Prince Buster - Prince Buster - Fabulous Greatest Hits [Diamond Range] (2006)
Artist: Prince Buster
Title: Prince Buster - Fabulous Greatest Hits [Diamond Range]
Year Of Release: 2006 (2009)
Label: PMI Jet Star
Genre: Reggae, Ska, Rocksteady
Quality: FLAC (tracks) | Mp3 / 320kbps
Total Time: 37:12
Total Size: 180 MB | 84.3 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:Title: Prince Buster - Fabulous Greatest Hits [Diamond Range]
Year Of Release: 2006 (2009)
Label: PMI Jet Star
Genre: Reggae, Ska, Rocksteady
Quality: FLAC (tracks) | Mp3 / 320kbps
Total Time: 37:12
Total Size: 180 MB | 84.3 MB
WebSite: Album Preview
----------
01. Prince Buster - Earthquake
02. Prince Buster - Texas Hold-Up
03. Prince Buster - Freezing Up Orange Street
04. Prince Buster - Free Love
05. Prince Buster - Julie
06. Prince Buster - Take It Easy
07. Prince Buster - Judge Dread
08. Prince Buster - Too Hot
09. Prince Buster - Ghost Dance
10. Prince Buster - Ten Commandments
11. Prince Buster - Al Capone
12. Prince Buster - Barrister Pardon
Despite popular perceptions, Jamaica's first international superstar was not Bob Marley but an idiosyncratic music arranger named Prince Buster. Buster's pre- and post-ska musical stylings were so left of center (sometimes his rhythmic structures focus on the after-beat rather than the downbeat) that he's largely thought to have created his own reggae subgenre called blue beat (named after his label of the same name). Fabulous mixes some of Buster's well-known cuts with some not-so-famous ones that fly all over the musical map as far as soundscapes go. On the more obscure numbers like "Texas Hold-Up," the wicked horn section wails away over a shuffled syncopated beat, while on the bass-heavy "Freezing up Orange Street," the organ and saxophone are mixed to spar off against one another. Down-tempo ballads like "Julie" keep this collection balanced, while Buster's more ubiquitous up-tempo rhythm tracks like "Al Capone" and "Judge Dread" expose listeners to his more uncensored political positions regarding race and sex. While his hit "Ten Commandments" is included on this collection, the sexist manifesto it espouses would generate an even more heated set of responses from women than it garnered back then (the third commandment asks for the woman "to kiss and caress me, and honor and obey me, seven days a week and twice on Sundays"). In the end, those who think that Shaggy was the creative genius behind "Oh Carolina" (Buster actually produced the original version for the Folkes Brothers) need to purchase this collection and get schooled on this ska legend. --Dalton Higgins
FLAC
IsraCloud : Download
Mp3
IsraCloud : Download