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Loch Ness
Monster featuring Top Reggae Artists
Released on 8 December 2003.
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Wow taking me back to late
70 early 71 when as a 14 year old youth going to the local burgeoning
reggae sessions. We had a local lad who got hold of all this stuff
and this album has a pure skinhead vibe. That fast beat organ led
frantic wildstyle footstomping music. Great music not necessarily
but of a time for sure, a time before the ugly Britishness took over.
This album hit big time and maybe assisted by the fact that it was
recorded largely in the UK by UK based Jamaicans.
Mostly that organ drive and
of course the slackness or rudeness of the likes of the wonderfully
seductive (to a 14 year old anyway) Nora Dean. Martin Riley and Fay
Bennett. That said there are diversions of pace to include the
mellow Night Food Reggae but essentially it was a UK pastiche of
Jamaican music doctored for a UK audience. It picks out and
emphasizes things like the DJ styles, the movies of the day, James
Bond , Spaghetti, Vampire and Kung Fu, Jamaican Society both Rude Boy
Style (Cutting Blade) and Rasta (African Meeting).
The original album is
included with extra bonus tracks on a Theme and from a sister album
and probably the standout track Queen of the World.
Relive that youthful
exuberance!
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Format: CD album
Released:
Availability:
Not in stock: order for despatch in 3 to 28 days
Price: £12.50
Initially released in Trojan in 1970, Loch Ness
Monster features a dozen sides linked by both their 'horror'theme
and up beat tempo. Aimed squarely at the burgeoning Skinhead
market, the LP, with its garishly painted cover, quickly became a
sought after item amoung all self-respecting cropped-haired lads
and lasses and sold by the bucket load. Today, finding an original
pressing that hasn't been played to death is becoming increasingly
rare - not to mention, painful to the pocket. / A seminal piece of
Skinhead history is finally revived with this release - issued
both in its original vinyl format and CD, the latter featuring 13
bonus tracks, all of which capture the mood and feel of the
original dirty dozen titles. The booklet is jam-packed with
fascinating memorbilia from the period and with a fascinating
essay from respected Reggae music writer, Michel De Koningh, this
is a selection that's bound to appeal to Skinheads of all ages.
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Tracklisting
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Loch Ness Monster - King Horror - Listen
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Man From MI5 - The Upsetters - Listen
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Barbwire - Nora Dean - Listen
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Self Control - Martin Riley & Fey Bennett -
Listen
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Night Food Reggae - The Des All Stars - Listen
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The Hole - King Horror - Listen
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The Vampire - The Upsetters - Listen
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Black Scorcher - The Des All Stars - Listen
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Suffering Stink - The Band Of Mercy & Salutation
- Listen
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Cutting Blade - King Horror - Listen
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African Meeting - Girlie & Jomo - Listen
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Dracula Prince Of Darkness - King Horror - Listen
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BONUS TRACKS:
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Return Of The Pollock - Patrick & Lloyd - Listen
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The Same Thing That You Gave To Daddy - Nora Dean -
Listen
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Cock Robin - Ansel Collins - Listen
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Easy Rider - The Music Doctors - Listen
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Once A Man - Bill Jack - Listen
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Jaco - The Prophets - Listen
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Electric Shock - The Music Doctors - Listen
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Queen Of The World - Lloyd & Claudette - Listen
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Pick Folk Kinkiest - The Upsetters - Listen
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Sipreano - Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Listen
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Ghost Chicken - The Music Doctors - Listen
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The Tackro - Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Listen
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