All Entries in the "Album Covers" Category

ijahman_haile_i_hymn

I Am The Gorgon! posted a photo:

Now when I’ve almost used up all of my 200 free scans at flickr I’ve started to realise that I’ve missed so many fantastic albums in my collection that I’d wanted to put on here. Many because there was so long ago I listened to them they slipped through [...]

jah_lion_colombia_colly

I Am The Gorgon! posted a photo:

Does a deejay album get more dread than this? Remembering listening to this as a teenager at a friends house, licking chalice (no weed in it!) and chatting about the dread runnings of teenage boys (ie. girls, girls and girls). I still love girls, licking chalice (still without weed) [...]

welton_irie_army_life

I Am The Gorgon! posted a photo:

Weltons was a fantastic deejay and in my opinion this is his tour de force. The rhythms are heavy and the chatting is really the best you could expect from Welton.
The cover art is also very cool! Productions are by Lone Ranger and Clive Phillips with the album being [...]

supercat_si_boops_deh

I Am The Gorgon! posted a photo:

In my opinion Super Cat has released only two really good albums. Boops on Skengdon and this one, his debut, that also includes boops in the title.
The productions are split between Winston Riley (the album being released on his Techniques label) and Prince Jammy. The album includes classics such [...]

captain_ganja_and_the_space_patrol

I Am The Gorgon! posted a photo:

I love Tradition (this is my third dub album by them). Reading the liner notes to their albums they seem to be a blast to hang with. Always humorous details included everywhere. Just read the title on this bad ass! I mean … it must have started as a [...]

black_roots_the_frontline

I Am The Gorgon! posted a photo:

Black Roots is as the name implies a roots rocking group with cultural influences. A very slow and dread English sound which for me is fantastic. This together with their second release was rounded up by Makasound and released as a fantastic compilation.
Just love how the group is relaxing [...]

cry_tuff_dub_III

I Am The Gorgon! posted a photo:

Continuing the outer space theme set by Tradition in my previous post – here we have Cry Tuff Dub Encounter.
A juggernaut type of dub set. Check the opening track Plant Up which is a stripped down mix of Far I’s vocals (and thus not a dub track per se).
Really [...]

mellow_yellow_and_young_ranks

I Am The Gorgon! posted a photo:

Mellow Yellow also known as Yellow Hands was only marginally as known as Yellowman or even Purpleman/Peter Yellow. Still he is a deejay that could contest with any of them (as he also did on the clash album with King Yellowman).
This is his only solo album and it is [...]

Split Single #3: “Pressure Drop” by The Clash / “The Harder They Come” by Keith Richards

I was once devoted to The Clash. In USA, I saw them play 5 times. The first time was one of the best, the last time was . . . . . . . depressing. www.thedailyswarm.com/watch/clash-pressure-drop-nissan/

The Rolling Stones plied the Blues, while The Clash emulated everything, and perhaps, tried to do too much. The Clash had better dub (“One More Time” with Mikey Dread), but The Stones have the better riff. Even Mick Jones says the first Clash album was the best.

Yet, Mick Jones still makes the grade:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MENt8cvRg

These two 45 rpms flatten the distinction between “Punk Rock” and “Classic Rock” as both sides of the fray try “the new stuff”, with neither attempt really coming off.
In fact the two songs are “oldies”, canonical Reggae for the connoisseur or the totally clueless.

Continuing the dissolution of genres, on a later reissue of “Run Rudolph Run” (the above single’s flipside) Richards replaced “The Harder They Come” with “Pressure Drop”.

I’ll give Keith the final word (on Reggae covers) as it is his single above (not The Rolling Stones): “I was convinced that (Start Me Up) was a reggae song. Everybody else was convinced of that. “It’s reggae, man.” We did 45 takes like that. But then on a break I just played that guitar riff, not even really thinking much about it; we did a take rocking away and then went back to work and did another 15 reggae takes. Five years later, Mick discovered that one rock take in the middle of the tape and realized how good it was. The fact that I missed “Start Me Up” for five years is one of my disappointments. It just went straight over my head. But you can’t catch everything.” www.guitarworld.com/article/keith_richards_hot_stuff

Desmond Dekker and the Aces – Action! (1967)

Really good photos used for reggae album covers seem to be about as rare as good reggae music videos. Here’s a solid live photo of the late Desmond Dekker at the mike, live on stage. Sharp, well lit and with a good sense of action, it’s just what’s required. The wild typography of the album title may be overstating the point a bit though.