Handsworth Revolution

Good.

Had this on vinyl for many years.Great to have the cd version to play in the car and transfer to my phone as mp3.Brilliant classic reggae.

this album makes me feel young again as it has brought back many good memories for me.

My dalliance with '70s reggae continues, this time its Steel Pulse and their 1978 debut Handsworth Revolution.Now let's be fair from the off, I am not really a roots reggae kind of guy, but something has triggered my interest, and Handsworth Revolution came highly recommended and followed Aswad's eponymous debut, which I loved, into my burgeoning reggae collection. So as a reviewer with only one tow in the water my views are a bit superficial, and while Handsworth Revolution is good I don't think it's great, but I can't put my finger on what didn't work for me. Because this is a set of hard hitting and gritty numbers that tackle the issues of '70s Britain head-on; its not the boring predictable stuff that turned me off reggae in the first place. Individually each song stands on its merits but back-to-back and as a whole somewhere along the line I lost interest, before I reached the end, perhaps it was almost too much of a good thing or perhaps it just lacked sufficient variety to sustain my interest even though its only eight tracks long. So 5 stars for each track on its own but only 4 for the collection.Not one to be put off, my dalliance continues and next up is Burning Spear.

I bought this back in the late 70s, and it is just as good and fresh now as it was then. Timeless. Fantastic. This is British reggae at it's best. It is hard hitting and uncompromising. This isn't sugar-coated reggae, but the musician-ship, the songwriting and production are superb. If you like good reggae - Peter Tosh etc - and want probably the best of British reggae, then Steel Pulse have to be it along with Reggae poet. Linton Kwesi Johnson's absolute genius album 'Forces of Victory'.This Steel Pulse album has probably the saddest song I have ever heard in the track Ku Klux Klan - so powerful in it's simplicity. Extraordinary writing and performance: This song, above all others, shows how easily, casually and brutally bigotry can destroy. Makes my hair stand out on my head. Get their other seminal album 'Tribute to the Martyrs' too.

Great thanks I love it

I've seen these guys live many times (yes I'm that ancient!) And this album is still awesome even many, many years on, brought back lots of lovely memories of my misspent youth in Brum! Highly recommend!

Ive got this item on an album so i knew it would be good value