Disc 1 Subterranean Homesick Blues - Sizzla Night Nurse - Dennis Brown Ring The Alarm - ... more
Tenor Saw Great Train Robbery - Black Uhuru Child Abuse - Little Kirk Don't Be Cruel - Chaka Demus & Pliers Putting Up Resistance - Beres Hammond What Those Guy...
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Advantages: Amazing track selection, value for money Disadvantages: None!
's All Stars, "Skinheads A Bash Them" by Claudette & The Corporation, "Skinhead A Message To You" by Desmond Riley, "Skinhead Revolt" by Joe The Boss. These tracks might be unknown to you now, but a few days after listening to them they'll be your new favourites and you'll be making tapes for your mates! If you like this CD you should also check out the Trojan CD's "Dancehall '69", "Skinhed Revolt" and "Dawning of a New Era", and you'll soon have an amazing Skinhead reggae selection that would cost you around £5,000 on the original vinyl.
The CDs come in paper sleeves with some notes, but for the money the music is all you need! Seriously, buy this. NOW. ...
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 ...
Advantages: Cost, Range of Tracks overall, Original layout Disadvantages: Disc 1 length
The Island Records Anthology BoxSet is a must for any Reggae fans. The boxset is divided into three eras; 1959-1973 Ska to Reggae, including artists such as Jimmy Cliff, Don Drummond & the Skatellites and Desmond Dekker. This section portrays the upbeat, happy rhythms of Ska changing to Reggae later in this CD. In contrast Disc 2 gives us the 'Party time, roots and dub' of the 70s with Third World, Dillinger, Steel Pulse and Junior Murvin featuring their work. This disc provides a ride through the classic era of reggae at it height of popularity. The Final disc gives a modern take of reggae from 1980-2005 in 'Jamrock' with electronic elements and different melodies from Gregory Isaacs, Dennis Brown and Damian Marley, showing a transition to a more upbeat tempo.
In my opinion the structure of the Island Records ...
