Track Listing

1. Big Six
2. One Armed Bandit
3. Big Seven
4. All in the Mind
5. Deception
6. Mary Ann
7. Ding a Ling
8. Biggest Bean You've Ever Seen
9. Blue Cross Code
10. Dread's Almanack
11. Big Eight
12. Oh She's a Big Girl Now
13. Big One
14. Molly
15. Dr Kitch
16. Big Nine
17. Nine and a Bit Skank
18. Dance of the Snods
19. Take Off Your Clothes
20. Belle of Snodland Town
21. Big Five
22. Dread's Law
23. What Kung Fu Dat
24. Je T'Aime (Moi Non Plus)
25. Look a Pussy

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #68699 in Music
• Released on: 2003-10-07
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: Original recording remastered, Import
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Dreadfully rude reggae
Judge Dread regularly visited the UK singles charts from 1972 to 1978 without any airplay. These songs are not for the politically correct, however, since Dread's lyrics were intended to offend and most of these songs were banned by the BBC.

That only served to propel them into the Top 20, starting with Big Six. The Judge's art consisted in taking nursery rhymes, adapting the words to the downright rude and backing these with foot-tapping riddims and hummable tunes.

My favorite is Je T'aime, a side-splitting cover of Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg's famous erotic hit, but the Judge gives it a hilarious twist as the mood shifts from the sensual to the shocked after a certain discovery is made.

Judge Dread had more UK reggae hits than any other artist, had the highest number of songs banned by the BBC and was the first white singer to have a reggae hit in Jamaica.

Unfortunate omissions here are Come Outside (a hilarious dialogue between him and a girlfriend), Y Viva Suspenders, a lovely parody of the 1970s European holiday hit Y Viva Espana, and his last hit Hokey Cokey/Jingle Bells.