Jimmy Cliff in THE HARDER THEY COME

[vinzclortho]

Just re-re-rebought this album, I'd put it up there as one of the finest reggae albums ever made. Have any of you seen the movie? My buddy Ben and I rented it a few years ago and we watched the whole thing but could not understand a word anybody said. Could have been because we were roasted, could have been the Jamaican accents.....I'm not a doctor, I don't know. The Harder They Come and Johnny Too Bad are just such awesome fun songs how can you not like them? I love the whole album but I'd have to say those are my favorites.





Also picked up:

Long Beach Dub Allstars: Right Back

Miles Davis: On the Corner

Slapshot: 16 Valve Hate

Operation Ivy

Jurassic 5: Quality Control

Living Color: Time's up

Bootsty Collins: Fresh Outta "P" University

[iceman]

That movie is it, bummer you couldn't understand it, I say try again.

[fez]

The guy who wrote the book, Michael Thelwell is a Professor of Afro-American Studies at UMass. Great guy to take a class from. He was very active in the civil rights movement, friends with Stokely Carmichael

The book also provided the inspiration for the name of a mountain bike frame building company i used to be part owner of, Rhygin Racing Cycles.

Anytime i see that movie or listen to the album it takes me back for sure.

[tuffy109]

i got the dvd a ways back and here is my synopsis. jimmy moves to the city from the country and makes it huge as a reggae singer.

i like Rockers better.

[Plakespear]

Gotta love how they subtitled the Jamaican accents.

Fave song on album: "Many Rivers to Cross"

[Woodsy]

I say when it drops, oh you gonna feel it
Know that you were doing wrong.

great allbum end to end, movie was ok, it was not quite a :

[Arty50]

Also picked up:

Long Beach Dub Allstars: Right Back

Miles Davis: On the Corner

Slapshot: 16 Valve Hate

Operation Ivy

Jurassic 5: Quality Control

Living Color: Time's up

Bootsty Collins: Fresh Outta "P" University

I haven't heard Slapshot and I never really got into the whole punk/ska thing (ie. Operation Ivy); but damn man, that's some good taste you have there.

[Echo_Beach]

I never really got into the whole punk/ska thing .

punk/ska
? you mean reggae, rocksteady...

great movie, great album. if you don´t understand patwa, go to dances

ps.: someone listen to the new album "black magic"?

[basom]

i probably watched this movie 50 times in high school.
good film, like the production value, really great sound track.

Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
so that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
Get up in the morning, slaving for bread, sir,
So that every mouth can be fed.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
My wife and my kids, they are packed up and leave me.
Darling, she said, I was yours to be seen.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
Shirt them a-tear up, trousers are gone.
I don't want to end up like Bonnie and Clyde.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
After a storm there must be a calm.
They catch me in the farm. You sound the alarm.
Poor me, the Israelite. Aah.
Poor me, the Israelite.
I wonder who I'm working for.
Poor me, Israelite,
I look a-down and out, sir.

desmond dekker is my homie.

[Foggy_Goggles]

i like Rockers better.

Indeed. Countryman is also very good. I should step up and get these on DVD.

[LegoSkier]

If you think The Harder They Come is hard to understand, try Countryman

[scoober]

Did you get the double disc "deluxe edition"? The second disc is filled with a bunch of great tunes from the era.

Good stuff for sure.

[Arty50]

punk/ska
? you mean reggae, rocksteady...

No. I mean punk/ska...or punk ska if you like. There's a huge list of bands like this. It got semi big around 98/99. IMHO, ska died a long time ago. Some bands picked it up around the time period I'm talking about and mixed it with the "punk" scene a bit.

For me, ska was sort of a transcendental state. It melded a 50s American music style with Jamaican influences. And then reggae was born out of it. The stuff that came out in the late 90s was more of an offshoot of punk.

[Echo_Beach]

thanks, but i know what ska and punk is
and i love the stuff by brince buster...now there are a few good ska bands outa spain (dr. calypso and many more)