War Ina Babylon

Infobox Album | Name = War Ina Babylon
Type = Album
Artist = Max Romeo
Released = 1976
Recorded = Black Ark Studio
Genre = Reggae
Length = 38:40
Label = Island
Producer = Lee 'Scratch' Perry, Max Romeo
Reviews =
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This album = "War Ina Babylon"
(1976)
Next album = "Open The Iron Gate"
(1978)

"War Ina Babylon" is an album by Max Romeo and Lee Perry's backing band The Upsetters, released in 1976. Along with The Heptones' "Party Time" and Junior Murvin's "Police and Thieves", this album can be seen as part of a Black Ark Lee "Scratch" Perry produced "holy trinity".Fact|date=January 2008 Highlights include the moving "One Step Forward", "War Ina Babylon", the militant "Chase The Devil", and the "film noir" reggae of "Norman".

Track listing

All tracks composed by Max Romeo and Lee "Scratch" Perry; except where indicated

Original LP:

#"One Step Forward"
#"Uptown Babies Don't Cry" (Romeo)
#"I Chase the Devil"
#"War Ina Babylon"
#"Norman"
#"Stealing in The Name of Jah" (Romeo)
#"Tan and See" (Romeo, Perry, L. Brown)
#"Smokey Room" (Romeo, Perry, L. Brown)
#"Smile Out A Style"

Alt. title : It Sipple Out Deh CD:

#"One Step Forward"
#"Uptown Babies"
#"Chase The Devil"
#"War In A Babylon"
#"Norman The Gambler"
#"Stealing Stealing"
#"Tan and See"
#"Smokeyroom"
#"Smile Out Of Style"
#"Fire Fe The Vatican"

Personnel

*Male harmony vocals - Barry Llewellyn, Earl Morgan
*Female harmony vocals - Cynthia Scholas, Marcia Griffiths

Later Samples

*"I Chase the Devil"
**"Lucifer" by Jay-Z from the album "The Black Album"

References

* [http://www.upsetter.net/scratch/disco/albums/war_ina_babylon.htm War Ina Babylon - Max Romeo]