Anton Ellis - Sings Rock and Soul

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This is so killer. Anyone out there got anything similar to recommend?
Its a great fusion of soul and Ska. Blew my preconceptions about Ska.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

do you mean alton ellis?

― amateur!!st, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I do sorry about that.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I get excited and my keyboard skills go out the window.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Have you heard any rocksteady?

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I ask you: is there a more sublime moment in a pop song t han the violin solo in The Paragons' "The Tide Is High"? (a.k.a. the rocksteady thread)

― amateur!!!st, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i was just searching for that thread

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

there really needs to be *more* rocksteady threads.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 16:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Just kind of coming into rocksteady. I have also been listening to the Melodicas and am uploading a Ken Boothe cd to my computer.

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

How can we have a million hits for a Dizzy thread. But only one small thread for a genre that obviously kicks ass.

Can it be that ILM is too concerned with the fresh and new?

― hector (hector), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sunday Coming is another great Alton Ellis album.

Other rocksteady singers to check out:
Slim Smith/The Techniques/The Uniques
Pat Kelly
The Paragons
The Melodians
The Gaylads
The Heptones
Delroy Wilson
Bob Andy
Derrick Morgan

Presenting Larry Marshall is an album which contains some of the earliest reggae songs, but it has more in common with soulful rocksteady than the militant Rastafied music that most people think of when they think of reggae. One of my favorite albums.

xpost possibly so, but I think that's an ILM-specific phenomenon.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 17:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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