BigSoccer Reggae Thread

[CHICO13]

Being a huge reggae fan, I thought I'd start a thread for people to post new and exciting CD's/ Artists which might not be well known. I have a pretty good collection of the standards and am always looking to add to it.

Some of the music I think no reggae lover should be with out.

Bob Marley...Songs of Freedom
The ultimate Marley. 4 CD set covers just about everything he did.

Steel Pulse...Greatest Hits.
Awesome compilation from South Africa's best reggae band.

Peter Tosh....Legalize it
Nuff said

All these are pretty mainstream and I'm sure most reggae lovers have them in their collection.

I just started listening to Alpha Blondie...good stuff.
What else am I missing?

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[nicodemus]

I really dig Ziggy Marley's "Live Volume I"

it may not be "essential" but it's a fine album

i used to have a friend that had 100s of 45s of all sorts of old reggae stuff, i wish he still lived in town.

[cosmosRIP]

Originally posted by CHICO13
What else am I missing?
Burning Spear, he has several great albums and compilations to choose from.
Another essential roots album is Culture's Two Sevens Clash.

[tpmazembe]

Originally posted by CHICO13

What else am I missing?

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I'm partial to anything by U-Roy. Get his greatest hits compilation to try it out. He's known as the grandfather of the dj style.

Pre-1985 Third World isn't bad either.

[CHICO13]

Doing a little Christmas shopping, I picked up a CD by a band called Wailing Souls....All over the World

good sound, kinda like Steel Pulse.

[nicodemus]

I'm getting the deluxe 2 CD set of "Rastaman Vibration" for Christmas (at least that's what I asked for.) Should be pretty awesome. It has a bunch of remixes after the full length album on disc one and a live concert on the second disc.

[MeridianFC]

I'm very picky when it comes to reggae. I don't care much for anything after around 1980. I'm an old school sort. Give me plenty of rock steady, ska, and version.

Version come forward!

A few of my favorite tracks:

"Queen Majesty" - the Techniques
"Jonny Too Bad" - the Slickers
"Ketchy Shubby" - Peter Tosh
"Bingo Kid" - Earl "Chinna" Smith
"Book of Rules" - Heptones
"Mystery Babylon" - Gladiators
"Meditation" - the Cyclones w/ Count Ossie
"Fade Away" - Junior Byles
"Misty Morning" - Bob Marley & the Wailers
"Conquering Lion" - Yabby You
"Farther East of Jack" - Burning Spear
"Satta Dub" - Augustus Pablo

[nicodemus]

thanks for the list meridian, i'm going to have to check some of that out.

[Doug Dobey]

Chico:
Not trying to be pedantic, but Steel Pulse is from the UK, Birmingham if I recall correctly.

Not mentioned yet:
Congoes: Heart of the Congoes
Max Romeo and the Upsetters: Super Ape

Actually if you want a couple of good introductions, try the Island comp, "The Story of Jamaican Music" or pretty much anything reissued by Blood and Fire records.

Also, there's an awesome little book called "The Rough Guide to Reggae" that has great blurbs about their picks for the best reggae albums of all time.

"Wake the town and tell the people!"

[MeridianFC]

BTW for those really doon wi d' soun, "Rockers" has just been released on dvd with 8 extra tracks not seen (or heard) from the original movie. I don't own a dvd player, but I'm going out and getting this and a player ASAP. If you want a pretty good look at the reggae scene from the mid/late 70s this is your boy. I love "the Harder They Come" (it is a better movie) but there's some so gritty and street level from this. Plus it's funny as hell.

"Man, dem thieve my bike!"

[CHICO13]

Originally posted by Doug Dobey
Chico:
Not trying to be pedantic, but Steel Pulse is from the UK, Birmingham if I recall correctly.

Not mentioned yet:
Congoes: Heart of the Congoes
Max Romeo and the Upsetters: Super Ape

Actually if you want a couple of good introductions, try the Island comp, "The Story of Jamaican Music" or pretty much anything reissued by Blood and Fire records.

Also, there's an awesome little book called "The Rough Guide to Reggae" that has great blurbs about their picks for the best reggae albums of all time.

"Wake the town and tell the people!"
Thanks, too late for the Christams gift list so I'll pick it up myself. Another album worth checking out is the Soundtrack to "The Harder they Come"
Jimmy Cliff, Desmond Dekker et al....
Great movie, Great soundtrack.

[cj herrera]

Some faves off the top of my head:

Big Youth -- Hit the Road Jack
Lee Scratch Perry -- Roast Fish Collie Weed and Corn Bread
Toots & the Maytals -- Funky Kingston
Desmond Dekker -- Black and Dekker
Skatalites -- Foundation Ska
Bunny Wailer -- Rock n Groove
Aswad -- A New Chapter in Dub
Black Uhuru -- Red
Linton Kwesi Johnson -- Making History
Rita Marley -- Who Feels It Knows It

and, a great album I may have never known if it wasn't for Joe Strummer (rest in peace)
Junior Murvin -- Police and Thieves

[bigsmooth]

I'm a big fan of Lucky Dube. I'd like just about anything he did. He's out of South Africa and some his music is about the struggle there, but all that I've heard is very uplifting.

Peter Tosh's "Stepping Razor" is a classic.

If you like more philosophical reggae, I'd recommend Dennis Brown, a great songwriter who did great songs like:

Money In My Pocket
The Promised Land
More Reasons Than One
Have You Ever
Revolution
Heart Needs A Second Chance

He also did a song that starts "There is a man/ who lives next door/ In my neighborhood" that I can't remember the title of, but it's also good stuff.

Along similar lines is "The Cool Ruler," Gregory Isaacs, another artist like Dennis Brown who tends to have a more mellow sound whose song "Night Nurse" is a classic but who has also done decent covers of Bob Marley and Dennis Brown songs.

The late Garnett Silk had one song -- title unknown -- that was a big hit, but he was considered an upcoming star in reggae circles at the time of his very sudden death.

If you like dancehall, artists like Chocodemus and Pliers ("Murder She Wrote"), Maxi Priest ("I Just Want to Be Close To You"), Sly and Robbie (well, at least for "Fly Girl") and Shinehead are worth looking into.

And lastly, although I don't know his music personally, I've been told David Rudder is very good

[655321]

Rocksteady is the greatest, most addictive music ever. Check out the new Trojan records compilation "Punky Reggae Party" for a good starter course.

[ruudboy]

These are some of my favorites that aren't Bob.


Satta Masa Gana=Abbysidians(spelling is wrong)
Don Carlos=Raving Tonight
Gregory Isacs=Night Nurse
Black Uhuru=Liberation
Hugh Mundell=Africa is Free by 1983&Time and Place
*Isreal Vibrations=Best of, 3 cd set
Dennis Brown, anythang this brotha does is dope, they call him the crown prince of Reggae, he died a couple years back.
Jacob Miller with InnerCircle, Best of
Barrington Levy=EnglishMan

[ruudboy]

Trojan compilatons, the Roots and Rastafari collections are dope too.

[655321]

SoulJazz Records just put out a 2LP compilation on the Studio One label that includes a three hour DVD documentary with it. My boss bought it and says it's outstanding, if not a little exhausting. It only cost him about $22 plus shipping. I'm getting mine next week...

Has anyone seen this yet??

[CHICO13]

Originally posted by 655321
SoulJazz Records just put out a 2LP compilation on the Studio One label that includes a three hour DVD documentary with it. My boss bought it and says it's outstanding, if not a little exhausting. It only cost him about $22 plus shipping. I'm getting mine next week...

Has anyone seen this yet??
What's it called?

[Footix]

I got the Trojan Mod Reggae and Rocksteady box sets for Christmas...3 discs per box, tons of cool old sides.

Not everything Trojan put out was a winner, but there's enough groovy goodness on these really reasonably priced box sets (about $16 each) to make old fans happy and to show newcomers what old school reggae was about.

[655321]

Originally posted by CHICO13
What's it called?

http://www.souljazzrecords.co.uk/disc.htm


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