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██ artist....: Athea Donna ██
██ album.....: Uptown Top Ranking ██
██ label.....: Caroline 10325 ██
██ genre.....: Reggae ██
██ type......: Reissue ██
██ album year: 2001 ██
██ rip date..: Jan-17-2006 ██
██ streetdate: 000-00-0000 ██
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██ tracks....: 10 ██
██ size......: 53,3 MB ██
██ language..: English ██
██ bitrate...: VBR Kbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo ██
██ source....: CDDA ██
██ ripper/sup: UTB /UTB ██
██ grabb/enco: CEP /Lame ██
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██ url.......: n/a ██
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██ Theirs is a legendary story of how two teenagers enamored ██
██ with Trinity's hit "Three Piece Suit" wrote a reply,"Uptown ██
██ Town Ranking," cut it for Joe Gibbs, and scored a number one ██
██ in both Jamaica and Britain. That feat brought Althea ██
██ Forrest and Donna Reid a record contract with Front Line, ██
██ which resulted in this, their sole album. Uptown Top Ranking ██
██ was superbly produced by Karl Pitterson, and boasts the ██
██ heavy rhythms of the Revolutionaries. The music is a wonder ██
██ to behold, driven by the Riddim Twins' fat rhythms and ██
██ accompanied by Scully's inspired percussion. The heavenly ██
██ horn section of Tommy McCook, Vin Gordon, and Herman Marquis ██
██ punctuates the tracks, while keyboardist Bernard Harvey ██
██ burbles in the background and guitarist Earl "Chinna" Smith ██
██ riffs away. All told, the group makes Uptown top ranking ██
██ indeed, fabulous roots reggae that swings from deeply moody ██
██ to brightly upbeat. So, why was this album an abysmal ██
██ failure? Simply put, because Althea & Donna were under the ██
██ mistaken impression that they were now cultural artists ██
██ instead of pop stars. And while the pair sings with ██
██ heartfelt passion, their lyrics are rife with clichΘs and ██
██ mind-numbing banalities; the immaturity of their writing is ██
██ now laid bare. As is their singing. Although both girls had ██
██ pretty enough voices, what they lacked was experience and ██
██ training. This wasn't a problem on the single, a jubilant ██
██ number whose brash lyrics laid waste to all other ██
██ considerations. Across a full album, the flaws become ██
██ obvious ù there's no real harmonies to speak of, and neither ██
██ girl is able to come up with a suitably strong melody of ██
██ their own. Compared to other albums of the era, Uptown Top ██
██ Ranking was anything but top ranking. Today, however, ██
██ militant themes and thoughtful lyrics are no longer ██
██ required, and thus Althea & Donna may be due for a comeback. ██
██ Certainly the Revolutionaries' excellent work here deserves ██
██ the recognition it never received at the time. ██
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██ If you enjoyed this REC, BUY IT! otherwise delete it please ██
██ because the Artist deserves your support! ██
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██ 01.no more fighting 03:38 ██
██ 02.jah rastafari 03:46 ██
██ 03.make a truce 04:00 ██
██ 04.oh dread 02:39 ██
██ 05.uptown top ranking 03:49 ██
██ 06.the west 03:51 ██
██ 07.jah music 03:56 ██
██ 08.if you don't love jah 02:58 ██
██ 09.sorry 03:58 ██
██ 10.they wanna just 02:50 ██
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██ - Talented Music Rippers (allyear, allgenre, promo, vinyl ██
██ and radio livesets) ██
██ - prefered 100Mbits affiliated sites (NO! 10mbit bbb!!) ██
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██ * We are currently looking for: ██
██ - A Dump site ██
██ - iRC BNC Supplier ██
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██ And if you think that U can help us to make a better group ██
██ don't hesitate, contact us! I hope you know how do that =) ██
██ since we are a closed group so... ██
██ - we DON'T have any contact detail here ██
██ - we DON'T have a public irc channel ██
██ - we DON'T offer releases ██
██ - we DON'T have a web page (try http://www.utb.de) ██
██ - we ARE UNTOUCHABLE... ██
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██ More One Year is over, and we are proud of our 2700+ rels we did. ██
██ We have grown to a big group with many nice ██
██ members, and we see us as part of the scene now. We never thought ██
██ it would be like this, but we managed it! Thx fly out to those ██
██ who helped us in the one or other way. Especially the siteops ██
██ who host us and all our friends from other groups who trust us ██
██ and belive in us, thank u very much. ██
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██ Check out UTBDVD for latest music DVDr releases. Our new section ██
██ founded after our B-day. Just for fun, we dont have DVD-only ██
██ ripper! But searching for nice DVDr only sites to affil! ██
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██ Greetz fly out to: ██
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██ to all ppl and groups ██
██ that support the scene and us ██
██ but a special greet to ku (he knows why... :) ██
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