REGGAE N’YAH MAN! | Prince Buster and Horace Andy at Zero G Sounds

 Some class Reggae from Zero G these last coupla days. A wonderful Horace Andy an early favourite and the naughtiest of Reggae stars the legendary Prince Buster today with a mixed bag but some classic filthy reggae!

Horace Andy - Skylarking 1972 - Zerosounds

Zero G says:

"Skylarking" was the debut studio album by Horace Andy. It was released on Studio One in 1972. Not to be confused with his later album, also titled "Skylarking", released in 1996. The backing band was Sound Dimension - Coxsone Dodd's studio band, led by Leroy Sibbles.


In 2012, "Skylarking" was placed at number 16 on the "Top 50 Reggae Albums" list, which was compiled by Jamaican disc jockey Clinton Lindsay and his colleague Marlon Burrell in commemoration of Jamaica's 50th anniversary as an independent nation. In 2014, Mojo placed it at number 43 on its list of the "50 Greatest Reggae Albums". In 2016, GQ named it as one of the "10 Classic LPs from Reggae's Golden Era".


Tracklist:

Where Do The Children Play 2:52
Just Say Who 2:28
Love Of A Woman 3:23
Skylarking 3:09
Mammie Blue 4:24
Please Don't Go 2:46
Every Tongue Shall Tell 2:28
Something's On My Mind 2:20
See A Man's Face 2:30
Don't Cry 2:56
I'll Be Gone 2:27
Got To Be Sure 2:18

Bonus tracks:
Oh Youth Man 2:53
Night Owl 4:03

Prince Buster - She Was A Rough Rider (1968)

Prince Buster - She Was a Rough Rider 1968 - Zerosounds 

One of Prince Buster's finest albums and, thanks to the presence of both the much-covered title track and the oft-revisited "Whine & Grine," one of his most popular.

As usual, the set itself was made up from then-recent U.K. singles, bolstered by a handful of tracks that had not made it out on Bluebeat 45s, and the scattershot approach does show. 

The clumsy honk-driven "Dreams to Remember," "Walk with Love" and "Bye Bye Baby" are weak fare by Buster's most rampant standards, and "Going to the River" really could have been left on the shelf. But "Scorcher" (the source for one of Madness' most distinctive intros, by the way), "Hypocrites" and "Can't Keep On Running" are the sound of the Prince at his most electrifying, while the caustic "Taxation" strikes a vocal chord that almost every listener will be able to identify with.


Tracklist:

Rough Rider 
Dreams To Remember 
Scorcher 
Hypocrites 
Walk With Love 
Taxation 
Bye Bye Baby 
Tenderness 
Wine Or Grind 
Cant Keep On Running 
Closer Together 
Going To The River

Still great fun all round . . . . . . . . . 

With the outrageous Wreck a Pum Pum following along behind!

Prince Buster did not invent rude reggae, but he certainly did it a lot better, and a lot more frequently, than most people. 

"Wreck a Pum Pum" collects most of his earlier contributions to the canon, opening with the title track's positively filthy reinvention of "Little Drummer Boy," then continuing on through such distinctly unsubtle offerings as "Pum Pum a Go Will You," "Pussy Cat Bite Me" and that most alluring of Buster productions, "Wreck a Buddy (The Sexy Girls)" - "Wreck a Pum Pum" again, from the other side of the genitals. 

Alongside these, a handful of older numbers slide thematically into the brew - "Ten Commandments of Man," "Rough Rider" and "Whine & Grine" - while "Pharaoh House Crash" adds some political subversion to the proceedings, and even the instrumental "The Abeng" doesn't sound out of place by the time you reach it.

Tracklist:

A1 Wreck A Pum Pum
A2 Wreck A Buddy
A3 Rough Rider
A4 Pum Pum A Go Will You
A5 Whine And Grine
A6 Ten Commandments
B1 Beg You Little More
B2 Pussy Cat Bite Me
B3 Pharaoh House Crash
B4 The Abeng
B5 Train To Girls' Town
B6 Stir The Pot