welcome back to the Skaject folks! today we’re checking out a Prince Buster record from 1967, What a Hard Man Fe Dead: wow 10 Commandments of Man did not age well. i get its a joke, and there’s a part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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welcome back to the Skaject folks! today we’re checking out Laurel Aitken’s Ska With Laurel, from 1966: not gonna lie to you the intro on Streets of Glory is rough. the rest of the track is p good – nice[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! today we’re checking Top Sounds From Top Deck: Ska-Boo-da-Ba, by the Skatalites! alrighty this record kicks off with a title track, Ska-Boo-da-Ba, which is a, well, ska arrangement of Boo-da-Ba by Bill Dogget. this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! today we’re still looking at The Maytal’s, and this time we’re checking out their release from the very next year, The Sensational Maytals! The Sensational Maytals opens with It’s You I Love. its a nice,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
welcome back to the Skaject folks! today we’re looking at The Maytal’s first full record, Never Grow Old! yeah I’ll Never Grow Old is a fun short track to kick the record off for sure. there’s some real fun vocal[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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…