This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Personnel includes: Big Youth, U-Roy, Leroy Smart (vocals); Tony Chin (guitar); Glen DaCosta (tenor saxophone); David Madden (trumpet); Keith McCleod (keyboards); Sticky Thompson, Sylvan Morris (percussion); I-Threes, Gregory Isaacs (background vocals).

Producers include: Big Youth, Joel Gibson, L. Lindo, Phil Pratt.

Reissue producer: Steve Barrow.

Recorded between 1973 and 1977. Includes liner notes by Steve Barrow, Noel Hawkes.

All tracks have been digitally remastered.

This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.

Spin (4/01, p.164) - 9 out of 10 - "...No '70s deejay prefigures American rap like Big Youth....on 'Same Something' he sounds for a second like he 'is' inventing hip-hop. In fact, he was just assembling the pieces..."

Entertainment Weekly (1/19/01, p.87) - "...This is reggae at its most inspirational and intense..." - Rating: A

The Wire (12/00, p.52) - "...A top ranking release....This set is lovingly and lavishly illustrated and annotated....concentrating on rare alternative versions and the best of the rest, which is extensive..."

Muzik (12/00, p.98) - 4 out of 5 - "...Gathers together some of his mightiest moments....All of these are worth lending an ear to..."

NME (Magazine) (12/2/00, p.49) - 9 out of 10 - "...[He] remains one of the most prominent and unique DJs that reggae has yet produced....Not to be ignored."