Various Artists: Rocksteady - Taking Over Orange Street 1966-1968 (CD) Thee Oh Sees If You’ve Got The Money

If You’ve Got The Money I’ve Got The Time

So sit back and enjoy some Rocksteady straight from the dances of Jamaica

presented a breath-taking tour of killer riffs

It finds the band relying on rusty guitar shards that scrape

Bug is included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die

Various Artists: Rocksteady - Taking Over Orange Street 1966-1968 (CD) Thee Oh Sees If You’ve Got The MoneyRocksteady took over Orange Street, Kingston, Jamaica around 1966, the same time that an extreme heat wave hit the Jamaican Island. Some say the previous jerky Ska Rhythms proved too strenuous of an activity to partake in during the all night Sound Systems. So it proved a winning formula to slow the beat down to a more leisurely pace. Whatever the reasons were, this two year period that ran until 1968 would see some of the power escape from the big