Dr. Alimantado - "Best Dressed Chicken in Town"

This is not only my favorite type of Roots Reggae / Dub album but is my favorite type of album period, that is to say it's overwhelmingly compelling and highly listenable, yet musically ramshackle.
I only want my record collection full of such albums, from the Velvets to Dr. Ross, to the Feelies, to the Electric Eels, to Jr and His Soulettes, etc... this album is part of a lineage of those that make the greatest music simply because they didn't know any better and nobody told them not to.

This album (especially it's flawless A Side) is recklessly inventive, utilizing the kitchen sink mentality to it's fullest potential. Cornwall-crumbling bass, organ stabs, pitch-shifted reverb, sound effects, insane samples (such as gunshots on the bewilderingly awesome "I Shot The Barber")
and unintelligible toasting over flawless classic vocalists such as Gregory Issaacs and Horace Andy. The production duties mostly fall to Lee Perry and King Tubby, so you know this is a mind scrambler from the drop. Thematically it could have only come from Kingston in the mid 70's. The subject matter is dark and violent at times ("Gimme Mi Gun" for instance) or full of social justice cries ("Poison Flour" or "I Shall Fear No Evil").

Rickety, loping, Groovy AF and as sloppy as the good Dr. himself looks on the cover... This is a must-have for even a casual fan of Jamaican music.