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vedder360vedder360 Posts: 97
edited August 2012 in Other Music
Any good reggae recommendations out there other than Bob Marley of course?
Thanks..
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  • RASTA MOUSERASTA MOUSE Posts: 278
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  • jweyersjweyers Posts: 364
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  • PapPap Posts: 28,989
    Ziggy Marley
    Black Uhuru
    Damian Marley
    Peter Tosh
    Stephen Marley
    Inner Circle
    Gentleman
    LDM Linea Di Massa
    Manu Chao
    Gogol Bordello
    Los De Abajo
    Amparanoia
    Buena Vista Social Club
    The Skatalites
    Federico Aubele
    Orishas
    Thievery Corporation
    Ayo
    Tonino Carotone
    Lizz Wright
    Morcheeba
    The Earthbound
    Devotchka
    Ojos de Brujo
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  • AndySlashAndySlash Posts: 3,244
    burning spear

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9gKN3Nuy9w

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mWNi7u9OLY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBAVTpU4F4
  • moses-imoses-i Posts: 138
    Dennis Brown
    The Congos (you must get Heart of Congos-arguably the best reggae album of all time-anything from lee perry's Black Ark production is ESSENTIAL...this includes the classics Police and Thieves by Junior Murvin and War In Babylon by Max Romeo)
    Garnet Silk
    Bitty Mclean
    Beres Hammond
    Gregory Isaacs
    Tarrus Riley
    Buju Banton's Til Shiloh is a MUST

    I could go on and on-but I'm assuming you are interested in mainly singers not deejays.
    if jah is the ship, we smile at the storm.
  • he.who.forgetshe.who.forgets Posts: 4,593
    Buju Banton
    Steel Pulse
    John Brown's Body
    Jimmy Cliff

    Pepper, Slightly Stoopid, and Tomorrow's Bad Seeds are all also good but qualify more as surf-punk/raggae
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  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,272
    he.who.forgets wrote:
    Buju Banton
    Steel Pulse
    John Brown's Body
    Jimmy Cliff

    Pepper, Slightly Stoopid, and Tomorrow's Bad Seeds are all also good but qualify more as surf-punk/raggae

    good call on steel pulse. it's been awhile since i have seen them but i really enjoyed them
    also i love willie nelson's, 10years in the making, reggae cd, called, countryman

    Toots and the Maytals with Willie Nelson Still is Still Moving to Me
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysbG2Pad7Mk

    and for anyone trying to capture that bob feeling live. GO SEE ZIGGY
  • drinkbigredinsteaddrinkbigredinstead Posts: 2,240
    Culture

    Barrington Levy
  • HeisenbergHeisenberg Posts: 4,957
    The Harder They Come Soundtrack
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    Heisenberg wrote:
    The Harder They Come Soundtrack


    Yes but an even better movie soundtrack is *ROCKERS* It STILL rocks some 33 years later. You can't get a better assembly of reggae stars in their youth and their prime.

    Ex: Kiddus I...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2GwohNFo6s

    More on the movie and music from the movie above in *ROCKERS*
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    One Side
    1."We 'A' Rockers" (Ian Lewis, Bernard Harvey) - Inner Circle
    2."Money Worries" (Wilson) - The Maytones
    3."Police and Thieves" (Junior Murvin, Lee Perry) - Junior Murvin
    4."Books of Rules" (Barry Llewellyn, Harry Johnson) - The Heptones
    5."Stepping Razor" (Joe Higgs) - Peter Tosh
    6."Tenement Yard" (Jacob Miller, Roger Lewis) - Jacob Miller
    7."Fade Away" (Earl "Chinna" Smith) - Junior Byles

    [edit] Side two
    1."Rockers" (Neville Livingstone) - Bunny Wailer
    2."Slave Master" (Gregory Isaacs) - Gregory Isaacs
    3."Man in the Street" (Coxsone Dodd) - Rockers All Stars
    4."Graduation in Zion" (Frank Dowding) - Kiddus I
    5."Jah No Dead" (Winston Rodney) - Burning Spear
    6."Satta Massagana" (L. Manning, D. Manning, B. Collins) - Third World
    7."Natty Take Over" (Justin Hines, Michael Roper) - Justin Hines & the Dominoes

    Also don't forget about Steel Pulse and the master of the mouth organ Augustus Pablo may he RIP.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiaekG1Q0UE ....here he plays live in 1986

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
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  • badbrainsbadbrains Posts: 10,255
    Here's some of my picks for u:
    Black uhuru-Exspecially with puma jones!!
    Michael Rose
    Anything sly and Robbie touched
    Beres Hammond
    Jimmy cliff
    Peter tosh
    Burning spear
    Steel pulse
    YELLOWMAN
    PATO Banton
    Third World
    Just to name a few for ya besides marley
    * oh and the bad brains got a few killer reggae jams mixed with some hard core punk.....:)
  • voidofmanvoidofman Posts: 4,009
    drinkbigredinstead wrote:
    Barrington Levy

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7NC5gYU1Ek
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    Third World....*Satta Massagana*

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Posts: 10,219
    badbrains wrote:
    Here's some of my picks for u:
    Black uhuru-Exspecially with puma jones!!
    Michael Rose
    Anything sly and Robbie touched
    Beres Hammond
    Jimmy cliff
    Peter tosh
    Burning spear
    Steel pulse
    YELLOWMAN
    PATO Banton
    Third World
    Just to name a few for ya besides marley
    * oh and the bad brains got a few killer reggae jams mixed with some hard core punk.....:)

    I like this list, especially Black Uhuru, Steel Pulse, and Yellowman. I loved Pato Banton too (unti lI saw him live :cry: )...he preached and interrupted every song to talk. It seemed like he didnt complete one song!

    I'd also like to throw in Eek-A-Mouse. Love them.
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  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,272
    i never saw bob live and still today he is top 5 for me. ziggy is top 10
    this is incredible, if you love bob. this is fresh and sticky..from 2020...just found it now and needed to share!!
    so light one up and watch it go to 2million views  ;)

  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,462
    Lee 'scratch' perry is great at mixing it all up if you haven't explored his stuff. 
  • ymalkielymalkiel Posts: 129
    edited April 2021
    Chronixx is a newer reggae artist, and he is OUTSTANDING! 

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  • ed243421ed243421 Posts: 7,659
    https://youtu.be/v5LXwkmxl5U


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  • GlowGirlGlowGirl Posts: 10,918
    Don’t forget Dread Zeppelin  ;)
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,173
    it all sounds the same, anyway.
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • ymalkielymalkiel Posts: 129
    edited April 2021
    Wobbie said:
    it all sounds the same, anyway.
    Hearing music you don’t listen to regularly often sounds like that, where it’s hard to distinguish one song from another. But that’s a function of how the human brain acquires language.

    Language is made of sounds. If your brain is unfamiliar with those sounds, they all sound the same. For example, if a person doesn’t know Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Farsi, or Hebrew. To that person’s ear, they would not even know WHAT language is being spoken if the hear any of those languages. They wouldn’t know the difference between Chinese and Japanese, or Spanish and Portuguese. But those languages are DEFINITELY different and distinct from each other. If the person hears someone speaking Farsi or Hebrew, they may not even know where one word ends and the next one begins.

    BUT, if that person spends enough time learning the language, and HEARING the sounds that make up the language, those sounds and thus the language become more distinct and understandable.

    I had a very similar experience when I first started listening to jazz. Couldn’t make sense of any of it. But the more I listened, the more I understood. The same thing happened with hip-hop for me.

    The key is to find a “Rosetta Stone” for whatever music genre it is that you want to explore, and use it as a launching off point for the rest. For me, the album Kind Of Blue by Miles Davis was my “Rosetta Stone” for jazz. It opened up the entire vocabulary of jazz for me. That’s not to say that all jazz sounds like that album, but that the album gave me the basic vocabulary to go out, listen to more jazz, and HEAR it.

    For reggae, Bob Marley’s album Legend is that sort of “Rosetta Stone” album. It’s no wonder that it’s often the ONLY reggae album that a person owns or knows. The same is true for Miles Davis’s Kind Of Blue.

    I can’t remember what album was my entry into hip-hop, but I’m sure it was connected to the Beastie Boys or the Roots. Which makes sense, because those two groups both use live instruments, so it was easier to connect to them, because my brain was more familiar with those sounds.

    By the way, there are people for whom all rock music sounds the same. Some can’t even distinguish it from country music.
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  • LoujoeLoujoe Posts: 9,462
    Interesting. I find that with new pop music. 
  • Tim SimmonsTim Simmons Posts: 8,076
    Wobbie said:
    it all sounds the same, anyway.
    Shocker that you have a bad opinion. 
  • g under pg under p Posts: 18,196
    SOJA out of Virginia who are getting bigger and every year. Met them after a show, spoke for hours here in S Florida where they opened for my friend Michael Franti.

    It stands for Soldiers Of Jah Army, give them a try.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • eddieceddiec Posts: 3,881
    King Tubby- Dub from the Roots
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    No one mentioned Toots and the Maytals?  Check them out.  It's pretty much half of Sublimes 40OZ to freedom album.

    Give the Agrolites a shot, Damian Marleys Jamrock was really good.  

    Cham Ghetto Story.

    Ganja Farmer Marlon Asher.

    Those are some older good ones.
  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,173
    Tim Simmons said:
    Wobbie said:
    it all sounds the same, anyway.
    Shocker that you have a bad opinion. 

    damn! I have ANOTHER enemy?
    If I had known then what I know now...

    Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
    VIC 07
    EV LA1 08
    Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
    Columbus 10
    EV LA 11
    Vancouver 11
    Missoula 12
    Portland 13, Spokane 13
    St. Paul 14, Denver 14
    Philly I & II, 16
    Denver 22
  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 40,355
    https://youtu.be/VtuYWlh6fJ4
  • dankinddankind Posts: 20,839
    edited April 2021
    Anybody say Eek-A-Mouse yet? 

    And I don't see much dancehall representation. Shabba is a dick, but his shit hits hard.

    Edit: Just saw Johnny Pistachio mentioned Eek-A-Mouse.
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