![]() 'Exalt The Crown', 'The Quickening', 'Peak Tension Time', the title track, keeping good relations with 'Mongst I& I', 'Jewel Inna Africa Horn' - all of them mighty tracks. The album officially came via I Grade Records but it was largely worked on by Jamaican producer, Andrew 'Bassie' Campbell and it was fantastic. It would also reignite, at least for the moment, the interest of the Reggae media who (as you can tell if you check the work on either of the two next albums here) (can you believe I'm almost finished with this thing?!) (WHAT!) normally don't cover Midnite albums very extensively despite their extremely large and interesting fan base. The album became one of the most discussed from anyone of its time and it even had a song which birthed the very first official Midnite video (biggup Bredz). Leave it to I Grade Records to push up a promotional vehicle befitting a ROYAL level of Reggae music for an album which was already going to be the FOURTH of its kind in the same calendar year. It's also pretty fun, I've gone up and down in my affections for it and one day I fully expect it to be a significant highlight for me - regardless of artist.Īn eleven foot, six hundred pound tiger. I'm STILL working on it and probably will be for quite some time to come and surely I'm no genius (far, farrrrrrrrr from it), but it really takes a lot of time to grab this one mentally. I don't even think it's possible to have REALLY taken in this album in its time apart from a superficial level. The thing about this album, musically, is that it went as it should have. If you weren't paying attention at the time, you can probably imagine the effect 'a double Midnite album' (whatever it would have been) would have had on fans and it did exactly what you're imagining and probably more also. ![]() The obvious thing here is that, between two discs, this album spanned TWENTY-FOUR tracks for Fifth Son Records and in there was a strong album. Throughout this post (now checking in at 3943 words), we see certain albums which, essentially, just change things in some way and while more of them are still to come, it would be completely unfair to look at "Standing Firm" as merely just another Midnite album. ![]()
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