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The Biggest Dancehall Anthems, 1979-82: The Birth of Dancehall | 
| Artist: Various Artists
Label: Greensleeves
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
Buy New: $11.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 74860
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 4101
UPC: 601811841129
EAN: 0601811841129
ASIN: B00006AKQB
Release Date: August 20, 2002
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Condition: BRAND NEW Factory Sealed - Ready to be shipped within 24 hrs from California - Average 5 workdays delivery time - Excellent customer service - Buy with confidence!
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Fally Ranking - Johnny Osbourne | | • | Shine Eye Gal - Barrington Levy | | • | Firehouse Rock - Wailing Souls | | • | Bathroom Sex - General Echo | | • | Ice Cream Love - Johnny Osbourne | | • | Morning Ride - Yellowman | | • | Look Youthman - Barrington Levy | | • | Another One Bites The Dust - Clint Eastwood & General Saint | | • | Fattie Boom Boom - Ranking Dread | | • | Gunman - Michael Prophet | | • | How The West Was Won - Ranking Toyan | | • | Look How Me Sexy - Linval Thompson | | • | Spar Wid Me - Ranking Toyan | | • | Ghetto Queen - John Holt | | • | Love Tickles Like Magic - Junior Delgado | | • | Bounty Hunter - Barrington Levy | | • | Jah Love Is With I - Johnny Clarke | | • | Chip In - Wayne Jarrett | | • | Poor & Humble - Wayne Wade | | • | Who No Waan Come - Wailing Souls |
Disc 2
| • | Wa-Do-Dem - Eek-A-Mouse | | • | Yellowman Getting Married - Yellowman | | • | Diseases - Papa Michigan & General Smiley | | • | Bone Connection - Nicodemus | | • | To The Foundation - Dennis Brown | | • | Mary Long Tongue - Barrington Levy | | • | Sweetie Come Brush Me - John Holt | | • | Come Fe Mash It - Tony Tuff | | • | Kingdom Rise Kingdom Fall - Wailing Souls | | • | River Jordan (Crucifixion) - Barrington Levy | | • | River Jordan - Ranking Joe | | • | Entertainment - Tristan Palmer, Jah Thomas & Ranking Toyan | | • | I'm Not Crazy - Don Carlos | | • | Can't Pop No Style - Hugh Mundell | | • | Up Front - Wailing Souls | | • | Love A Dub - Ranking Dread | | • | Mr Chin - Yellowman | | • | Trying To Turn Me On - Johnny Osbourne | | • | Eventide Fire A Disaster - General Echo featuring Barrington Levy | | • | Tribute To General Echo - Clint Eastwood & General Saint |
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 BEWARE May 30, 2008
I ordered BIGGEST DANCEHALL ANTHEMS and received, instead, FROM DUBPLATE TO DOWNLOAD . I've looked at other sites and it seems Greensleeves has discontinued BIGGEST and replaced it with DUBPLATE. Download of BIGGEST from amazon has excellent sound quality though. I usually end up listening to reggae from the 60's or 70's, but this album is impressive . If you like the Wailing Souls songs from this disc, check out their VERY BEST OF...After 15 or so years, i still listen to it regularly.
maybe 50% dancehall October 19, 2005
1 out of 6 found this review helpful
this is a good pick for those who love reggae music, and there are some early dancehall and chat tracks. But mostly its late 70's, early 80's reggae singers. To put Barrington Levy, John Holt and Johnny Osbourne on a 'strictly dancehall' comp seems ignorant...Still, i'd chek'et out.
 five stars January 9, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
A superb collection of early "dancehall"/late roots rock. The dancehall aspect is more in the production (emphasis on drum and bass) than in the music, which is still very much 1970s roots reggae.
I bought this a year ago, and I still enjoy it as much as the first day I listened to it. All these songs were hit records in the late seventies/early eighties in the Kingston and London reggae scene. Most of them are Henry 'Junjo' Lawes productions (that's him on the cover) at Channel One with the Roots Radics, but there are also some great Linval Thompson productions.
A lot of Wailing Souls, Barrington Levy, Yellowman and a lot of dj tunes. Michael Prophet's "Gunman" is followed by Toyan's version "How The West Was Won". There are four versions of "I'm Not Getting Crazy" by Don Carlos. Jr Delgado's "Love Tickles Like Magic" borrows Black Uhuru's "Satan Army Band" riddim.
All tracks are great and you will recognize many riddims, perhaps the most heavy of all: the heavenless riddim given the Junjo treatment on Triston Palmer's "Entertainment" (extended with an answer version of Jah Thomas & Toyan").
I hate to be one of these people that urges you to "buy this" but this one you will not regret buying.
Excellent collection, but very different... October 30, 2004
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This collection is important but much slower and surely earlier than critical dancehall tracks that changed the dancehall scene dramatically like "Ah Who Se Me Dun" bu Cutty Ranks, "Batty Rider" by Buju Banton, and "Murder She Wrote" by Chaka Demus and Pliers. Although much more commercial hits, these are closer predecessors and the essential roots of todays current dancehall tracks.
Yellowman's tracks, in my opinion, were the only true "dancehall" tracks on this CD I could relate to.
Good CD, but for early dancehall closer to what you enjoy today, go get the early VP Records "Strictly the Best" Volume's 1-5.
Gil
essential early dancehall April 17, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A great collection of dancehall vibes from an era where dancehall was dancehall. The sound is clean, crisp, and original...and the one drop never sounded so sweet. Today's dancehall is heavily influenced by American hip- hop, straying away from the Jamaican sound that makes reggae so great. Definitlely a great buy, especially for those who want to get introduced to late 70's/early 80's dancehall reggae.
My top 5 tracks on this jawn:
1. Michael Prophet- Gunman
2. Yellowman- Morning Ride
3. Wailing Souls- Kingdom Rise, Kingdom Fall
4. Don Carlos- I'm Not Crazy
5. John Holt- Ghetto Queen
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