Reggae Album Covers

Reggae Album Covers

Entries for November, 2009

Prince Hammer – World War 1 Dub

Amazing cartoon album sleeve showing Prince Hammer in a ‘Red, Gold and Green’ coloured World War 1 biplane – what’s not to love about that? This album came out in 1979 and was recorded at Channel One – with Prince Jammy and Scientist at the mixing deck. Track Listing: King Selassie In Dub Mussolini Desert [...]

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Prince Jammy – Prince Jammy Destroys The Invaders

This Prince Jammy dub album came out in 1982 on Greensleeves Records and the artwork was created by Tony McDermott. In the early 1980s, Scientist had a series of dub albums released on Greensleeves that all featured striking cartoon covers showing Scientist defeating space invaders, vampires, or winning the World Cup (covers that will be [...]

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(Dillinger) Ranking Dellinger – Superstar

Every reggae artist worth his or her salt has their name misspelled at least once in their career. Here Dillinger gets immortalised as ‘Dellinger’. This came out in 1977 on Weed Beat Records (which may go some way to explaining the spelling issues). And check out that deep knee drop from ‘Dellinger’ – he’s in [...]

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Hot Numbers – Volume 2

Argh! Close them please. Everything is wrong about this sleeve. WARNING: This album art is extremely dangerous to your eyes and you should only look at this record sleeve through a pin-prick hole in a piece of paper, otherwise you run the risk of either being blinded, or sucked in. Shame really, as this compilation [...]

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Prince Jammy – Kamikazi Dub

Well worth adding to your collection if you are looking for classic dub albums. This album came out of King Tubby’s studios in 1979. Prince Jammy is at the controls with an all-star band (Sly & Robbie, Ansel Collins, Bingy Bunny, Chinna, et al) laying down the tracks. Recorded at Channel One Studios and mixed [...]

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