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BAD BRAINS was originally released on cassette. It was issued on CD for the first time in 1996.
Bad Brains: H.R. (vocals); Dr. Know (guitar, background vocals); Darryl Jennifer (bass, background vocals); Earl Hudson (drums, background vocals).
Recorded at 171-A Studios, New York, New York between May and October 1981. Includes liner notes by Ira Kaplan.
For fans of hardcore, many would agree that the holy grail of the genre is Bad Brains' self-titled album, originally released back in 1982 as a cassette-only release on ROIR. The ensuing years after its initial release haven't dulled the album's fury and rage in the least, and it's still impressive how the band can switch gears from red-hot hardcore to cool reggae dubs in the blink of an eye. All the classics are here: "Sailin' On," "Banned in D.C.," "Pay to Cum," "Right Brigade," as well as one of their strongest reggae tunes, "I Luv I Jah." The back of the album boasts a quote from the Beastie Boys' Adam Yauch, which sums up the proceedings simply, "the best punk/hardcore album of all time." [Although Bad Brains was available on CD on the now-defunct In Effect label in the late '80s (then titled Attitude: The ROIR Sessions with a different album cover), it's since been remastered and re-released with its original cover, as well as an untitled bonus track added at the end.] ~ Greg Prato
The Bad Brains were one of the most important voices of the East Coast hardcore scene during its halcyon days of the '80s. What they brought to the scene was nothing short of revolutionary--infusing the form's rage with the spiritual conviction of the Rasta tradition and the instrumental prowess of seasoned jazz players, they breathed new life into a genre in danger of stagnation, or worse, homogenization. Their album on the initially cassette-only ROIR label arrived like a new day, brimming with positivity and spirituality, as well as an unarguable mastery of the musical form of hardcore.
From the album's opening strains on "Sailin' On," the book was re-written, or at least opened a little wider. Vocalist H.R., one of punk's speediest singers, growls and screams his message like a man possessed. On the band's most recognizable classic, "Pay To Cum," his staccato delivery truly reaches breakneck speed, barely decipherable, the song is a torrent of sound, a hurtling juggernaut of boundless energy. He extols the praises of having the right mindset most effectively in "Attitude," a testament to the power of positivity. The band reaches deep into its Rasta roots on "Jah Calling" and "I Love I Jah," rounding out the ever-widening, ever-intense world of BAD BRAINS.Spin (5/01, p.109) - Ranked #16 in Spin's "50 Most Essential Punk Records" - "...Givin' whatcha gettin'...while the black band's sweatin' to create hardcore..."
CMJ (4/3/00, p.30) - "...Unbridled ferocity....renowned for their mix of high-throttle hardcore and loose, lively reggae....[They] opened the floodgates and ushered punk into the hardcore age..."
Vibe (2/02, p.87) - Included in Vibe's "Essential Black Rock Recordings".
The Beat (V.15 #3 1996, p.20) - "Bad Brains were treading unknown waters when they mixed up their own style of punk reggae on this 1982 groundbreaker which sounds as raw and energetic as it did back then." Bad Brains Music Review Average Rating: (4.9 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews RASTA PUNK TINGS YA GETS ME....
One of my all time favorites, and probably the best example of a hardcore albulm alongside black flags first outing. bad brains strongly belive in pma, positive mental attitude . and really show there colours on this record-sailin on is a serious anthem fast and aggressive, makes me want to smash evry other albulm in my collection, just when u thought your speakers were ganna explode they drop in a couple of reggea numbers to get your blood pressure down---a must in any ones collection
Submitted by mrbaron168 (East London)
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As a person who had to look for his music wants in the "import section" back in the mid 80's , I'm happy to find the music that I still like , no love to listen to in a mainstream market. Keep up the good work at finding the hard to find "Hard rock" and "Metel" band albums.
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It's a good album, VERY good album. Bad Brains are one of my favorite bands out there. The style of punk and reggae just sounds so amazing. You will not go wrong buying this!
Submitted by brianross671 (Clio, Michigan, USA)
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good, fast hardcore/reggae
The bad brains (with the exceptions of black flag and some motorhead) are basically responsible for the hardcore movement. They manage to mix twangy, relaxing reggae with loud blitzspeed hardcore punk, and give you an album you'll never forget. If you like peter tosh and/or minor threat, i suggest you immedeatly buy this album. Great mosh and slam dancing music. 5 out of 5 stars ALL THE WAY!!!!!!
Submitted by drewsus (lafayette, CA)
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Only a few bands can claim the kind of importance Bad Brains hold. Like The Ramones before them, Bad Brains solidified and defined the sound of an entire wave of punk. Bad Brains created the speed, fury, and intensity of the American hardcore movement of the early eighties almost single-handedly. Bad Brains’ influence and importance is immeasurable and stretches from D.C. to New York to San Francisco to L.A., and can be seen in artists ranging from just about everything that has ever happened in hardcore and punk since, to Mos Def and the Beastie Boys, to Living Color and Fishbone and The Red Hot Chilli Peppers. Bad Brains’ self titled release is responsible for igniting the sound that became hardcore and deserve special attention as one of America’s most important bands ever despite the fact most people have never heard of them.
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This 1991 reissue of ROCK FOR LIGHT contains three tracks that weren't on the original LP.
Bad Brains: H.R. (vocals); Dr. Know (guitar, piano, organ, background vocals); Darryl (synthesizer, bass, percussion, background vocals); Earl Hudson (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Additional personnel: Dave Id (background vocals).
Digitally remastered by George Marino (Sterling Sound, New York, New York).
Personnel: Dr. Know (piano, organ, background vocals); Darryl (synthesizer, percussion, background vocals); Earl (drums, percussion, background vocals).
Recording information: Synchro Sound Studios, Boston, MA.
Unknown Contributor Role: H.R.
After the tinny sound quality of the band's debut, the second Bad Brains album came as a real blast of sonic fresh air. Producer Ric Ocasek is largely responsible, but the increased tightness and focus are also a function of maturation. This band was a weird bundle of contradictions from day one: black Rastafarian instrumental virtuosos playing hardcore punk, formerly the exclusive domain of white, aggressively atheist musical amateurs. That last contradiction ...
| | Minor Threat Complete Discography CD (1990)
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Minor Threat: Ian MacKaye (vocals); Brian Baker (guitar, bass); Lyle Preslar (guitar); Steve Hansgen (bass); Jeff Nelson (drums).
Recorded at Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, Virginia between April 1981 and December 1983.
Personnel: Ian MacKaye (vocals); Lyle Preslar, Brian Baker (guitar); Jeff Nelson (drums).
Audio Mixers: Skip Groff; Jeff Nelson; Lyle Preslar; Minor Threat.
Recording information: Inner Ear Studios, Arlington, VA (04/1981-12/1983).
Photographers: Tomas Squip; Glen E. Friedman; Susie Josephson.
Complete Discography compiles Minor Threat's entire body of recordings on a single compact disc. Hardcore, as a rule, wasn't particularly musically diverse, but Minor Threat were one of the genre's groundbreaking acts and their music has held up better than most of their contemporaries. As the de facto leaders of the Washington, D.C., hardcore scene, the band pioneered the straight-edge mentality by emphasizing impossibly fast tempos, brief songs, political lyrics, and a drug- and alcohol-free lifestyle. Besides setting the precedent for several generations ...
| | Black Flag Damaged CD (1981)
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Personnel: Henry Rollins (vocals); Dez Cadena (guitar, background vocals); Greg Ginn (guitar); Charles Dukowski (bass); Robo (drums).
Personnel: Dez Cadena (vocals, guitar); Henry Rollins (vocals); Greg Ginn (guitar); Robo (drums).
Photographer: Ed Colver.
Perhaps the best album to emerge from the quagmire that was early-'80s California hardcore punk, the visceral, intensely physical presence of Damaged has yet to be equaled, although many bands have tried. Although Black Flag had been recording for three years prior to this release, the fact that Henry Rollins was now their lead singer made all the difference. His furious bellow and barely contained ferocity was the missing piece the band needed to become great. Also, guitarist/mastermind Greg Ginn wrote a slew of great songs for this record that, while suffused with the usual punk conceits (alienation, boredom, disenfranchisement), were capable of making one laugh out loud, especially the protoslacker satire "TV Party." Extremely controversial when it was released, Damaged endured the slings and arrows of outrageous criticism (some reacted as though this record alone would cause the fall of America's ...
| | Bad Brains I Against I CD (1986)
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Bad Brains: H.R. (vocals); Dr. Know (guitar); Darryl (bass); Earl (drums).
Recorded at Long View Farm, Worcester, Massachusetts.
Personnel: H.R. (vocals); Dr. Know (guitar); Earl Hudson, Earl (drums).
Audio Mixer: Patch.
Recording information: Long View Fram, Worcester, MA.
Photographer: Marcia Resnick.
I Against I was for Bad Brains what London Calling was for the Clash -- the band's first fully mature work, one which successfully brought together all of its diverse influences while at the same time showcasing a singular vision. Also like London Calling, it was to be the band's masterpiece, in the original sense of that term -- a creative pinnacle which they would not reach again. The album opens with the title track, a blistering and musically exhilarating deploration of violence, and then moves directly into "House of Suffering," easily the most complex and yet viscerally compelling song the band ever produced. Singer H.R. digs deep into his bag of voices and pulls them all out, one by one: the frightening nasal falsetto that was his signature in the band's hardcore days, an almost bel canto baritone, and a declamatory speed-rap chatter that spews ...
| | VH1 Presents The Corrs Live In Dublin CD (2002)
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The Corrs: Jim Corr (vocals, guitar, keyboards); Sharon Corr (vocals, violin); Andrea Corr (vocals, tin whistle); Caroline Corr (vocals, drums, bodhran, percussion).
Recorded at Ardmore Studios in Dublin, Ireland in January 2002.
You knew the Corrs had made it when they played the final JFK Awards ceremony of the Clinton administration. Playing it would have been achievement enough, but their status as a happening thing was cemented at the end of the ceremony, during the encores, when everybody was taking their final bows. Bill moseyed up over to Andrea, put his arm around her, and when she was looking away, sized her up -- at precisely the same moment Chuck Berry was checking her out. If that doesn't mean that you've broken America, entering its pop culture, I don't know what does, expect for maybe a VH1-endorsed piece of product like Live in Dublin. Lo and behold, that's exactly what the Corrs received in the spring of 2002, a year and a half after "In Blue" and its accompanying single "Breathless" broke down the doors in America for the U.S. Only two songs on this set list are shared with In Blue, but that doesn't mean that the group returns to their slightly more traditional Celtic roots on the remainder of the songs. Sure, there are hints of that, but there are also four pop covers, two of them ("Little ...
| | Arcade Fire Funeral CD (2004)
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Arcade Fire: William Butler (synthesizer, xylophone, bass instrument, percussion); Richard Reed Parry (double bass); Win Butler (bass guitar); Régine Chassagne, Howard Bilerman.
Personnel: Win Butler (vocals, acoustic guitar, electric 12-string guitar, piano, synthesizer); Régine Chassagne (vocals, accordion, recorder, piano, synthesizer, xylophone, drums, percussion); Howard Bilerman (guitar, drums); Timothy Kingsbury (acoustic guitar); Anita Fust (harp); Jessica Moss, Sophie Trudeau, Owen Pallett, Sarah Neufeld (violin); Genevieve Heistek (viola); Michael Olsen, Mike Olsen (cello); Richard Reed Parry (accordion, piano, organ, synthesizer, xylophone, upright bass, percussion); Pietro Amato (horns); Will Butler (synthesizer, xylophone, percussion); Arlen Thompson (drums).
Recording information: Hotel 2 Tango (08/2003-??/2004); Win & Regine's Apartment, Montreal, Canada (08/2003-??/2004).
Photographer: Hilary Treadwell.
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| | Lucky Dube Way It Is CD (1999)
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Personnel: Lucky Dube (vocals); Alan Pierce (spoken vocal); Skipper Shabalala, Mauritz Lotz (guitar); Soweto String Quartet (strings); Kevin Davidson (saxophone); David Lilley (trumpet); Dan Selsick (trombone); Godfrey Mokoena, Sipho Ngwane (keyboards); Moses Ngwenya (organ); Toto Moloantoa (bass); Doods Molefe (percussion); Thozama Matsoge, Vicky Vilakazi, Wendy Mseleku, Gugu Dlamini (background vocals).
Recorded at Downtown Studios, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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| | Sly & Robbie Friends CD (1998)
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Sly & Robbie: Sly Dunbar (drums); Robbie Shakespeare (vocals, bass, DJ).
Additional personnel: Ali Campbell, Maxi Priest, Liba, Ambilique, One Plus One, Danny Madden (vocals); Waddy (acoustic guitar); Gisty Willis, Keith Richards (guitar); Jah Wobble (strings, drums); Bryan Travis (brass); Robert Lyn (piano, keyboards); Neville Hinds, Handel Tucker (keyboards); Mark Ferda (programming); Robin Campbell (background vocals).
Simply Red includes: Mick Hucknall (vocals).
Engineers include: Lynford "Fatta" Marshalls, Terry Manning, Jason Sterling, Orville Baker, Hugh Palmer.
Recorded at Mixing Lab and Anchor, Kingston, Jamaica.
FRIENDS won the 1999 Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album.
Friends relies a little too much on the polished reggae-pop of Maxi Priest and UB40, both of whom make guest appearences on the disc. Since Sly & Robbie make their sultry grooves sound effortless, they can make even the slick pop of Lionel Richie's "Penny Lover" and the Mick Hucknall duet "Night Nurse" sound appealing, and they can prevent "Theme From 'Mission Impossible'" from sounding kitschy. Nevertheless, these songs bog down the record, especially when compared to the covers that work -- a seductive take on Cole Porter's "You'd Be So Nice to Come Home To" and a ripping version of the Stones' "Satisfaction." Such high points are surrounded by amiable, undistinctive filler that never quite ruins the album, but prevents it from really taking off. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
FRIENDS is an exceptional new reggae ...
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