Ska icon Prince Buster changed the face of Jamaican popular music by helping give birth to the form in the late 1950s by blending Caribbean cadences with a rhythm-and-blues backbeat, its rhythmic emphasis shifted to the afterbeat rather than the fore.

National Ska: Pain In My Belly is a killer various artists compilation that Buster produced in 1964 for Blue Beat Records in Britain, its blistering contents featuring Toots and the Maytals, Eric ‘Monty’ Morris, and the Prince himself, as well as the pivotal musicians Don Drummond and Tommy McCook, who would shortly form the Skatalites.

Tracklist : 

A1 Prince Buster & The Maytals – I Got A Pain

A2 The Maytals – He Is Real

A3 T. McCook – Cast Your Faith To The Wind

A4 Prince Buster – Faith

A5 The Ska Busters – Georgia

A6 Prince Buster – Have Mercy

B1 The Maytals– I Love You So

B2 Eric Morris–Those Teardrops

B3 Prince Buster–Chinaman Ska

B4 The Skatalites–Super Charge

B5 Don Drummond–Ska Town

B6 Prince Buster–Ska School