Chronic

Yellowman | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 24, 1999)
• Original Release Date: July 27, 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: X-Ploit Records
• ASIN: B00000JTCB
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #715,674 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Zungguzungguguzungguzeng

2. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

3. Rub a Dub Play

4. Dem Sight the Boss

5. Can't Hide from Jah

6. Who Can Make the Dance Ram

7. Yellowman Wise

8. Take Me to Jamaica

9. Friday Night Jamboree

10. Jah Jah We Are a Guiding Star

11. Donkey Want Water

12. Barn Yard

13. Don't Call Me Daddy

14. Water Rock

15. To the Bump

16. Tourist Season

17. Top Form

18. For Your Eyes Only

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Actually a Twofer!, March 8, 2008

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Tom Plum "TC" (Roswell, NM United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chronic (Audio CD)

This is actually two classic Yellowman/Fathead releases from the 1980s. It comprises of the very well done "Zungguzungguguzungguzeng" and "Divorced" (or "For your eyes only"). Yellowman is at his toasting best here, it is raw music and it is recorded that way too with deejay sound systems and even some dub. King Yellowman, a subsequent release is pretty polished but this one still works well and is probably when Yellowman and his sidekick Fathead were still in the formation stages regarding their music, since really this was largely a new form of reggae. The music here was probably ahead of Yellowman's ways and means at the time but it doesn't hold it back, much at least.

All of the tunes come off rather well, Yellowman's world and his humor, make that his childlike lyricism come to the front with such songs as "Who can me dance ram" (which is more like saying "who can make me dance around" and follows of course, "no other deejay in this a-Island, only Yellowman can"). "Water rock" is an ode to his Jamaican neighborhood which is actually the Waterhouse district of Kingston, known to be a rather rough area. It's mostly fun and games here, maybe a little Jamaican travelogue, social commentary is largely confined to the "Good the bad and the ugly" song which yes, really does take inspiration from the Clint Eastwood movie. "Donkey want water" seems to be a very popular song of his as well as Yellowman and others were at the dawn of the dancehall era and reggae took about having subject matter that was not always of the preaching serious nature of the Rastafarians.

This release with 2 albums in one can not be beat and really is among his top works of the '80s along with "King Yellowman," "Mr. Yellowman," and "No one move, no one get hurt."