Creation Rebel

Burning Spear | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 16, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Heartbeat / Pgd
• ASIN: B00008F67T
• Also Available in: Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #195,798 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Door Peeper

2. This Race

3. This Population

4. Bad to Worst

5. New Civilization

6. Pick Up the Pieces

7. Zion Higher

8. Swell Headed

9. Foggy Road

10. Creation Rebel

11. Ethiopians Live It Out

12. Rocking Time

13. Get Ready

14. What a Happy Day

15. Call on You

16. Free (aka We Are Free)

17. Down by the River (Down by the Riverside)

18. Weeping and Wailing

19. He Prayed

20. Rocking Time (Original single mix)

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

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Genre: Reggae Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 16-NOV-2004

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Roots roots, December 2, 2004

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Michael Crowley (Albany, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creation Rebel (Audio CD)

If you have any fondness for roots reggae you have to have this CD. It's great stuff.

I was amazed to discover what a pioneer Spear was. The earliest of the songs here, Door Peeper (and maybe all of them--unusually for a Heartbeat release, the chronology is a little unclear) was recorded in 1969. That's just a year after the term reggae (or "reggay, as on Toots and the Maytals "Do the Reggay") was becoming popularized, and already Spear was laying down tracks that sounded less like pop music and more like Rastafarian grounation chants with a little guitar and keyboard sweetening. I'm sure that's exactly what some of these songs are.

Also, it's interesting to hear how early in his career Spear had his basic sound worked out. These are his first recordings, and already he's at least 80% there. Some of these songs appeared on later Spear albums in pretty much the same form they appear here. There are some slight pop touches to some of the songs (which I think is a good thing) but basically this sounds pretty much like the upfull and righteous Burning Spear we all know and love, albeit with cruder sound (although Heartbeat has done their usual amazing job cleaning these recordings up-they sound great considering they're 35 years old and were recorded in essentially a Third World country).

Of course, these songs may have been chosen specifically because they do sound so much like Spear's later stuff. I have some old Spear on vinyl, so I happen to know that at least one really pop --for Spear--song, Girls Like You, was left off this collection, which bummed me out a little, man-how often do you get to hear Burning Spear sing about girls? They did include one love song here, Down By the River.

But that's unimportant. This is a fantastic collection of reggae so rootsy you can't listen to it with your shoes on. Oh, and as a little bonus you get to hear the actual voice of Coxsone Dodd on the last track!

5.0 out of 5 stars The Burning Spear Has Arrived..Collection Solid But Not Complete, June 8, 2007

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Original Mixed Up-Kid "jg" (New York United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creation Rebel (Audio CD)

The great Spear on many of his early sides on this fine compilation is a treat..but for those in the know will also seek out on legitimate Studio One releases the 2 single Cd's that comprise the majority of this collection.
SOCD 1123 Rocking Time
SOCD 0150 Burning Spear
Great roots, heartfelt, simplistic,historic, soulful.. for those who enjoy hearing Spear's earliest versions of songs as they were and then done and redone throughout his majestical career, this is for you.
That early Studio One sound is not replaceable and luckily
here with us on this release and the countless others showcasing Spear and his fellow luminaries.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spear at Studio One...what more could you possibly want?, November 29, 2005

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Kader A. Shoman (Tampa, Fl) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Creation Rebel (Audio CD)

Seriously, if you don't have this album yet, get it. I don't feel the need for any flamboyant spiel and all that mess, Spear at Studio One! That's all you need to know! If you don't know, DOOM ON YOU!

Bless

Kader