digitalJ wrote:6anbatte wrote :digitalJ wrote :Thanks Selecta, been there. I picked up that both algoriddim.com and reggaeid.co.uk listed Toyan's Nice It Up (produced by Jah Thomas on the Midnight Rock label) as being on the Pick Up The Pieces riddim...which is doubtful, because the track is on the the Linval Thompson's Six Babylon riddim...unless Midnight releases some other rare Toyan track on that riddim,but with the same title.
Anyway, thanks.I will let you know when I eventually find it.
Pretty sure the confusion has occurred because The Royals Studio One cut of "Pick Up the Pieces" is on a completely different riddim to their Magnum/Ballistic cut of "Pick Up The Pieces"
Same title, same (similar) lyrics, but different riddim.
Just listened to "Six Babylon" alongside the later Magnum/Ballistic cut of "Pick Up The Pieces" (and the dub cut "Llongo") and they both have either exactly the same or a very, very similar bass line.
So there you go.
Studio One cut of "Pick..." is THE riddim, BUT the Magnum/Ballistic "Pick..." is on the "Six Babylon" riddim (or slight variation of). Hope that has helped.
OK, so it hasn't answered the original question.
Wow...very interesting. I always assumed the all versions of the Pick Up The Pieces riddim were descendants of the "original" riddim used by the Royals' Studio One cut.
To make things slightly more confusing there are 3 Studio One tracks called "Pick Up The Pieces"! The one we are talking about by the Royals, one by Burning Spear and one by Delroy Wilson. All, of course, on different riddims!
The one that is referred to as the "Pick Up The Pieces" riddim, as we know, is indeed the Royals' Studio One version. Although it appears they may have been called the Tempests when Studio One first released it (??!!). Must admit I am looking into that last statement.
"Now I know the truth and must reveal it unto the youth."
6anbatte wrote:digitalJ wrote :6anbatte wrote :digitalJ wrote :Thanks Selecta, been there. I picked up that both algoriddim.com and reggaeid.co.uk listed Toyan's Nice It Up (produced by Jah Thomas on the Midnight Rock label) as being on the Pick Up The Pieces riddim...which is doubtful, because the track is on the the Linval Thompson's Six Babylon riddim...unless Midnight releases some other rare Toyan track on that riddim,but with the same title.
Anyway, thanks.I will let you know when I eventually find it.
Pretty sure the confusion has occurred because The Royals Studio One cut of "Pick Up the Pieces" is on a completely different riddim to their Magnum/Ballistic cut of "Pick Up The Pieces"
Same title, same (similar) lyrics, but different riddim.
Just listened to "Six Babylon" alongside the later Magnum/Ballistic cut of "Pick Up The Pieces" (and the dub cut "Llongo") and they both have either exactly the same or a very, very similar bass line.
So there you go.
Studio One cut of "Pick..." is THE riddim, BUT the Magnum/Ballistic "Pick..." is on the "Six Babylon" riddim (or slight variation of). Hope that has helped.
OK, so it hasn't answered the original question.
Wow...very interesting. I always assumed the all versions of the Pick Up The Pieces riddim were descendants of the "original" riddim used by the Royals' Studio One cut.
To make things slightly more confusing there are 3 Studio One tracks called "Pick Up The Pieces"! The one we are talking about by the Royals, one by Burning Spear and one by Delroy Wilson. All, of course, on different riddims!
The one that is referred to as the "Pick Up The Pieces" riddim, as we know, is indeed the Royals' Studio One version. Although it appears they may have been called the Tempests when Studio One first released it (??!!). Must admit I am looking into that last statement.
Well, even more confusing is that there's another Royals Pick Up The Pieces release on Wambesi which is on a different riddim.
6anbatte wrote:digitalJ wrote :Well, even more confusing is that there's another Royals Pick Up The Pieces release on Wambesi which is on a different riddim.
Are you sure? The only Wambesi "Pick Up The Pieces" I know is on the "Pick Up The Pieces" Wambesi album and is the same track as is on the Magnum/Ballistic versions of the album.
digitalJ wrote:6anbatte wrote :digitalJ wrote :Well, even more confusing is that there's another Royals Pick Up The Pieces release on Wambesi which is on a different riddim.
Are you sure? The only Wambesi "Pick Up The Pieces" I know is on the "Pick Up The Pieces" Wambesi album and is the same track as is on the Magnum/Ballistic versions of the album.
Oh, I see. I thought you meant there was a Royals' "Pick Up..." on a 3rd riddim.
As you can see I mentioned the difference between the Studio One cut and the Ballistic/Magnum (and hence the Wambesi) cuts earlier in this thread.
6anbatte wrote:Pretty sure the confusion has occurred because The Royals Studio One cut of "Pick Up the Pieces" is on a completely different riddim to their Magnum/Ballistic cut of "Pick Up The Pieces"
Same title, same (similar) lyrics, but different riddim.
Just listened to "Six Babylon" alongside the later Magnum/Ballistic cut of "Pick Up The Pieces" (and the dub cut "Llongo") and they both have either exactly the same or a very, very similar bass line.
So there you go.
Studio One cut of "Pick..." is THE riddim, BUT the Magnum/Ballistic "Pick..." is on the "Six Babylon" riddim (or slight variation of). Hope that has helped.
OK, so it hasn't answered the original question.
"Now I know the truth and must reveal it unto the youth."
