ROCKERS SOUNDTRACK

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ROCKERS SOUNDTRACK

TRACKLIST


1. We a Rockers - Inner Circle
2. Money Worries - The Maytones
3. Police and Thieves - Junior Murvin
4. Book of Rules - The Heptones
5. Stepping Razor - Peter Tosh
6. Tenement Yard - Jacob Miller
7. Fade Away - Junior Byles
8. Rockers - Bunny Wailer
9. Slave Master - Gregory Isaacs
10. Man in the Street - Rockers All Stars
11. Graduation in Zion - Kiddus I
12. Jah No Dead - Burning Spear
13. Satta Amasagana - Third World
14. Natty Take Over - Justin Hinds & Dominoes




Credits
Artwork By [Design] - Eckford/Stimpson
Artwork By [Logo Design & Art Direction], Photography - T. Bafaloukos
Compiled By - Chris Blackwell
Engineer - Godwin Logie , Groucho*
Executive Producer - Theodoros Bafaloukos
Executive Producer, Photography - Avrom Robin
Mastered By - John Dent
Photography - Susan Finkelstein




Label Palm
Orig Year 1980
Producer Chris Blackwell (Compilation)
Additional Info Soundtrack

Music is integral to this seminal Jamaican film, as it follows the exploits of drummer Leroy "Horsemouth" Wallace, who plays himself, and featuring a myriad of other denizens of the music industry in lead roles and bit parts. The movie itself was awash in music, which pours out of clubs, studios, record shops, and radios. The soundtrack features only some of the songs included in the film, but what a collection of cuts it is. Bunny Wailer's anthemic title track, Inner Circle's infectious "We a Rockers," Jacob Miller's masterpiece "Tenement Yard," Peter Tosh's threatening "Stepping Razor," Junior Byles' equally forceful "Fade Away" -- classic songs one and all. Gorgeous harmonies are delivered up by the Maytones, Justin Hines & the Dominoes, and the Heptones on some of their greatest songs. Jamaica's smoothest singer, Gregory Isaacs, performs a sublime "Slavemaster," Junior Murvin's sweet tones simmer across "Police and Thieves," and Kiddus I delivers up an extraordinary cultural toast. One of the most arresting scenes in the film belonged to Burning Spear's Winston Rodney, performing a powerful a cappella "Jah No Dead." It is just as potent on record, and segues exquisitely into Third World's loving cover of "Satta Amasagana." From rockers to grounations, Rockers had it all, and the soundtrack remains one of the most diverse yet coherent albums of the roots age. ~ Jo-Ann Greene


The soundtrack to the seminal 1980 film Rockers features 14 classic reggae and dub tracks from Bunny Wailer, Inner Circle, Junior Murvin, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, The Maytones, The Heptones, Jacob Miller, Junior Byles, Gregory Isaacs, Kiddus, Justin and the Dominoes, and The Upsetters. Palm label. Remastered. 2003.




Rockers soundtrack lyrics -- Book Of Rules .. The Heptones


Isn't it strange how princesses and kings
In clown-ragged capers in sawdust rings
While common people like you and me
We'll be builders for eternity
Each is given a bag of tools
A shapeless mass and the book of rules


Each must make his life as flowing in
Tumbling block on a stepping stone
While common people like you and me
We'll be builders for eternity
Each is given a bag of tools
A shapeless mass and the book of rules


Look when the rain has fallen from the sky
You know the sun will be only with us for a while
While common people like you and me
We'll be builders for eternity
Each is given a bag of tools
A shapeless mass and the book of rules