These here songs will keep you skanking all night long. They will take hold of your head, heart, feet and you'll begin to rock steady and skank all day/night long. Download all 4. Great tunes. Emusic rocks. These 4 songs alone make it worth the monthly membership fee. Respect!
Big up this Big Youth song, listen to the dub versions, they are great! One of my favorite toasters, big thumbs up for Big Youth. (say it Jamaican style to be cool= Big Yoot)
Despite the fire and brimstone that characterized reggae's revolutionary emergence in the 1970s, I have always had an abiding affection for the evolutionary period that immediately preceded that breakthrough, when the music seemed caught between two worlds. The style is usually referred to as rocksteady - post-Ska, but still experimenting with and expanding the possibilities of that one-drop, loping afterbeat; and though Rastafarian ideology was already beginning to swiftly gospelize the music (anthemed most notably… more »
