best trojan compilation ?

well i asked this the other day and it was largely ignored because people thought I was talking about those box sets.

Search: Tighten Up (Trojan Reggae Classics 1968-74), Susan Cadogan: Hurt So Good, Funky Kingston

Destroy: Sweet Harmony

Meh: Dancehall '69

Search: Trojan Soulful Reggae Box Set, High Explosion (DJ Sounds From 1970 To 1976), Work Your Soul (Jamaican 60s & Northern 1966-74)

Rare Groove, Rocksteady and Lovers boxes. Flashing Echo - dub history 2CD set is utterly wonderful too.

Lee Perry--Open The Gate, Build the Ark

Destroy: Jamaican R&B 3-disc set. Like Sha Na Na, sort of. In a bad way.

on what planet?

ska boxset - altho its not all ska coz some of its rocksteady, but stil my fave

That flashing echo comp that Dr C mentions is a thing of wonder, but the producers box set is pretty damn good too.

I like the best of Tighten Up, esp. disc 1, and Young Gifted and Black, although 'the ink is black, the page is white, together we learn to read and write' is a bit much.

My vote goes for "Funky Chicken"!

I've got LOADS of these ones now. Out of ten:
Tighten Up (10)
Essential. There's hardly a bad track on either of the two discs.

Funky Kingston (7)
Good, but a little pointless as this is mostly straight Funk tracks covered by Jamaican reggae bands.

Work Your Soul (5)
See Funky Kingston. This is the same except with R'n'B and Soul tracks. Nothing incredible, but not awful.

The Upsetter (5)
This is a set of early Lee "Scratch" Perry tracks. The blurb makes it sound wicked. The music is grating keyboard instrumentals.

Flashing Echo (8)
Trojan in Dub. This is a pretty good rundown of the history of dub. Some great tracks here, although I feel as though it deals too much with the early days of dub when it was mostly just instrumental versions of reggae standards with little technical fuckery. Then the second half stops in 1979, giving the impression that dub music finished entirely. It would have been nice to have a couple more futuristic dubs on here.

A Place Called Africa (7)
Well-meaning comp with some excellent stuff by the Ethiopians, the Abyssinians and other Roots-y stuff. The double-CD can get a bit tiresome once you hear the 15th song about "going back home" or "leaving this place" or "going home from a place that was not my home" etc. Would have liked some more Nyah-binghi style drumming. Most of the best tunes are on the Tighten Up comp anyway.

Susan Cadogan - Hurt So Good (8)
This early Lover's Rock production is improved tenfold by the excellent Lee Perry production. "Congratulations" is especially rad.

Let's Do Rocksteady
I haven't checked this one out through-and-through, but it seems pretty good.