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VA - Trojan - Suedehead Box Set
-trojan_suedehead_box_set-front.jpg "(compil)-trojan_suedehead_box_set-front.jpg") Year: 2004 Country: England Genre: Ska Label: Trojan Records  Format: 3 CD Box set Type: MP3 Bitrate: 128kbps ID Tags: Yes Time duration: 2 hours 38 minutes 45 sec   Tracklist: Disc: 1 1. Meaning Of Life - The Heptones 2. Lion's Den - The Kingstonians 3. Weather Report - The Tennors 4. Reincarnate - Tesfa McDonald, Tommy McCook, Bobby Ellis 5. Chairman Of The Board - Bongo Herman, Les Chen, Eric Lamont 6. Jungle Lion - Lee Perry And The Upsetters 7. Silhouettes - Dennis Brown 8. Don't Try To Use Me - Horace Andy 9. Boat To Progress - Glen Brown, Richie McDonald 10. What's Going On - Pat Satchmo 11. Weary Version 3 - Glen Adams 12. Sunshine Showdown - The Upsetters 13. My Confession - Cornell Campbell 14. Play It Cool - Alton Ellis 15. Black Ipa - Lee Perry And The Upsetters 16. Musical Right - Sir Harry 17. Blacula - The Crystalites Disc: 2 1. Hammering Version - Nicky Thomas, Cat Campbell 2. Soup - J.J. All Stars 3. President Mash Up The Resident - Shorty the President 4. Bucky Skank - The Upsetters 5. Back A Yard - The Vulcans 6. Foreman Vs. Frazier - Big Youth 7. Hi Jacking - I-Roy 8. Here Come The Heartaches - Delroy Wilson 9. La La At The End - Norman Brown, The Chosen Few 10. Hot Line - Dave Barker 11. Take Time Out - The Three Tops 12. Dock Of The Bay - Big Youth 13. Pantomine - The Reggae Strings 14. High School Serenade - Lennox Brown 15. Musical Liquidator - Dennis Alcapone 16. Space Flight - I-Roy 17. Sincerely - Shenley Duffus Disc: 3 1. Mad About You - Bruce Ruffin 2. At The Club - Sidney George & Jackie 3. Sing A Little Song - Desmond Dekker 4. Reggae From The Ghetto - John Holt 5. Living For The City - Pat Rhoden 6. Chopsticks - The Deltones 7. People Make The World Go 'Round - The Chosen Few, Errol Brown 8. Louie, Louie - Toots & The Maytals 9. I Am What I Am - Greyhound 10. Nose For Trouble - Winston Groovy 11. Lottery Spin - Zap Pow 12. Karate aka 'I The Third' - Dave Barker, Ansell Collins 13. Emergency Call - Judy Mowatt 14. Boogie On Reggae Woman - Pat Rhoden 15. U.F.O - Geoffrey Chung, Harry J Allstars 16. Snake In The Grass - Eugene Paul   Information about album: For American punters who have no idea what a "suedehead" is, there is no reason for worry. A suedehead was a brief -- and for the most part embarrassing -- trend between the skinheads and the smoothies: short hair, ugly clothes, and a particularly fickle taste in music that went from reggae to glam in a few short months. Only in Britain. That said, while the title of this box is merely a marketing ploy to justify issuing more stuff from their catalog, what they did issue is actually terrific. The years between 1972 and 1974 were a fertile period for reggae. On the one hand, there was the dread beat and blood sentiments of Bob Marley and Burning Spear and the ranting DJs like U-Roy and I-Roy. On the other were sounds that were bubbling up influenced by soul records and the old skinhead reggae charts from 1970 that were trying to maintain a place in the British youth market even after the advent of Bowie and Bolan's glam revolution. These three CDs compile tracks that came from the underground at the time, such as the Upsetters' "Jungle Lion," Pat Satchmo's cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," and Alton Ellis' amazing "Play It Cool." The 17 cuts on disc one run the gamut from smooth, silky, pre-lovers rock reggae to steamy, muddy underground rasta sides. Disc two, which focuses on the clubs, offers the slicker, more R&B-threaded reggae sound of Dennis Alcapone on "Musical Liquidator," while Big Youth's toaster "Forman vs. Frasier" and his killer "Dock of the Bay" read as well as Lennox Brown's sweet groover "High School Serenade." Disc three focuses on the charts but many of the records on this disc missed by a country mile, though there are some fine covers -- Toots & the Maytals' "Louie Louie," Pat Rhoden's "Living for the City," and Sidney, George & Jackie's beautiful version of the Goffin & King classic "At the Club." In all, it's one of those loose amalgamations kicked out by Trojan with stunning regularity that makes reggae lovers flip, especially for the price -- three discs for less than the price of one.  
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