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| | big youth, natty universal dread 1973-79 |
 | | Youth took the popular dancehall style’s mix of US radio-derived jive talk, outrageous hiccups and yelps, and gratuitous boasting, and gave it substance in the shape of Rastafarian sloganeering and psalm-like pleas for peace and love. |
 | | As Steve Barrow’s excellent sleevenotes to this three-disc box set point out, Youth coined and popularised the term “natty dread” while Bob Marley was still doing stuff about being a soul rebel. |
 | | The man’s revolutionary blend of rasta chant, fl-power politics, nursery rhyme and spooked yelp is magical enough, but his self-produced backings of bass-heavy exuberance and brassy, stalking depth seal the deal. |
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