Barry Myers Presents Scratchy Sounds (Ska, Dub, Roots & Reggae Nuggets)

Artist(s):

Various Artists

Label: Sanctuary
Publisher(s):

Sanctuary

Studio: Sanctuary
Manufacturer: Sanctuary
Binding: Audio CD
List Price: £8.99

Track Listing

Number of discs: 2
1.

Johnny Reggae - Big Youth

Stop Your Gun Shooting - Errol Dunkley

Stop Your Gun Shooting - Musical Intimidator

Love Is A Treasure - Lizzy

Money Day - The Pioneers

Fever - Susan Cadogan

The Feeling Is Right (aka Your Love's Gotta Hold On Me) - Dennis Brown

The Ska Rhythm - C Hyman

Moon Hop - Derrick Morgan

10.

Blood & Fire - Niney

11.

Copasetic - The Rulers

12.

The Bitterness Of Life - Bruce Ruffin

13.

On The Track - Winston Scotland

14.

Leaving - Gregory Isaacs, The Revolutionaries

15.

Ride Your Donkey - The Tennors

16.

Copy Me Donkey - The Tennors

17.

Sister Big Stuff - John Holt

18.

Public Enemy Number One - Max Romeo

19.

Baffling Smoke Signal - Lee Perry

20.

On Broadway - Dave Barker

21.

Invasion - Jackie Edwards

22.

Invasion - Jackie Edwards, The Aggrovators

23.

Rawhide - The Survivors

24.

Freedom Time (aka Freedom Day) - Ken Boothe

25.

Freedom Time - Charmers Big Band

26.

Love I Bring - U-Roy, Slim Smith

27.

Book Of Rules - The Heptones

28.

Ten Dread Commandments - Mr. Bojangles

29.

It Was Written Down - Toots & The Maytals

30.

Brothers Of The Blade - Prince Jammy, The Revolutionaries

31.

Cool Operator - Delroy Wilson

32.

Wreck A Buddy - The Soul Sisters

33.

Ba Ba Ri Ba - Dennis Alcapone, Lizzy

34.

Vampire - Black Art

35.

Revolution - Tapper Zukie

36.

Revolution - Musical Intimidator

37.

Vibrate Onn - Augustus Pablo

38.

The Whip - The Ethiopians

39.

Machockies (aka The Spoke) - The Destroyers

40.

Parade - Niney, King Tubby's

41.

In Fine Style - Dennis Alcapone

42.

Cool Collie - Hopeton Lewis

43.

Seventy Two Nations - Dadawah

Customer Reviews

Great value time trip back to those years

This CD went into the Mac laptop and the sounds burst into 2009 to take me back over 30 years. Great selection and worth buying for "On the Track" alone - play loud and lose yourself. Captures those years perfectly for anyone who was there and will introduce some new ears to a rich source of Jamaican music.

Scratchy Sounds - not impressed!

If you like early Ska with rough production then you'll like this.
For me, I am a late comer to Ska after the updated version developed by bands like Madness, the specials, Selector and so on. That's why, to my ears, a lot of this stuff is just too early, too badly produced.
The same comments apply to the dub tracks - again, all too early with nowhere near the bass lines I was hoping for.
I prefer later reggae, dub, ska or the earlier stuff that was better produced. This double CD is of it's time and unless you are into (as the cover says, roots)it is too dated. Ignore 4 star rating - you cannot change it once given and I thought I was reviewing another CD.
Two stars only then!

Punks' Reggae man

DJ Scratchy was a regular figure at Punk gigs in the late 70's. He was the DJ who introduced Reggae, Ska and Dub to the bondage trousered crowds at Clash gigs, tirelessly promoting the Jamaican sound. Here with this double CD he relaunched his career, and what a wonderful collection it is, with a mixture of old favourites and obscure gems. If you listen carefully, you can still feel the Punk vibe here and relive the whiff of stale beer and marijuana in the air of those grungy London clubs.

Memories!!

Basically, this is a fantastic album if you ever went to see The Clash and heard the DJ playing amazing reggae and feeling the bass thump into your chest as you walked in.

Brilliant stuff, superb selections - a real treat!!

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