Although the summer has temporarily disappaered here in nothern europe here's another summer reggae recommendation; Freddy McGregor - Bobby Bobylon Taken from the "Bobby Bobylon" album produced by Clement 'Coxone' Dodd and released on Studio One in 1979. This album is a killer! You can buy it here:
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Quotecosmoprim Hot (I Need To Be Loved, Loved, Loved) - James Brown Hot Pants...I'm Coming - Bobby Byrd Also: Hot Pants Road - The JBs Bodyheat - James Brown
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T. Rex - Hot Love James Brown - Hot Pants Sly % The Family Stone - Hot Fun In The Summertime Prince Buster - Too Hot Tommy McCook - Heatwave
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Here' s one of the best albums produced by Lee Perry; To Be A Lover by George Faith. Released in 1977. Essential to any reggae collection, buy it now! Just listen to the title track: . Wonderful, laid back reggae! This is a cover version of the soul song " Forget To Be Your Lover" by William Bell. Released on Stax in 1968 and a great song also.
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The Abyssinians with the definitive reggae anthem Satta Massagana. This acapella version is taken from the Roots, Rock, Reggae documentary (1977): You can read more about the song here: .
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Amy!
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Some of my fav albums: The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely Radiohead - Amnesiac Tindersticks - Can Our Love... Sufjan Stevens - Come On Feel The Illinoise The Be Good Tanyas - Hello Love Antony and the Johnsons - Antony and the Johnsons The Mountain Goats - The Sunset Three Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go James Blunt - Back To Bedlam (yes, really!) Ellioth Smith - From
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No summer is complete without Chaka Demus And Pliers' Murder She Wrote: Produced by Sly & Robbie and released on their Taxi label in 1992.
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I rather enjoy Going To A Go Go, Under My Thumb and Let's Spend The Night Together. Don't play the rest much.
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Some US/UK no 1 hits from the year i was born: Shocking Blue - Venus Sly & the Family Stone - Thank You/Everybody Is a Star Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water Guess Who - American Woman The Beatles - The Long & Winding Road Edwin Star - War Neil Diamond - Cracklin' Rosie Smokey Robinson & the Miracles - Tears of a Clown George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
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Must not forget this great song: Stevie Wonder - Pastime paradise
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QuoteBaboon BroHorace Andy - I Will Never See My Baby Great song, one of my favorites from Horace Andy. As this video demonstrates the quality of Studio One pressings is not always very good (this record is warped causing the tonearm to jump). BTW, i prefer this version of the song recorded for Phil Pratt: (Audio only)
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I've been listening to a lot of Ska music lately. This is a great compilation of Prince Busters hits: Here's a sample:
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Just for the fun of it, here some great Motown songs which in fact weren't released on Motown: 01. Fred Hughes - Can't Make It Without You (Chess) 02. Jackie Wilson - Higher And Higher (Brunswick) 03. JJ Barnes - Easy Living (Stax) 04. Jackie Ross - Take Me For A Litte While (Chess) 05. Ben E king - It's Amazing (Atlantic) 06. Parliament - (I Wanna) Testify 07. Steve Manc
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Quoteloog droog[ Al Green--Motown??? No sir. Al Greens records were released on Hi Records of course. BUT: In the eighties Hi leased their material to Motown, which then released several Al Green compilations in the US.
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My favourites: 01. It's A Desperate situation - Marvin Gaye 02. Inner City Blues - Marvin Gaye 03. Walk Away From Love - David Ruffin 04. Seven Rooms Of Gloom - The Four Tops 05. All I Need - The Temptations 06. I Heard It Through The Grapevine - Gladys Knight & The Pips 07. My Whole World Ended (The Moment You Left Me) - David Ruffin 08. What Becomes Of The Brokenhearted - Ji
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Gary Jules - Mad World from the movie Donnie Darko which i saw on DVD yesterday. Great movie, beautiful poignant song!
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Lot of relatively unknown blues artists on this cd recorded at Angola prison in the fifties: Here is a sample from the album: , Prisoner's Talking Blues by Robert Pete Williams. It's poignant song about life in prison. Luckily Robert Pete Williams was later released from prison and recorded several albums.
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REM - Accelerate
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SAL the best ever musical film? No way! That honour goes to Mick Jaggers Running Out Of Luck from 1985
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LOL. Some people actually take this seriously: Extract: The Rolling Stones have influenced hundreds-of-millions of people for Satan. Their damnable song, "Sympathy for the Devil" is played all over America and Europe, and is more popular than ever. So many people don't even realize what they're listening to, and others don't care. The Rolling Stones are evil to t
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QuoteEdith GroveAm I the only one that likes veoh.com? Me like to! >< Overall the quality seems to be a bit higher on Veoh than on YouTube. Here's a nice clip of You Can' Always Get What You Want:
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The Clash - Wrong 'Em Boyo from London Calling. Ska!
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QuoteGazzathey already did. As tears Go By/She Was Hot was released a month ago as a download single. Oh, i didn't know that. Thanks for the info, Gazza. I still think they should release a CD-single with some unreleased songs on it, great for us fans. Also when they are to release a new compilation album in a few years time (they have been rather fond of that the last 10 years),
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I understand! No hard feelings here, just felt a need to explain. Always interesting when people have different opinions, IORR would have been a boring place otherwise!
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Quate: How daft are you? You never get tired of certain songs? I think i've listened to BS more than a 1000 times and sadly i can't do it no more.
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I also think Brown Sugar is the most released Stones song. It' s has truly been overexposed IMO. So much so that i really can't stand to listen to it anymore, not even to the one on the SAL soundtrack which actually is one of the best live versions.
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QuoteLudwig8745Quotejagger50What does ik slaap op Pinky Winky mean? The curiosity got the better of me. Sounds naughty to me. Probably! Or maybe he's just very interested in flowers (like many dutchmen) and gardening, ?
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Should the stones release a single to promote the album? Which song(s) should be on it? For the "b-side" Undercover looks like a good choice.
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