- 01“Everything Crash”Spin the Ethiopians' ‘Everything Crash’, which chronicles the strikes of the time and then makes the observation, What go bad a morning / Can't come good a evening / Everyday carry bucket to the well / One day the bottom must drop out / Everything crash, and it's easy to get a handle on what was going on in the country.from the chapter
- 02“Israelites”Really, though, it's just the sharp end of a wedge that included Desmond Dekker's ‘Israelites’, Carlton and his Shoes’ ‘Happy Land’, the Abyssinians’ ‘Declaration of Rights’, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’, the Joe Higgs-penned ‘Steppin’ Razor’ which became Peter Tosh's theme tune and Prince Buster's ‘Doctor Rodney’, which, straight and to the point, took the government to task over the exclusion…from the chapter
- 03“Happy Land”Really, though, it's just the sharp end of a wedge that included Desmond Dekker's ‘Israelites’, Carlton and his Shoes’ ‘Happy Land’, the Abyssinians’ ‘Declaration of Rights’, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’, the Joe Higgs-penned ‘Steppin’ Razor’ which became Peter Tosh's theme tune and Prince Buster's ‘Doctor Rodney’, which, straight and to the point, took the government to task over the exclusion…from the chapter
- 04“Declaration of Rights”Really, though, it's just the sharp end of a wedge that included Desmond Dekker's ‘Israelites’, Carlton and his Shoes’ ‘Happy Land’, the Abyssinians’ ‘Declaration of Rights’, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’, the Joe Higgs-penned ‘Steppin’ Razor’ which became Peter Tosh's theme tune and Prince Buster's ‘Doctor Rodney’, which, straight and to the point, took the government to task over the exclusion…from the chapter
- 05“Pressure Drop”Really, though, it's just the sharp end of a wedge that included Desmond Dekker's ‘Israelites’, Carlton and his Shoes’ ‘Happy Land’, the Abyssinians’ ‘Declaration of Rights’, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’, the Joe Higgs-penned ‘Steppin’ Razor’ which became Peter Tosh's theme tune and Prince Buster's ‘Doctor Rodney’, which, straight and to the point, took the government to task over the exclusion…from the chapter
- 06“Steppin’ Razor”Really, though, it’s just the sharp end of a wedge that included Desmond Dekker’s ‘Israelites’, Carlton and his Shoes’ ‘Happy Land’, the Abyssinians’ ‘Declaration of Rights’, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’, the Joe Higgs-penned ‘Steppin’ Razor’ which became Peter Tosh’s theme tune and Prince Buster’s ‘Doctor Rodney’.from the chapter
- 07“Doctor Rodney”…though, it's just the sharp end of a wedge that included Desmond Dekker's ‘Israelites’, Carlton and his Shoes’ ‘Happy Land’, the Abyssinians’ ‘Declaration of Rights’, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’, the Joe Higgs-penned ‘Steppin’ Razor’ which became Peter Tosh's theme tune and Prince Buster's ‘Doctor Rodney’, which, straight and to the point, took the government to task over the exclusion order.from the chapter
- 08“Rivers of Babylon”Most importantly, these were guys who had grown up in poverty, could see what was happening in the streets around them and had heard tunes that not only dealt with the reality of life – the Melodians’ ‘Rivers of Babylon’ or Jimmy Cliff's ‘Hard Road to Travel’ – but copped an attitude about it á la ‘Belly Full’ and ‘Duppy Conqueror’ by the Wailers, or the Maytals ‘54–46’.from the chapter
- 09“Hard Road to Travel”Most importantly, these were guys who had grown up in poverty, could see what was happening in the streets around them and had heard tunes that not only dealt with the reality of life – the Melodians’ ‘Rivers of Babylon’ or Jimmy Cliff's ‘Hard Road to Travel’ – but copped an attitude about it á la ‘Belly Full’ and ‘Duppy Conqueror’ by the Wailers, or the Maytals ‘54–46’.from the chapter
- 10“Belly Full”Most importantly, these were guys who had grown up in poverty, could see what was happening in the streets around them and had heard tunes that not only dealt with the reality of life – the Melodians’ ‘Rivers of Babylon’ or Jimmy Cliff's ‘Hard Road to Travel’ – but copped an attitude about it á la ‘Belly Full’ and ‘Duppy Conqueror’ by the Wailers, or the Maytals ‘54–46’.from the chapter
- 11“Duppy Conqueror”Most importantly, these were guys who had grown up in poverty, could see what was happening in the streets around them and had heard tunes that not only dealt with the reality of life – the Melodians’ ‘Rivers of Babylon’ or Jimmy Cliff's ‘Hard Road to Travel’ – but copped an attitude about it á la ‘Belly Full’ and ‘Duppy Conqueror’ by the Wailers, or the Maytals ‘54–46’.from the chapter
- 12“54–46”Most importantly, these were guys who had grown up in poverty, could see what was happening in the streets around them and had heard tunes that not only dealt with the reality of life – the Melodians’ ‘Rivers of Babylon’ or Jimmy Cliff's ‘Hard Road to Travel’ – but copped an attitude about it á la ‘Belly Full’ and ‘Duppy Conqueror’ by the Wailers, or the Maytals ‘54–46’.from the chapter
- 13“Satta Massa Gana”Spear's notion of how the commercially minded producers almost totally failed to come to grips with how the Kingston massive felt reggae should be developing is perfectly illustrated by the Abyssinians’ milestone single ‘Satta Massa Gana’, a Rastafari hymn to sufferation that draws deeply on the Bible and is sung in part in the ancient Ethiopian language of Amharic.from the chapter
- 14Marcus GarveyOne fatter, rootsier, slower, horn-drenched production job later and Spear's 1975 albums Marcus Garvey and Man in the Hill (containing several rerecordings of tunes from his Studio One days) are roots statements of iconic structure.from the chapter
- 15Man in the HillOne fatter, rootsier, slower, horn-drenched production job later and Spear's 1975 albums Marcus Garvey and Man in the Hill (containing several rerecordings of tunes from his Studio One days) are roots statements of iconic structure.from the chapter
- 16“Trench Town Rock”By the beginning of 1972, as well as the likes of ‘My Jamaican Girl’, ‘Cherry Oh Baby’, ‘Mule Train’, ‘Theme from Shaft’, ‘Wear You to the Ball’ and ‘Satisfaction’, among the best-selling singles so far that decade were ‘Trench Town Rock’, ‘Teach the Children’, ‘Mawga Dog’, ‘Better Must Come’, ‘Freedom Street’, ‘Deliver Us’ and ‘Let the Power Fall on I’.from the chapter
- 17“Teach the Children”By the beginning of 1972, as well as the likes of ‘My Jamaican Girl’, ‘Cherry Oh Baby’, ‘Mule Train’, ‘Theme from Shaft’, ‘Wear You to the Ball’ and ‘Satisfaction’, among the best-selling singles so far that decade were ‘Trench Town Rock’, ‘Teach the Children’, ‘Mawga Dog’, ‘Better Must Come’, ‘Freedom Street’, ‘Deliver Us’ and ‘Let the Power Fall on I’.from the chapter
- 18“Mawga Dog”By the beginning of 1972, as well as the likes of ‘My Jamaican Girl’, ‘Cherry Oh Baby’, ‘Mule Train’, ‘Theme from Shaft’, ‘Wear You to the Ball’ and ‘Satisfaction’, among the best-selling singles so far that decade were ‘Trench Town Rock’, ‘Teach the Children’, ‘Mawga Dog’, ‘Better Must Come’, ‘Freedom Street’, ‘Deliver Us’ and ‘Let the Power Fall on I’.from the chapter
- 19“Better Must Come”By the beginning of 1972, as well as the likes of ‘My Jamaican Girl’, ‘Cherry Oh Baby’, ‘Mule Train’, ‘Theme from Shaft’, ‘Wear You to the Ball’ and ‘Satisfaction’, among the best-selling singles so far that decade were ‘Trench Town Rock’, ‘Teach the Children’, ‘Mawga Dog’, ‘Better Must Come’, ‘Freedom Street’, ‘Deliver Us’ and ‘Let the Power Fall on I’.from the chapter
- 20“Freedom Street”By the beginning of 1972, as well as the likes of ‘My Jamaican Girl’, ‘Cherry Oh Baby’, ‘Mule Train’, ‘Theme from Shaft’, ‘Wear You to the Ball’ and ‘Satisfaction’, among the best-selling singles so far that decade were ‘Trench Town Rock’, ‘Teach the Children’, ‘Mawga Dog’, ‘Better Must Come’, ‘Freedom Street’, ‘Deliver Us’ and ‘Let the Power Fall on I’.from the chapter
- 21“Deliver Us”By the beginning of 1972, as well as the likes of ‘My Jamaican Girl’, ‘Cherry Oh Baby’, ‘Mule Train’, ‘Theme from Shaft’, ‘Wear You to the Ball’ and ‘Satisfaction’, among the best-selling singles so far that decade were ‘Trench Town Rock’, ‘Teach the Children’, ‘Mawga Dog’, ‘Better Must Come’, ‘Freedom Street’, ‘Deliver Us’ and ‘Let the Power Fall on I’.from the chapter
- 22“Let the Power Fall on I”By the beginning of 1972, as well as the likes of ‘My Jamaican Girl’, ‘Cherry Oh Baby’, ‘Mule Train’, ‘Theme from Shaft’, ‘Wear You to the Ball’ and ‘Satisfaction’, among the best-selling singles so far that decade were ‘Trench Town Rock’, ‘Teach the Children’, ‘Mawga Dog’, ‘Better Must Come’, ‘Freedom Street’, ‘Deliver Us’ and ‘Let the Power Fall on I’.from the chapter
- 23“Sitting in Limbo”In 1971, when he himself was cutting such tunes as ‘Sitting in Limbo’ and ‘Many Rivers to Cross’, he took a long hard look at Jamaica and its situation and remembers seeing it thus:from the chapter
- 24“Many Rivers to Cross”In 1971, when he himself was cutting such tunes as ‘Sitting in Limbo’ and ‘Many Rivers to Cross’, he took a long hard look at Jamaica and its situation and remembers seeing it thus:from the chapter
- 25“Power for the People”Just as Clancy Eccles enjoyed heartfelt if somewhat opportunistic success by putting PNP slogans to a reggae rhythm – he had another hit with ‘Power for the People’, which was little more than a musical rendition of a Manley campaign speech – so Delroy Wilson's 1971 classic ‘Better Must Come’ became the PNP theme song/battle hymn, even though, until the day the singer died in 1995, he denied it…from the chapter
- 26“Hail the Man”One of the best-selling tunes on the island that year was Ken Lazarus's ‘Hail the Man’.from the chapter
- 27“Sufferah”Derrick Harriott endorses this chronology by citing the Kingstonians' ‘Sufferah’, a single he produced for them in 1970, and maintains it was around then the people figured they weren't going to take any more.from the chapter
- 28“You Can Get It If You Really Want”The Harder They Come also had a soundtrack that boasted the title track, ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’, ‘Sitting in Limbo’ and ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ by Jimmy Cliff, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’ and the rousing ‘Sweet and Dandy’, Scotty's ‘Draw Your Brakes’ (a wild toast on Keith & Tex's ‘Stop that Train’), the Melodians’ groundbreaking ‘Rivers of Babylon’ and the song that summed up so…from the chapter
- 29“Sweet and Dandy”…a soundtrack that boasted the title track, ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’, ‘Sitting in Limbo’ and ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ by Jimmy Cliff, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’ and the rousing ‘Sweet and Dandy’, Scotty's ‘Draw Your Brakes’ (a wild toast on Keith & Tex's ‘Stop that Train’), the Melodians’ groundbreaking ‘Rivers of Babylon’ and the song that summed up so much of the film that it…from the chapter
- 30“Draw Your Brakes”…the title track, ‘You Can Get It If You Really Want’, ‘Sitting in Limbo’ and ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ by Jimmy Cliff, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’ and the rousing ‘Sweet and Dandy’, Scotty's ‘Draw Your Brakes’ (a wild toast on Keith & Tex's ‘Stop that Train’), the Melodians’ groundbreaking ‘Rivers of Babylon’ and the song that summed up so much of the film that it could be taken as an alternative…from the chapter
- 31“Stop that Train”…Want’, ‘Sitting in Limbo’ and ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ by Jimmy Cliff, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’ and the rousing ‘Sweet and Dandy’, Scotty's ‘Draw Your Brakes’ (a wild toast on Keith & Tex's ‘Stop that Train’), the Melodians’ groundbreaking ‘Rivers of Babylon’ and the song that summed up so much of the film that it could be taken as an alternative title song, the Slickers’ ‘Johnny too Bad’.from the chapter
- 32“Johnny too Bad”…Want’, ‘Sitting in Limbo’ and ‘Many Rivers to Cross’ by Jimmy Cliff, the Maytals’ ‘Pressure Drop’ and the rousing ‘Sweet and Dandy’, Scotty's ‘Draw Your Brakes’ (a wild toast on Keith & Tex's ‘Stop that Train’), the Melodians’ groundbreaking ‘Rivers of Babylon’ and the song that summed up so much of the film that it could be taken as an alternative title song, the Slickers’ ‘Johnny too Bad’.from the chapter