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Reggae Got Soul

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4 Mar 18th, 2005 

42 Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful

Advantages:
Pressure Drop

Disadvantages:
3 Songs with ghastly 80's production

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I love Reggae but thankfully for you I am not as obsessive about it as I am about other forms of music, ok maybe I am but then I am more subdued about it. I spied this collection in my local HMV for £5-99 and it somehow slipped into my pocket, good thing too cause it has got two of my all time favorite songs on it "Reggae Got Soul" and Pressure Drop. This CD is part of Islands Reggae Greats series rather obviously from the Title isn’t it and has 12 chunks of chilled out Reggae by Toots and the Maytals on it.

Kicking off with "54-46 That’s My Number" a rocksteady number for 1968 based upon Toots time in prison, then moving onto "Reggae Got Soul" it moves into a nice steady relaxed reggae grove and I am happily skanking away on my seat here. "Monkey Man" ups the tempo and I am chanting "Aye Aye Aye" hey I'm Scottish and we are infamously bad at doing Jamaican accents. However three classics to start of the disk makes it worthwhile already. The question being are we going to get more classics and the answer is yes the soulful "Just Like That" comes on next definitely snuggling music this time.

"Funky Kingston" comes in with an unsurprisingly funky groove, and the vocal is delivered with some urgency as stunning bit of funky reggae. "Sweet & Dandy" sadly does nothing for me as it lacks some of the grove of the earlier tracks on this collection, not happy about this one it is spoiling my mood. It is soon elevated by the cover of "Take Me Home Country Roads" their is a definite grove here and I am happy again....... but for how long?

Well the next song "Time Tough" keeps me in a happy grove and I almost feel like I could muster a Jamaican accent but dignity prevents me from doing so, but jet another slice of cool laid back reggae.......... "Spiritual Healing" then spoiled things that nasty 80's drum sound comes in and ruins a perfectly bad slice of 80's mush bah I am unhappy................

This unhappiness is stopped by the next and possibly the greatest song on the album "PRESSURE DROP" 2 minutes and 55 seconds of reggae greatness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"I said a pressure drop,
Oh pressure, oh yeah
Pressure's gonna drop on you
I said pressure drop
Oh pressure, oh yeah
Pressure's gonna drop on you"

and sorry I am now speaking in broad Jamaican but "Peace Perfect Peace" with that horrible 80's drum sound kills that desire. "Bam Bam" restores my good mood but it is too late as the CD has ended and I have slapped Pressure Drop onto repeat.............

"I said when it drops
Oh you gonna feel it
Oh that you were doin' it wrong, wrong, wrong
Now when it drops
Oh you gonna feel it
That you were doin' it wrong and how...................
Oh you gonna feel it
That you were doin' it wrong and how"


 

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Comments about this review »

knight_of_the_soundtable 12.05.2005 02:23

hm, i only know the izzy stradlin version of 'pressure drop', and it's got gro°0O0°ove! so, is _this_ the original or has the song been around even for longer?

ilusvm 25.03.2005 21:37

another one thats not my kinda music but nicely written! Em x

Chimkuyu 21.03.2005 13:51

Pressure Drop is one of my faves too - got to know it on the soundtrack of another all time great - Grosse Pointe Blank.

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