Recent Posts Tagged With 'reggae'

• Hip Replacement: Magic Reggae by Various Artists (K-Tel International)

  Posted on Thursday July 30th, 2009 at 16:16 in music, reggae, 1980, desmond dekker, hip replacement, old records, owen gray, althea & donna, bill lovelady, k-tel international, magic reggae, the pioneers

  THIS is where it starts getting tricky. It’s getting on for three decades ago since I first heard this album, so you’re just going to have to bear with me if it all gets a bit sketchy. Magic Reggae, a collection of music by Island, Creole, Trojan...

• Hip Replacement: LKJ In Dub by Linton Kwesi Johnson (Island Records)

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 14:56 in music, reggae, 1980, hip replacement, linton kwesi johnson, old records, dennis bovell, lkj in dub

  I HAVE a vague recollection of buying LKJ In Dub with Christmas gift vouchers from the exotic and exciting Record Village in town. I think it had been out for a while, but it was probably one of the first dub albums I ever owned - as opposed to havin...

• Hip Replacement: Good Thing Going by Sugar Minott (RCA)

  Posted on Monday September 1st, 2008 at 05:57 in reggae, 1981, hip replacement, old records, the north of england, good thing going, sugar minott

  IN MANY ways, being able to get into the football club discos and pigeon fanciers dinner-dances which were held at the village community hall was merely a fringe-benefit of getting served in the White Lion. I must’ve been about 14 when me and Sally...