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The Harder They Come
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Track Listings
1 | You Can Get It If You Really Want |
2 | Draw Your Breaks - Scotty - Scotty |
3 | Rivers of Babylon - the Melodians - The Melodians |
4 | Many Rivers to Cross |
5 | Sweet and Dandy - the Maytals - The Maytals |
6 | The Harder They Come |
7 | Johnny Too Bad - the Slickers - The Slickers |
8 | 007 (Shanty Town) - Desmond Dekker - Desmond Dekker |
9 | Pressure Drop - the Maytals - The Maytals |
10 | Sitting in Limbo |
11 | You Can Get It If You Really Want |
12 | The Harder They Come |
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Product Description
The breakthrough album that (in conjunction with the film of the same name) burst reggae into the mainstream with its initial U.K. release in 1972, and in the U.S. in 1973 on Island Records' newly inaugurated reggae imprint, Mango. The soundtrack features performances from the film's star Jimmy Cliff as well as other reggae legends such as Toots & The Maytals, Desmond Dekker and more.
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Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell made reggae an integral player in his gritty 1973 saga of a renegade Kingston singer who becomes a modern Robin Hood, casting one of the style's earliest stars, Jimmy Cliff, in the lead, and filling this soundtrack--here presented in a remastered version--with classics from Toots & the Maytals ("Pressure Drop," "Sweet and Dandy"), Desmond Dekker ("Shanty Town"), the Melodians ("Rivers of Babylon"), and the Slickers ("Johnny Too Bad"). Cliff himself gets pole position, however, getting in the first ("You Can Get It If You Really Want") and last ("The Harder They Come") words in this first-rate reggae primer, which also features Cliff's enduring "Many Rivers to Cross." --Sam Sutherland
Product details
- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Language : English
- Product Dimensions : 5.08 x 5.67 x 0.47 inches; 3.88 ounces
- Manufacturer : Island
- Item model number : 2140933
- Original Release Date : 2001
- Date First Available : October 21, 2006
- Label : Island
- ASIN : B00005LZWR
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #12,151 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #40 in Music of Jamaica
- #79 in Special Interest
- #187 in Latin
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The soundtrack features many of the popular Reggae musicians of that time - Featuring Jimmy Cliff, Toots and the Maytals, and Desmond Decker. No Bob Marley here, we are talking "early" Reggae.
I bought the "original" soundtrack, but I see now that a new release has been issued with many more songs, including one all time favorite "Israelites" by Desmond Decker. My only complaint with the "original" soundtrack record was that it was "a little short," and even repeated one Jimmy Cliff Song "The Harder They Come" - but seeing the reissue, I might have to re-order !
It was great to find it in CD format after all those years. These are classic vintage Reggae tunes popular in Jamaica, the West Indies, and all over the world with reggae lovers like me. "Shanty Town" makes me think of those warm balmy days sailing the Caribbean in the US Navy and taking the unforgetable catamaran sailing trip from the island of St. Kitts to the island of Nevis, drinking rum, and smoking Dominican cigars !!!
I ordered this CD for his birthday and what a gift it has turned out to be! Various Jamaican artists complete this album full of very recognizable cuts: Pressure Drop by Toots and the Maytals, Sitting in Limbo, Many Rivers to Cross all help to round out this fabulous compilation.
Original recording has been remastered.
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Allem voran muss ich sagen, die CD ist perfekt aufgenommen. Kein Hochpegelscheiß, fetter Bass einfach gut!!!
Zur Songauswahl - ich weiß, es ist keine, somndern ein Soundtrack, trotzdem:
1. Natürlich Jimmy Cliff Klassiker. Schöne Aufnahme.
2.Da wirds das erste mal richig fett. Den Track kenn ich nur von Trojan Records Samplern - noch nie auf einer "normalen" CD gehört. Ein absoluter Traum, diese Version von STOP THAT TRAIN. Ein Meilenstein. Geil aufgenommen, satte Bässe, sehr transparenter Klang. Kein Anschein mehr von den alten 60er Jahre Street Records aus Kingston.
3. Was soll ich dazu sagen. Das muss. Die Originalversion von Rivers of Babylon. Mit dem Frank Farian Dingens bin ich aufgewachsen und das war auch gut, bis sehr sehr gut;-)
4. Das Lied erschließt sich mir nicht, auf einem solchen Album, tut es auch nicht auf den anderen Jimmy Cliff ALben. Deswegen schnell das nächste:
5. Und da kommt wieder ein absoluter Kracher. Das ist einer dieser Rocksteady Reggaes für die Insel. Die Maytals sind ein Fundgrube sondersgleichen!!!!
6. Klassiker Jimmy Cliffs.
7. Wieder eine Perle. Selten! Allerfeinster Rootsreggae. Sowas Feines landet oft nur auf B-Seiten. HÖREN!!!!
8. 007 wie man es kennt. Schon zu oft gehört.
9. Das gute alte Presssure Drop. Geht immer.
10. WIe 4. Ich verstehs nicht.
11. YCGIIYRW
12. THTC
Insgesamt ein tolle Album mit vielen interessanten Tracks und für alte Reggaekungen einigen Standards, die wohl dahin gehören. Für mich eines der Alben für die Insel, dass ich auch mit 48 Jahren noch liebe zu hören und ich kenn das Album seit meiner Studienzeit in den 90ern.
Cet album est abusivement attribué à Jimmy Cliff, car c'est la BO du film dont il est le héros. J'aime Jimmy Cliff, mais à mon humble avis les plus belles chansons de l'album sont: Rivers of Babylon, Sweet and dandy, Johnny too bad, Pressure drop.
En fait, j'adore le style de "Toots and The Maytals".
Je recommande cet album à ceux qui veulent découvrir le "fundamental reggae"