reggae music

[spartaninpr]

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

[spartaninpr]

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

[spartaninpr]

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.

[Georgia Avenue]

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

[AceLuby]

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Matisyahu

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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.

[cwsiggy]

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

[spartaninpr]

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.

[nate_b_17]

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

[NT!]

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.

[drexah]

love barrington levy