If you're a reggae person, you may very well have seen The Harder They Come. It's a film starring Jimmy Cliff as an aspiring singer turned outlaw in Jamaica. As you'd imagine, a film made in Jamaica with a reggae singer as it's star, it would have a reggae heavy soundtrack. This particular soundtrack is, and it's one of the best selling reggae records of all time. It is a great introduction to reggae, it was mine. It's still, decades later, one of my favorite reggae albums of all time. And that's due, at least in part, to associations with the movie.
I've seen the movie a bunch of times, but the quality of the DVD I have is not even close to the version on YouTube. And I remember the quality was dubious when I saw it in a theater as well. Someone's cleaned this thing up, or whatever remastering is called in the film world. It you have seen The Harder They Come and don't care to see it again, a link to Countryman is down there too, also set in Jamaica with a reggae soundtrack.
I've seen the movie a bunch of times, but the quality of the DVD I have is not even close to the version on YouTube. And I remember the quality was dubious when I saw it in a theater as well. Someone's cleaned this thing up, or whatever remastering is called in the film world. It you have seen The Harder They Come and don't care to see it again, a link to Countryman is down there too, also set in Jamaica with a reggae soundtrack.
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Listen:Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want mp3 at Tumblr
The Slickers - Johnny Too Bad mp3 at Snuhthing Anything
Toots and the Maytals - Sweet and Dandy mp3 at Tumblr
The Melodians - Rivers of Babylon mp3 at Brendan McGetrick (?)
Second feature:
Countryman - A film by Dickie Johnson at YouTube
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