- 01“MPLA”Deejay Tappa Zukie's smash hit ‘MPLA’ – MPLA / Natty going on a holiday – and Pablo Moses's ‘We Should Be in Angola’ advanced the idea of Rasta joining up with the Cuban troops to go and fight in Africa as being spiritually sound.from the chapter
- 02“We Should Be in Angola”Deejay Tappa Zukie's smash hit ‘MPLA’ – MPLA / Natty going on a holiday – and Pablo Moses's ‘We Should Be in Angola’ advanced the idea of Rasta joining up with the Cuban troops to go and fight in Africa as being spiritually sound.from the chapter
- 03Stand Up to Your JudgementThe Mighty Diamonds' Stand Up to Your Judgement LP features a sleeve drawing of paramilitary-styled, machine-gun-totin' Rastamen and such scrawled slogans as ‘Death to capitalism’, ‘Death to Maoism’, ‘Death to Yankee Imperialism’, ‘Death to English Colonialism’ and just plain ‘Death’.from the chapter
- 04“Angola”Joe Joe Hookim's Channel One house band were called the Revolutionaries and put out instrumentals with titles like ‘Angola’ and ‘Leftist’, both of which were off a huge-selling album called Revolutionaries Sounds that had a red cover featuring that classic beard ‘n’ beret portrait of Che Guevara.from the chapter
- 05“Leftist”Joe Joe Hookim's Channel One house band were called the Revolutionaries and put out instrumentals with titles like ‘Angola’ and ‘Leftist’, both of which were off a huge-selling album called Revolutionaries Sounds that had a red cover featuring that classic beard ‘n’ beret portrait of Che Guevara.from the chapter
- 06Revolutionaries SoundsJoe Joe Hookim's Channel One house band were called the Revolutionaries and put out instrumentals with titles like ‘Angola’ and ‘Leftist’, both of which were off a huge-selling album called Revolutionaries Sounds that had a red cover featuring that classic beard ‘n’ beret portrait of Che Guevara.from the chapter
- 07“Skylarking”The sufferation singles of that time threw up some true classics: Horace Andy's ‘Skylarking’ was about the perils of a hardcore, unemployed sub-working class; the Maytals’ ‘Time Tough’ subtly juxtaposed slavery with the current hardships; Bunny Wailer's ‘Arab Oil Weapon’ pulled few punches; Bob Andy's ‘Fire Burning’ warned of a potential class war; Bob Marley's ‘Talking Blues’ – Cold ground was…from the chapter
- 08“Time Tough”The sufferation singles of that time threw up some true classics: Horace Andy's ‘Skylarking’ was about the perils of a hardcore, unemployed sub-working class; the Maytals’ ‘Time Tough’ subtly juxtaposed slavery with the current hardships; Bunny Wailer's ‘Arab Oil Weapon’ pulled few punches; Bob Andy's ‘Fire Burning’ warned of a potential class war; Bob Marley's ‘Talking Blues’ – Cold ground was…from the chapter
- 09“Arab Oil Weapon”…Horace Andy's ‘Skylarking’ was about the perils of a hardcore, unemployed sub-working class; the Maytals’ ‘Time Tough’ subtly juxtaposed slavery with the current hardships; Bunny Wailer's ‘Arab Oil Weapon’ pulled few punches; Bob Andy's ‘Fire Burning’ warned of a potential class war; Bob Marley's ‘Talking Blues’ – Cold ground was my bed last night / Rock stone was my pillow too… – was a…from the chapter
- 10“Fire Burning”…‘Skylarking’ was about the perils of a hardcore, unemployed sub-working class; the Maytals’ ‘Time Tough’ subtly juxtaposed slavery with the current hardships; Bunny Wailer's ‘Arab Oil Weapon’ pulled few punches; Bob Andy's ‘Fire Burning’ warned of a potential class war; Bob Marley's ‘Talking Blues’ – Cold ground was my bed last night / Rock stone was my pillow too… – was a hard-times chronicle.from the chapter
- 11“Talking Blues”…‘Skylarking’ was about the perils of a hardcore, unemployed sub-working class; the Maytals’ ‘Time Tough’ subtly juxtaposed slavery with the current hardships; Bunny Wailer's ‘Arab Oil Weapon’ pulled few punches; Bob Andy's ‘Fire Burning’ warned of a potential class war; Bob Marley's ‘Talking Blues’ – Cold ground was my bed last night / Rock stone was my pillow too… – was a hard-times chronicle.from the chapter
- 12“Mr President”The Heptones' Lee Perry-produced ‘Mr President’ appealed directly, if perhaps gently, to the government on behalf of the sufferahs, but it gained a certain edge when Jah Lion toasted on top of it with lyrics like Come offa your big chair / I and I need I share… Peter Tosh's ‘Arise Black Man’, Junior Byles’ ‘Beat Down Babylon’, and the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘I Need a Roof’ are all self-explanatory.from the chapter
- 13“Arise Black Man”The Heptones' Lee Perry-produced ‘Mr President’ appealed directly, if perhaps gently, to the government on behalf of the sufferahs, but it gained a certain edge when Jah Lion toasted on top of it with lyrics like Come offa your big chair / I and I need I share… Peter Tosh's ‘Arise Black Man’, Junior Byles’ ‘Beat Down Babylon’, and the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘I Need a Roof’ are all self-explanatory.from the chapter
- 14“Beat Down Babylon”The Heptones' Lee Perry-produced ‘Mr President’ appealed directly, if perhaps gently, to the government on behalf of the sufferahs, but it gained a certain edge when Jah Lion toasted on top of it with lyrics like Come offa your big chair / I and I need I share… Peter Tosh's ‘Arise Black Man’, Junior Byles’ ‘Beat Down Babylon’, and the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘I Need a Roof’ are all self-explanatory.from the chapter
- 15“I Need a Roof”The Heptones' Lee Perry-produced ‘Mr President’ appealed directly, if perhaps gently, to the government on behalf of the sufferahs, but it gained a certain edge when Jah Lion toasted on top of it with lyrics like Come offa your big chair / I and I need I share… Peter Tosh's ‘Arise Black Man’, Junior Byles’ ‘Beat Down Babylon’, and the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘I Need a Roof’ are all self-explanatory.from the chapter
- 16“Tenement Yard”Dennis Brown figured he'd be better off in chokey with ‘Three Meals a Day’ –… three meals a day / No rent to pay / No wife to obey…; and Jacob Miller's ‘Tenement Yard’ bewailed the dehumanization of the ghetto's overcrowding, although occasionally from a purely selfish point of view – Dreadlocks can't smoke his pipe in peace…from the chapter
- 17“War inna Babylon”This chapter's title is the original Jamaican title of the Max Romeo tune that came out in the UK as ‘War inna Babylon’, a scathing diatribe against political corruption, ghetto violence and government heavy-handedness.from the chapter
- 18“Ballistic Affair”Leroy Smart's ‘Ballistic Affair’ served up a poignant reminder of the effect the gang wars were having on everyday life for an entire generation of Kingston youth:… We used to lick chalice and cook ital stew together / We used to play football and cricket as one brother… Now you go fight against your brother… Everyone is living in fear / just through this ballistic affair… Barry Brown's ‘Far…from the chapter
- 19“Far East”…of Kingston youth:… We used to lick chalice and cook ital stew together / We used to play football and cricket as one brother… Now you go fight against your brother… Everyone is living in fear / just through this ballistic affair… Barry Brown's ‘Far East’ expressed much the same sentiments, and John Holt's ‘Up Park Camp’ took its title from the Jamaica Defence Force's 200-acre barracks.from the chapter
- 20“Up Park Camp”…of Kingston youth:… We used to lick chalice and cook ital stew together / We used to play football and cricket as one brother… Now you go fight against your brother… Everyone is living in fear / just through this ballistic affair… Barry Brown's ‘Far East’ expressed much the same sentiments, and John Holt's ‘Up Park Camp’ took its title from the Jamaica Defence Force's 200-acre barracks.from the chapter
- 21“Police and Thieves”Junior Murvin's ‘Police and Thieves’ was in no doubt that this was sheer criminality, and that to call it political would be to flatter it.from the chapter
- 22“Throw Down Your Arms”…aspect of gunmen on the party's payrolls in ‘Blood Dunza’ (‘dunza’ being sufferah slang for money), while Burning Spear, Jah Stitch and Culture appealed for peace with, respectively, ‘Throw Down Your Arms’, ‘Cool Down Youthman’ and ‘Stop Your Fussin’ and Fightin”. ‘Fire inna Kingston’ by Vivian Jackson and the Prophets told, with an effective first-person expression of shock, of coming to…from the chapter
- 23“Cool Down Youthman”…the party's payrolls in ‘Blood Dunza’ (‘dunza’ being sufferah slang for money), while Burning Spear, Jah Stitch and Culture appealed for peace with, respectively, ‘Throw Down Your Arms’, ‘Cool Down Youthman’ and ‘Stop Your Fussin’ and Fightin”. ‘Fire inna Kingston’ by Vivian Jackson and the Prophets told, with an effective first-person expression of shock, of coming to the capital from the…from the chapter
- 24“Stop Your Fussin”…‘Blood Dunza’ (‘dunza’ being sufferah slang for money), while Burning Spear, Jah Stitch and Culture appealed for peace with, respectively, ‘Throw Down Your Arms’, ‘Cool Down Youthman’ and ‘Stop Your Fussin’ and Fightin”. ‘Fire inna Kingston’ by Vivian Jackson and the Prophets told, with an effective first-person expression of shock, of coming to the capital from the country and the devastation…from the chapter
- 25“Heavy Manners”…police can't go in there / I make another move to check Trench Town /people a-go run run run them a-run left them house… Fire, fire and we have no water… Prince Far-I's roots masterpiece ‘Heavy Manners’ called for self-control among the ghetto people, and in doing so wrote a question mark against the PNP's anti-crime policies, which clearly weren't working and which were being used by police…from the chapter
- 26“Su Su Pon Rasta”To ‘put criminals under heavy manners’ was Manley's catchphrase for coming down hard on crime, and in the overwhelming, fore-boding toast built on a tune called ‘Su Su Pon Rasta’ by Nago Morris, Far-I likened it to how you'd treat a dog, making the point with terrifying timbre as he told the world natty-dread-style that self-discipline was the only way forward.from the chapter
- 27“Move Outta Babylon”Johnnie Clarke's ‘Move Outta Babylon’, the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘Country Living’, Bob Marley's ‘Exodus’ (although that may have been more figurative), Big Youth, Pam Hall and Jackie Parris's ‘You Got to Live in the Country’, Junior Delgado's ‘Natty Want to Go Home’ and Vivian Jackson and the Prophets’ ‘Run Come Rally’ were among the very best.from the chapter
- 28“Country Living”Johnnie Clarke's ‘Move Outta Babylon’, the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘Country Living’, Bob Marley's ‘Exodus’ (although that may have been more figurative), Big Youth, Pam Hall and Jackie Parris's ‘You Got to Live in the Country’, Junior Delgado's ‘Natty Want to Go Home’ and Vivian Jackson and the Prophets’ ‘Run Come Rally’ were among the very best.from the chapter
- 29“Exodus”Johnnie Clarke's ‘Move Outta Babylon’, the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘Country Living’, Bob Marley's ‘Exodus’ (although that may have been more figurative), Big Youth, Pam Hall and Jackie Parris's ‘You Got to Live in the Country’, Junior Delgado's ‘Natty Want to Go Home’ and Vivian Jackson and the Prophets’ ‘Run Come Rally’ were among the very best.from the chapter
- 30“You Got to Live in the Country”Johnnie Clarke's ‘Move Outta Babylon’, the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘Country Living’, Bob Marley's ‘Exodus’ (although that may have been more figurative), Big Youth, Pam Hall and Jackie Parris's ‘You Got to Live in the Country’, Junior Delgado's ‘Natty Want to Go Home’ and Vivian Jackson and the Prophets’ ‘Run Come Rally’ were among the very best.from the chapter
- 31“Natty Want to Go Home”Johnnie Clarke's ‘Move Outta Babylon’, the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘Country Living’, Bob Marley's ‘Exodus’ (although that may have been more figurative), Big Youth, Pam Hall and Jackie Parris's ‘You Got to Live in the Country’, Junior Delgado's ‘Natty Want to Go Home’ and Vivian Jackson and the Prophets’ ‘Run Come Rally’ were among the very best.from the chapter
- 32“Run Come Rally”Johnnie Clarke's ‘Move Outta Babylon’, the Mighty Diamonds’ ‘Country Living’, Bob Marley's ‘Exodus’ (although that may have been more figurative), Big Youth, Pam Hall and Jackie Parris's ‘You Got to Live in the Country’, Junior Delgado's ‘Natty Want to Go Home’ and Vivian Jackson and the Prophets’ ‘Run Come Rally’ were among the very best.from the chapter
- 33“Zion Gate”It was one of the first of many such rallying calls – Horace Andy's ‘Zion Gate’, Hugh Mundell's ‘Jah Say the Time Has Now Come’ and the Abyssinians’ ‘Jah Loves’ are just three that immediately spring to mind – and coincided with the start of a tremendous upsurge in Rasta consciousness, especially in the city.from the chapter
- 34“Jah Say the Time Has Now Come”It was one of the first of many such rallying calls – Horace Andy's ‘Zion Gate’, Hugh Mundell's ‘Jah Say the Time Has Now Come’ and the Abyssinians’ ‘Jah Loves’ are just three that immediately spring to mind – and coincided with the start of a tremendous upsurge in Rasta consciousness, especially in the city.from the chapter
- 35“Jah Loves”It was one of the first of many such rallying calls – Horace Andy's ‘Zion Gate’, Hugh Mundell's ‘Jah Say the Time Has Now Come’ and the Abyssinians’ ‘Jah Loves’ are just three that immediately spring to mind – and coincided with the start of a tremendous upsurge in Rasta consciousness, especially in the city.from the chapter
- 36“No Joshua No”Max Romeo's ‘No Joshua No’ was one of the first anti-Manley records to come out of a constituency he clearly thought of as his own, and remains if not the most eloquent then certainly the most direct: You took them out of bondage / and they thank you for it… but now in the desert / tired, battered and bruised / they think they are forsaken / they think they have been used / Rasta is watching and…from the chapter
- 37“Mr President”The Heptones weighed in with ‘Mr President’, a straightforward plea to Government House, and ‘Sufferah Time’, which gave the idea the massive was running out of patience.from the chapter
- 38“Sufferah Time”The Heptones weighed in with ‘Mr President’, a straightforward plea to Government House, and ‘Sufferah Time’, which gave the idea the massive was running out of patience: See wi time / It's a sufferah's time / Time fi sufferahs drive big car / Time fi sufferahs live it up… Ernie Smith warned that ‘Jah Kingdom Go to Waste’, while Peter Tosh's collieman anthem ‘Legalize It’ came as a direct result…from the chapter
- 39“Jah Kingdom Go to Waste”…plea to Government House, and ‘Sufferah Time’, which gave the idea the massive was running out of patience: See wi time / It's a sufferah's time / Time fi sufferahs drive big car / Time fi sufferahs live it up… Ernie Smith warned that ‘Jah Kingdom Go to Waste’, while Peter Tosh's collieman anthem ‘Legalize It’ came as a direct result of Operation Buccaneer's attempts at curbing the herb.from the chapter
- 40“Legalize It”…plea to Government House, and ‘Sufferah Time’, which gave the idea the massive was running out of patience: See wi time / It's a sufferah's time / Time fi sufferahs drive big car / Time fi sufferahs live it up… Ernie Smith warned that ‘Jah Kingdom Go to Waste’, while Peter Tosh's collieman anthem ‘Legalize It’ came as a direct result of Operation Buccaneer's attempts at curbing the herb.from the chapter
- 41“Peace Treaty Special”The gunman truce had already been marked in music by tunes like Jacob Miller's ‘Peace Treaty Special’, Dillinger's ‘The War Is Over’ and Culture's ‘Natty Dread Taking Over’ – all best sellers during that year – but the concert was to bring it to the attention of the entire Jamaican people, regardless of class or colour.from the chapter
- 42“The War Is Over”The gunman truce had already been marked in music by tunes like Jacob Miller's ‘Peace Treaty Special’, Dillinger's ‘The War Is Over’ and Culture's ‘Natty Dread Taking Over’ – all best sellers during that year – but the concert was to bring it to the attention of the entire Jamaican people, regardless of class or colour.from the chapter
- 43“Natty Dread Taking Over”The gunman truce had already been marked in music by tunes like Jacob Miller's ‘Peace Treaty Special’, Dillinger's ‘The War Is Over’ and Culture's ‘Natty Dread Taking Over’ – all best sellers during that year – but the concert was to bring it to the attention of the entire Jamaican people, regardless of class or colour.from the chapter
- 44“One Love”But none of Tosh's haughty histrionics could overshadow the moment that, during the Wailers' band's climactic rendering of ‘One Love’, Bob invited Michael Manley and Edward Seaga up on stage to shake hands.from the chapter
- 45Screaming TargetNot that anybody was pocketing large royalty cheques – talk to Big Youth and he'll tell you he still hasn't been paid for Screaming Target's international success; Rupie Edwards has vowed not to go back to Jamaica to live until he's collected all that's owed him from twenty-five years ago; and Max Romeo reckons he only ever received JA$2,500 (not very much) for the War inna Babylon album.from the chapter
- 46Dread at the ControlsIt was Mikey Campbell's Dread at the Controls, broadcast from midnight to 6 a.m. every night except Monday.from the chapter
- 47“We're Having a Party Tonight”If they hear songs like the Heptones' “We're Having a Party Tonight”, and they hear it at a party on a Saturday night why can't they hear it on the radio?from the chapter
- 48“Soon Forward”Like mi go studio and mi see Sly and Robbie, them doing this Gregory Isaacs tune “Soon Forward” and me seh, “Sly, wicked tune that… Come, give me a dub plate or give me a reel to reel let me go cut a dub.”from the chapter
- 49“Redemption Song”The first significant release of 1980 was Bob Marley's ‘Redemption Song’.from the chapter
- 50“Right Time”‘You first really hear it on the Mighty Diamonds’ “Right Time”.from the chapter
- 51“Jumping Master”Check a tune called ‘Jumping Master’ which, on the surface, is little more than a throwaway workout with the Radics fooling around, jamming, showing off and generally getting as loose as only a unit so inherently tight can be, but it's the nearest you're ever going to come to that band in microcosm.from the chapter