Good Life: It is amazing how young these guys were to produce such classic as Warrior Charge and nuff more. Bands such as Aswad, Misty in Roots, Steel Pulse, Black Slate and many others paved the way forward for other UK reggae artists and many others further afield.
First Class. I am a life-long Aswad fan. They were 30 Years ahead of the crowd. I have CD's not vinyl, Really takes me down memory lane. I remember when these tunes used to lick out of large, home made Bass Speakers in the "Dance". A time when Love and Music walked hand in hand. Going out to a party was fun and not a risk to your life and person. Precious memories. Thank you so much for posting.
I used to practice drumming to this in 1982 age 4 in England.. ten years later in Australia, my father and I formed a 10-piece band & played this as our opener song!! #LifeIsGreat
Like others I discovered this song through the film Babylon. I can't get over the beat on this track. It's so propulsive and the drum sounds they've got are incredibly deep and punchy. The groove is so locked in I can't help dancing to it.
This was the time when the British Afro Caribbeans were giving it back to Jamaica and the world. When Black British and Working Class got on , which pushed tunes like this and others to the Mean stream despite the establishment refusing to play our music on mainstream radio, until the record sales forced them to.
@@FHIPrincePeter like I said we never called ourselves afro Caribbeans dummy!!!!, we called ourselves West Indians.... And how can you give back something that you already are???? Now you have learned something. Don't come for me unless you want to look like a fool. And learn to speak grammatical English you ingrate.
RIEP D;rummie Zeb... I don't think you got your true respect when you were alive; in fact Aswad never got their flowers... UB40 did, but we know why... Drummie Zeb, rest up in Zion, where you'll be beating those drums. You will be missed as one of the true pioneers of the Black British reggae scene. Ase!😪
Meanwhile Gardens ,Notting Hill Carnival ,79 maybe 80...sun going down ,they came on and played this. Early Aswad and Steel Pulse ,British reggae at its finest.
Aswad dropped this tune at a festival in Brixton back in the last century, the po lice.. Tried to shut the sound.... Nah contest, too many people bubbling and enjoy life, love and Unity 💥❤️💛💚
Never stop playing this pure 🔥🔥🔥🔥 80s reggae finest never been a sound like it still soundz fresh today big big tune put England 🇬🇧 on the map strictly rockers my time good times 😊
This tune is a legendary tune!!!! I have to rewind & rewind cuz there's few tunes, even today that outmatch the musical vibration & skills involved in making it. Long Live music that raises the vibration & sets the spirit free ♥️🎶🦋
First record I ever bought as a teen. Brings me back to my youth club days, becoming more conscious & cultural. Use to borrow one of mums woolly hats & bounce to youth club.with a hanky in my back pocket.
I have toasted many a tweeter and bass speaker with this tune. All in the cause of playing this as loud as can be tolerated by human ears. Big up to the West Ealing Massive who endured my never ending reggae blasts in the late 70's, early 80's. David Rodigan was my hero. Listen carefully to the drums on this track. Brilliance.
Thanks for posting this soundboard of Aswad Warrior Charge. I saw Aswad Several times in the Late 1970S-80S. The best times were at the Brixton Academy 82 and the Notting Hill Carnival 83 Which Aswad played Warrior Charge. Nice One Respect from South London.
I had the great pleasure of meeting drummie and brinsley ford coming out of mc Donalds in corby town centre over 30 years ago, they were playing at the civic hall, REST IN ETERNAL PEACE BROTHER 🙏🏽🕊🇯🇲🤜🏽🤛🏼
I used to go Rollerskating at Jubilee Gardens in the 80's and the skated up to Oxford street with my JVC RCM70 on my shoulder strap blasting the hell out of this.Great days.
From Aswad a killer chune from dem time till now still a killer chune gwan……Angus Gaye's drumming of the planet horns section ah blaze fire da chune ya is a mus.
RIP. My condolences to his family and to the Band members. I lived and worked in Hammersmith, up the road from Ladbroke Grove and ran into Drummie a few times. As a fan of Aswad ( and a budding drummer myself at the time ) , we spoke about the intricacies of 'stretching ' Reggae drumming and it was pleasing to hear what this guy did with it. I am shocked to learn of his passing on and have to go buss some of his music in his honour.
Classic legendary riddems. Dubz is serious.. its a headphone timg wid couple rolled enjoying the vybz. Nostalgia. Big up yourself for the upload.😤💨💨💯👏🏾👏🏾👊🏿♥️💛💚
One of the best clash tunes ever created, so many white label versions to this song is unavailable. You never play this song at the start but always in the middle, but i always babylon straight afterwards,lol, only tune to answer the greatest clash tune of course is kunta kinta .
Went to see Aswad a couple of times early doors, they played a club in Gorton Manchester, only about 100 pplthere That brass section is what got me through the door fkin epic
A new chapter of dub was my first vinyl I took from my fathers collection, purely the art I saw it looked like the most militant thing I've seen in my eyes, truly empowering to all those who have let jah light shine through! Jah live!!!
I went to the ROOTS DAY at Brockwell Park in Brixton on Sunday, 11th June 2023 and they dropped this track! The crowd R-O-A-R-E-D! They had to wheel and come again! 😂. I screamed out, “DROP THE BASS SELECTOR!! 😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣
Haha I was a st Gerards school boy when it was there... our arch enemies if course was H.Thornton, if both entire schools population clashed it would have been 1000 pupils against 400 pupils lol St Gerards wasnt big. Hspoy memories One Love 🙏❤
Around 1985-87, someone used sample for a U.K Hip Hop record that I am unable to track down or find. John Peel played it on his late night show in the 80's.
Thank You so much! That U.KHip Hop record was really special to me growing up as an 15 year old and is an absolute banger! It's an absolute classic is probably why I still listen to Old Skool Hip Hop today!
That film has finally received a theatrical release in the U.S. as of this writing (March 2019). Aswad's signer, Brinsley Forde, plays the lead. Saw it twice this week. Very powerful film - script, acting, music and cinematography all come together in this one. A must see for reggae fans (or just any cinephile).
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Four Hundred years of slavery, lies and oppression for Blacks of All nations... Some music just speaks for itself... 🦅
RIP Drummie Zeb. Amazing to think he was only 19 or 20 when recording this, Aswad's greatest musical statement.
Like father like Son. Big Respect Drummie.🙏🏽❤️
This record! 🤴🏾🖤
This is just tribal and beautiful I love it 🎉❤🎨🎭
@@markyrwd9692 look ok❤
Good Life: It is amazing how young these guys were to produce such classic as Warrior Charge and nuff more.
Bands such as Aswad, Misty in Roots, Steel Pulse, Black Slate and many others paved the way forward for other UK reggae artists and many others further afield.
The day my FATHER told me his dads dads was born inna SLAVERY I haven’t stopped cry fe de Yout ☝️😎🔥🇯🇲🏴🏴☠️🦅
First Class. I am a life-long Aswad fan. They were 30 Years ahead of the crowd. I have CD's not vinyl, Really takes me down memory lane. I remember when these tunes used to lick out of large, home made Bass Speakers in the "Dance". A time when Love and Music walked hand in hand. Going out to a party was fun and not a risk to your life and person. Precious memories. Thank you so much for posting.
Same with have the CD EP Version 5 versions which I got in 1994 ish 30 mins or so of pure class kept it on Repeat Blasting out a few nights 😂
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This tune gets to me differently. One of the best riddims ever made!
RIEP Drummie Zeb. Condolences to his family, friends and Aswad, one of the most influential Black British Reggae bands in this country 🙏🏾💜🙏🏾💜🙏🏾
I used to practice drumming to this in 1982 age 4 in England.. ten years later in Australia, my father and I formed a 10-piece band & played this as our opener song!! #LifeIsGreat
where in ozz you at king ..
What a full on blakness energy this was I'm blessed 2 have been around that time in da dance👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
One good thing about music when it hit you feel no pain...
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Unless you’re stuck under a bus
Like others I discovered this song through the film Babylon. I can't get over the beat on this track. It's so propulsive and the drum sounds they've got are incredibly deep and punchy. The groove is so locked in I can't help dancing to it.
Rest in Peace Drummie. Will never forget running into you by accident while on break at my job back in 2015 whole you guys were passing through.
This was the time when the British Afro Caribbeans were giving it back to Jamaica and the world. When Black British and Working Class got on , which pushed tunes like this and others to the Mean stream despite the establishment refusing to play our music on mainstream radio, until the record sales forced them to.
Afro is a hair style
@@J3nJ3n13 You'll learn, eventually.
@@FHIPrincePeter like I said we never called ourselves afro Caribbeans dummy!!!!, we called ourselves West Indians.... And how can you give back something that you already are???? Now you have learned something. Don't come for me unless you want to look like a fool. And learn to speak grammatical English you ingrate.
Well said 'Old Chap- well said.
Here here I say.
could those days ever come back? i mean the unity?
Boom tune from back in the days. Classic by Aswad. Warrior Charge is timeless. Get up and move your body. 😊🎸🥁🎺🕺🏾💃🏽
I was given this by my late father pre-release on a 'Not for Sale' label, as he worked with Chris Blackwell at Island Records in Shepherds Bush 👊🏾
My dad was still a punk rocker when this came out, and these great reggae tunes were the Clash fan's chill out records of choice.
Try Ghetto Defendant in dub bro,by the mighty Clash real good trust me!!😊
Right on, dad. ✊️
Big shout out to all Windrush generation.
One of the best reggae tracks ever
The first I heard this powerful instrumental tune was in the film Babylon, of course I had to go and buy it. Aswad at there distinguished very best.
That’s a fact
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Babylon what a film. What a sound track. And most of all the cast. Big respect to all one love always.
Remember when Babylon came out...wicked!
Idris Elba just listed this as one of his all time favorite tracks. Maybe some youth will recognize.
Thats what brought me here!
Played on the soundtrack of the movie 'Babylon' - starring a member of Aswad
Lion!
Before Idris Elba I was playing this on 12 vinyl, big all the the Brixton boys
Yay what
RIEP D;rummie Zeb... I don't think you got your true respect when you were alive; in fact Aswad never got their flowers... UB40 did, but we know why... Drummie Zeb, rest up in Zion, where you'll be beating those drums. You will be missed as one of the true pioneers of the Black British reggae scene. Ase!😪
Meanwhile Gardens ,Notting Hill Carnival ,79 maybe 80...sun going down ,they came on and played this.
Early Aswad and Steel Pulse ,British reggae at its finest.
zipthelite
I remember it well and was there in person. Pure music genius. Classic Aswad, never gets old.
Me dig steel pulse
Me dig steel pulse
And misty in roots, as you say early Aswad like their bubbling/to the top album, steel pulse I really like and early Ub40 too, like signing off etc.
Aswad dropped this tune at a festival in Brixton back in the last century, the po lice.. Tried to shut the sound.... Nah contest, too many people bubbling and enjoy life, love and Unity 💥❤️💛💚
I was at that festival Brockwell Park July Brixton July 1980. The Police ie the old bill went over the Top???. Nice one.
Me and my sister was listening to this song vibing... My 5year old nephew said aunty pull it up.Big tune
Never stop playing this pure 🔥🔥🔥🔥 80s reggae finest never been a sound like it still soundz fresh today big big tune put England 🇬🇧 on the map strictly rockers my time good times 😊
This tune is a legendary tune!!!!
I have to rewind & rewind cuz there's few tunes, even today that outmatch the musical vibration & skills involved in making it. Long Live music that raises the vibration & sets the spirit free ♥️🎶🦋
First record I ever bought as a teen. Brings me back to my youth club days, becoming more conscious & cultural. Use to borrow one of mums woolly hats & bounce to youth club.with a hanky in my back pocket.
Same here. First reggae I bought with my own Money. Precious in every way
Aswad in concert many moons ago. This live is like nothing else! I was transported to space! Loved it!
Ditto! Saw them many times & one of the best live bands ever
Ditto! Saw them many times & one of the best live bands ever
Lucky!! Bet it was spectacular! This song and band just transports you to another time and place..👌
Hola desde México cyti
I have toasted many a tweeter and bass speaker with this tune. All in the cause of playing this as loud as can be tolerated by human ears. Big up to the West Ealing Massive who endured my never ending reggae blasts in the late 70's, early 80's. David Rodigan was my hero. Listen carefully to the drums on this track. Brilliance.
This is when Aswad was hard & fire 🔥 rip drummie zeb xxxx💔💔💔🖤❤️💛💚🖤🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Timeless piece of dub. 🔥
Thanks for posting this soundboard of Aswad Warrior Charge. I saw Aswad Several times in the Late 1970S-80S. The best times were at the Brixton Academy 82 and the Notting Hill Carnival 83 Which Aswad played Warrior Charge. Nice One Respect from South London.
‘82 at the Academy 👍👍👍 Wish I had seen them more, but that goes for plenty back then!
blinding to your head to your toes awesome no words to say how gorgeous this isxx
I had the great pleasure of meeting drummie and brinsley ford coming out of mc Donalds in corby town centre over 30 years ago, they were playing at the civic hall, REST IN ETERNAL PEACE BROTHER 🙏🏽🕊🇯🇲🤜🏽🤛🏼
Still have my 12” original vinyl of this and gets played regularly just to here that bass drop.
I used to go Rollerskating at Jubilee Gardens in the 80's and the skated up to Oxford street with my JVC RCM70 on my shoulder strap blasting the hell out of this.Great days.
amazing
My sister wiv her deeply bop✌️❤️🤪
From Aswad a killer chune from dem time till now still a killer chune gwan……Angus Gaye's drumming of the planet horns section ah blaze fire da chune ya is a mus.
Those horns evoke such a sublime image in my mind, one of His Majesty sitting on Mount Zion...
"Singers & Players of instrument mus be there!!!" You are spot on iyah!! Raspect
Loved dancing to this back in the day! Cerys Matthew's played Rockers Medley today on her fab Sunday show , as part of a nod to Carnival.
RIP. My condolences to his family and to the Band members. I lived and worked in Hammersmith, up the road from Ladbroke Grove and ran into Drummie a few times. As a fan of Aswad ( and a budding drummer myself at the time ) , we spoke about the intricacies of 'stretching ' Reggae drumming and it was pleasing to hear what this guy did with it. I am shocked to learn of his passing on and have to go buss some of his music in his honour.
Aswad Horn Section to the max!!!
Pure rhythm. Long live Aswad ❤
Love Assad encore a long long Times
He s never disapoint me
Jah the first one
Habile sellasial
militant roots reggae like no other. somehow succeeds in sounding positive, obnoxious, celebratory and scary, all at the same time.
Remember this well back in 79 my mate was an extra in the film- bad tune
Big tune this takes you on a journey
@creative mind 💯🔥🎵❤👍🏾
When Aswad were a reggae band.
yeah...I really wished they taken their own advice and *_"Don't Turn Around"_*
Classic legendary riddems. Dubz is serious.. its a headphone timg wid couple rolled enjoying the vybz. Nostalgia. Big up yourself for the upload.😤💨💨💯👏🏾👏🏾👊🏿♥️💛💚
Saw them live Wednesday dem still good
One of the best clash tunes ever created, so many white label versions to this song is unavailable. You never play this song at the start but always in the middle, but i always babylon straight afterwards,lol, only tune to answer the greatest clash tune of course is kunta kinta .
Both them tunes are earthquakes 🔥🔥
Powerful vibe ❤👍🏾🔥💯🎵
Aswad dub charge is a great tune
Makes the people want to dance
When ever it,s plade
Babylon 1980
Just looking at the movie and remembered the song hahaha
The daz wi blaze up da place wid blknezzz👊🏾👊🏾👊🏾
This the best tack that ever catch the I… track on fire 🔥💃💃💃💃💃💃🔥🔥🔥This the top track for the I 💯🔥🔥🔥💃🔥🔥🔥🔥🙏
Quand tu écoutes bien ce son, il se passe quelque-chose en toi 👍👍aswad
This reminds me of everyone on the reggae scene wearing Gabicci.
Kat Pursoo ......and Farrahs 😂
Ahhhhh...crocs by Balley, cashmere overcoat, Rover 2000
When Aswad were good.
Went to see Aswad a couple of times early doors, they played a club in Gorton Manchester, only about 100 pplthere That brass section is what got me through the door fkin epic
Saw them in jam house Birmingham Wednesday sell out wicked nite out
CAN’T TAKE NO MORE OF THIS
Where can I find the vocal version of this song with that line in it?
@@jonburrows in the final scene of the 1980 film Babylon
Nah we cyant tek no mooore ah dat! Tell em again!
Lioooon liiion ahh bro! What a tune, what a film, what a vibe, what a resistance, what a message.
@@cuckmulligan7602 Thanks--yeah, that's how I knew about it. I was wondering if it was ever released separately. Any idea?
An awful lot of people have no idea what a great band Aswad actually were. The New Chapter album was quality, and the dub version.
Anything by Aswad before 1988 was quality reggae.
A new chapter of dub was my first vinyl I took from my fathers collection, purely the art I saw it looked like the most militant thing I've seen in my eyes, truly empowering to all those who have let jah light shine through! Jah live!!!
Aswad 1976-1982 were so better and before UB40.
1979-1986 Greatest reggae band .. ever ... anywhere
Alas Smitty and all JonesTown people 😎🔥🇯🇲🙏☝️
Un sonido espectacular me transporta !!! Uno de los mejores grupos
Mi goose bumps when dis yah riddim play iyah......... rest well Zebbe ❤️
Hot stepper classic. Missing these epic sounds 🔥🔥🔥
I went to the ROOTS DAY at Brockwell Park in Brixton on Sunday, 11th June 2023 and they dropped this track! The crowd R-O-A-R-E-D! They had to wheel and come again! 😂. I screamed out, “DROP THE BASS SELECTOR!! 😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣😆🤣
*_WHAT ???_* Aswad was at Brockwell Park last summer ??? ... *_BOMBA !_*
Cant take no more of that say me can't take no more of that LION LION me say LION tough tune👊
Still got the original 12'inch vinyl remembering dem dance inadi yard gwarn asward
What talent is all about 😊
Classic! I met Vin Gordon who lived just around corner from where I use to lived in St Paul's. Bristol. Brilliant musician.
wicked big tune roots rockers classics aswad - warrior charge 1980
Memories of Henry Thornton skl Clapham common bk in the day.. everyone had a copy on cassette.. happy days
Haha I was a st Gerards school boy when it was there... our arch enemies if course was H.Thornton, if both entire schools population clashed it would have been 1000 pupils against 400 pupils lol St Gerards wasnt big. Hspoy memories One Love 🙏❤
@@MrFuak47 indeed..one love ❤️🙏
This is powerful sound world of people one love from elsouljah England
Remember this from Notting Hill back in the day
Gia' la musica reggae e" stupenda in generale ma questo brano ascoltato di prima mattina fa partire la giornata a 100 km/h ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Takes me bock to when I was a youth in the UK... Rewind!!!
Aswad is one of the best. Also the album Live and direct is awesome. Drummie Zeb is the master!
Aumtomatic skankin' specialist anytime this comes on ❤💛💚
Absolutely amazing 😊❤
big tune still sounding good
Rest in eternal paradise Drummie Zeb 🕊️🕊️🕊️
True Reggae beat like this.. can't get enough...
Wow just a beautiful and down to earth dub journey ...Aaah! Please pass the herb wit this one .. hell yeah!
I first heard this when I watched Babylon.
Dub Fantastic!!!!
Finest UK Reggae
Calling all ! Stand firm !!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Play music with the angels. Rest in eternal peace. Fly high.🙏
'Limited Edition' indeed, lucky I still have my vinyl.
Fitting Tune for Drummie Zeb, R.I.E.P..🙏🏽RASTAFARIIIIIII
I like the bass line and the 🥁 and the horns it,s all good
The rhythm is tough and the horns .
A Mus when passing through the memory they shared with friends alike and day gone by at notting hill carnival
EVERY BODY LOVE THIS A TUNE ASWAD - WARRIOR CHARGE 1980 ISLAND RECORDS
Childhood memories 😊
Nuff Respect & Love!!
Before my time still my no1 choice theme music.
Some U.K artist rapper sampled this around 1987.
I heard the record on John Peel and I can't find the track. :(
Around 1985-87, someone used sample for a U.K Hip Hop record that I am unable to track down or find.
John Peel played it on his late night show in the 80's.
Think it was Charging Warrior by MC Smart with beats by Overlord X
Thank You so much! That U.KHip Hop record was really special to me growing up as an 15 year old and is an absolute banger!
It's an absolute classic is probably why I still listen to Old Skool Hip Hop today!
Watch the UK Movie "Babylon" 1980 --------- this is the feature track!
That film has finally received a theatrical release in the U.S. as of this writing (March 2019). Aswad's signer, Brinsley Forde, plays the lead. Saw it twice this week. Very powerful film - script, acting, music and cinematography all come together in this one. A must see for reggae fans (or just any cinephile).
Shaka rool
@@awotnot matey from brush strokes is in it lol
@@robertgentle6174 haha
and party party which is also great
Cool down beefy man
1st listen of I predict 1 million more listens! Killer tune!
WOW AMAZING ❤NEVER DATED 🎸🤩