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Vinyl records - Reggae
Ska, rock steady, bluebeat, island music etc.

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Black Uhuru

Tear It Up / 1982 / Island ILPS 9696

VG++ / VG+ / $11.00

U.K. release

Burning Spear

Man In The Hills / 1976 / Mango MLPS 9412

NM / VG++ / $15.00

"Is It Good," "No More War," "Lion," "People Get Ready," "Children," "Mother" ...

Jimmy Cliff

Music Maker / 1974 / Reprise MS-2188

VG++ / VG++ / $12.00

Countryman (2 LPs)

Wally Badarou / 1982 / Mango MSTDA 1

VG++ / VG+, VG+ / $16.00

Fabulous island music, with eight tracks by Bob Marley & The Wailers and other great songs by Rico, Steel Pulse, Aswad, Dennis Brown, Toots & The Maytals, Fabulous Five, Jah Lion, Human Cargo, Lee Perry, Rebop Kwaku Baah. Fine score by Wally Badarou. Gatefold cover with 40+ scenes from the movie

The English Beat

I Just Can't Stop It / 1979 / Sire SRK-6091

NM (in shrink) / NM / $18.00

Original release.

Esso Steel Band Of Bermuda

Esso Steel Band Of Bermuda / 1962 / Cook 904 mono

VG+ / NM / $12.00

Featuring Lloyd Simmons & Hubert Smith Jr. Includes Cook Laboratories newsletter

Eddy Grant

Killer On The Rampage / 1983 / Portrait FR 38554

VG++ / NM / $14.00

Custom inner sleeve with lyrics. Includes "Electric Avenue"

The Harder They Come (soundtrack) (more Soundtracks)

Various Artists / 1973 / Mango MLPS-9202

NM / NM / $25.00

Essential island music with Jimmy Cliff (You Can Get It If You Really Want, Many Rivers To Cross, The Harder They Come, Sitting In Limbo), Scotty (Draw Your Brakes), Melodians (Rivers of Babylon), Maytals (Sweet And Dandy, Pressure Drop), The Slickers (Johnny Too Bad), Desmond Dekker (Shanty Town)

Ijahman

Are We A Warrior / 1979 / Island MLPS 9557

VG+ / VG+ / $14.00

Lord Tokyo

Lord Tokyo Sings To The Nightengale - Calypso Harmonies / 1978 / Caribana CM 1001

NM / NM / $20.00

U.K. release - orange vinyl

Looters

Flashpoint / 1988 / Island 90914-1

VG++ co / NM / $7.00

Madness

Madness Presents The Rise & Fall / 1982 / Stiff 22Lo534

VG+ co / VG+ / $11.00

Spanish release

Madness

Madness / 1983 / Geffen GHS 4003

VG++ / NM / $14.00

Custom inner sleeve with lyrics

Bob Marley & The Wailers - please see Bob Marley page

Rita Marley

Who Feels It Knows It / 1980 / Tuff Gong (no #)

VG+ / VG++ / $14.00

Original Jamaican release

Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers

Conscious Party / 1988 / Virgin 90878

NM / VG+ / $9.00

Custom inner sleeve with lyrics

Ziggy Marley & The Melody Makers

Tomorrow People (3 versions) / We A Guh SomeWeh (12-inch 45) / 1988 / Virgin 96703

NM / NM / $7.50

Hugh Mundell

Mundell / 199? / Greensleeves (no #)

NM / M / $12.50

U.K. reissue, unplayed

Johnny Nash

I Can See Clearly Now / 1972 / Epic KE-31607

VG+ / VG+ / $12.00

First pressing. Nash is backed by Bob Marley & The Wailers, who are not credited. Also includes "Stir It Up" and other Marley tunes; "Cream Puff"

Prisoner In The Street (soundtrack)

Third World / 1980 / Island ILPS 9616

VG / VG++ / $11.00

Promo stamp on cover. Includes live version of "96 Degrees In The Shade"

The Specials

More Specials / 1980 / Chrysalis CHR-1303

VG+ co / VG++ / $12.50

Includes Enjoy Yourself (It's Later Than You Think), Rat Race, Man At C & A, Hey Little Rich Girl, Do Nothing, Pearl's Cafe, Sock It To 'Em J.B., Stereotypes, Holiday Fortnight, I Can't Stand It, International Jet Set, Enjoy Yourself (reprise). Custom inner sleeve with lyrics. Cut corner on cover

Steel Breeze

Steel Breeze / 1982 / RCA Victor AFL1-4424

VG++ / VG++ / $10.00

Steel Pulse

Babylon The Bandit / 1985 / Elektra 9 60437

VG++ / VG++ / $10.00

Custom inner sleeve with lyrics

Tackhead

Friendly As A Hand Grenade / 1989 / TVT 4060

NM / VG++ / $16.00

Third World

The Story's Been Told / 1983 / Columbia FC 38687

NM / VG+ / $10.00

Custom inner sleeve with lyrics

Peter Tosh

Legalize It / 1976 / Columbia PC 34253

NM / VG++ / $24.00

Peter Tosh

Bush Doctor / 1978 / Rolling Stones COC 39109

VG+ / VG++ / $15.00

Trinidad Serenaders

Limbo - The Latest Party Dance Craze / 1962 / Columbia CS 8584

VG++ / VG+ / $18.00

The Sunjet Serenaders Steelband

Steelband Spectacular - The Sound Of The Caribbean / 1966 / Columbia CL-2460 mono

VG++ / NM / $15.00

Liner notes trace the origins of steelband music in Trinidad and its spread across the Caribbean

UB40

Labor Of Love / 1983 / A&M SP-6-4980

VG+ / VG+ / $9.00

UB40

Rat In The Kitchen / 1986 / A&M SP 5137

NM / VG++ / $11.00

Custom inner sleeve with lyrics & credits

UB40

UB40 / 1988 / A&M SP-5213

VG++ / NM / $10.00

The Untouchables

Live And Let Dance / 1984 / Twist E1102

NM / VG++ / $10.00

Various Artists

Joe Gibbs & Friends - The Reggae Train 1968-1971 / 1988 / Trojan TRLS-261

VG++ / NM / $15.00

U.K. release. Early reggae recordings, with Lee Perry ("The Upsetter," "Kimble"), The Versatiles ("Trust the Book," "Push It In"), Sir Gibbs ("People Grudgeful"), The Reggae Boys ("Me No Born Yah," "The Wicked Must Survive," "The Reggae Train"), The Young Souls ("Man A Wail"), The Immortals ("Bongo Jah"), The Slickers ("Man Beware," "Mother Matty"), Tommy McCook Band ("Soulful Mood"), Joe Gibbs Allstars ("Hijacked"), Ken Parker ("It's Alright," "Only Yesterday"), The Soul Mates ("Jump It Up"), Peter Tosh ("Arise Blackman"). Compiled and annotated by Steve Barrow

Bunny Wailer

Blackheart Man / 1976 / Island ILPS 9415

VG+ co / VG+ / $14.00

Original release, gatefold cover with lyrics. Cut corner on cover

Johnny Wakelin

Reggae Soul & Rock 'N Roll / 1976 / Pye 12131

VG+ co / VG+ / $12.00

With his huge hit Black Superman (Muhammad Ali)

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