Pick Up the Pieces (album)


Pick Up the Pieces is the debut album from Jamaican roots reggae group The Royals, collecting recordings made between 1973 and 1977, and produced by Royals lead vocalist and only constant member Roy Cousins. Musicians on the album include members of The Wailers, Soul Syndicate, The In Crowd, and the Now Generation. The album was later licensed to United Artists subsidiary Ballistic Records, and was reissued in an expanded form in 2002 by Pressure Sounds. The songs on the album have been described as "some of the most musically sublime expressions of Rastafarian faith and the hardships of ghetto living Jamaica has produced".

Track listing

Original Magnum (1977) and Ballistic (1978) releases

  1. "Pick Up The Pieces"
  2. "Ghetto Man"
  3. "Jah Jah Knows"
  4. "Sufferer Of The Ghetto"
  5. "If I Were You"
  6. "When You Are Wrong"
  7. "Promised Land"
  8. "Only For A Time"
  9. "Blacker Black"
  10. "Peace And Love"

    1980s Tamoki Wambesi release

  11. "Pick Up The Pieces"
  12. "Ghetto Man"
  13. "Jah Jah Knows"
  14. "Sufferer Of The Ghetto"
  15. "If I Were You"
  16. "If You Want Good"
  17. "When You Are Wrong"
  18. "Promised Land"
  19. "Only For A Time"
  20. "Blacker Black"
  21. "Peace And Love"
  22. "Facts Of Life"

    2002 Pressure Sounds CD release

  23. "Pick Up The Pieces"
  24. "Ghetto Man"
  25. "Heart In Pain"
  26. "Only Jah Knows"
  27. "Sufferer Of The Ghetto"
  28. "If I Were You"
  29. "When You Are Wrong "
  30. "When You Are Wrong "
  31. "Promised Land"
  32. "Message"
  33. "Only For A Time"
  34. "Genuine Way"
  35. "Blacker Black"
  36. "Peace And Love"
  37. "Facts Of Life"
  38. "If You Want Good"
  39. "Make Believe "
  40. "Make Believe "
  41. "Leave Out Of Babylon"
  42. "Down Comes The Rain"

    Personnel