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not sure if this is the right fourm but i'm looking to add to my reggae collection and was looking for some good recommendations besides the obvious bob marley etc...

if this is wrong fourm please let me know.

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slightly stoopid ftw.

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sure sounds good too me.

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Pato Banton
UB40
Shaggy
Johnny Nash

Inner Circle - "Sweat" is my favorite reggae song ever.

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Riverboat,

DL Freddie Mcgregor's "Big Ship"

if you like that,

DL Gregory Issacs:

Cool Down the Pace
Sad to Know
Tune In

This is Dancehall.

There are several styles of Jamaican music that get arbitrarily thrown into the reggae category.

check out:

Lee Perry any of his songs (dub)
The Maytones "Throw Down Your Arms" (roots)
Hepcat "Dance with Me" (rocksteady)
Alton Ellis "Rocksteady"
The Uniques "Watch This Sound" (rocksteady)
Eek-A-Mouse "Wa Do Dem" (dancehall)
Selecter "Too Much Pressure" (2nd wave ska)
Peter Tosh "Legalize It" "Well Runs Dry" (reggae along the vein of marley)

Also way sick if you haven't heard it:

HR - "Fool's Gold" "Youthman Sufferer" "The Youth are Getting Restless" (reggae/dub - lead singer of Bad Brains)

The Ethiopians "Engine 54" (Traditional Ska)

The Uniques "Let Him Go" (rocksteady)

The Victors "Reggae Buddy" (reggae)

Another guy you have to DL some of his tracks:

TOMMY MCCOOK!!!

Also, don't underestimate Sublime's work (non-mainstream release):

A bunch of tracks off of Robbin the HOod and 40 OZ to Freedom that a lot of people overlook are WAY SICK

who else?

THE UPSETTERS (dub)
THE SPECIALS - Ghost Town

Ummmmm, thats all off of the dome for now. ENJOY!

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thanks vespa!

i love gregory isaacs, also bill withers is one of my favs (not really reggae but since you took so much time to respond figured i'd turn you on to him if you haven't heard him).

i'm gonna check out all the stuff you listed, appreciate the replies from everyone.

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rbk,

i'd go with vespa's list. i've owned most of them at one point or another and haven't even heard of some of them.


some others in my collection that get a lot of play.

Mikey Dread - best of collection (dancehall/rocksteady mix)
the Itals - Brutal Out Deh - early rocksteady
Fat Freddy's Drop - Based on a True Story - soul and reggae

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The Aggrolites - get their three mainstream releases (Dirty Reggae, The Aggrolites, and Reggae Hit LA).

The Slackers (ska): The Question, Red Light, Wasted Days, Close my Eyes.

Hepcat (ska): Push & Shove and anything else you can find.

Victor Rice: Live at Version City

The Insteps: Eleven Steps to Power

Toots & the Maytals: anything

Johnny Socko: Bovaquarium, Full Trucker Effect

Pressure Cooker: all

That should get you going.

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Dubconsious

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RBK: Just get anything from the 60s or 70s and nothing at all since. Best bet IMO, that was the heydey of the genre.

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GA - where were you in the mid-late 90's?

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Not listening to white people play reggae?

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racist

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Sizzla ftw

his [censored] is raw

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Mystic Roots

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Oh right. There was a white keyboard player with the Skatalites on that tour in '96. And Hepcat had two hispanic guys.

Please. I thought you had pretty good musical taste. I'll chalk it up to a bad day.

Sizzla and Capelton and the like are probably a bit too contemporary for the OP. "Got it Right Here" is my favorite Sizzla track.

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Matisyahu

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My favorites are

Steel Pulse - every record is classic
Barrington Levy
Third World
Lee Perry
Half Pint
Morgan Heritage
Sizzla
Wailing Souls

The marley brothers, Steve and Damieon, also have some tracks that are fire.

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a good recommendation, but there's a lot of punk mixed in with the reggae.

ditto for state radio, some great rock/reggae tunes, but some heavier stuff mixed in too.

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The Tamlins-Baltimore
Black Uhuru-Great Train Robbery
Sheila Hylton-The Bed's Too Big Without You
Israel Vibration-Vultures
Culture-Two Sevens Clash
Any Mad Professor
Augustus Pablo-King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown
Eek-A-Mouse-Ganja Smuggling
Tenor Saw-Ring The Alarm
The Story of Jamaica Music(box set)
Jimmy Cliff-Vietnam
Alpha Blondy-Live in Paris
Bob-Babylon By Bus
Gregory Isaacs-Night Nurse
Twinkle Brothers-Rasta Pon Top

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Junior Murvin-Police and Thieves
Hugh Mundell-Africa Must Be Free
Steel Pulse-Handsworth Revolution
Pato Banton-Never give In(live)
Lucky Dube-House Of Exile
Third World-96 Degrees In The Shade
Aswad-Live And Direct
Black Uhuru-Red
Dawn Penn-No,No,No

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Don't know how to post the link,but there is an absolutely SICK version of Gregory Isaacs doing Night Nurse live at Reggae Sunsplash'83 on you tube.Also,House Of The Rising Sun.

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Kilgore: I am having a bad day imo. I'm either getting sick or I'm dt'ing since I haven't had a drink in 3 days.

Still, I stand by the general idea that reggae as a genre peaked in the late 1970s and by the mid-late 80s had stultified. I don't know all those bands, and many of them I would maybe like, but when you're getting into a new kind of music (esp one that is very homogenous like reggae) it's usually easier to say, get a bunch of Trojan records rocksteady, ska, or roots boxes (like so ) and check it out that way than buying a mediocre 90s record by Toots or like, Mustard Plug.

YMMV
--GA

PS Start here imo

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Went to one of his shows w/ a friend before he got big and it was a weird show. Full of strict jews that couldn't believe I would smoke weed at a concert. Pretty funny though.

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Bob Marley not only put Reggae on the map, he actually ruined it, by becoming and transcending (yes - that's the word I was looking for) the genre. Seriously - I have all his records, love him but can't really listen to anything else. It's just not worth it. He was that good. Steel Pulse - heard it before - Alpha Blondy - heard it before, Burning Spear - heard it before, Eek a Mouse - well........

Thanks Bob

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Bob was the king,but there is a lot of other great reggae out there.Unfortunately,most of it is twenty years old.Check out some live Burning Spear,for instance.

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Damien "Jr Gong" Marley- "Welcome to Jamrock" is a killer track

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i disagree with GA insofar as i like some stuff by hepcat, the skatalites, hell even white boys like the slackers, but i also don't really think of those as reggae records by any stretch. mostly ska or i guess 'rocksteady' (which has always seemed like an ambiguous genre to me).

basically though, i think the answer is bob marley, peter tosh, etc.

also one band i haven't seen mentioned is Soul Syndicate, they were sort of the equivalent of the Funk Brothers in Jamaica - studio band that did a bunch of stuff. they have one of their own records called 'Harvest Uptown, Famine Downtown' that i like a lot.

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love barrington levy

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Buy the 'Young, Gifted and Black' compliation CD. Almost every track on it is an absolute classic.

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SEAN PAUL that is all.

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Sean Paul is [censored] terrible. I don't count that as Reggae. You'll be suggesting Shaggy next.

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Beres Hammond

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Damien "Jr Gong" Marley- "Welcome to Jamrock" is a killer track

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I prefer "We're Gonna Make It."

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sister nancy - bam bam
chaka dermus & the pliers - murder she wrote
beenie man - bookshelf
beenie man - who am i

these are some huge classics.
for new stuff i like collie budz.

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Junior Murvin-Police and Thieves
Hugh Mundell-Africa Must Be Free
Steel Pulse-Handsworth Revolution
Pato Banton-Never give In(live)
Lucky Dube-House Of Exile
Third World-96 Degrees In The Shade
Aswad-Live And Direct
Black Uhuru-Red
Dawn Penn-No,No,No
The Tamlins-Baltimore
Black Uhuru-Great Train Robbery
Sheila Hylton-The Bed's Too Big Without You
Israel Vibration-Vultures
Culture-Two Sevens Clash
Any Mad Professor
Augustus Pablo-King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown
Eek-A-Mouse-Ganja Smuggling
Tenor Saw-Ring The Alarm
The Story of Jamaica Music(box set)
Jimmy Cliff-Vietnam
Alpha Blondy-Live in Paris
Bob-Babylon By Bus
Gregory Isaacs-Night Nurse
Twinkle Brothers-Rasta Pon Top

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killer tracks/albums.

i have work tomorrow but right now i'm listening to a lot of these tracks and getting amped. doubt i'll make it into work.

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King Yellowman by Yellowman. A MUST have.

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Buju Banton. Pretty much the whole 'Til Shiloh album is amazing but especially 'Till I'm Laid to Rest, Untold Stories, and Murderer.

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I've been assuming the OP's definition of "reggae" includes soundsystem, toasting, ska, rocksteady, reggae, dub, dancehall, second wave, third wave, etc.

If it's limited strictly to reggae, then my suggestions don't qualify other than Toots.