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 Trenchtown Mix Up

Artist(s):

Gladiators

Label: Frontline
Publisher(s):

Frontline

Studio: Frontline
Manufacturer: Frontline
Binding: Audio CD
List Price: £8.99
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Track Listing

1.

Mix up

2.

Belly full

3.

Looks is deceiving

4.

Chatty chatty mouth

5.

Soul rebel

6.

Eli eli

7.

Hearsay

8.

Rude boy ska

9.

Know yourself mankind

10.

Thief in the knight

11.

Hello carol

Customer Reviews

Also consider...

All of this classic Front Line album apart from the tracks Know Yourself Mankind and Thief In The Knight can be found on the 19 track compilation Dreadlocks the Time Is Now. This also includes the single Pocket Money and tracks from Proverbial Reggae, Naturality and Sweet So Till.

Root's Rock!

If you're new to reggae and you find that Bob Marley has finally wore away his novelty then you can't go wrong with this album - it has to be the best, most comprehensive Roots reggae album i've heard - it is quite simply brilliant. If, on the other hand, you're a bit more "tuned in" then why the hell don't you have this album already? stop reading this and buy it now!

my favorite tracks on this album range from "chatty chatty mouth", "mix up" and "rude boy ska" but in all honesty i never find myself listening to anything less than the whole album - start finish and back again!

this album showed me that their was more to reaggae and Jamaican music than bob marley and peter tosh - you dont have top be high to like this album you dont have to like reggae its jus a brilliant pop album

buy it and enjoy it!

High and Mighty

Even 30 years later every single Gladiators 70's albums still sound fresh and scorching. Whether it be the absolutely impeccable music or the perfect harmonies of those 3 singers, every single tune of this crucial roots reggae album will beat you down. Its brilliant lyrics offer common sense reminders that nowadays still prove unheeded by most people ("Pick sense out of nonsense - you'll get the answer") so it's still relevant.

For anyone wanting to know a little more about Reggae than Bob this is the right buy - and it will make you want to dig ever deeper. For anyone already into Reggae, well you already know this.

Vital sounds.

Essential

At this stage in their career, the Gladiators had freed themselves (temporarily, as they were to return triumphantly four years later) from the contractual shackles of Clement "Coxsone" Dodd, had cut a series of driving skank tracks for Lee Perry, and were branching out into a new direction with "Prince" Tony Robinson. As always, their trademark vocal harmonies can be traced back to the Impressions, while their lyrical influences were, as with most Jamaican groups of the time, snapshots of ghetto life filtered through a Biblical morality.

In common with most of their contemporaries, it was easier to escape the walls of Coxsone's Brentford Road studio than it was to avoid it in their music; thus "Mix Up" was a re-recording of "Bongo Red", and "Hello Carol" followed the original arrangement closely, while "Rude Boy Ska" was a cover of an old Wailers tune. On the other hand, "Looks is Deceiving" and "Eli Eli" saw them stretching out from their previous style, and while their harmonic influences are obvious, their distinctively Jamaican outlook on life, coupled with the proto-rockers rhythms (on which they played the bulk of the guitar and bass parts themselves, and some stunning vocals, render this an essential purchase.

Gladiatorial irie!

One of the very best roots reggae albums of all time. Righteous spiritual militancy, swooning harmonies, irresistible rhythms, magnificent melodies and a fine line in philosophical nuggets - "Cow never know the use of his tail, till the butcher cut it off" - seen!