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Top Ranking Dub is a poorly pressed CD transfer with a lot of skips, pops, and glitches.

Same goes for the pressing of the Revolutionaries "Revolutionary Sounds" CD

Is the same culprit at fault???


They tend to be "samey" in sound, but overall classic riddims. I like them...not the transfers!

Darewon, and all

The poor quality of some CD and LP copies is another good reason for me to spend all my money on original vinyl!

Since I bought some Jetstar CDs and found them to be poorly recorded from vinyl I stopped buying CD and started collecting the original vinyl instead.

I avoid Abrahams 'Clocktower' releases. I make my living from my creative skills so I know how much it hurts to have your stuff ripped off.

But the worst 'dub' LP I recently listened to, for musical quality (or lack of) not production quality has to be:

'Return of Pipecock Jackson' by Lee Perry.

http://www.roots-archives.com/release/276

OK, it does have a good track maybe two, but the rest of the LP is bizarre at best, or simply crap.

I find Lee Perry stuff very frustrating to collect, some of his productions are the absolute BEST reggae sounds available, and then you buy another LP and find it is complete musical rubbish, or bootlegged or shite production etc.

I went and bought the 2 esoldun cds yesterday. Rub a dub is very good, with some rare, heavy dubs on it.Official dub is too electronic, sounds like theyve never touched a musical instrument there!! still, neither is a very poor album..unlike the previous esoldun i bought. incidentally i just sent 3 of my cds to india, to the namgyal cafe in McLeod Ganj, they play roots all day, i offloaded three of my least popular sounds on them.at least someone can now benefit from that reggae.

Leggo,

Got bit by the vinyl bug yet again.

Picked up Misty in Roots "Live at Counter Eurovision '79" and the wax makes the bass shimmer and shine .
Not bad for 5.00 (USD)...

darewon, it's just the thin end of a very thick wedge! I started with a couple of represses for a few bucks from Zions Gate records and now have just under 1,000 mostly original 70s and early 80s presses - it has cost me a fortune and that's only half of it as I am now spending everything I earn upgrading my hi-fi!

But I think it is worth it and if I didn't spend it on vinyl and Hi-Fi I'd probably just smoke it...

i suppose that Lee Perry has made some very poor dub, and some of the mad professor's modern stuff is far from great. what do others think of the mad professor?

AFRICAN ROOTS Vol. 6.
Horrible.

yes and i dont rate schizophrenic dub much either..how about anyone else?

For me, most of the Mad professor stuff is crap. But his very first release is OK. I have 'Dub Me Crazy' on an Ariwa white label Pre and it is an OK dub LP.

I like the African Dub series, but African Dub 5 is pretty lame compared to the first 4 in the series.

I haven't yet heard a revolutionaries Dub LP from the era up to 1980 that isn't brilliant. Black Ash Dub is the Revo's LP I'd put at the bottom of the chart though.

for me, anything which features "bag o wire" plus a string of other Johnny Clarke dubs, is very poor stuff. Its so common to find this tune endlessly played on weak albums.