The Harder They Come (1973 Film)
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Composer: Jimmy CliffComposer: Jimmy Cliff
Composer: The Slickers
Edition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Mango
Soundtracks:
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- Draw Your Breaks - Scotty
- Rivers of Babylon - The Melodians
- Many Rivers to Cross
- Sweet and Dandy - The Maytals
- Harder They Come
- Johnny Too Bad - The Slickers
- Shanty Town - Desmond Dekker
- Pressure Drop - The Maytals
- Sitting in Limbo
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- Harder They Come
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Free Music Review: Not Roots Reggae But Good For What It Is
Hit: 4 Stars
Many people associate Jimmy Cliff with Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. They were all early stars of reggae. But Cliff's music is actually quite different. It has less of the heavy bass and drums sound of the Wailers, with more influence from pop, soul and R&B. Cliff's lyrics are very personal and perhaps his greatest strength as an artist. I especially like his song "Sitting In Limbo", which Jerry Garcia and David Grisman do an excellent version of on one of their albums. The Melodians' "Rivers Of Babylon" and the Maytals' "Pressure Drop are two of the other cuts I most enjoyed.
This is distinctively Jamaican music. But drawn more from the ska and rocky steady eras. If you want the heavy duty roots reggae I would instead recommend artists like Peter Tosh and Burning Spear. But this is still good for what it is.
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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.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 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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