Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music

by Various Artists

Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican Music cover art

An incredibly ambitious, four-disc box set offering a sweeping, chronological history of Jamaican popular music. The collection traces the evolution from early ska and rocksteady, through the golden age of roots reggae and dub, all the way to 1980s digital dancehall. Curated by Chris Blackwell, it stands as the absolute definitive historical primer for Caribbean music.

Genres

  • Reggae
  • Rocksteady
  • Jamaican Ska

Tracklist

  1. Oh Carolina
  2. Boogie in My Bones
  3. Midnight Track
  4. Easy Snappin’
  5. Housewives Choice
  6. Forward March
  7. Miss Jamaica
  8. My Boy Lollipop
  9. Six and Seven Books of Moses
  10. Simmer Down
  11. Man in the Street
  12. Carry Go Bring Come
  13. Guns of Navarone
  14. Al Capone
  15. Hard Man fe Dead
  16. Tougher Than Tough
  17. Girl I’ve Got a Date
  18. Happy Go Lucky Girl
  19. Dancing Mood
  20. The Train Is Coming
  21. Take It Easy
  22. Ba Ba Boom
  23. 007 (Shanty Town)
  24. I’ve Got to Go Back Home
  25. Queen Majesty
  26. Loving Pauper
  27. Don’t Stay Away
  28. Israelites
  29. 54-46 (That’s My Number)
  30. Reggae Hit the Town
  31. Wet Dream
  32. My Conversation
  33. Bangarang
  34. Return of Django
  35. The Liquidator
  36. Rivers of Babylon
  37. The Harder They Come
  38. Young Gifted & Black
  39. Wake the Town
  40. How Long
  41. Double Barrel
  42. Blood & Fire
  43. Cherry Oh Baby
  44. Better Must Come
  45. Money in My Pocket
  46. Stick by Me
  47. Teach the Children
  48. S.90 Skank
  49. Everything I Own
  50. Westbound Train
  51. Move Out a Babylon
  52. Curly Locks
  53. Country Boy
  54. Welding
  55. Marcus Garvey
  56. Right Time
  57. Natty Sing Hit Songs
  58. Ballistic Affair
  59. Tenement Yard
  60. War ina Babylon
  61. Police & Thieves
  62. Two Sevens Clash
  63. I’m Still Waiting
  64. No Woman No Cry
  65. Uptown Top Ranking
  66. Number One
  67. Bredda Gravalicious
  68. River Jordan
  69. Armagideon Time
  70. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
  71. Fort Augustus
  72. Joggin’
  73. Sitting & Watching
  74. Night Nurse
  75. Mad Over Me
  76. Diseases
  77. Water Pumping
  78. Pass the Tusheng Peng
  79. Here I Come
  80. Ring the Alarm
  81. Under Me Sleng Teng
  82. Tempo
  83. Boops
  84. Greetings
  85. Punanny
  86. Hol’ a Fresh
  87. Rumours
  88. Cover Me
  89. Legal Rights
  90. Wicked inna Bed
  91. Bandolero
  92. Yuh Dead Now
  93. Bogle Dance
  94. Murder She Wrote
  95. Oh Carolina