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Couple more in the roots selection. Used to have both of these but they've evaporated over the years 52. Slyford Walker - Jah Golden Pen 53. Big Youth - I Pray Thee Damn. Talk about dread. Amazed that someone basically reading a curse on all of civilization from the Old Testament was once...

YOU DOUBTED YOUNG VERSION?

50 has to be a big one, right? I nearly went with Can U Feel It, but decided on this instead. 50. Aswad - Warrior Charge I'm really picking this 'cos the film was so important to me and my friends - this is the dubplate in the film that virtually has a role of its own. Absolutely iconic...

A weird 10, or 5, is a good shout. Probably towards the end, I'll put in some private press stuff. Have a few more little tangents to explore first though.

Absolute fire. Sold my copy when times were tight and have since been trying to buy it back.

Talking of Sugarhill, here's a couple of left field early rap things that I experienced on what was I guess their first round of rediscovery. 48. Catch the Beat - T Ski Valley Over what I think is Tania Gardener's Heartbeat (though a bit sped up perhaps?), one of the old school disco MCs. 49...

A small sally into the unlistenable (actually not at all, these tunes bang) would be my interest in On-U Sound which tends to piss off reggae purists. But I found the combination of reggae vocalists, absolutely fucked productions and heavyweight bass very compelling. It's the model for what...

So what do people think? Keep with the classic London pirate selection or follow my own timeline, where it may get weird and unlistenable? Maybe I should do a poll?

44. Archie Bell & the Drells - Don't Let Love Get You Down Just another monster that we used to rinse non-stop.

43. Vocies of East Harlem - Right On Be Free. Just ridiculous. Hard funk, gospel vocals, black liberation.

Just gonna drop in a couple of randoms to keep things moving. I'm sparing people thus far the degeneration in tastes when I started to listen to white people music in the late 90s. 40. Pleasure - Joyous. Breakbeat classic. It sounds like its title 41. Leroy Hutson - Get to this Leroy Hutson...

39. Boogie Boys - Breakdancer Going out of chronology here but thinking of Coldcut I think reminded me of this. Still one of the all time heavyweight electro productions. I like that this has no rap, and let's the production speak. Other cavernous electro tunes would be Craig G- Shout, and of...

38. I see Chano Pozo - Jayne Cortez & the Firespitters Here's a selection from them, I remember seeing it in Jonathon Moore chart years before I heard it (when you couldn't just look everything up straight away). Amazing tune. Chano Pozo was a Cuban drummer and Santeria devotee who played with...

Amazed that that Brooklyn Express tune only has one like, it's the best tune in this thread. 37. Coldcut - Beats & Pieces This is acting as a kind of stand-in. On one level, it's literally the sound of the last 30 years of music being cut up and remodelled, on the other it's a British answer...

Craner likes to hold the board in disdain. He's not angry, he's just very disappointed.

Okay, going to try and (perhaps) close out this section with the following. It seems a good example of both killer tunes and the weird way you learn about and hear music via the play of rediscovery, club revivals etc. 35. Eddie Kendricks - Girl You Need A Change of Mind : I actually heard...

I will shift on from this era at some point but I keep remembering too many fantastic tunes. Got to give an honorable mention to Roy Ayers, one of the artists I saw live most at the time. Again, he suffers from overplayed to me but he has a huge catalogue so...this is one I would still jam...

33. Side Effect - Always There Can't remember if I ever heard this out. I'd started going out at this time and venturing "up West" to places like The Wag and Dance Wicked but irregularly and I was still pretty unsure of myself. When clubs had an air of "cool" before the open doors mania that...

Oh nah, we would've been too young. Doesn't surprise me though, I've heard that Paul Murphy used to kill it.

32. Sabu Martinez - Meapestaculo I like this 'cos it sounds like a plane taking off and finishes with an enormous crashing goig