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Various Artists
Trojan Box Set: Rare Groove
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop

Track Listings (17) - Disc #1
1. Some Having a Bawl
2. Slippery
3. Help Wanted - Cole, Stranger
4. Lover Boy
5. Bigger Boss - Collins
6. Belittle Me
7. Reggae Dance - Gray, Owen [1]
8. I Like Your Smile - Shirley, Roy
9. Poppy Show, Pt. 2
10. Music House
11. Sweet Like Candy
12. Do It Madly
13. Why Why Why
14. Teahouse From Emperor Rosko
15. Jennifer
16. Tilly
17. Sweet Musille
Track Listings (16) - Disc #2
1. Love Brother
2. Love Uprising - Cowan, T.
3. Never Fall in Love
4. Jet 747 [Version 4]
5. Genuine Love
6. Nuclear Weapon - McCook
7. Uganda
8. Bongo Man
9. Repatriation
10. Repatriation [Alternate Version]
11. Chairman of the Board - Johnson, Harry [1]
12. Medicine Man
13. Feel Good
14. Tipatone
15. African Breakfast - Johnson
16. True True to My Heart - Hudson
Track Listings (17) - Disc #3
1. Peter and Judas
2. Rhythm Pleasure - Lee, Albert [Guitar
3. Doctor Seaton
4. High Jacking - Reid, Roy
5. The Murderer
6. Anywhere But Nowhere - Clarke, A.
7. Nowhere
8. Cow Town Skank [Version 2]
9. Clappers Tail
10. Pity the Children
11. Trying to Wreck My Life
12. Girl of My Dreams - Campbell, Cornell
13. Ration
14. Great Great Great
15. Great Great Great [Alternate Version]
16. Melody Maker - Hudson, Keith
17. Can You Keep a Secret - Buchanan

CD Details

All Artists: Various Artists
Title: Trojan Box Set: Rare Groove
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sanctuary Records/Fontana
Original Release Date: 1/1/1968
Re-Release Date: 7/23/2002
Album Type: Box set, Limited Edition, Original recording remastered
Genres: Alternative Rock, International Music, Pop
Styles: Ska, Caribbean & Cuba, Jamaica, Reggae
Number of Discs: 3
SwapaCD Credits: 3
UPC: 060768030725

Synopsis

Album Description

50 great reggae tracks from the vaults of Trojan Records, all rare & many on CD for the first time! Includes hard to find cuts by Big Youth, Crystalites, Herman, Jerry Lewis, I Roy, Augustus Pablo and Roland Alphonso. Also features a short biography on each included artist. Each disc comes in a separate slipcase & together they come in a full color brilliant box. 1999 release.

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CD Reviews

There's some gems on here!

charlyfivepints | Hull/Haarlem/Bordeaux | 12/22/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Right, I'll be honest, the first cd has only one good tune, Owen Grays 'Reggae Dance'.But it's a damn fine tune at that.The 2nd cd is a corker, Bongo Herman has two classic tunes on this disc.'Chairman Of The Board',(with Bingy Bunny and Les) is an amazing version of 'The Liquidator', and 'African Breakfast' is a beautiful rolling instumental.Also worth noting is Audrey Rollins' 'Repatriation'.The rhythm you may recognise from I.Roys classic 'Musical Drum Sound'-the nyahbingi drumming is missing but it is a damn fine tune never-the-less.Cd 3 features the mighty I.Roy himself, with 'High Jacking', his heavy heavy version of Horace Andys 'Skylarking'. Bongo Herman appears with Bingy Bunny again.-'Ration' is their classic cut to Dennis Browns 'Money In My Pocket'and is guaranteed to get you steppers steppin'.The set closes with a Keith Hudson produced Big Youth tune, 'Can You Keep A Secret', this is my favourite dub tune of all time,complete with mean moody harmonica, and worth the money itself. Other highlights are K.C. Whites 'Anywhere But Nowhere', the beautiful voice from 'No No No', delivering another fine, self-penned tune and Delroy Wilsons extremely rare 'Trying To Wreck Up My Life'.BUY THIS!, you will not be disappointed."

Great great stuff

A. Leicher | 10/27/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This is my 6th or 7th Trojan box set. They are pretty uniformly awesome, in my opinion. Rare Groove may be one of my favorites thus far. As far as a previous reviewer stating that there's only "one good tune" on disc one - completely wrong. It's probably my favorite disc in the set. But everyone's tastes are different.

If you like early reggae, this set is for you. Really nice, bouncy early stuff from the late 60s into more "serious" early 70s grooves. Just all-around excellent tunes. A lot of this stuff is similar to disc one of the Upsetter box set - apolitical and upbeat, with a heavy debt to 60s R&B - but all that in a good way."