Dance Hall Style
The 1982 Wackies album regarded as groundbreaking and now a classic.
Horace Andy, 1982
- Released
- 1982
- Studio
- Bullwackie's studio, White Plains Road, the Bronx
- Label
- Wackies
Dance Hall Style came out on Lloyd Barnes's Bullwackie's label, catalogued as Wackie's W 1383 and in another edition as Exclusively on Solid Groove. It is regarded as groundbreaking, Andy is considered a key figure in the early development of dancehall, and it and the other Wackies albums of the period are now considered classics.
It holds Money Money, Cuss Cuss and Spying Glass. The 1996 Melankolic compilation credits Barnes as producer of Spying Glass and notes that the song was recorded in 1981. Massive Attack later covered it.
Track listing
- Money Money
- Lonely Woman
- Cuss Cuss
- Stop the Fuss
- Spying Glass
- Let's Live in Love
- Eating Mess
Personnel
- Horace Andy vocals
- Lloyd "Bullwackie" Barnes producer, Spying Glass
More from Horace Andy
Skylarking (1972), In the Light (1977), Skylarking (1996), Living in the Flood (1999), Midnight Rocker (2022)
Sources
- Dance Hall Style (master release), Discogs
- Horace Andy, Wikipedia
- Horace Andy: Dance Hall Style, Music Mania Records
- Skylarking (Melankolic CDSAD 1), Discogs