Monkey Business: The Definitive Skinhead Reggae Collection (LP)
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Various Artists
Monkey Business: The Definitive Skinhead Reggae Collection (LP)
[ BMG / 2 LP ]
Release Date: Friday 26 April 2019
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Originally released by Trojan Records as a one-disc vinyl album in 1980, the hugely popular 'Monkey Business' became the entry point for a new generation looking to find out more about the sounds that inspired 2Tone and the ska revival. Its reissue as a 2CD set in 2016 repeated the success, living up to its strapline as 'the definitive skinhead reggae compilation'.
Unavailable as a long player for almost 4 decades, the original LP has at last been rebranded and remastered with the track-listing bolstered by seven bonus tracks from the 'boss reggae era' of the late Sixties and early Seventies.
Released to mark the 50 years of 'the Spirit of 69', this instant collector's item is pressed on the highest quality vinyl and spread over two 12" discs to ensure maximum audio fidelity, and it's presented in a stylish gatefold sleeve, which is annotated by top skinhead reggae DJ Toast, ensuring the album looks a good at it sounds.
Tracks:
A1. Tighten Up - The Untouchables
A2. Fatty Fatty - Clancy Eccles
A3. 54-46 Was My Number - The Maytals
A4. 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker & The Aces / A5. Liquidator - Harry J Allstars
A6. Fire Corner - King Stitt
A7. Double Barrel - Dave & Ansel Collins
B1. Birth Control - Lloydie & The Lowbites
B2. Herbsman - King Stitt & Andy Capp
B3. Elizabethan Reggae - Boris Gardiner & The Love People
B4. Return of Django - The Upsetters
B5. Monkey Spanner - Dave & Ansel Collins
B6. (To Be) Young Gifted and Black - Bob & Marcia B7. Long Shot Kick de Bucket - The Pioneers
C1. Monkey Man - The Maytals
C2. Dollar In the Teeth - The Upsetters
C3. Barbwire - Nora Dean
C4. Shocks of Mighty - Dave Barker & The Upsetters C5. Them a Laugh and a Ki Ki - The Soulmates
C6. No More Heartaches - The Beltones
C7. Sufferer - The Kingstonians
D1. Wet Dream - Max Romeo
D2. (Poor Mi) Israelites - Desmond Dekker & The Aces
D3. Hang 'Em High - Richard Ace
D4. John Jones - Rudy Mills
D5. Reggae in Your Jeggae - Dandy
D6. Red Red Wine - Tony Tribe
D7. Skinhead Moonstomp - Symarip
