More Intensified: Ska 63-67

Various Artists - International - Reggae - Ska | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 26, 1990)
• Label: Mango
• ASIN: B000003QHL
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #433,786 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Six and Seven Books of Moses

2. Dr. Kildare

3. Congo War

4. Woman Come

5. Man in the Street

6. What a Man Doeth

7. Lucky Seven

8. Miss Ska-Culation

9. Dr. Ring-A-Ding

10. Run Joe

11. Sucu Sucu

12. The Great Wuga Wuga

13. Dick Tracy

14. Mount Zion

15. Marcus Junior

16. Train to Skaville

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Treasure trove of Jamaican music, February 18, 2007

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Pieter "Toypom" (Johannesburg) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: More Intensified: Ska 63-67 (Audio CD)

This album covers early ska from 1963 to 1967 in a blend of instrumentals and vocal numbers. My favourites include Six and Seven Books of Moses by The Maytals as The Vikings, Mount Zion by Desmond Dekker and the amazing Congo War by Lord Brynner and The Sheiks, in which the civil war in the Congo in the early 1960's is discussed in a most colourful manner. Train to Skaville by The Ethiopians is another soulful, melodic track, displaying the diversity of this Jamaican style. Other artists here include The Skatalites, Don Drummond, Stranger Cole, Sir Lord Comic, Marguerita, The Soul Brothers and Eric Morris. All of these tracks were recorded in Kingston, Jamaica, from 1963 to 1967 and the instruments include trumpet, trombone, tenor and alto sax, keyboard, bass, drums and guitar. This is chugging great music!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another lost classic, November 30, 2006

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Art - See all my reviews

This review is from: More Intensified: Ska 63-67 (Audio CD)

Another out-of-print classic from Island/Mango. As with "Club Ska 67", this contains a nice mix of popular hits ("Man in the Street", "Train to Skaville") with more obscure numbers that aren't available on every other ska compilation out there ("Congo War", "Run Joe"). I used to have a cassette with this on one side and "Club Ska 67" on the other side which was a permanent resident in my car's cassette deck, circa 1993. I'm glad I grabbed this on CD when I had a chance, since Island is obviously content to let Trojan grab all the dollars/pounds from today's fans of old-time ska with their inferior, repetitive compilations.