TRACKLIST
SIDE A
Ah It Mek
Too Much Too Soon
Coconut Water
Sweet Music
My Lonely World
Rude Boy Train
SIDE B
Poor Me Israelites
It Is Not Easy
Intensified
Nincompoop
Tips Of My Fingers
Wiseman
DESCRIPTION
- Original 1968 Beverley's Records album
- For the first time reissued on vinyl
- Newly restored & remastered
- Pressed on 140-gram black vinyl
- Comes in a reverse-board outer sleeve
- With printed inner sleeve featuring exclusive sleeve notes by music journalist and reggae authority John Masouri
A wonderful set of rocksteady and early reggae bouncing off the irrepressible reggae rhythms and bounding harmonies of Desmond Dekker and the Aces.
The follow-up to their Action! predecessor, Intensified features the major hits ‘Poor Me Israelites’ and ‘Ah It Mek’ which topped the UK & US charts in the late 60s & early/mid 70s.
Also featured on the album is the punchy ‘Sweet Music’, a celebration of those knock-out vocal harmonies, where Dekker is at his best. With the great ‘Rude Boy Train’, Dekker was a precursor to the ‘rude boy’ phenomenon, which has since become a mainstay in reggae songs.