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Listening to Honey Boy LP "A taste of honey", a nice "sweet" reggae LP that includes the great "Jamaica" tune, an instrumental kicks in, totally unexpected - rugged and dreadful, a real killer of a tune: the "A Taste of Honey" track, which, in fact, feels like it belongs to a different album.

Has anyone other examples of "black sheep" tune(s) - great or not so great - that feel like misplaced on an album?

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Rejoice Jah Jah Children and dub springs to mind

On my media library I pulled those 2 tracks out and put them with compilations that they are better suited to. How I wish the whole of silver bullets was like Rejoice

One of the all time classics was on Studio One "Battle of The DJs Dancehall Style". It was a heavy Dancehall/DJ album and at the end up pops a love song - "Groovy Kind Of Love" by Johnny (Osbourne) & Jenny (Lara) in addition to "Moody Groove" by Prince Garthie which was heavy Dancehall.

Putting the love song in must have been an error because the re-mix left it out. You can imagine Coxsone telling someone to put that Groove record on there. They probably found two masters - a Groove one and a Groovy one - and not knowing which one he meant put both on there.

Here's the link: http://www.roots-archives.com/release/723

Regards

Rob

The Funk track on Majestic Dub was always a bit of a surprise. Or the one track by Trinity on Nicodemus Nice Up the Dance LP.

Congo Bunny wrote:
Rejoice Jah Jah Children and dub springs to mind

On my media library I pulled those 2 tracks out and put them with compilations that they are better suited to. How I wish the whole of silver bullets was like Rejoice

Yes! That song really stands out. When I listened to this song for the first time on the Trojan Roots Box Set, I was instantly hooked. But the rest of the Silver Bullets LP proved to be somewhat disappointing.

kalcidis wrote:The Funk track on Majestic Dub was always a bit of a surprise.

Yes, that immediately sprung to mind here too. Sounds like it belonged on another album. Personally, I hated the thing.

When the album was reissued on the Evolution Of Dub box set, they removed it.

On Tapper Zukie's 'Musical Intimidator' 2CD, there is an unexpected digital tune in amongst all the roots-era stuff. 'Judge I Oh Lord', if I'm remembering correctly. I think that Trojan accidentally put the wrong version of the song on the disc...

I think "River Of Mystery" (AKA "River Stone") on Zap Pow's Reggae Rules LP. The rest of the album is nice, but suddenly there's this pyschedelic Black Ark track.

Are we going to count the occasions that an otherwise 'serious' (i.e. usually sings political/cultural stuff) artist performs a song about girls or partying?

Congo Bunny wrote:
Rejoice Jah Jah Children and dub springs to mind

On my media library I pulled those 2 tracks out and put them with compilations that they are better suited to. How I wish the whole of silver bullets was like Rejoice

The *Silver Bullets* album is pretty much a collection of 50's and 60's pop songs, but *Rejoice Jah Jah Children* sounds a bit different. I think it has some similarities to Bobby Darin's version of *Nature Boy*, which kind of makes it stick to the theme of the album. Not to mention the entire doo-wop thing the track has going on.

About Silver Bullets, i remember from reading Katz book that Perry had only 9 riddims when they went for recording and he just "borrowed" a riddim.

If i recall correctly he asked it to another producer in studio that day? Someone he knew well? Well i dont recall correctly, i dont even recall which song, when i get home i will read this part again. I can write it down here too, if anyone is interested.

edit: ok the release has 12 tracks, so my memory is failing me hard. Damn sensi. I check again tomorrow. Im still pretty sure he borrowed a riddim.