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This Is Reggae Music: The Golden Era 1960-1975

Various Artists

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This Is Reggae Music: The Golden Era 1960-1975

Release Date: 09 November, 2004
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Tracks

  • LORD TANAMO- Iron Bar
  • DERRICK MORGAN- Fat Man
  • STRANGER COLE- Rough And Tough
  • DON DRUMMOND & TOMMY McCOOK- (Music Is My) Occupation
  • MILLIE- My Boy Lollipop
  • ERIC "MONTY" MORRIS- Penny Reel-O
  • ROLAND ALPHONSO & THE SOUL BROTHERS- Phoenix City
  • BONGO MAN BYFIELD- Bongo Man
  • THE CLARENDONIANS- Rude Boy Gone A Jail
  • DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES- Rudy Got Soul
  • STRANGER & PATSY- Down By The Train Line
  • ALTON ELLIS & THE FLAMES- Cry Tough
  • DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES- 007 (Shanty Town)
  • HOPETOWN LEWIS- Take It Easy
  • DERRICK HARRIOTT- The Loser
  • THE ETHIOPIANS- Train To Skaville
  • THE JAMAICANS- Ba Ba Boom
  • KEITH & TEX- Stop That Train
  • ALTON ELLIS & THE FLAMES- Rocksteady
  • THE PARAGONS- The Tide Is High
  • KEN PARKER- True, True, True
  • DESMOND DEKKER- Israelites
  • TOOTS & THE MAYTALS- 54-46 That?’s My Number
  • THE ETHIOPIANS- Everything Crash
  • TOOTS & THE MAYTALS- Do The Reggay
  • DESMOND DEKKER & THE ACES- It Miek
  • THE ETHIOPIANS- Engine 54
  • THE UNIQUES- featuring Slim Smith The Beatitude (Blessed Are the Meek)
  • LLOYD ROBINSON- Cuss Cuss
  • LEE PERRY- People Funny, Boy
  • THE UNTOUCHABLES- Tighten Up
  • THE UPSETTERS- Return Of Django
  • DAVE BARKER & THE UPSETTERS- Shocks Of Mighty
  • TOOTS & THE MAYTALS- Monkey Man
  • THE PIONEERS- Longshot Kick De Bucket
  • THE TENNORS- Ride Your Donkey
  • TONY TRIBE- Red, Red Wine
  • JIMMY CLIFF- Wonderful World, Beautiful People
  • TOOTS & THE MAYTALS- Pressure Drop
  • GREGORY ISAACS- Don?’t Let Me Suffer
  • THE MELODIANS- Rivers Of Babylon
  • HARRY J & THE ALLSTARS- Liquidator
  • THE SLICKERS- Johnny Too Bad
  • BOB & MARCIA- Young, Gifted And Black (Jamaica Mix)
  • DAVE & ANSEL COLLINS- Double Barrel
  • JIMMY CLIFF- Many Rivers To Cross
  • DESMOND DEKKER- You Can Get It If You Really Want
  • FREDDIE NOTES & THE RUDIES- Montego Bay
  • JIMMY CLIFF- Come Into My Life
  • ANDY CAPP- Pop A Top
  • NINEY- Blood And Fire
  • PETER TOSH & THE WAILERS- 400 Years
  • BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS- Duppy Conqueror
  • JIMMY CLIFF- Vietnam
  • THE KINGSTONIANS- Singer Man
  • KEN PARKER- Groovin?’ Out On Life (Groovin?’ In Style)
  • THE STINGERS- Give Me Power
  • BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS- Small Axe
  • TOOTS & THE MAYTALS- Pomps And Pride
  • JIMMY CLIFF- Bongo Man
  • THE PIONEERS- Let Your Yeah Be Yeah
  • JOHNNY NASH- Guava Jelly
  • GREYHOUND- Black And White
  • HORACE ANDY- I Feel Good All Over
  • THE HEPTONES- Hypocrite
  • JOHN HOLT- Stick By Me (And I?’ll Stick by You)
  • ERIC DONALDSON- Cherry Oh Baby
  • BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS- African Herbsman
  • DELROY WILSON- Better Must Come
  • BONGO HERMAN & ERIC "BINGY BUNNY" LAMONT- Know Fari
  • JUNIOR BYLES- A Place Called Africa
  • BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS- Trenchtown Rock
  • RIGHTEOUS FLAMES- One Love, One Heart
  • JOHNNY NASH- I Can See Clearly Now
  • ZAP POW- This Is Reggae Music
  • PETER TOSH & THE WAILERS- Brand New Second Hand
  • BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS- Lively Up Yourself
  • JOHNNY NASH- Stir It Up
  • DENNIS BROWN- Money In My Pocket
  • TOOTS & THE MAYTALS- Funky Kingston
  • SLIM SMITH- The Time Has Come
  • KEN BOOTHE- Everything I Own
  • DENNIS BROWN- Westbound Train
  • THE WILLOWS- Cool Iron
  • THE UPSETTERS- Justice To The People
  • BIG YOUTH- S90 Skank
  • I ROY- Black Man Time
  • GREGORY ISAACS- Bad Da
  • RAS MICHAEL & THE SONS OF NEGUS- Run Come (Throw Away Your Stoney Heart)
  • BURNING SPEAR- Marcus Garvey

Rating 5.0

Must have

Next to Tougher than Tough, this is one of the best reggae box sets out there. I hope they come out with a second volume of 1976-1980, that would be sweet!

A Sonic Goldmine

Roots, rock, reggae. The 4-CD set ENDS with Burning Spear's Marcus Garvey. I worried about sound quality with vintage cuts, but the sound is as good as U.S. rock singles from the same periods. And the tunes! Great music, Bob and Peter and Winston and Sly and Robbie had teachers. Hear them.

Very listenable for casual reggae fans

As a person who doesn't even own that one Bob Marley album that everyone seems to have (Legend?), I was surprised to get this as a Christmas present. I must say it was one of the best gifts I got, since it introduced me to this whole world in a very palatable way.

There are some songs that I had heard before, but mostly this is an introduction for me. As an intro, it's great, because there is some that is easy to get along with, some that challenges a little and a few things that just fall flat. One thing is for sure - if you like Elvis Costello (which I do), you will love this box set, since he lifted so many of his riffs from these songs.

This is the kind of compilation that serves as a good jumping off point for exploring different artists within a genre. In particular, check out Tony Tribe's "Red, Red Wine" (it makes me want to beat the snot out of UB40 for doing such a lame cover), "S90 Skank", and "Bongo Man" as well as the classics such as "Pressure Drop", "Trenchtown Rock", "Many Rivers to Cross" and "Brand New Second Hand". If you don't like any of these songs, you won't like the album.
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