I bought this LP early 80’s and played it a hell of a lot.
Especially nice is the bright yellow coloured vinyl that it’s
pressed in. A personal old time favorite.

tracks;

1 Automatic boom
2 Gimme gimme sensemillia
3 Loving feeling
4 Don’t cry
5 Born and grow ina dis
6 Tek you hand offa me
7 Yu too su-su-su-su
8 Me no copy
9 It’s you I’m talking to
10 Trouble possee

This ‘best of’ is not a ‘best of’ as I see it. It sounds more like a
one-session recording then like a collector. Tracks 2 and 3 are
written by ‘Alton Ellis’ if I’m not mistaking. Backed by ‘the
Revolutionairies’, ‘Gregory Isaacs’, with his voice
like sugar and glue, comes in with a great LP.
Recorded at Channel One Studio.
I like this one extremely much !

tracks;

1 Special guest
2 Willow tree
3 Breaking up
4 Double attack
5 My number one
6 No speech
7 Tear drops
8 Cool you
9 Freedom
10 Look before you leap

If you fancy a tasty chunk of Rub-a-Dub, then this post’s for you.
The ‘Lewis Brothers’ AKA ‘Fat Man Ridim Section’, rock the place.

tracks;

1 Brethren
2 President
3 Dance Hall Style
4 Wagon of Dub
5 Lick chalice
6 Rock all night
7 Sensi
8 Famming on the land

Around 1980 there was a movement going on called ‘Dub Poetry’.
There were types with colourful names like, ‘Oku Onoura’, ‘Benjamin
Zepheniah’ and ‘Muta Baruka’. One of the founders of this movement
was without any doubt, ‘Linton Kwesi Johnson’, on this here record
he was still performing under the name ‘Poet and the Roots’. ‘Dread
Beat an’ Blood’, is a poetic collection of 8 protestsongs.
An LP I played thousands of times !

tracks;

1 Dread beat an’ blood
2 Five nights of bleeding
3 Doun di road
4 Song of blood
5 It dread inna Inglan
6 Come wi goh dung deh
7 Man free
8 All wi doin is defendin

I don’t have a year on this fine reggae album, early eighties would
be my guess. With ‘Sly and Robbie’, ‘Roots Radics’ and the ‘High
Times Band’, this can’t go wrong, Produced by Prince Jammy,
Recorded at Channel One and King Tubby’s Studio.
A sweet session.

tracks;

1 Natural vibes
2 Reggae singer
3 Children crying
4 Dreadlocks time
5 Liberation song
6 Life hard a yard
7 Food for thought
8 Blood and hate
9 Rastaman
10 Cry love
11 My woman is gone
12 True true loving

3 Guys, 3 voices, Israel Vibration, these 3 singers have the
traditional habit of rotating the solopart of each song. It’s a very
nice experience to see them perform live. I was at a concert of
them at Paradiso Amsterdam some years ago, and I had
a great time, super social reggae.

tracks;

1 Give I grace
2 Friday evening
3 Mr. Taxman
4 Survive
5 Top control
6 We a de rasta
7 Unconquered people
8 Possibility
9 Dwellers of darkness
10 Practice what Jah teach

Gregory Isaacs with his golden voice appears on Vigin Records with
a great line-up, Next to Sly and Robbie we see Leroy Wallace, Santa,
Leroy Sibbles, Bo Peep, Bingy Bunny, Sticky and Skully, Gladstone Anderson,
Winston Wright, Ansil Collins, Nambo, Bobby Ellis, Deadly Headly,
Earl ‘Wire’ Lindo, Junior Delgado and Dennis Brown.

tracks;

1 Universal tribulation
2 Mr. Brown
3 Down the line
4 Lonely girl
5 Bumping and boring
6 My relationship
7 Slave market
8 Black liberation struggle
9 Jah music
10 Soon forward

Ever since I found this LP, I was a youngster, I fel in love
with it’s cover, what a gorgeous drawing by Abigail Maucotel.
And then that sound, ‘Jump Up’ is Trinidad music, the happiest sound
you’ve ever heard. This is serious Party material,
Jump UP !

tracks;

1 Riverbank Jump Up
2 Benwood Dick
3 El negrito
4 The road march
5 Jamaica Jump Up
6 Happy wanderer
7 Elaine, Harry and mama
8 Second hand piano
9 St. Thomas
10 Village ram
11 Surprise merengue
12 Laziest man

I don’t know how many times I’ve been playing this here LP.
It was one of my first reggae albums and it was on the turntable
a whole lot more then many others around that time. Jacob Miller
( like always with the Lewis brothers), Inner Circle, Fat Man
Ridim Section, many names, same group of guys. ‘Suzie
Wong, she’s my baby, and don’t think I’m crazy’, Look
at the size of these men and you understand.

tracks;

1 Don’t let money fool you
2 Suzie Wong
3 Tenement yard
4 Every day with you girl
5 Dock of the bay
6 Tired felick weed in a bush
7 Truth has come again
8 All night till daylight
9 Forward Jah Jah children
10 Why can’t we be friends
11 Roman soldiers of Babylon

This is part 4. I want to dedicate this one to my friend Poca,
she runs a little internet/TV station. ( not anymore)
a lot of Jamaican stuff there, thanks Poca for your support.

tracks;

1 Eek-a-Mouse – Neutron bomb
2 Barrington Levy – Robberman
3 Mutabaruka – Evey time I ear the soun
4 Trevor Scorcher – Chemist in a dis
5 Horace Andy – Stop the fuss
6 Maxi Priest – Sensi
7 Philip Levy – In a me yard
8 Yellowman – Sensemilla ( fade start )
9 Sugar Minott – Devil’s pickney
10 The Viceroys – Girl it’s over
11 Ini Kamoze – Mer-tel-ler
12 Peter Tosh – Legalize it
13 Little John – Nothing is impossible
14 The Techniques – I’ll never fall in love
15 Michael Rose – Archie Bella
16 Don Evans – Telling me
17 Luie Lepke – Willie Red
18 Lee van Cliff – Different fashion
19 The Rolands – Black race
20 Michael Prophet – Fight to the top
21 Jackie Opel – Push wood