Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Green Onions - Dragonaires, Byron Lee
2. Little Did You Know - The Techniques
3. This Is Thunder - Baba And His Band Brooks, Dingle Brothers
4. Nuclear Weapon - Dave & Ansel Collins
5. Whip - The Ethiopians
6. Doctor Jekyll - Dave Barker, Lloyd Charmers
7. Kiddy-O - Muskyteers,
8. Doctor Who - The Crystalites
9. Come on Little Girl - The Melodians
10. Happy Go Lucky Girl - The Paragons
11. Honour Your Mother and Father - Desmond Dekker
12. Blazing Fire - Derrick Morgan
13. Baby Elephant Walk - Baba And His Band Brooks
14. Come Down - Lord Tanamo
15. Let's Have Some Fun - Devon, Tartans
16. Song for My Father - Roland Alphonso
17. Can I Get a Witness - Owen Gray

Disc 2:

1. Choo Choo Ska - Llans And His Celestials Thewell
2. Vacation - The Melodians,
3. Latin Goes Ska - The Skatalites
4. River to the Bank - Derrick Morgan
5. I'm Your Man - John Holt
6. I Dangerous - Roy Bennett
7. Prisoner of Love - Dave Barker
8. Cock Robin - Ansel Collins
9. No More Heartaches - Beltones
10. Ghost Chicken - Music Doctor,
11. King of Kings - Jimmy Cliff
12. Sun Rises - Dotty & Bonny
13. True Confession - The Silvertones
14. Heartbeat - Ernest Ranglin
15. I Like Your World - The Gaylettes
16. Double Wheel - The Upsetters

Disc 3:

1. Watermelon Man - Baba Brooks
2. Get Up Edina - Desmond Dekker
3. Don de Lion - Don Drummond
4. Mama Didn't Lie - Derrick Harriott
5. My Desire - Yard Brooms
6. Workman Song - Pat Kelly
7. Splash Down - The Crystalites
8. Each Time - Ebony Sisters
9. Cat Woman - Glen Adams, , Bunny Lee All Stars
10. Cat - Roland Alphonso
11. Dance Crasher - Alton Ellis
12. Night Train (Ska) - Dragonaires, Byron Lee
13. Miss Universe - Jimmy Cliff
14. Devil's Lead Soup - Rudies
15. Hong Kong Flu - The Ethiopians
16. Death Rides a Horse - Roy Richards
17. Bronco - Sir Lord Comic, The Upsetters

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #438088 in Music
• Released on: 2005-10-25
• Number of discs: 3
• Format: Box set

Album Description
From the Trojan catalogue. The eclectic mix of Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae, R&B sounds proved irresistible to Mods & non-Mods alike. 3 CD set, 50 tracks. 2005.

Customer Reviews

Not bad music, but you sort of wonder why???
Although I feel the some of the music on this set is decent...great even, I feel it is superfluous and is not an acceptable follow-up to Trojan Box Set: Mod Reggae. Sure plenty of mods have probably listened to these songs, but unlike the first volume, these songs were not selected with the mod movement in mind...just happened to be some ska/rocksteady that was heard around that time period.

While there are some amazing tracks like "Splash Down" by the Crystalites, "River To The Bank" by Derrick Morgan, and "Get Up Edina" by Desmond Dekker, they can be found elsewhere. But then you have horrid tracks like "Ghost Chicken" by Music Doctor, which is just weird. Again, it's very hard to truly settle into this collection because of the filler tracks.

This boxset is good for ska aficionados or anyone into older Jamaican music. In that way, it's a decent buy. But if you are looking for some definitive reggae tracks that will make you long to hop on the good old Vespa, I doubt this set will do that. At best, you can play it early in the party when your still preparing your olives for your martinis.

Creative Reggae, Rocksteady, and Ska
I picked up this album about 2 weeks ago and have not stop listening to it since. I am usually a roots reggae guy through and through, but this album has opened my eyes to ska and reggae acts I have either ignored or not listened hard enough to. My standout tracks include "Ghost Chicken" by The Music Doctors, "Don the Lion" by Don "Cosmic" Drummond, and another track listed as "Song For My Father" by Ronald Alphonso.