Shinehead - Unity 1988

1.  Unity
2.  Chain Gang Rap
3.  The Truth
4.  Hello Y'All
5.  Do It with Ease
6.  Gimme No Crack
7.  Ragamuffin
8.  Know How Fe Chat
9.  Who the Cap Fits
10. Golden Touch

Steel Pulse - Earth Crisis 1984

Cause death is just a moment when the dyin ends. - Ed O.G.
Cause life is too short, and it just gets shorter. - Special Ed

1. Steppin' Out
2. Tightrope
3. Throne of Gold
4. Roller Skates
5. Earth Crisis
6. Bodyguard
7. Grab Education
8. Wild Goose Chase

Steel Pulse - Vex 1994

1. Bootstraps
2. Back to My Roots
3. Islands Unite
4. Better Days
5. In My Life
6. Endangered Species
7. New World Order
8. X Ressurection
9. Whirlwind Romance
10. No Justice, No Peace
11. Dirty H20
12. Dub to My Roots
13. Dubite

DJ Red Alert's Propmaster Dancehall Show 1994

Another bargain basement find from 1994.



1. Resident Alien - Pum Pum Master
2. Sliver/Sugarbear & Silver Fi Di Red Alert
3. Shabba Ranks - Mi Nuh Romp With It
4. Patra - Love All the Men
5. Cutty Ranks - Living Condition [Special Red Alert Remix]
6. Visious - The Glock
7. Skaka II - Black Busta
8. Silver & Kash/Sugarbear - Papa Props
9. Naturally/Red Rox - Let's Chill
10. Daddy Sylva - Stretch to Fit
11. Red Rox/Screechy Dan - Pose Off
12. Bobby Konders/Mike Jarrett - Mack Daddy
13. Rayvon/Shaggy - Big Up

The Big Gundown - Reggae Inspired by Spaghetti Westerns 2004

It so happens I never posted reggae here until this post. This has been the hottest summer since 1998 around here so I guess the time is right. Without Jamaica I couldn't be a hip-hop fanatic so it's nice to see the U.S. give something back by the way of the Italian Western. You know how ridiculous those hip-hop westerns looked compared to the superior urban warrior movies? Trust me, Jamaican artists didn't make the same mistake. Will a few understand what I'm talking about? Or is it just the 100F/38C days getting to me? It's a rhetorical question. Don't even try to answer. Do listen to some good songs about money, love and death backed by cool reggae.

1. Sir Lord Comic - Django Shoots First
2. Crystalites - Dollar a Head
3. The Upsetters - Dollar in the Teeth
4. The Upsetters - Return of Django
5. Crystalites - A Fistful of Dollars
6. King Stitt - Lee Van Cleef
7. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Clint Eastwood
8. Crystalites - The Undertaker
9. Ramon & The Crystalites - The Overtaker
10. Ramon & The Crystalites - Undertaker's Burial
11. The Upsetters - For a Few Dollars More
12. Roy Richards - Death Rides a Horse
13. The Hippy Boys - Death Rides a Horse
14. Johnny Lover & The Destroyers - Franco Nero
15. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Kill Them All
16. Lee "Scratch" Perry - Eight for Eight
17. Crystalites - The Bad
18. Johnny Lover & The Destroyers - Nevada Joe
19. Crystalites - Stranger in Town
20. Eldorados - Savage Colt
21. Andy Capp - The Law
22. The Upsetters - A Taste of Killing
23. The Upsetters - Return of the Ugly
24. Lloyd Charmers - Dollars & Bonds
25. Lloyd Charmers - Vengeance
26. Joe White & The Crystalites - They Call Me Trinity