Victims (album)
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Victims is a reggae
album released by Steel Pulse
in June 1991. It is Steel Pulse's eighth studio album. This album continues the crossover trend that Steel Pulse followed in the late 80's. The hit single from the album "Taxi Driver" prompted the band members to file a lawsuit against the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission for discrimination.
The album rose to the #6 spot on the Billboard
Top World Music Albums chart and was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Reggae Album
category.
Reggae
Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...
album released by Steel Pulse
Steel Pulse
Steel Pulse is a roots reggae musical band. They originally formed at Handsworth Wood Boys School, in Birmingham, England, composed of David Hinds , Basil Gabbidon , and Ronald McQueen .-History:...
in June 1991. It is Steel Pulse's eighth studio album. This album continues the crossover trend that Steel Pulse followed in the late 80's. The hit single from the album "Taxi Driver" prompted the band members to file a lawsuit against the New York City Taxi & Limousine Commission for discrimination.
The album rose to the #6 spot on the Billboard
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard is a weekly American magazine devoted to the music industry, and is one of the oldest trade magazines in the world. It maintains several internationally recognized music charts that track the most popular songs and albums in various categories on a weekly basis...
Top World Music Albums chart and was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Reggae Album
Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album
The Grammy Award for Best Reggae Album is an award presented at the Grammy Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1958 and originally called the Gramophone Awards, to recording artists for quality works in the reggae music genre...
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Track listing
- "Taxi Driver" – 3:40
- "Can't Get You (Out of My System)" – 4:06
- "Soul of My Soul" – 4:20
- "Grab a Girlfriend" – 4:07
- "Feel the Passion" – 4:12
- "Money" – 4:13
- "Victims" – 4:04
- "Gang Warfare" – 4:43
- "To Tutu" – 1:35
- "Free the Land" – 3:38
- "We Can Do It" – 4:01
- "Stay With the Rhythm" – 3:39
- "Evermore" - 3:28
- "Dudes" - 3:15