Rolling Stone lists The Harder They Come (soundtrack) - which introduced roots reggae, ska, and rocksteady to a global audience - among the most influential albums of all times. How did the album influence YOU? 1⃣❤️ Before the soundtrack for The Harder They Come, reggaes success in America was limited to the occasional fluke 45 (e.g., Desmond Dekkers The Israelites) and appropriative novelties like the Beatles Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da. While the songs on it may have been new to an American audience, some of them had been around for as long as five years — an eternity when it comes to pop music. In turn, the soundtrack served not so much as a venue for a hot new sound, but a diplomatic introduction to something that had been percolating for years. Jimmy [Cliff] was always supposed to choose the music for the soundtrack, and we were coming up to the deadline, director Perry Henzel once told an interviewer. When Henzell asked Cliff to get on it, Cliff said no, at which point Henzell got into bed with a notepad and started running the film back and forth in his head, writing down song titles. Its the best weekends work Ive ever done, he said. rollingstone/most-groundbreaking-albums-of-all-time
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