.<ref name=Allmusic/> The album was reissued on CD in 1990 by [[I.R.S. Records]] in the U.S, and in 2012 by [[Demon Music Group|Edsel Records]] in the UK and [[Shout! Factory]] in the U.S.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://englishbeat.net/discography/ |title=Discography |publisher=englishbeat.net |access-date=19 November 2020}}</ref>
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