Saturday, April 20, 2024

Big Youth - Everyday Skank; Tell It Black; and Ride Like Lightning: The Best of Big Youth 1972-1976 [placeholder]

All tracks on Everyday Skank are on either Screaming Target or the Natty Universal Dread comp, except "S 90 Skank" and "Cool Breeze," which are on the High Explosion DJ comp. Well, there's also "Medicine Doctor" and "A So We Stay," which I listened to from A Reggae Collection.

As for the other 2 releases, Tell It Black contains all of Screaming Target, and the rest of the material seems very similar to what's on Ride Like Lightning. A good bit of that material is also on Natty Universal Dread.

Update 2024:

I did another evaluation of Tell It Black vs Ride Like Lightning vs Reggae Phenomenon, and all three of these vs Natty Universal Dread. There is very little overlap between the first three and NUD. And TIB is probably the least useful of the three, because as noted above it contains all of Screaming Target, which you should already be familiar with, and then songs that are repeated on the other two. In fact, its only original track appears to be "Fire Bunn." By the way, RP was originally a 10-track one-disc release that was expanded to two discs when it was reissued in 1990. Bottom line, RP has 9 original songs out of 20 if you have RLL. I did not double-check all this, so I'm sure there are mistakes, but here are the original songs from each of RLL and RP, which indicates that I should be, and now am, in the market for a NM/VG+ copy of the latter for $20 shipped or less, if that ever happens.

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