Searching for good Reggae

There's alot of Marley to be had.

How 'bout Jimmy Cliff?

For instance? Gimme gimme gimme!

Peter Tosh: "Legalize Marijuana" and "Equal Rights"

Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters
Prince Far I
The Congoes
Jackie Mittoo
Junior Delgado
Max Romeo
Delroy Wilson
Horace Andy
U Roy
Buju Banton

Bob Marley "Legend" is a great collection of his best work.

Gregory Isaacs (met him once, long story)
Peter Tosh

Catch A Fire
Burnin'
Natty Dread
Rastaman Vibration
Exodus

i also like Peter Tosh:
Bush Doctor
Wanted: Dread Or Alive
Captured Live

Steel Pulse:
Earth Crisis
Rage And Fury

Burning Spear:
Love & Peace (live)
Jah Kingdom
Man In The Hills

no collection is complete without;
The Harder They Come (soundtrack), get the movie as well.

All of the Soul Revolution album, still my favourite one, nice'n' duppy 'n laid-back and stoned ...

He done some truly genius stuff with Lee Perry / Upsetters, songs like Small axe, Mr. Brown, Dreamland ...

My cup and I'm hurting inside are really beautiful & moving

I also think his really early stuff is just cute, the music all ska-like and his voice all boyish: Judge not, One cup of coffee

I dont really go myself for what I call the "stadium" stuff, like No more trouble, Get up, stand up, I shot the sheriff, Exodus, Could you be loved, No woman no cry - never done much for me, though I did gain a new appreciation for that last one, a while ago.

Oh, a pretty amazing scope of Marley's songs can be found on the three-CD box Songs of Freedom.

As for other names, people who like Marley will like Lucky Dube, too, he's South African I think, Prisoner is great.

Lucky Dube is GREAT. (My recommendation, went all the way to the very last sentence thinking nobody had mentioned him yet.)

Thaz coz I made sure I was just ahead of you! <g>

I'm listening to this coool, little playlist with a handful of new reggea MP3s I got ... it's real nice!

Hugh Mundell & Augustus Pablo - Day Of Judgement
Prince Buster - City Riot
Prince Buster - Al Capone
toots and the maytals - funky kingston
tiken jah fakoly - Missiri feat U Roy
Toots and the Maytals - Reggae got soul
Prezident Brown - rough road

I've just discovered Tiken Jah Fakoly - well, I got three tracks of 'em now - it's an African reggea band. I love it! Soz, if you love Lucky Dube, you'll probably really like this band too!

Thanks!! Never heard of them. I do love African reggae -- a little harder-edged, a little more intense.

Love Toots.

Any tips? I dont know much African reggea ..

Know a very good African hip hop crew though: Bisso na Bisso!

Speaking of Toots, has anyone ever heard "Toots in Memphis"? Classic Memphis-style soul music, "I Can't Stand the Rain" (Ann Peebles), "I've Got Dreams to Remember" (Otis Redding), "Love and Happiness" (Al Green) and a bunch of others, done by Toots. May be a little commercial but it's fun.

We have it! Sozlet loves it! I'm a big Otis Redding fan, too.

I wish I could remember more African reggae... there was a bunch I liked when I was in high school, but Lucky Dube is the only one who has stuck (probably in part because I saw him live.)

Well there's a variety of 'reggaes', if that's the right word, they run the gamit from sweet harmonies to chucky dub sounds, this list is not intended to be final:

Bluebeat and ska (the big band sound that proceeded reggae)
Jamaiican ska (with vocals, early Toots Hibbert)
British ska sound (Two-tone) - Selecter, Madness
Jamaiican reggae (traditional, more based around harmonies and guitar) through to the instrumental works of Sly and Robbie, Marley was fond of a varient called 'one-drop' style where the 4th beat just drops out of sight
There are fusion types, mixing rock or punk - very fast, the Clash did a lot
Then there is 'dubbing' a home-grown style based around portable sound-systems that used to be the Jamaiican music scene - lot of famous DJs went on to become stars as well
Dub-poets
More Western styles - more pop, or electric (Eddie Grant)
and finally, a Indian/Reggae varient called 'bhangra' that uses traditional Indian instruments like the tabla and sitar

Y'r forgetting ragga(muffin) / dancehall, mister stillwater! ;-)

How's this for definition?: hip-hop-influenced reggea that became jamaica's charts staple in the 1990s, but goes back to an old tradition of DJ's "toasting" over riddims. Gradually developed from rather sparse rapping over beats to fierce, danceable music of very different kinds. In turn spurred the jungle music, which was later sophisticatised into drum'n'bass.

Not final, I said not FINAL!!


If anyone questions my credentials, I just purchased an album by RaggaDeath. So NOT Bob Marley, but with some musical twists that did appeal to me. They have a wicked cover of 'Electric Avenue', lots of fast, thrashing electric guitar with some vocals that sound like the Cookie Monster!! Mucho different!