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Record ID
1548
Artist
Various
Title
The Harder They Come
Field / Genre
Rock
Year Recorded
1972
Label
Island
Pressing
Aus
Rating
***
Discs
1
Media
CD
Date Bought
16 Apr 2004
Cost
¤0.00
Cover Name
—
Review
<p>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."</p><p> — <b><I>Sam Sutherland</I></b> — CDNow</p>