Sunday, November 8, 2009

The Harder They Come


So this is older, and I suppose most "cool" people already know about this one, but I never knew about it until recently and have been loving virtually every track on it. Apparently this film came out called "The Harder They Come" and nobody cared, but then it got resurrected as a cult film kinda like The Room but with more gangsters and less football throwing and the soundtrack got really popular and then like all of America was banging reggae tunes out of their hi-fis, pretty much.

Jimmy Cliff, who played the primary character in the film, also did most of the soundtrack, and every single tune he did on here is golden. Here's a sampler, a song that Paul Simon or Bono or someone called "The Best Protest Song Ever Written...Period". I don't know about that, but it's pretty groovy:

Jimmy Cliff- Viet Nam.mp3

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