Pick the best track on 'Wild Dub - Dread Meets Punk Rocker Downtown'

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This is a lovely wee comp of dub-influenced post-punk. Which song do YOU like the best?

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Grace Jones - Private Life (dub)	4
PiL - Death Disco	3
The Clash - Bankrobber (dub version)	3
Killing Joke - Turn To Red	3
The Pop Group - Where There Is A Will	2
Vivian Goldman - Private Armies (dub)	2
The Slits - Typical Girls (brink style dub)	1
Basement 5 - Immigrant Dub	1
4 Be 2 - One Of The Lads	1
Stiff Little Fingers - Bloody Dub	0
Red Beat - Red Beat	0
The Ruts - Jah War	0
Generation X - Wild Dub	0
China Street - Dubbage	0

― paolo, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 08:46 (three years ago)

OK, that's funny: I literally bought this on Saturday!

Normally, "Death Disco" would be a shoe-in, but I did enjoy "Where there's a will" for the first time of hearing it for a long time!

― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 09:55 (three years ago)

i have never heard of this, nor ever seen it out in the wild. unfortunately.
this looks great.

suspect it would go well with the wrongtom comiled album of similar grooves :

https://rongorongorongo.bandcamp.com/album/spiky-dread-issue-one-2

― mark e, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 10:56 (three years ago)

I just bought the Killing Joke release In Dub rewind as I never managed to get the tour only Vinyl compilation that now goes for 200+.

https://www.discogs.com/master/2322898-Killing-Joke-In-Dub-Rewind-Vol-One

So this is very much where my heads at, will check out the above.

I did wonder if this particular genre would be classed as cod-dub?

― my opinionation (Hamildan), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 12:05 (three years ago)

great comp.

hard to choose from The Clash, Pop Group, Vivian Goldman, Killing Joke and Grace Jones.

Typical Girls is all time but i don't love the (brink style dub). i have heard Death Disco too many times to want to vote for it.

it's a coin flip between Pop Group and Vivian Goldman. Vivian won, though actually i love her vocal version even more. the dub of Private Armies also appears on the 1st New Age Steppers album too.

that Wrongtom comp is also really good.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 13:24 (three years ago)

oooh good one. There's so much I love on this. Think I'll go for Turn To Red as that's the one that popped in my head the moment I thought of this comp

― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Wednesday, 11 May 2022 13:29 (three years ago)

I usually think of this comp along with this one:
https://www.discogs.com/master/85328-Various-In-The-Beginning-There-Was-Rhythm

Thanks for that "Spiky Dread" tip, I missed that one, will rectify!

So many great tracks. The Vivian Goldman single is all-time, and Red Beat did just one thing but they did it extremely well.

Voted Killing Joke.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 11 May 2022 14:36 (three years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 00:01 (three years ago)

Voted Grace Jones

― paolo, Tuesday, 24 May 2022 11:54 (three years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Wednesday, 25 May 2022 00:01 (three years ago)

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