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Burning Spear - Reggae Greats flac album
  • Performer Burning Spear
  • Title Reggae Greats
  • Country US
  • Style Roots Reggae
  • Other formats ADX RA MIDI VOX AAC DMF AC3
  • Genre Reggae
  • Size MP3 1143 mb
  • Size FLAC 1410 mb
  • Rating: 4.7
  • Votes: 351

Resistance is a studio album by Jamaican reggae singer Burning Spear. It was released in 1985 through Heartbeat Records, making it the artist's first release for the label. Recording sessions took place at Tuff Gong Recording Studio in Kingston, horns on "Jah Feeling" and "Mek We Yadd" were recorded at Aquarius Studios Kingston. It was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Reggae Recording at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards. All tracks written by Winston Rodney, except track 4 written with Noel Hamil.

Although Reggae Greats would eventually be supplanted in the mid-'90s by Island's two-CD set Chant Down Babylon: The Island Anthology, until that point this compilation, along with Harder Than the Best, remained the best roundup of classic Burning Spear material from the roots era. Harder was originally released by Island in 1979, and annoyingly, when Reggae Greats followed five years later, it duplicated six of the earlier set's tracks. Marketing was mercenary even back in the "good old days. As to be expected, both sets drew exclusively from Spear's first four.

Reggae Greats is a best of album by reggae artist Burning Spear. The album is subtitled "Best of the Island Years 1975-1978" and was released in 1984.

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Songs from Reggae Greats - Burning Spear by Burning Spear. Free download and listen Reggae Greats - Burning Spear. Burning Spear - The Sun 03:44. Burning Spear - Throw Down Your Arms 04:04. Burning Spear - Lion 03:17. Burning Spear - Slavery Days 03:23. Burning Spear - Tradition 03:30. Burning Spear - The Invasion 03:51. Spear Burning Burning Spear V - Burning Spear. A)Live in Concert 97 Vol 1 - Burning Spear. Marcus Garvey, Garvey’s Ghost - Burning Spear. Best Of The Fittest - Burning Spear.

Reggae Greats ‎(CD, Comp, RE). Mango, Mango. CID RG 5, CIDRG 5. Europe. 062-VG IRG 5. Burning Spear. Reggae Greats ‎(LP, Comp). Greece. IMCD 5. Reggae Greats ‎(CD, Comp, RE).

Tracklist

1 Door Peep 2:36
2 Slavery Days 3:23
3 Lion 3:09
4 Black Disciples 4:21
5 Man In The Hills 3:53
6 Tradition 3:25
7 Throw Down Your Arms 3:59
8 Social Living 2:55
9 Marcus Garvey 3:21
10 Dry & Heavy 3:27
11 Black Wa-Da-Da (Invasion) 3:49
12 The Sun 3:41

Companies, etc.

  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – Island Records Ltd.
  • Copyright (c) – Island Records Ltd.
  • Manufactured By – Island

Credits

  • Producer – Karl Pitterson (tracks: 8), Jack Ruby* (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 9, 11), W. Rodney* (tracks: 4, 7, 8, 10, 12)
  • Written-By – C. Paisley* (tracks: 11), D. Hines* (tracks: 6), Taylor* (tracks: 12), P. Fullwood* (tracks: 2, 11, 12), R. Willington* (tracks: 6), W. Rodney*

Notes

This compilation ℗ 1985 Island Records Ltd.
© 1985 Island Records Ltd.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode: 5 014474 370052
  • Matrix / Runout: CID RG 5 MASTERED BY NIMBUS

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
MLPS 9785 Burning Spear Reggae Greats ‎(LP, Comp) Mango MLPS 9785 US 1984
824 870-4 Burning Spear Reggae Greats ‎(Cass, Comp) Island Records 824 870-4 France 1985
062-VG IRG 5 Burning Spear Reggae Greats ‎(LP, Comp) Island Records 062-VG IRG 5 Greece 1985
IMCD 5 Burning Spear Reggae Greats ‎(CD, Comp, RE) Island IMCD 5 Europe Unknown
824 870-2 Burning Spear Reggae Greats ‎(CD, Comp, RE) Island Records 824 870-2 Europe 1992