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This article is from the Ska FAQ, by Tomas Willis tomas@twillis.com with numerous contributions by others.

2.11: p3 Can anyone recommend some good ska albums for someone who has absolutely no clue about ska?

Monkey Business
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`Monkey Business', Trojan Records (1980). A *skinhead reggae*
compilation that contains:
`Tighten Up'
Lee Perry/The Untouchables (may be upsetters)

`Fatty Fatty'
Clancy Eccles

`54-36'
(You oughta know this already)

`007 Shanty Town'
(likewise)

`Liquidator'
Harry J All Stars

`Fire Corner'
Clancy Eccles and King Stitt

`Double Barrel'
Dave and Ansel Collins

`Birth Control'
Lloydie and the Lowbites

`Herbsman'
King Stitt

`Elizabethan Serenade'
Boris Gardner

`Return of Django'
Upsetters

`Monkey Spanner'
Dave and Ansel Collins

`Young Gifted and Black'
Bob and Marcia

`Long Shot'
The pioneers

`Monkey Man'
The Maytals

`Dollar in the Teeth'
The Upsetters

`Barbwire'
Nora Dean

`Shocks of Mighty'
The Upsetters

`Them Laugh and Kiki'
The Soulmates

`Cherry Oh! Baby'
Eric Donaldson

One Original Step Beyond
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`One Original Step Beyond', *various artists*, Castle Communications
`CTVCD 115' (cd), `CTVMC 115' (cassette), `CTVLP 115' (lp). The
contents include:
`One Step Beyond'
`Judge Dread,'
`Madness'
`Al Capone'
Prince Buster.

`Oh Carolina'
The Folkes Brothers.

`Message to You Rudie'
Dandy.

`Red Red Wine'
Tone Tribe.

`Madness'
Prince Buster.

`One Love'
Bob Marly and Wailers.

`Skinhead Moonstomp'
Symarip.

`Guns of Navarone'
The Skatalites.

`OK Fred'
John Holts.

`Easy Snappin''
Theophilus Beckford.

 

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