{"id":2168,"date":"2009-03-25T23:36:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T22:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/?p=2168"},"modified":"2009-03-26T01:51:34","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T00:51:34","slug":"steweys-thingy-being-worked-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/steweys-thingy-being-worked-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Mighty Maytones – Burning Sounds Records – 1976"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Madness \/ Loving Reggae \/ Contiquros \/ Serious \/ Father And Mother<\/a><\/p>\n

Music Is A Part Of Life \/ Ital Queen \/ God Bless The Day \/ Judgement A Come \/ Zion Land<\/a><\/p>\n

Uploaded tonight is one of the most understated and beautiful debut albums ever released in the reggae vocal harmony style. The Maytones were largely ignored in the mid 1970’s by UK music press and record labels due to the lack of dreadlocks and red,gold and green tams on the heads of the two vocalists, Vernon Buckley and Gladestone Grant.<\/p>\n

The Congos, Mighty Diamonds, Black Uhuru, Burning Spear\u00a0and Culture all got (deserved) props\u00a0from the music press and record labels like Virgin and Island, but because of the\u00a0non Rasta image\u00a0of The Maytones, those same record labels who believed\u00a0that a militant Rasta image was important to sell to the UK public, lost out on releasing this absolutely stunning collection of\u00a0reggae classics.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The recording session for the tracks that appeared on this\u00a0album\u00a0was\u00a0engineered by Alvin GG Ranglin at the infamous Channel One studio way way down\u00a0along dangerous\u00a0Maxfield Avenue\u00a0in western Kingston.\u00a0The Maytones composed lyrics on\u00a0subjects that were not\u00a0too heavy on the Rastafarian dogma,\u00a0\u00a0personal day to day living for sufferers, making the best of a bad lot, and a heap of very classy songs on relationship issues were the order of the day for this vocal duo. The fragile way the vocals are put across on this album (and other Maytones releases) make the compositions\u00a0incredibly tender and sad sounding, but\u00a0overall the listener feels an overwealming feeling of hope.<\/p>\n

The sleeve artwork from\u00a0this album\u00a0has\u00a0images that were certainly not everyday fare for mid 1970’s reggae\u00a0sleeve artwork. Mushroom clouds, gravestones and\u00a0soldier images were to become among the favoured images of the punk bands that appeared much later on in the decade. I honestly can not think of many (or any) other reggae sleeves that are similar in artwork to this release from 1976.<\/p>\n

Dedicated to Stewart and his twin brother Andy whose birthday\u00a0is\u00a0today. Happy and safe birthday to them both from all at Kill Your Pet Puppy online.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cini camera shots of the twins filmed\u00a0at the Huntingdon Street squat, Kings Cross\u00a0in 1979 or 1980 when there were both wee lads of\u00a0seventeen years old,\u00a0or thereabouts.<\/p>\n

The whole of the cini film feature on Huntingdon Street squat can be viewed HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Madness \/ Loving Reggae \/ Contiquros \/ Serious \/ Father And Mother Music Is A Part Of Life \/ Ital Queen \/ God Bless The Day \/ Judgement A Come \/ Zion Land Uploaded tonight is one of the most understated and beautiful debut albums ever released in the reggae vocal harmony style. The Maytones […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-downloads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2168"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2178,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2168\/revisions\/2178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/killyourpetpuppy.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}