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been listening to him a lot today, still great stuff . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jA9tmm4_To"]YouTube - Linton Kwesi Johnson - Di Black Petty Booshwah [12'' Version] [#]

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Egye9tBl-y8"]YouTube - Linton Kwesi Johnson - Five Nights of Bleeding (Poet and The Roots)

Madness, madness
Madness tight on the heads of the rebels
The bitterness erup's like a heart blas'
Broke glass, ritual of blood an' a-burnin'
Served by a cruelin' fighting
5 nights of horror and of bleeding
Broke glass, cold blades as sharp as the eyes of hate
And the stabbin'
It's war amongs' the rebels
Madness, madness, war

Night number one was in Brixton
Sofrano B sound system
'im was a-beatin' up the riddim with a fire
'im comin' down his reggae reggae wire
It was a sound checkin' down your spinal column
A bad music tearin' up your flesh
An' the rebels dem start a fighting
De youth dem just tun wild
It's war amongs' the rebels
Madness, madness, war

Night number two down at Sheppard's
Right up Railton road
It was a night name Friday when ev'ryone was high on brew or drew
A pound or two worth of collie
Sound comin' down of the king's music iron
The riddim just bubblin' an' backfirin'
Ragin' an' risin'
When suddenly the music cut -
Steelblade drinkin' blood in darkness
It's war amongs' the rebels
Madness, madness, war

Night number three, over the river
Right outside the Rainbow
Inside James Brown was screamin' soul
Outside the rebels were freezin' cold
Babylonian tyrants descended
Pounced on the brothers who were bold
So with a flick of the wris', a jab and a stab
The song of hate was sounded
The pile of oppression was vomited
And two policemen wounded
Righteous, righteous war

Night number four at the blues dance, abuse dance
Two rooms packed and the pressure pushin' up
Hot, hotheads
Ritual of blood in the blues dance
Broke glass, splintering fire
Axes, blades, brain blas'
Rebellion rushin' down the wrong road
Storm blowin' down the wrong tree
And Leroy bleeds near death on the fourth night
In a blues dance, on a black rebellious night
It's war amongs' the rebels
Madness, madness, war

Night number five at the Telegraph
Vengeance walk thru the doors
So slow, so smooth
So tight and ripe and - smash!
Broke glass, a bottle finds a head
And the shell of the fire heard - crack!
The victim feels fear
Finds hands, holds knife, finds throat
Oh, the stabbins and the bleedin' and the blood
It's war amongs' the rebels
Madness, madness, war

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z15GkZq1ddM"]YouTube - The Soul Syndicate - Ruff Gal Dub

 

everyone who knows me knows how i feel about i roy . . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPkfqLzGBTk"]YouTube - I Roy - Yamaha Ride extended mix with version - santic records reggae dj

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF3PXw21dco"]YouTube - Freddy Mckay - Drunken Sailor 1971

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpt9s_1Er0A"]YouTube - Lovers Version -Delroy & Sporty (Studio1 JA) (Banana UK)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dbc2b0-gPTw"]YouTube - Seventy Two Nations - Dadawah..

rootsical

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0nNBeN-J44"]YouTube - no potion a gal sang hugh the thing label.wmv

 

one of the most often used riddims in ja history:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXdo1UEh5wI"]YouTube - The Uniques - My Conversation

slim smith, 1948-1973, missed ever since . . .

 

burning spear - sounds from studio one

 

^^^ i'm gonna post a clip from that for the friendly folks in the audience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGTcngP47WA"]YouTube - Burning Spear -Door Peep Shall Not Enter-

 

the great roy shirley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBXa4JIMfhc"]YouTube - Roy Shirley - Hold Them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNDXanDd8fg"]YouTube - Roy Shirley

i'm actually listening to the song rolling rolling from 'sir lee's rocksteady party' but there's no clip of that . . .

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glpBpXhQtM"]YouTube - Rita Marley Anderson & The Wailers/A De Pon Dem

or:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r36n5h10DFo"]YouTube - HOPETON LEWIS - A DEH PON DEM.wmv

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6RtcrvCzBk"]YouTube - Sweet Like Candy - Winston Williams

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOleA4E0WFw"]YouTube - Freddie McKay ~ What You Gonna Do

 

Bob Marley-Don't worry be happy


-how do I embed videos?

 

just copy/paste the url of the video in the post

 

thank you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpsfynHt6S8"]YouTube - Toots And The Maytals - 54 46 was my number

 

i'll see your toots and raise you:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB-DgI7wM1Y"]YouTube - Toots & The Maytals - Pomp & Pride

 

even though i'm actually listening to:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e4Vku0lyoU"]YouTube - FRED LOCKS MISSION FOR THE KING EXTENDED VERSION

funny, just noticed it's the door peep riddim [top of the page]