Re: Jimmy Cliff & Various Artists - The Harder They Come (1973)

by Nightjar Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:40

I think this fades out............

by Nightjar Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:40

The previous version ends all ramshackle, actual-band-in-the-studio-y.

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:42

It is over.

It wasn't very surprising or exciting, as it was just a collection of Reggae's greatest hits but it was a painless listen.

Now to look back at the thread and see what everybody else made of it. Excited

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:42

I shall give it four stars.

by Nightjar Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:43

It's over.

A very special album, dear to my heart.

I'm grateful to my Mum for bringing me up listening to cool and interesting music of all different stripes and colours.

by Guest Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:43

It is over.

by Nightjar Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:47

I'd recommend the film too.

It's essential viewing.

Proper grass-roots filmmaking with a proper grassroots soundtrack.

What's more, the lead artist of the soundtrack is the main star of the film.

A vicious street hoodlum who's also an aspiring singer and musician.

It would be absurd if it was a Hollywood movie, but as a movie set in and on the streets of ultra-violent Kingston it's completely convincing.

by Nightjar Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:48

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:I shall give it four stars.

You didn't have to.

I'm not sure your written review reflects the mark.

Don't you think three stars would be more apt? shifty

by Guest Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:48

Jimmy Cliff not really Reggae is he?

I was going to say ★★★★, but that last two tracks, hmm, should I dock a ★ for that laziness?

hmm

no.

I liked the Scotty one best.

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by Nightjar Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:51

It is great that one innit.

His shrill delivery over the languid almost-Egyptian/Asiatic dub reggae mooch is fab.

Also, the lyrics are some of the most authentically esoteric examples of Jamaican patois ever dun on a rekurd.

by Guest Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:54

Oh, I forgot to say Jimmy Cliff's GR8, but he's a Jamaican pop star, not Prince Far I and King Tubby's love child.

I've also been thinking of trying something, I've never actually listened to, a Bob shifty

Marley album. gasp

by **The Call of the Wendigo** Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 19:56

Nightjar wrote:
The Call of the Wendigo wrote:I shall give it four stars.

You didn't have to.

I'm not sure your written review reflects the mark.

Don't you think three stars would be more apt?

All the tracks were good. They were just over-familiar to someone living in 2021. That, however, is not necessarily the fault of the album.

by Nightjar Thu 7 Jan 2021 - 20:09

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:All the tracks were good. They were just over-familiar to someone living in 2021. That, however, is not necessarily the fault of the album.

Are you suggesting that I'm not living in 2021? stare