Various – Upsetter Battle Axe

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Genre:	Reggae
Style:	Reggae
Year:	1972

Tracklist

	The Upsetters–	Battle Axe
	Junior Byles–	A Place Called Africa
	The Upsetters–	Cheerio
	Ras Darkins*–	Picture On The Wall
	Delroy Wilson–	Cool Operator
	The Upsetters–	Knock Three Times
	Andy Capp–	Pop A Pop
	The Upsetters–	Earthquake
	Mark & Luke–	Don't Cross The Nation
	The Upsetters–	Dark Moon
	The Upsetters–	Rough And Smooth
	The Upsetters–	Groove Me
	The Upsetters–	Easy Snapping
	Delroy Wilson–	I'm Yours

Credits (1)

Lee Perry
Producer

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6 versions

Image	,	–			In Your Collection, Wantlist, or Inventory	Version Details	Data Quality
	Battle Axe LP, Compilation	Trojan Records – TBL 167	UK	1972	UK — 1972	New Submission
	Upsetter Battle Axe LP, Compilation	Upsetter – none	Jamaica	1972	Jamaica — 1972	New Submission
	Battle Axe LP, Compilation	Island Records – TBL 167	Nigeria	1972	Nigeria — 1972	New Submission
	Battle Axe LP, Compilation, Reissue	Trojan Records – TBL 167	UK	1995	UK — 1995
	Battle Axe CD, Compilation	Trojan Records – CDTBL 167	UK	1996	UK — 1996	Recently Edited
	Battle Axe LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue, Orange	Music On Vinyl – MOVLP2895	Europe	2022	Europe — 2022	New Submission

Reviews

Krefeld Jul 26, 2023
referencing Battle Axe (LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Reissue, Orange ) MOVLP2895

Best sounding MOV Perry release, great dynamics, not cut too loud, silent pressing. This one had been missing from the PERRY-1 " The Upsetter Box Set" by Trojan and rightfully gets this awesome re-release by Music On Vinyl. The music is wonderful, and Perry thankfully moves towards more Roots oriented material ("Don't Cross The Nation" by Mark & Luke aka Little Roy being a very fine example). And The Upsetters are tight on the Instrumentals as well. Almost let this one , glad I didn't. HIGHLY recomended!!!
Don_Julian Sep 2, 2017
Edited 7 years ago

referencing Upsetter Battle Axe (LP, Compilation) none

Nice semi instrumental collection by Lee Perry's house band the Upsetters.
It gathers mostly next cuts to some of Perry's more popular productions, with some Bunny Lee sprinkled in for good measure.
The title track is version 5 of The Wailers' Small Axe, Cheerio is a proto-dub mix of Eric Donaldson's Cherry Oh Baby. Carl "Ras" Dawkins' Picture On The Wall is a cover of Freddie McKay's Studio 1 hit with backing vocals by The Wailers. Track 7 Pop-a-Pop is an alternate mix of Lynford Anderson oft-versioned Pop-a-Top. Mark & Luke's Don't Cross The Nation is in fact the version of Little Roy's All Africans, the jazz standard Blue Moon gets a work-out as Dark Moon. Track 11 Rough And Smooth is sung by Stranger Cole, it's a remake of his Treasure Isle hit Rough And Tough and is that Peter Tosh featuring on the spoken vocal?
Enjoyable good time dance music.
Peace,
Don Julian.