FISTFULAYEN

Just a quick post to wish Bruce a happy birthday (HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRUCE) and share a couple records I can’t get enough of…

In an email where he also admitted to liking the Santogold record, Mike D turned me on to this AMAZING Joe Higgs reissue on Pressure Sounds, Life of Contradiction. It’s a roots reggae masterpiece I’d never heard before and I’ve probably listened to it 50 times in the past week and a half.

And from the Roots, Rock, Reggae documentary:

Roots!

Also, I picked up the MP3 version of the Nigeria Special record I’ve heard so much about. Some serious gems on there. Highly recommended. Check out the track “I Want A Break Thru’”, below.

I bought CD versions of both of these for Bruce for his bday. Never been so sure about a gift in my life.

Oh and here’s my verdict on the Santogold record: I like the second half. I like the songs that sound like Siouxsie and M.I.A., and not the ones that sound like Gwen Stefani. Here are the tracks I dig:

I feel a little guilty using the Amazon widget instead of the Yahoo! Media Player one, but the fact of the matter is, time is precious and uploading MP3s, linking to them, making the Amazon affiliate links, and pasting in the cover art for both the in-page and in-player takes more time than I have and actually discourages me from blogging more. Testing to see if the Amazon MP3 widget makes this faster and more painless. So far so good. Trade-off for you dear reader is an entire album of 30-second samples instead of one full track. What do you think?

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