Lost classics pt 1: Reggae

Steel Pulse "Handsworth Revolution"

Des All Stars - Night Food Reggae: Really good ska rack from the Trojan "Loch Ness Monster" compilation

The Royals - Peace And Love: Pleasant Rocksteady pre-roots Rasta music with nice vocal harmonies.

Beres Hammond - Irie and Mellow: Brooding Lovers Rock - what I like to call "Rainy" Reggae similar to "Night Nurse" by John Holt.

Early B - Sunday Dish: A toasted recipe for rice and peas.

Some pioneering rootsy stuff, circa 1973:

Bucky Skank - The Upsetters
Hat Trick - U-Roy
I Want Justice - B.B. Seaton

Lee Perry : "Bafflin' Smoke Signals"

Sang Hugh - "Woman Follow Man"
Wailing Souls - "Walk The Chalk Line"

i dunno how lost these are. unless you been living in a hole in the ground.

warrior - johnny clarke
junior byles - fade away
fredy mckay - keep your big mouth shut
maytones - holy ground
the ethipian - band yu belly
sylford walker - burn babylon
dhaima - in a jah children
roots foundation - big youth
forward with jah orthodox - mystic
solid ground - mike brooks
my whole world - bim sherman
weather baloon - u brown

Prince Far I - Bedward the Flying Preacher
Keith Hudson - pretty much anything on The Hudson Affair

I know Hudson's not really 'lost' but I don't ever want him to be as I think John Peel playing his "Turn the Heater On' (covered of course by New Order) was what turned me onto reggae in the first place. Incidentally if anyone has that particular track digitised...I'd love to replace my stretched tape version.

where's NO cover it? i'm sure i have it somewhere, with its companion "So Cold Without Your Love."

Prince Far I - "Big Fight"

o fuck i forgot my alltime favourite sufferer's tune:
tyrone taylor - sufferation.
a niney production. in an extended mix with a tubby dub.

sadly the mastering (from old vinyl) on observer station is SHIT is it available with better sound? ysi pleeeez!

Pat Kelly, Summer Time

We're liking the roots on this thread, aren't we?

If so:
"I Man A Grasshopper" by Pablo Moses
"Three Meals A Day" (also called "Detention", I think) by D. Brown
"G@nja Exchange" by Ringo (my fave cut on the "Ali Baba" rhythm)
"Kiss Somebody" by Johnny Osbourne.

But I am still enjoying things from the late 80s, like:

"Blinking Something" by Pinchers
"BRRRP" by Nardo Ranks
"Gun In A Baggy" by Little Lenny
"Sweet and Nice" by Lambert Douglans and Wayne Fire

Big hits all but one doesn't hear them about much, sadly.

mully, that Tyrone Taylor is on the recent Auralux comp of Niney productions called "Sufferation," with "In Style" added on to make it a killer 7 minutes.
and tim, weren't we swapping awhile back?

Andy, yes! Sorry! I've got like 4 fantastic CDs for you at home but the project has kind of run aground because I have another 3 or 4 to do! Also because the Wolf Moon LP is such a weird recording / pressing that I want to work out how to make it sound good first.

Happily, I recently broke my ankle so I have a little more time at home just at the moment. If you send me yr address (usual place) then you'll get a packet soon in the post.

Junior Byles - Heart and Soul

... 'tis a good one

thanks andy - must get!

Ned T., i just put up Hudson's "Turn the Heater On" and "So Cold Without Your Love" up on my blog: www.imbidimts.blogspot.com (it's YSI, so it may not last for long).

MIA - galang