BIG YOUTH 'Screaming Target' LP

Achieving his first success on wax with "S 90 Skank" for producer Keith Hudson in 1972, Big Youth recorded "Screaming Target", his debut full-length, one year later for Gussie Clarke. That album, along with a handful of 45s from the period, was largely responsible for bringing the DJ art form forward after U-Roy's innovations. Here, in place of hip, jive-dervied phrases, listeners find Big Youth ruminating on themes that exemplified the new consciousness of the 1970s. The music on this release is simultaneously a benchmark for reggae in general and the DJ from in particular - and a classic of recorded music, regardless of the genre.
 
1.     SCREAMING TARGET    
2.     PRIDE AND JOY ROCK    
3.     BE CAREFUL    
4.     TIPPER TONE ROCK    
5.     THESE FINE DAYS    
6.     SCREAMING TARGET VER 2    
7.     THE KILLER    
8.     SOLOMON GUNDAY    
9.     HONESTLY    
10.     I AM ALRIGHT    
11.     LEE A LOW    
12.     CONCRETE JUNGLE