Editorial Review:

Album Description:
Japanese digitally remastered reissue of 1973 soundtrack, packaged in a miniature LP sleeve. Featuring music mostly performed by Jimmy Cliff but also including tracks from Melodians, Maytals, The Slickers & Desmond Dekker.

Amazon.com:
Jamaican filmmaker Perry Henzell made reggae an integral player in his gritty 1973 saga of a renegade Kingston singer who becomes a modern Robin Hood, casting one of the style's earliest stars, Jimmy Cliff, in the lead, and filling this soundtrack--here presented in a remastered version--with classics from Toots & the Maytals ('Pressure Drop,' 'Sweet and Dandy'), Desmond Dekker ('Shanty Town'), the Melodians ('Rivers of Babylon'), and the Slickers ('Johnny Too Bad'). Cliff himself gets pole position, however, getting in the first ('You Can Get It If You Really Want') and last ('The Harder They Come') words in this first-rate reggae primer, which also features Cliff's enduring 'Many Rivers to Cross.' --Sam Sutherland









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Disc 1:

1. You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff, Cliff, Jimmy
2. Draw Your Breaks - Jimmy Cliff, Harriott, Derrick
3. Rivers of Babylon - Jimmy Cliff, Dowe, Brenton
4. Many Rivers to Cross - Jimmy Cliff, Cliff, Jimmy
5. Sweet and Dandy - Jimmy Cliff, Hibbert, Toots
6. The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff, Cliff, Jimmy
7. Johnny Too Bad - Jimmy Cliff, Crooks, Sydney
8. Shanty Town - Jimmy Cliff, Dekker, Desmond
9. Pressure Drop - Jimmy Cliff, Hibbert, Toots
10. Sitting in Limbo - Jimmy Cliff, Bright, Gully
11. You Can Get It If You Really Want - Jimmy Cliff, Cliff, Jimmy
12. The Harder They Come - Jimmy Cliff, Cliff, Jimmy

Rating: - * Classic ... I bought the record when it first came out almost 35 years ago. I had long since sold off the album. I ordered the CD recently and it arrived on my birthday. At my party, I played the album, and it was the most popular of the evening collectively by young and old alike. This is really a reggae classic. Rating: - * An Essential ... If you like reggae, I dare say this is the essential album, except for perhaps To Catch a Fire. Rating: - * A lot of fun ... I had this LP years ago, and loved it. Now without a turntable, I was so happy to find it re-released as a disc. It is very different, and a lot of fun to listen to. Real toe-tappers. A good one to play while cleaning the house....full of energy. Rating: - * Some of the best pre - bob marley reggae ... This was reggae before Bob Marley. Jimmy Cliff was its king and the major exporter of the music, primarily to England. This recording is timeless. A lot of gems from a variety of artists featured. Rating: - * Essential Reggae ... If you like reggae, you should have this CD. If you could only own 5 reggae CDs of all that is out there, this deserves to be one of those 5. I never tire of listening to these tracks after all these years. The other reviewers have ably described this music. I heartily agree. 5 more stars for The Harder They Come. Favorite tracks (but I like them all) 1. Many Rivers To Cross 2. Rivers of Babylon 3. Pressure Drop 4. You Can Get It If You Really Want It 5. Sitting In Limbo