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Junior Byles Beat Down Babylon (Expanded)

Doctor Bird

Reggae, Roots

2×CD DBCDD060£16.00
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Junior Byles – (Festival) Da Da
Junior Byles – I’ve Got A Feeling
Junior Byles – Don’t Know Why
Junior Byles – Demonstration (and protest)
Junior Byles – Coming Again
Junior Byles – Beat Down Babylon
Junior Byles – A Place Called Africa
Junior Byles – A Matter Of Time
Junior Byles – Poor Chubby
Junior Byles – Come Da Da

1. Disc 1 – Beat Down Babylon
2. (Festival) Da Da
3. I’ve Got A Feeling
4. Don’t Know Why
5. Demonstration (and protest)
6. Coming Again
7. Beat Down Babylon
8. A Place Called Africa
9. A Matter Of Time
10. Poor Chubby
12. Come Da Da
13. Come Da Da Version
14. Righteous Oily
15. Ital Version
16. Informer Men
17. Outformer Version
18. Africa Stand
19. Education Rock
20. King Of Babylon
21. Nezbuchadnezzer
22. Got The Tip
23. Fever
24. Lick The Pipe Peter
25. Pharaoh Hiding
26. Hail To Power
27. Another Moses
28. Rub Up Festival ‘71
29. The Thanks We Get
30. Disc 2 – Dreader Sounds, 1973 to 1975
31. Curley Locks
32. Lock And Key
33. Dreader Locks
34. Militant Rock
35. The Thanks We Get (1973 version)
36. Xylophone Rock
37. Now Generation
38. The Long Way
39. The Longer Way
40. Auntie Lu-Lu
41. Fun And Games
42. Motion Dub
43. Mumbling And Grumbling
44. King Size Mumble
45. Rasta No Pickpocket
46. Pick Pocket Shank
47. Cutting Razor
48. Pretty Fe True
49. Pretty Dub
50. When Will Better Come
51. The Thanks We Get
52. Ungrateful Skank
53. Curley Locks (alternative Version)

• FIRST OFFICIAL RE-ISSUE OF THE ICONIC ALBUM ON CD• MOST TRACKS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE DIGITALLY• SLEEVE NOTES BY LEE PERRY BIOGRAPHER, DAVID KATZ

Released in 1972, the Junior Byles single ‘Beat Down Babylon’ provided one of the clearest indications to dateof the impending roots sound that would soon dominate reggae. The immense popularity of the Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry-produced 45, both in Jamaica and the UK, swiftly prompted a best-selling long-player of the same title, issued later that year.

Comprising ten of the singer-songwriter’s recent recordings for the mighty Upsetter, the LP has since been re-issued on vinyl on a number of occasions, but has never been officially made available on CD until now.

Now, at long last, “Beat Down Babylon” does finally make it onto the format, with the original track-listing bolstered by the remainder of Byles’ released work for Perry, which includes numerous Jamaican hits, most notably the 1974 smash, ‘Curley Locks’.

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