VA — Ska! An Essential Guide To The Best Of Ska, Two Tone And Blue Beat (2013)

MP3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks, cue, log) | Rock, Reggae, Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae | 2h 4 min | 287 / 770 MB

This is simply an essential album: Three discs that contain the best of ska, a rhythm born in Jamaica (pre-dating reggae) and was so popular in England during the sixties (where they call it bluebeat), to the point where it was the inspiration for a movement (the two-tone) that in the early 80 s gave way to Madness, The Specials, The Selecter, Bad Manners and The English Beat as main exports who earned worldwide fame.
CD 1
1. Madness — Our House
2. The Selecter — On My Radio
3. The Specials — Ghost Town
4. The English Beat — Mirror In The Bathroom
5. Arthur Kay & The Originals — Ska Wars
6. Laurel Aitken — Big Fat Man
7. Buster\’s Allstars — Skinhead Girl
8. The Selecter — Missing Words
9. Bad Manners — Lip Up Fatty
10. Hotknives — Cryin\’
11. The Skatalites — Christine Keeler
12. Desmond Dekker — Shanty Town
13. The Ethiopians — Train To Skaville
14. Ken Boothe — When I Fall In Love
CD 2
1. The Specials — A Message To You Rudy
2. The English Beat — Hand\’s Off, She\’s Mine
3. Millie — My Boy Lollipop
4. Madness — One Step Beyond
5. Laurel Aitken — Green Banana
6. The Skatalites — Lee Harvey Oswald
7. The Maytals — Never You Change
8. The Ethiopians — Everything Crash
9. Don Drummond — Don Cosmic
10. Delroy Wilson — I Want Justice
11. Prince Buster — Flying Ska
12. Bad Manners — Ne Ne Nana Na Nu Nu Nu
13. The Skatalites — Exodus
14. Millie — Sweet William
CD 3
1. Bob Marley & The Wailers — Stop The Train
2. The Cimarons — You Can Get It If You Really Want
3. Jimmy Osborne — People Get Ready
4. Peter Tosh — 400 Years
5. Desmond Dekker — Keep A Cool Head
6. Toots & The Maytals — 54 46 That\’s My Number
7. U Roy — The Tide Is High
8. Dennis Brown — Some Like It Hot
9. Zap Pow — Jungle Beat
10. Horace Andy — Respiration
11. Roman Stewart — Live And Learn
12. Dillinger — Rock To The Music
13. Sugar Minott — Let Go The Dread
14. Labi Siffre — It Must Be Love