Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Hop - Derrick Morgan
2. Dragon Weapon - Beverley's All Stars, Don Drummond
3. Discipline - Raymond Harper
4. Too Late - Glen Brown, Lloyd Robinson
5. Hey Bartender - Laurel Aitken
6. What a Good Woodman - Lee "Scratch" Perry
7. My Bride to Be - Winston Samuels
8. You Belong to My Heart - Lord Tanamo
9. Derrick! - Derrick Harriott
10. Sinners Got a Moaning Heart - Ewan McDermott, The Vibrators
11. Yeah Yeah - The Riots
12. Daisy I Love You - Jackie Estick
13. Shufflin'
14. Really Now
15. Girls's Town Ska - Baba Brooks
16. True Confession - The Silvertones
17. Hurry Up - Lord Creator

Disc 2:

1. Mattie Rag (A.K.A. Ol' Matilda) - Lord Tanamo
2. Out of Space - Tommy McCook,
3. Ark - Justin Hinds & Dominoes
4. Blues - Baba Brooks
5. Uno Dos Tres - Ken Boothe, Stranger Cole
6. Let's Jump - The Maytals
7. Chatty Chatty Woman
8. Garden of Love - Don Drummond
9. You Are Mine - Clive & Naomi,
10. Girl Next Door
11. Penny Reel - Morris,
12. Calling - Ken Boothe, Roy Shirley
13. Don't Call Me Daddy - Derrick Morgan
14. Tender Loving Care - The Comets, Lyn Taitt
15. Butterfly
16. Don't Bring Me Your Dreams - Ewan McDermott, The Vibrators

Disc 3:

1. If You Were Mine - Lord Tanamo
2. Atlas - Val Bennett,
3. Look Before You Leap - Derrick Morgan
4. Man in the Street - Don Drummond
5. My Day Are Lonely - Frank Cosmo
6. Yours - Raymond Harper
7. Street Corner - The Skatalites
8. Give Me Justice - Lee "Scratch" Perry
9. Darling Patricia - Owen Gray
10. On the Move - Roland Alphonso
11. Ska - Jackie Estick
12. Honky Tonk Ska - Granville Williams
13. King of Ska - Desmond Dekker
14. Ska Jam - Tommy McCook, Tommy McCook & the Supersonics
15. Monkey Ska - Derrick Harriott
16. Wayward Ska - Lloyd Brevett
17. Candy Ska - Ewan McDermott

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #540319 in Music
• Released on: 2000-06-20
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: Box set, Import

Album Description
Limited edition 3 CD boxset featuring 50 of the very best ska tracks...many on CD for the first time. Artists include Derrick Morgan, The Riots, Lord Tanamo, The Maytals, The Skatalites & many more. 2000 realease. Each disc comes in it's own paper sleeve and come housed together in a 5 x 5 x 1 inch box.

Customer Reviews

Some Great Ska Rarities
Before reggae there was ska and rocksteady, indigenous musical forms that had evolved from the imported rhythm and blues and jazz styles prevalent in Jamaica from the fifties onwards. The Trojan Ska Box Set had gathered 50 representative tracks from the period up to 1966, including some very well known big sellers.
A number of the leading artists appear again on Vol. 2: Don Drummond, Lee Perry, Lord Tanamo, Baba Brooks, the Skatalites, Owen Gray, Roland Alphonso, Tommy McCook, Desmond Dekker, Justin Hinds and the Dominoes, the Maytals, Lyn Taitt and others, with well known and less well known examples of their art, including some appearing on CD for the first time.
Occasionally they appear to have been mastered from less than pristine vinyl copies but if this is the best available, bring it on. Details are skimpy - many of the composer credits are listed as "unknown" and there are no dates for any of the recordings, which is an irritation, but as this is music to be danced and listened to rather than studied academically, we'll just have to live with it

Trojan Records: Ska Volume 2
This is a great compilation, especially for someone unfamiliar with the roots of Ska and the early bands who made the music popular and influenced multiple generations of Ska bands. While some might say that the songs are very similar and there are many covers, there are subtleties that allow listeners to hear the beginnings of the various offshoots that developed into modern reggae, rocksteady and dancehall.

Mine was broken.
Good rare stuff on here. However, be warned, my disc two is a reject that won't work in any of my players. I guess that's what you get when you pay so little money.