Rocksteady Party

Laurel Aitken | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 17, 1996)
• Original Release Date: November 19, 1996
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Blue Moon Imports
• ASIN: B0000059NR
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,114,208 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Rocksteady Party

2. That Was Then

3. Do The Jerk

4. Burnin' Fire

5. Pancho

6. Bluebeat Suit

7. Things That I Do

8. Dial M For Murder

9. Re-Burial

10. Car Chase

11. Got To Go

12. He Man Versus

Editorial Reviews

Rocksteady Party by Laurel Aitken with The Potato Five

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A decent 2-Tone CD, January 21, 2008

By 

Shona (Clairton, PA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rocksteady Party (Audio CD)

Laurel Aitken is known to be the "Godfather of Ska"; however he was also very active in the 2nd and 3rd waves of ska as a perennial live performance favorite. On this album, he decided to get together with Potato 5; a two-tone ska band in order to unite with the new kids coming up. Well, really the result is really a Potato 5 album with Laurel Aitken adding his vocals. I do not have access to the credits, but I kind of doubt that Laurel had too much to do with writing these songs.

This album is standard two-tone ska fare really. I personally feel that "Bluebeat Suit" is a very nice, laid back song; and the title track is also enjoyable. Overall, this album is better from start to finish than a whole lot of other ska records from that time period. But if you don't feel as if you are a true two-tone fan, you can easily pass this one up.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars If you like reggae with drum machines, April 1, 2005

By 

Matt Dixon "matt" (Long Beach, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rocksteady Party (Audio CD)

If you like reggae with drum machines, you probably still won't like this. I don't know what drum machine they are using but it sounds like an 80's casio keyboard through some whacky (not in a good way) effects. The sad thing is this album could have been pretty good if the OG skinhead laurel aitken had only hired a few extra musicians, our at least pulled together a decent sampler.