Steel Pulse: Ultimate Collection

Steel Pulse | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 9, 2000)
• Original Release Date: May 9, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Hip-O Records
• ASIN: B00004T0EN
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,610 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

16 TRACKS: 1) Handsworth Revolution 2) Ku Klux Klan 3) Prediction 4) Revolution Dub (Take 1) 5) Prodigal Son 6) Tribute To The Martyrs 7) Babylon Makes The Rules 8) Sound System 9) Uncle George 10) Burning Flame 11) Caught You Dancing 12) Not K»ö ýS üï øï üñ $ ?2ó üð ýS t ó ô"= ...^÷ jB ,?= "ð 8ð Uú$ Ü'ó jB

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Steel Pulse, September 23, 2005

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T. Snyder "TS" (AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Steel Pulse: Ultimate Collection (Audio CD)

Steel Pulse "Ultimate Collection" is a very nice collection of the group's best work on Island in their early years. This is reggae from that classic late 70's period. A lot of the music from that timeframe is pretty good stuff across the board. Steel Pulse is no exception.

It's very relaxing, even when it's sometimes politcal in its message. The CD is missing a few good songs from when they switched labels in the early 80's though.

I would recommend this to fans of Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. It's in that similar style of reggae.

Good music for calming down to.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Introduction to Steel Pulse, March 5, 2005

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Spencer Pennington (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Steel Pulse: Ultimate Collection (Audio CD)

Steel Pulse's "Ultimate Collection" is, overall, a great introduction to the world's greatest Jamaican-born British reggae unit. It contains several of the group's greatest hits spanning their entire career up to the compilation's May, 2000 release.

The compilation starts off with the title track of Steel Pulse's 1978 debut, "Handsworth Revolution," followed by the angry and beautiful "Ku Klux Klan," and the latin-tinged "Prediction". The CD also contains several other hits such as "Prodigal Son," "Tribute to the Martyrs," "Uncle George," and my personal favorite, "Babylon Makes the Rules". Each of these songs shows Steel Pulse's trademark unapologetic sociopolitical stance perfectly. The compilation also contains a dub version of the opening track, "Handsworth Revolution".

There are even traces of the group's lighter side with songs like "Caught You Dancing," "Burning Flame," "Evermore," and "Back to My Roots/Dub to My Roots". The compilation delves equally as well into the later years of Steel Pulse's career with songs like the millitant "Not King James Version," from the grammy-winning 1986 "Babylon the Bandit" album. Alongside the 1986 masterpiece are other later classics such as "No Justice, No Peace," and the straight-forward Dancehall-Pop influenced "Settle the Score," from the "Rage & Fury" album 1997, their latest album up to the compilation's release.

While there are a couple of obvious hits missing such as "Taxi Driver" and "Rollerskates," this hardly hinders the compilation. Steel Pulse's "Ultimate Collection," is sure to please any listener wanting an introduction to this fine band. This compilation will leave the listener pleasently surprised and asking for more.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars my favorite reggae cd, August 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Steel Pulse: Ultimate Collection (Audio CD)

Simply put, this is my favorite reggae CD. Better than Exodus, Catch A Fire, anything by Bunny Wailer, Tosh, Black Uhuru, Toots, Israel Vibration, Augustus Pablo, Burning Spear (although 100th Anniversary would be close), etc.

This CD has so many good songs: Sound System, Handworth Rev., Babylon Makes the Rules, Prodigal Son, Tribute to the Marytrs.

This CD will be very easy for someone who like rock and roll to get into as many of Pulse's songs have a hard, fast beat.

Whenever someone asks me where to go after Bob Marley, I always tell them Steel Pulse, Ultimate Collection.

Seriously go buy this or burn a copy from someone.