Word: mango
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stranger's original version, along with 15 other vintage ska songs, is available on a recently released compilation called Intensified! (Mango Records), which offers some interesting source material to set against the carnival modifications of the young English revivalists. Most of the Intensified! tunes have a loping energy, even when the recording quality is dense and almost smothering, as if the musicians were trying to play their way out of a bowl of tapioca. Both the Madness and Specials albums (the latter produced by the sullen genie of punk, Elvis Costello) are careful to preserve a spontaneous sound that...
...Harder They Come (Mango, 1973). The best soul music of the '70s is reggae, and this collection-a sound-track album from a mean-strutting movie-is some of the best of the best...