Screaming Target

Big Youth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sanctuary Records
• ASIN: B000F2CC18
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,036 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Screaming Target

2. Pride & Joy Rock

3. Be Careful

4. Tipper Tone Rock

5. One of These Fine Days

6. The Killer

7. Solomon a Gunday

8. Honesty

9. I Am Alright

10. Lee a Low

11. K.G.'s Half Way Tree [*]

12. Organ Style [*]

13. Screaming Target [Version 2][*]

14. Pride & Ambition [*]

15. Their Own Way Version [*]

16. Try Me [*]

17. Tipper Tone Rocking [Version 2][*]

18. Rhythm Style [*]

19. One One Cocoa [*]

20. Skylarking [*][Version]

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pure Classic - Must Have CD, March 27, 2010

By 

Jim Francis "Jim Francis" (Miami/London/Negril) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Screaming Target (Audio CD)

Big Youth at his best on some of the hardest riddims ever produced in the 40+ year history of reggae. This is one of the foundation albums of reggae - a must-have classic.

BUY IT AND YOU'LL HAVE NO REGRETS!!!!!!!

0 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Enough screaming, April 12, 2010

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Brad Irvin (Detroit) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Screaming Target (Audio CD)

I really like this record. The songs are very catchy with a cool heavy sound. I could do without the screaming, its actually pretty annoying. Overall this record is right up there with the classics for me. A good addition to anyones collection.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Humble beginnings?, November 29, 2008

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Nico (subterranean) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Screaming Target (Audio CD)

Blame it on da Youth! Everybody say that he is the Grandpappy of Rap. Yep, I can hear it in his boastful toasts. No duds in the extra dubs either.

Alright...Das Racists didn't appreciate my bad puns...Depending on what Reggae historian you read, either Big Youth or Dillinger were the prototype for the American Rap model. Hipster Jazz critics claim New York City's The Last Poets as the likely architects. Certainly Gil-Scott Heron and his "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" were an early blueprint. Maybe it was all the above. I do not know, I am here to review Big Youth's record Screaming Target, not to take Rap's illegitimate daddy to court. Although, here are a few truths that are not disputed- Big Youth coined the phrase, "Natty Dread" and was the first Rasta to flash his locks up on stage.

That and he is a massive influence on Miami hip-hopper rude bwoy Tafari. How do I know this ? Check out father and son...[...]