Natural Wild is a reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 album

Album

An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...

 by Jamaica

Jamaica

Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...

n artist Lincoln Thompson

Lincoln Thompson

Prince Lincoln Thompson, known as Sax, was a Jamaican singer, musician and songwriter with the reggae band the Royal Rasses, and a member of the Rastafari movement...

 and the Rasses released in 1980 and recorded in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

. Joe Jackson

Joe Jackson (musician)

Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...

 collaborated on the album whose central theme was the promotion of the culture and morality of the Rastafari movement

Rastafari movement

The Rastafari movement or Rasta is a new religious movement that arose in the 1930s in Jamaica, which at the time was a country with a predominantly Christian culture where 98% of the people were the black descendants of slaves. Its adherents worship Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia , as God...

. Commercially the album was a flop in spite of widespread publicity for it in the UK, in contrast to Thompson's two previous albums.

Track listing

1. "Mechanical Devices"
2. "Natural Wild"
3. "My Generation"
4. "Natural (Reprise)"
5. "Spaceship"
6. "People's Minds"
7. "People Love Jah Music"
8. "Smiling Faces"

Personnel

• Lincoln Thompson
  Lincoln Thompson
  Prince Lincoln Thompson, known as Sax, was a Jamaican singer, musician and songwriter with the reggae band the Royal Rasses, and a member of the Rastafari movement...
  
   - guitar, vocals
• Gary Sanford, Dougie Bryan, Willie Lindo - guitar
• Bertram "Ranchie" McLean, Graham Maby
  Graham Maby
  Graham Maby , is a bass guitar player. He has recorded and toured with Joe Jackson since his first album, appearing on most of Jackson's albums and tours. He has continued to record and tour with Jackson even while working with other artists.In the early '90s he toured with Graham Parker, Garland...
  
   - bass
• Dave Houghton, Michael "Boo" Richards - drums
• Joe Jackson
  Joe Jackson (musician)
  Joe Jackson is an English musician and singer-songwriter now living in Berlin, whose five Grammy Award nominations span from 1979 to 2001...
  
   - grand piano, organ, melodica
• Ansel Collins - keyboards
• George Oban, Mo Claridge - percussion
• Tony Gad - synthesizer on "Spaceship"
• Chris Lane - dub sound effects