Good morning guys & gals,

On the recent on going topic ' what is everybody listening to' somebody mentioned bob marley's kaya and on looking in the local record shop saw it was priced at only £5 so took the gamble and have to say its a nice sound.

So the question is can anybody else reccomend any other good reggae cds & is there different grades of reggae as obviously you have your commercial stuff and i would assume a heavier kind of reggae imho.

Hope to take advantage of this fine weather we are expericeing in the uk at the moment & get home from work and get the old rum & coke out & chill out.

Oh yes!
see front page of my website for reggae recommendations
www.green-river.ch

I tend to like a lot of the 1970s stuff.

I can recommend Two Sevens Clash by Culture (in fact most Culture albums of that period are great)

Burning Spear
Horace Andy
Toots and the Maytals (a greatest hits CD is a good idea)
Abyssinians - Forward on to Zion (sometimes called Satta Massagana)
Max Romeo - War Inna Babylon

I am sure that others will have their favourites as well

Andy

Could rave till daybreak but try these to get ya started

Lee Perry - Upsetters 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle Aurolux LUXXCD004
Studio One Classics - Soul Jazz SJR CD96 ( Good intro to Studio One)
Gaz Mayall Top/Ska Tunes -Trojan TJCCD165 (Rare Ska comp by John Mayall's son)
Lee Perry - Produced & Directed By The Upsetter PSCD19 (Rare & Deadly)
Dub Gone Crazy - King Tubby & Friends - Blood & Fire BAFCD 002
Keep That Love Light Shining - Slim Smith TrojanTJDDD170 Jamaicas greatest vocals
War In A Babylon - Max Romeo HipOSelect BOOO2397-02 (Has bonus7"& 12" dubs)
Keep The Pressure Down - VA -Presige Elite CDSGP0558 ( Rare & Deadly)
Studio One DJ'S - VA Soul Jazz - SJR CD58
Red Rum Ball - VA Pressure Sound PSCD40 ( Rare rocksteady)
Rough & Tough - The Story Of Ska - Trojan TJDDD019
Lets Do Rocksteady - The Story Of Rocksteady TJDDD027
Tougher Than Tough - The Story Of Jamaican Music (great 4CD of Jamaican music)
Best Dressed Chicken In Town - Dr Alimantado
Jamaican R&B - Trojan TJETD042 ( Rockin 3 CD set )
Rare Groove - TRBCD 011 ( 3CD set )
Randy's 17 North Parade - Pressure Sound PSCD17


Virtually anything by Jackie Mittoo...Alton Ellis...Justin Hinds...Augustus Pablo..King Tubby...Prince Buster...Big Youth...

ROCKMAN

Odean - buy Peter Tosh's "Bush Doctor" (the one that Mick and Keith are on). I reckon you'd like it OK

And you cant go wrong with any of the Bob Marley & The Wailers albums in that era from 1972 onwards (the ones on Tuff Gong/Island).

That Max Romeo "War Inna Babylon" that a couple of folks mention above os pretty good...and dont forget some Jimmy Cliff

The soundtrack from The Harder They Come!

Thanks everybody for all the info, off to the record shop!

As far as Marley / Wailers, the best Island albums imo are "Catch a Fire," (now a 2 cd set w/ original 'Jamaican' mix), "Burnin" & "Natty Dread", also the live radio broadcast from '73 "Talkin' Blues" (Island) issued in the 90s is way better than the other live albums. Anything on Blood & Fire label is superb. The Lee Perry 3 cd box "Arkology" is excellent (Island), as is anything by LP on Pressure Sounds, avoid the late period LPerry stuff. A superb comp on B & F "Darker Than Blue" has reggae versions of US soul material, mostly magnificent. And Roir has a few terrific reggae (dub, usually) titles including Glen Brown classic "The Way to Mt. Zion" and Ras Michael "Rastafari Dub" (w/ Tosh, Tommy McCook, etc). A nice intro box covering roughly 30 years on 4 cds is 'Tougher Than Tough," w/ a marvelous & informative booklet.

right on inopeng the harder they come!!!!

MARLEY Exodus or Exodus De Luxe edition
Ditto anything after 1972 like Gazza said, my fav: Uprisin´
(but there is also a box "Soul Revolutionaries: The Early Jamaican Albums",
which concludes the best from the early years concentrated to four albums.
I like it; but beware of the cheap sales-offers or "Cyprus-pressings")

PETER TOSH Legalize It

BLACK UHURU Black Sounds Of Freedom or the albums before that