''The Slackers and Friends'' is an album by the ska/reggae band

The Slackers The Slackers are an American ska band, formed in Manhattan, New York in 1991. The band's sound is a mix of ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, soul, garage rock, and jazz. The Slackers' notability is credited to their prolific career, tours of Nort ...

. It saw limited release in November 2002, and was later re-released with two additional tracks on January 27, 2004. The album consists of collaborations with various figures from the

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and

reggae Reggae () is a music genre that originated in Jamaica during the late 1960s. The term also denotes the modern popular music of Jamaica and its Jamaican diaspora, diaspora. A 1968 single by Toots and the Maytals, "Do the Reggay", was the first ...

scenes, including Cornell Campbell, Glen Adams of

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, Ari Up of the Slits, Doreen Schaefer of the Skatalites, and acoustic ska artist Chris Murray.Moskowitz, David V. (2006) 'Caribbean Popular Music'', Greenwood Press, , p. 160''The Beat'', Volume 22, Issues 2-5 (2003), p. 20 The original edition of the album also featured an eight-minute-long

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(a remix of the album's other songs) by DJ Cris the Reducer. On the re-release, this was replaced by two additional tracks written and recorded by Susan Cadogan. Several of the songs are remixes of previously recorded Slackers songs, while others are unique to this album.

Track listing

# "Come Come" (featuring Cornell Campbell) – 3:25 # "Mash Down Babylon" (featuring The Congos) – 4:09 # "The Party" (featuring Doreen Schaeffer) – 3:41 # "Schooling the Youth" (featuring Glen Adams with John Fx) – 5:12 # "Matey Exterminator" (featuring Ari Up) – 6:23 # "Running from Safety" (featuring Chris Murray) – 2:47 # "Two-Faced Man" (features Ranking Joe with Cornell Campbell) – 4:05 # "Grabalicious Man" (featuring The Congos) – 3:06 # "Thinking of You" (featuring Doreen Schaefer) – 3:45 # "I Am a Rasta Man" (featuring Chris Murray) – 2:14 # "The Power and the Glory" (featuring The Congos) – 7:07 # "You Turn Me On" (featuring Susan Cadogan) – 3:59 (re-release only) # "Since I Found You" (featuring Susan Cadogan) – 3:28 (re-release only)

References

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