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What are your favourite reggae songs?

I'll go with 'Johnny Was' by Bob Marley and the Wailers, 'A Message to you Rudy' and 'Ghosttown' by the Specials (yeah I know, technically 'ska"), 'What'cha Gonna Do?' by Peter Tosh.

If anyone mentions anything by UB40 or the Police I'll farkin' spew.:p

Black Uhuru - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner & What is Life?

Bob Marley - Buffalo Soldier, Easy Skanking, Kaya, Iron Lion Zion to name a few

Peter Tosh - Till Your Well Runs Dry

Some Steel Pulse tunes too, but I can't remember song names.

I actually like the Signing Off album from UB40, and the songs Buzz Feeling & Mi Spliff are kind of fun.

junior murvin-police and theives

stephen and damian marley-the traffic jam

Now you´re talking -I am a big reggae fan and love the mournful sound of roots reggae

There are many songs that could be listed but here are some good ones definitely

Since I throw the comb away-Twinkle brothers

Declaration of rights - Abyssinians

How long & Poor and Needy- Misty in Roots

Trouble you a trouble me - Ine Kamoze

Rumours -Gregory Isaacs

Rub a dub style- Dennis Brown

Pass the Kutchie- Mighty Diamonds

Guess who´s coming to Dinner -Blackuhuru

Drum and Bass line- Aswad

Reggae is coming to the nation- Gondwana

Wa do dem- Eek a mouse

Bad Card & Concrete Jungle - Bob Marley

Tease Me- Chaka Demus and Pliers (Ok not really roots but good)

Babylon the Bandit- Steel Pulse

Anything from the soundtrack for The Harder They Come, especially Johnny Too Bad.

Waiting in Vain and Three Little Birds - Bob Marley

Legalize it.

I totally busted my dad back in the 80's, when I caught him with Peter Tosh and Bob Marley tapes in his car.

Just about anything from the early period of the Greensleeves label and 80s dancehall.

Anything from the soundtrack for The Harder They Come, especially Johnny Too Bad.

Good one. One of the best soundtracks ever IMO.

Toots and the Maytals - Pressure Drop

Anything from the soundtrack for The Harder They Come, especially Johnny Too Bad.

I've had Viet Nam stuck in my head all week after hearing it on Sirius Reggae!

Toots is the sh*t! Jacob Miller. Too many good songs.

Just about anything from the early period of the Greensleeves label and 80s dancehall.

Some of my very favorite reggae stuff came out on Greensleeves - Yellowman, Eek-A-Mouse, Barrington Levy, etc. Almost all of it was produced by the late Henry "Junjo" Lawes and featured the amazing Roots Radics backing band.

Yellowman - 'Lost Mi Love'
Eek-A-Mouse - 'Ganja Smuggling'
Barrington Levy - 'Murderer' and 'Under Mi Sensi'

Also love roots reggae from Horace Andy, Black Uhuru, Abbyssinians, etc.

Great thread

Toots and the Maytals rule.

And so does this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsAXUuJR7J0

"Try Jah Love" by Third World has been getting a lot of play at my house lately.

"Redemption Song" and "No Woman No Cry" - Bob Marley and the Wailers

One Love - Bob Marley (hell I could include the entire Legend compilation album)
You Gotta Walk - Peter Tosh

There a great reggae album called "Dub Side of the Moon" by the Easy Star All Stars, which is Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of..." inna reggae style. It is brilliant.

Oh wow. Yeah the late 60s stuff that was direct feedback between island and new orleans... the conscious stuff of the wailers before Bunny's fear of flying splintered them...

Yellowman!!!

There a great reggae album called "Dub Side of the Moon" by the Easy Star All Stars, which is Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of..." inna reggae style. It is brilliant.


Something about the Floyd inspired reinterpretation...

http://www.lutherwright.com/thewall.php