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Dillinger: Cocaine In My Brain: The Anthology (TJDDD200)

70’s Punky Reggae party and if that’s where you were at this is where you will reclaim it.  From the early lee Perry madness through Prince Tony and others before landing on the pulse with Bunny Lee.  For me it was always Dillinger Trinity and Tapper Z, so great to hear this.

The Perry stuff was madness of course but it didn’t really find the niche or feel th emarket place until maybe the mid 70’s, but which time the style and craft was honed.  Babylon Yard for example is superb, retaining the original vocal but adding much of it’s own. The when the toast took the lead – often the toast was on top of a known song taking it to the dancehall, but more often than not at this time it was only the toast that people wanted – like Leggo violence

And bizarrely also for the Soulboyz- Mecca anthem of course – the title track.

Great stuff

Dillinger: Cocaine In My Brain: The Anthology (TJDDD200)

 

Format: Double CD album
Released: Aug 30 2004
Availability: In stock: immediate despatch
Price: £13.99




Dillinger's work, apart from the Channel One set 'CB 200' and the Studio One L.P. 'Ready Natty Dreadie', has not been too well served in the long playing department. This set gives an impressive overview of his work, starting with Lee Perry and on throught highlights of his work with Striker Lee, Niney The Observer and various other heavy-weight producers who managed to capture Dillinger when he was the most in-demand deejay on the Kingston recording scene.

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Tracklisting

  2-CD SET - Listen

  DISC 1

  Headquarters - Listen

  Tighten Up Skank - Listen

  Cane River Rock - Listen

  Uncle Charlie - Listen

  John Devour - Listen

  Skanking - Listen

  Connection - Listen

  Mid East Rock - Listen

  Ensome City Skank - Listen

  Dub Organiser - Listen

  Festival Rock - Listen

  Cocky Bully - Listen

  Fat Beef Skank - Listen

  Stick The Beef - Listen

  God Is Standing By - Listen

  Dangerous Sound Boy - Listen

  Donkey Bine - Listen

  Babylon Yard - Listen

  Leggo Violence - Listen

  Liar Linda - Listen

  See And Blind - Listen

  DISC 2

  Truth And Right - Listen

  Natty Dread A The Ruler - Listen

  The Table Gonna Turn - Listen

  The Fool And His Money - Listen

  Flat Foot Hustling - Listen

  So Long Rastafari (With Trinity) - Listen

  People's Cry (with Gregory Isaacs) - Listen

  Say No To Drugs - Listen

  Don't Take Another Man's Life - Listen

  Blackboard Jungle - Listen

  Loving Pauper - Listen

  Funkey Punk - Listen

  Mickey Mouse Crab Louse - Listen

  Cocaine In My Brain - Listen

  Mr Wicked Man Know Yourself - Listen

  War Is Not The Answer - Listen

  Love Is What The World Needs - Listen

  Ranking Of The Past - Listen

  Modern Judas - Listen

  Judgement Day Rock - Listen

  Marijuana In My Brain - Listen

  African Roots Rock Reggae - Listen

 

 

 

 

 

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