So that every mouth can be fed (a.k.a. "That's Haile Selassie of you!") by Rob Conroy

Rob Conroy

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Submit Date: 10/12/2007
Format: CD
Category: Reggae

So that every mouth can be fed (a.k.a. "That's Haile Selassie of you!")


Artist	Song
Big Youth	Screaming Target

Junior Byles	Beat Down Babylon

The Congos	Fisherman

Desmond Dekker	Israelites

Althea & Donna	Uptown Top Ranking

The Slickers	Johnny Too Bad

The Roots	Mash Down

The Maytals	Pressure Drop

Horace Andy	Repatriation

Junior Murvin	Police & Thieves

Jimmy Cliff	Many Rivers to Cross

Delroy Wilson	Cool Operator

The Wailers	Stir It Up

The Upsetters	Zion's Blood

Augustus Pablo	King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown

Dawn Penn	You Don't Love Me (No, No, No)

Andy Capp	Pop a Top

Lloyd & Devon	Wolf Out Deh

Leroy Smart	Pride & Ambition

Burning Spear	I and I Survive

Prince Far I	Heavy Manners

Culture	Two Sevens Clash

Linton Kwesi Johnson	Loraine

Comment:

I could pontificate about the importance of this mix, its contents, or the inherent "greatness" (in the big sense) of (to me, anyway) every one of these tracks, but that would be pointless. Instead, to paraphrase a friend of mine here, let's call this mix exactly what it is: a collection of my absolute favorite reggae-related tracks (I say "related" only because I am far from being an expert on Jamaican music sub-genres and couldn't say for sure that every song here is "reggae" by its most rigorous definition). Thanks to pf for the Horace Andy track and to SwankQueen for hipping me to the Dawn Penn track. Last tracks cut: "Man Next Door" by Dennis Brown, "I Love Marijuana" by Linval Thompson, and "Ku Klux Klan" by Steel Pulse. Title by Desmond Dekker and Hawkeye Pierce, in equal measures.

Feedback:

Mo Twang!
Date: 10/12/2007

Lots of my favorite reggae tracks, too!

sammyg123
Date: 10/12/2007

Very Cool. Many classics to be found here.. 1, 4-11, 16 & 20 being my faves..

Mark Petruccelli
Date: 10/12/2007

Brilliant stuff here, the Dekker, Slickers, Maytals, Cliff, Wailers and Burning Spear tracks are all-time favs here as well.

doowad
Date: 10/12/2007

Full of favorites here, Johnny too bad, pressure drop, police & thieves, many rivers to cross, king tubby, burning spear, just awesome rob. Oh, and Desmond Dekker too. Beauty, eh?

Pop Kulcher
Date: 10/12/2007

I have to confess that, like (presumably) a fair number of rock fans, my reggae collection is limited to a handful of Bob Marley albums and the Harder They Come soundtrack. I like the music fine, but maybe it's just the association of frat boys and their mandatory copy of Legend played at every party back in college that kept me from spending much time with it. I'm hoping you make this one into a downloadable sampler, as I imagine you've put together a far more compelling mix than any store-bought compilation.

hemizen
Date: 10/12/2007

I'm hip.

French Connection
Date: 10/12/2007

All classic cuts, Burning Spear's being the stand out track pour moi. Makes me feel irie might have to set to on another reggae mix of me own now.

anthony lombardi
Date: 10/12/2007

i have to admit, as well, that i've never been a big reggae fan, for pretty much the same reason pop kulcher isn't - however, i would definitely be interested in giving this a spin & seeing what i've been missing out on