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Can somebody recommend some Trojan Records reggae?

pjoasisrulepjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
edited November 2008 in Other Music
So many artists, I do not know where to start.
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  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Toots and the Maytals and Max Romeo would be a good place.
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    The early stuff Lee Perry did with the Upsetters on Trojan is brilliant. Also as mentioned, Toots and the Maytals.

    Most importantly, check out Screaming Target, Dread Locks Dread and Natty Cultural Dread by Big Youth. Fuck it, check out everything by Big Youth.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    reggae and jazz are the two worst types of music in the world imo... so personally i wouldnt bother... it all sounds the same ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Dismantle The SunDismantle The Sun Posts: 139
    It's not that bad...Nothing worse than r&b especially work produced by a certain man with a hiking shoe brand name. (Names not to be mentioned).

    Can't go wrong with a bit of Lee Scratch Perry.
    Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun - W.H. Auden
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    reggae and jazz are the two worst types of music in the world imo... so personally i wouldnt bother... it all sounds the same ;)
    I wonder, Dunk, if reggae and jazz are also two of the genres that you know least about? :)
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    I wonder, Dunk, if reggae and jazz are also two of the genres that you know least about? :)

    most likely amigo. I also dont know much about the biological process involved in the cell structure growth of broccoli.. but i know it tastes like shit.

    I've heard at least 40 reggae songs in my life... 38 of them were from UB40 probably... and i know i hated them all... i also hate steel drums.. that sound is awful. it's a genre.. so i presume they will have various key and basic elements involved.. so thats why i know i would hate them all.

    as for jazz... it rhymes with spaz... enough said. ;)
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Dismantle The Sun wrote:
    It's not that bad...Nothing worse than r&b especially work produced by a certain man with a hiking shoe brand name. (Names not to be mentioned).

    Can't go wrong with a bit of Lee Scratch Perry.


    Ed phoned me about reggae and i told him I'd rather listen to the CD of a train arriving at Sobibor.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    most likely amigo. I also dont know much about the biological process involved in the cell structure growth of broccoli.. but i know it tastes like shit.

    I've heard at least 40 reggae songs in my life... 38 of them were from UB40 probably... and i know i hated them all... i also hate steel drums.. that sound is awful. it's a genre.. so i presume they will have various key and basic elements involved.. so thats why i know i would hate them all.

    as for jazz... it rhymes with spaz... enough said. ;)
    Firstly, being informed on reggae by UB40 is retarded and I KNOW you know that, you're not stupid. No reggae sounds like UB40, they're a pop band. It's fine to dislike any music Dunk but disregarding it and the fact that others might when you know nothing about it is just ignorance.

    I have a lot of reggae and can't think of one album that has use of, or at least prominent use of steel drums. I also can't think of any reggae that I listened to that sounds alike. Sure, all the stuff a person who is not inclined to go out and explore the genre is going to have heard is going to be Bob Marley and other popular reggae that tries to BE Bob Marley. That doesn't constitute the genre Dunk. By all means dislike the genre but do you not think, perhaps, your contribution to this thread was pointless, what with you knowing nothing about the subject? :) Your argument would have been better made by a person who had actually HEARD a Trojan records artist and then disliked it.

    As for jazz, I've probably heard upwards of 300 jazz albums and very few of them sound the same, less still the work of a "spaz". Takes brains and extreme skill to make jazz :p
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Oh and pjoasisrule, if you really can't decide where to start, Trojan have some pretty great box sets which cover their whole catalogue. There are boxes for various styles, dub reggae, roots, rocksteady, ska, skinhead reggae, dancehall etc.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • dunkmandunkman Posts: 19,646
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    That doesn't constitute the genre Dunk. By all means dislike the genre

    i think i quite clearly said i hate reggae.. :)

    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    but do you not think, perhaps, your contribution to this thread was pointless

    now i'm a humble sorta chap... but i can safely say that no contribution of mine to any thread, ever, in the history of threads, has ever been pointless. ;)


    look... i know what you're saying... but i'm not going to purposely hunt down 47 different cd's of reggae bands in the fleeting hope that i might find one that i like.. and even then.. just 'like' ... i simply dont have the time nor the inclination... suffice to say, any reggae infused song i've ever heard if rather disliked... i dont like No Woman No Cry... and i know i hate UB40.. i've heard dumb 90's pop hits that were shit... i've heard 70's guff on movies... i even watched Cool Runnings on mute.

    Jazz is only good if i'm watching a film noir set in Paris in the 1930s... other than that.. see above. :)

    and pjoasisrule goes onto other threads and says how much he hates *insert band* so i'll do it too... nah nah de nah nah.. its my ball and your no playin.. etc :D

    gimme a break.. its friday and i need a larf.
    oh scary... 40000 morbidly obese christians wearing fanny packs invading europe is probably the least scariest thing since I watched an edited version of The Care Bears movie in an extremely brightly lit cinema.
  • Jeremy1012Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    dunkman wrote:
    i think i quite clearly said i hate reggae.. : )




    now i'm a humble sorta chap... but i can safely say that no contribution of mine to any thread, ever, in the history of threads, has ever been pointless. ;)


    look... i know what you're saying... but i'm not going to purposely hunt down 47 different cd's of reggae bands in the fleeting hope that i might find one that i like.. and even then.. just 'like' ... i simply dont have the time nor the inclination... suffice to say, any reggae infused song i've ever heard if rather disliked... i dont like No Woman No Cry... and i know i hate UB40.. i've heard dumb 90's pop hits that were shit... i've heard 70's guff on movies... i even watched Cool Runnings on mute.

    Jazz is only good if i'm watching a film noir set in Paris in the 1930s... other than that.. see above. :)

    and pjoasisrule goes onto other threads and says how much he hates *insert band* so i'll do it too... nah nah de nah nah.. its my ball and your no playin.. etc :D

    gimme a break.. its friday and i need a larf.
    I'm not saying you should hunt down any reggae, you're entitled to assume none of it will ever appeal to you, all I'm saying is that in a thread where a person presumably does enjoy it, because they are asking for recommendations for reggae on a specific record label, a person coming into the thread who doesn't really know anything about it is probably not bringing anything of worth to it, besides your obvious good nature and charm (?) :D

    Ps, not all jazz is that smooth film noir kind. I think you'd be shocked by how different some of it. Not necessarily impressed, since it's not your kind of thing, but you'd certainly not make the mistake again of thinking it's all just the soundtrack to cool, sexy film scenes with parisians smoking in the post-coital aftermath of a gallic love encounter :p

    Both reggae and jazz are as broad as any other genre in terms of what they have to offer.

    Clearly there is a significant difference between these two...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg1iEBWxVeQ
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRqRJee66UE
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • reeferchiefreeferchief Posts: 3,569
    Jeremy1012 wrote:
    Oh and pjoasisrule, if you really can't decide where to start, Trojan have some pretty great box sets which cover their whole catalogue. There are boxes for various styles, dub reggae, roots, rocksteady, ska, skinhead reggae, dancehall etc.

    Good call and play.com always have them at reasonable prices.:)

    Black Uhuru and Dillinger are another two of my favourite Reggae artists although I dont think either are on Trojan.
    Can not be arsed with life no more.
  • Jearlpam0925Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,286
    reeferchief wrote:
    Good call and play.com always have them at reasonable prices.:)

    Black Uhuru and Dillinger are another two of my favourite Reggae artists although I dont think either are on Trojan.

    The one person in here who's guidance I would trust when it comes to dub is someone who goes by the name of reeferchief. I don't know - just a hunch.
  • i shit and i stinki shit and i stink Posts: 1,122
    I borrowed *ahem* a 100 track reggae thing from Mininova by a guy called Rock Savage. that's all you'll ever need.
    we're all going to the same place...
  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    So many artists, I do not know where to start.


    http://www.amazon.com/Trojan-Box-Set-Ganja-Reggae/dp/B0000AQRZQ


    Get that.
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