Great reggae tunes

[Custard]

Right, I think I really need to expand my knowledge of reggae beyond Marley and Toots. Gonna put together a big playlist of popular and recommended songs, whack 'em on shuffle, and gorge on them into the new year

Any recommendations for really rather good tunes in the popular reggae genre of music?

[sevendaughters]

I have two top favourites:

Barrington Levy - 'Murderer' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9mvTNh-plY
Anthony Red Rose - 'Tempo' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EatWwMArlw4

[studpuppet]

When I was thirteen (in 1984) my brother did me a tape called 'Nine Rankin Dread Skankins' which is a nice snapshot or early-mid eighties British Reggae:

Here I Come - Barrington Levy
Fare Dodger - Papa Benjie
Herbman Hustling - Sugar Minott
Abbreviation Qualification - Asher Senator
Wa-Do-Dem - Eek-A-Mouse
Cockney Translation (plus Dub) - Smiley Culture
Sonny's Lettah - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Party In Session - Black Uhuru
Mi God Mi King - Papa Levi

[fatguyranting]

Lee 'Scratch' Perry's Arkology box set would be an excellent primer. 

[CaledonianGonzo]

Made this for myself a few months back.  Nothing too obscure, but covers most of the big songs by most of the big hitters.

https://open.spotify.com/user/1146491967/playlist/0qkGN1z68ujZDfzjAVVNbE?si=f3kNp_AnTvaM7cLppB6gRg

[gmoney]

Justin Hinds and the Dominoes - Over the River - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP-sRuqvlXI
Justin Hinds and the Dominoes - Sinners - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGQ2qtj6co
Justin Hinds and the Dominoes - Save a Bread - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBZ2FXZfteo

[manticore]

Listen to everything in the Studio One - The Heart of Jamaican Music thread. A huge amount of the best reggae comes from Studio One either directly or indirectly through reinvention of its rhythms.

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PJ Harvey fans will recognise this apocalyptic declaimation from 1971 which caused much consternation in Jamaica at the time:

Niney: Blood and Fire:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRmHmyMp7xQ

Can be found on this brilliant compilation of Niney the Observer's productions:

https://www.discogs.com/Niney-The-Observer-Roots-With-Quality/release/2414603

[Custard]

Cheers y'all. Adding all these! Knew I could rely on you lot

[Brundle-Fly]

Merry Xmas!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQAYnkbefEc

[Psmith]

Another Eek

https://youtu.be/BrBpewHG-wI

Rude Boy Jamaican


I Roy
Sidewalk Killer

https://youtu.be/QxymjJ81EmE


Burning Spear
Christopher Columbus

https://youtu.be/5qbMKTY_Cr0

[gib]

I strongly recommend this guy's youtube channel, here's one to start with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OFI2qcQfrc

[manticore]

Merry Xmas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQAYnkbefEc

Funny watching poor Tony Blackburn having to pretend to like that - he hated reggae, like most of his colleagues at that time.


This would be one of my Desert Island Discs: Johnny Clarke - Every Knee Shall Bow with a toast by U-Roy on a King Tubby dub:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwWPXoq-JRc

[manticore]

"Every sound of the drum you hear, it's an African beat"

The Wailing Souls - Very Well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaZoRhMkjOQ