welcome back to the Skaject folks! today we’re looking at Prince Buster’s 1964 record, National Ska: Pain In My Belly: (for this record imma be mentioning who discogs lists as the artist/collaborator, since only a couple feature Prince Buster on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! today we’re looking at another Byron Lee and the Dragonaires album, this time it’s Dance the Ska. alrighty Dance the Ska kicks off with Fat Back, and instrumental track that sounds GREAT – it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! today we’re looking at Byron Lee and the Dragonaires’ Plays Jamaica Ska! kicking things off with Last Night – a very fun instrumental track, covering The Mar-Keys, an R&B group. got a very fun[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
aight, next up on the docket is another new artist to the Skaject, Prince Buster! we’re checking out his 1963 record, I Feel the Spirit. a note – the streaming service i’m using has the original Jamaican release of this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
alright, Byron Lee and the Dragonaires had an album a year prior to this, but the band has shifted between several different genres over the years. 1961’s Joy Ride looks to have been primarily a rocksteady album, so we’re gonna[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
alrighty, we’re starting the Skaject off with Derrick Morgan’s first full LP in 1962, Forward March! Forward March is a great opener, and a nice independence message. i really cannot get enough music like this about Jamaica’s independence. i can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
so back in 2017, i had an idea to fill a Discord music bot’s auto-queue with ska music (i still really enjoyed the name i came up for it: The Rude Bot), to create an endless ska radio in our[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…