Thread by @TheWrongtom

Off the back of U Roy I've been digging out a lot of toasters today, and Big Youth really was the king of bizarre streams of consciousness. Jim Squeachy is a particularly strange song

Not sure if this was the 1st vocal version of Winston Riley's Stalag rhythm but surely the first significant one (he versioned it twice). Here's the original horns cut

Around 1 min into Jim Squeachy, Big Youth inexplicably cries out JOHN COLTRANE DIED IN VAIN OF A LOVE SUPREME! And then adds "John Coltrane blow so white he could blow black people's mind every time".

Apparently he didn't know Coltrane was black when he recorded this!

Whatever was going through his head, Big Youth's "superstar" line caught the attention of Wayne "Smash" Hunter who appropriated it in '91 for his Jazzy Grooves project. I dearly love this record

One last thought. John Coltrane's A Love Supreme was really his invocation of God. Remember the final montage in Mo Better Blues? According to Spike Lee it featured the 1st ever depiction of a black woman giving birth in a film, to A love Supreme

So think of that when Big Youth says "God aint waiting at the family planning clinics waiting to deliver births" 😉