Friday 8 October 2010

Eek-A-Mouse - Wa-Do-Dem LP (1982)

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1: Ganja Smuggling
2: I Will Never Leave My Love
3: Lonesome Journey
4: Long Time Ago
5: Noahs Ark
6: Operation Eradication
7: Slowly But Surely
8: There's A Girl In My Life
9: Too Young To Understand
10: Wa-Do-Dem
11: Ganja Smuggling (Live)
12: Police In Helicopter

This one is for all the tokers out there... Eek-A-Mouse treats us to more boucey, fun, and occasionally serious reggae, with his unique vocal stylings. All the major reggae food groups are represented: Weed, women, peace, and oppression, and this album will leave you feeling fat and fully satisfied. If you've heard Eek-A-Mouse before you'll know what to expect from his singing, every now and then he goes into weird 'b-oing, dum diddy dum dum' vocal noises, whether he does this because he's forgotton the words after way too much of the herb, or because he knows its strangely catchy, is anyones guess. When I went to Jamaica I only found one guy who had heard of him (for being the home of reggae, most locals only seem to know Bob Marley), anyway, he was a shop keeper, and as I was talking to him, he held his hand up to his face like he was holding a mic, and started mimmicking Eek-A-Mouses weird noises. It was a rad moment, very funny. At least to me. Some really great reggae tracks on here, Police In Helicopter & Wa-do-dem being some of the stand out tracks, but the best one on here, is world wide weed smokers anthem 'Ganja Smuggling' which could very well be one of the most awesome reggae songs ever, there's even a live version on here - I'm not usually a fan of live songs on albums, but I'll make a exception on this occassion, it really is that awesome... Believe.

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Dave Heroes says: Wa -oi, wa-oi, dum-dum-diddy dum dum. B-oing. The man has a way with words...

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