The Wailers - Simmer Down at Studio 1

The original Wailers was a ska, rocksteady and reggae group that was formed in Kingston, Jamaica in 1963. The group consisted of Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer, Beverly Kelso, Junior Braithwaite and Cherry Smith. This album contains their ska, R&B and Gospel inspired outputs on the legendary label Studio 1 of Coxsone Dodd. Bob Marley is a big fan of the American group and of Curtis Mayfiled and once said that The Wailers were the Jamaican counterpart of The Impressions. The Skatalites were the house band of Studio 1 during the ska years. After The Skatalites disbanded, ex-Skatalite Roland Alphonso and the Soul Vendors were used in some recordings. They have backed up The Wailers on the songs "Simmer Down", "Amen", "Diamond Baby", "Playboy", "Hooligans", "Love and Affection" and the original version of "One Love". The Los Angles CA ska band Hepcat did a very good rendition of "Hooligans" on their "Out of Nowhere" cs released by Moon Records and have been re-issued by Hellcat Records of Tim Armstrong of the punk band Rancid. They were called variously The Teenagers, The Wailing Rudeboys, The Wailing Wailers, and finally The Wailers.

"This Train," recorded in 1966, kicks off the album, but the rest of the set proceeds in chronological order, beginning with the group's debut 1963 single and first Jamaican hit, "Simmer Down," and ending with 1965's sweet-as-honey "Love and Affection." This is a far different group from that which began to emerge into international stardom in the reggae age.

01. This Train
02. Simmer Down
03. I am Going Home
04. Do You Remember
05. Mr. Talkative
06. Habits
07. Amen
08. Go Jimmy Go
09. Teenager In Love
10. I Need You
11. It Hurts To Be Alone
12. True Confessions
13. Lonesome Feeling
14. There She Goes
15. Diamond Baby
16. Playboy
17. Wheres The Girl For Me
18. Hooligan
19. One Love
20. Love And Affection

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JONNY GREENWOOD IS THE CONTROLLER

"Jonny Greenwood is The Controller" is a compilation album by Jonny Greenwood, lead guitarist of Radiohead. The album culls Greenwood's favorite reggae and dub songs from the vaults of Trojan Records, in honor of the label's 40th anniversary. Released on March of 2007, it coincides with Trojan's Artist Jukebox Series in Which DJ Spooky and Don Letts have already contributed. A long fan of reggae , Jonny was given access to the entire Trojan catalogue of which he chose 17 songs.I must say, this is one of the best Trojan compilation that I have listened to so far. Really Potent.

1. Dread Are the Controller - Linval Thompson
2. Let Me Down Easy - Derrick Harriot
3. I'm Still in Love (12" mix) - Marcia Aitken
4. Never Be Ungrateful (12" mix) - Gregory Isaacs
5. Bionic Rats - Lee "Scratch" Perry
6. Cool Rasta - The Heptones
7. "Flash Gordon Meets Luke Skywalker" - Scieintist & Prince Jammy & The Roots Radics
8. Black Panta - Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters
9. Fever - Junior Byles
10. Beautiful and Dangerous - Desmond Dekker and The Aces
11. Dread Dub (It Dread Out Deh Version) - Lloyd's All Stars
12. Gypsy Man - Marcia Grifiths
13. A Ruffer Version - Johnny Clark & The Aggrovators
14. Right Road to Dubland (Right Road to Zion Dub) - The Jahlights
15. Dreader Locks - Junior Byles & Lee Perry
16. This Life Makes Me Wonder - Delroy Wilson
17. Clean Race - Scotty

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HEPCAT LIVE IN CHICAGO '97

Another request from our good friends and former bandmates Wam Molina and Lawrence Intalan, "Hepcat -Live in Chicago". Hepcat's in excellent form and is one of the best and authentic band that had emerged from the American ska scene. Formed in 1989 in Los Angeles, California - this band's sound is way different from mostly 2Tone sounding and distortion oriented ska punk that dominated the States during that time. They are more akeen to the original sound of Jamaica with soulful vocals, flavors of early R&B, playing ska and rocksteady musically and technically superior that will make The Skatalites proud.

1. Train to Skaville

02. Nigel

03. Can't Wait

04. Rudies all around

05. Hooligans

06. No Worries

07. The fool

08. Goodbye Street

09. Earthquake and Fire

10. Dance Wid Me

11. Tommy song

12. Same o same o

13. The Secret

14. Bobby and Joe

15. Jonh James

16. Clarence Thomas

17. Artebella

18. Marcus Garvey

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JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET....THE ACID JAZZ YEARS

Another request from our friend and Neighbors guitarist Lawrence - A wonderful compilation of the British funk band The James Taylor Quartet. One of the best band around, good pop sound, funky hammond and good vibes all together. This was the first acid jazz cd I bought many years ago. There were other two acid jazz years compilation that came out, one is for Mother Earth and the other one was Corduroy. There were hammond riffs and instrumentals by The style Council courtesy of Mick Talbot but JTQ provided my first hammond organ fix and then puchased another compilation by the originator Jimmy Smith released by Verve. So get in the groove, on the dance floor or your living room and play that fuzzy music!

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GROOOOVY POP!

AS REQUESTED!

A light treat of home melodrama, bad hair-pieces, politely-twanged guitar, cheap strings, horns, organ, latin percussion and some cheesy backing vocals. Great background music while waxing your scooter!

The Mike Flower Pops - A Groovy Place

A Groovy Place

Wonderwall

The In Crowd

Light My Fire

Please Release Me

Venus As A Boy

Crusty Girl

The Velvet Underground Medley

Freebase

1999

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