Pressure Drop (song)
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| "Pressure Drop" | |||||
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| Single by Toots & the Maytals from the album Monkey Man | |||||
| B-side | "Smoke Screen" (by Beverley All Stars) | ||||
| Released | 1970 | ||||
| Format | 7" single | ||||
| Recorded | 1970 | ||||
| Genre | Reggae | ||||
| Label | Beverly's, Trojan | ||||
| Writer | Toots Hibbert | ||||
| Producer | Leslie Kong | ||||
| Toots & the Maytals singles chronology | |||||
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"Pressure Drop" is the name of a song, recorded by the Maytals in 1969 for producer Leslie Kong, and released on Beverly's Records in Jamaica, and Trojan Records in the UK. The song features on their 1970 albums Monkey Man, released in Jamaica by Beverley's Records, and From the Roots released in the UK by Trojan Records.
"Pressure Drop," helped launch the Maytals career outside Jamaica, when the song was included on the The Harder They Come film soundtrack, which introduced reggae to much of the world.[1]
In 2004, Rolling Stone rated the song as #446 in its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[2]
[edit] Cover versions
The first cover showed up by Robert Palmer on his second solo album, the aptly titled Pressure Drop released in 1975.
The song was next covered by The Clash. They included the song as the b-side to their 1979 "English Civil War" single, and can also be found on their compilation albums Black Market Clash, released in 1980, the 1994 Super Black Market Clash,[3] and the 2006 Singles Box. The Clash's version of "Pressure Drop" is also featured in the Nissan Rogue commercials. Izzy Stradlin covered the song on his solo album Izzy Stradlin & the Ju Ju Hounds.
The Specials do a cover of the song that is featured in the film Grosse Pointe Blank.
Keith Richards recently released an itunes album consisting of Pressure Drop, and Run Rudolph Run
[edit] References
- ^ Pressure Drop: Rolling Stone.
- ^ The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. RollingStone (2004-12-09). Retrieved on 2007-11-22. “Pressure Drop, Toots and the Maytals.”
- ^ The Clash - Super Black Market Clash. Punknews.org.
