Queens Of Jamaica - Various Artists

Advantages: Different Reggae sound
Disadvantages: All the same to the non reggae lover

...There music is filled with conscious lyrics and a change between soft and hard riddims Jamaican and German made. Never have they made a boring album yet. Very uplifting with many Jamaican artists you would not expect to see on a German album, Jack Radics being one of them. They are respected in Jamaica and accepted for the reason of being musicaly gifted and giving reggae a boost to Germany's music. Now 27-year old German singjay Gentleman - born Tilmann Otto - first left for Jamaica ten years ago. In those days he was a reggae-novice who owned but a couple of reggae records, most of which he had found in his brother's record collection. On the Island, he got to know the rough country life where the living standard is more than poor when you compare it to western countries. A few years later, Europe's culture television channel Arte... Read review

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Advantages: great cd!
Disadvantages: none

.... Nah Gwan a Jamaica addresses socio-religious issues from homosexuality to Islam that nah gwan a Jamaica, saying Certain tings weh gwan a foreign can't gwan a Jamaica. Nah support no chi chi and we nah support no raper. . .Man a worship Allah like dem think it the Creator.? While you may not agree with his views, this track is remarkably insightful as a reminder to those outside of Jamaica that social mores vary wildly between cultures and that it's often complicated to judge one society using another's standards. As I am a Huuuuuuge Elephant Man fan, I would strongly recommend people who like Reggae/Dancehall riddims to buy this album if they do not have it already as it has been out a while. The tracks on this album will have you dancing about like crazy! Good to Go is miles ahead in reggae music! :D... Read review

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Advantages: Timeless classics; 50 tracks for £7
Disadvantages: Recording quality of older tracks

...---WHAT'S THIS THEN?--- It's a 3CD, 50-track box-set collating early reggae tracks from a record label called Trojan. Set up in Britain in the mid-1960's, as a subsiduary of the Island label, it was intended as a menas of bringing the hot new sounds of Jamaica over to the ex-pats living in the UK. With a growing Caribbean community in the UK, the label couldn't fail. It continued to function through to the mid-1980's and enjoyed a boom in the early 1970's when first the burgeoning skinhead movement and then, later, the punks, grasped the similarities between their ideals and reggae's. The Clash were probably the most high-profile punk band to use reggae''s influence in their music, most notably with the dubby Bank Robber. In the mid-70's Trojan fell behind the times and subsequently went into administration. They were brought out... Read review

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