top 5 reggae songs & best album?

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Mighty Diamonds-Bodyguard
Gappy Ranks-Longtime
Pablo Moses-Grasshopper
Daweh Congo-Guidance
Everton Blender-Lift Up Your Head

Album-Midnite-Unpolished

wickford

Wet Dream - Max Romeo (Savoy Rooms - ex WitchDoctor) 1968
Support band played stuff by Cream - interesting mix!

Alex Wright

"Stick it up mister...."

you start moving as soon as you hear it

Davali

Guns of Navaronne - The Skatalites
Waiting in Vain - Bob Marley
Uptown Top Ranking - Althea and Donna
Israelites - Desmond Decker
Young gifted and Black - Bob and Marcia

shine166

Burning Spear- Marcus Garvey

was just about to post that, guess I should nominate 'Man in the Hills' as a best Album

Alex Wright

maybe i should have included this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6oYyG0KcvQ&feature=list_related&playnext=1&list=AVGxdCwVVULXdhU-A-DKpcPQhXewE6bun-

milne

Best Album is Two Sevens Clash by Culture. (Nods to Henry Irving)

5 Tracks? Reggae has had such a massive influence on my taste this is going to be tough but here goes in no order:

Night Nurse 10" Discomix Cool Ruler
Guess who's coming to dinner? (Natty Dreadlock) Black Uhuru
Songs my Mother used to sing Dennis Brown
Could you be loved? Bob Marley
Baby I love you so Colourbox

madcapsyd

Long Shot Kick De Bucket - Pioneers

Super Ape - Upsetters (aka Lee Perry)

Rob

Wet Dream - Max Romeo (Savoy Rooms - ex WitchDoctor) 1968
Support band played stuff by Cream - interesting mix!

I was there (I was 15). I seem to remember seeing the Skatalites down there around that time as well.

Siv_in_Norfolk

I was there (I was 15). I seem to remember seeing the Skatalites down there around that time as well.

whoah!!!

Deadred

Wet Dream - Max Romeo (Savoy Rooms - ex WitchDoctor) 1968
Support band played stuff by Cream - interesting mix!

I was there (I was 15). I seem to remember seeing the Skatalites down there around that time as well.

Don't remember the gigs but Steve Maxted used to be the DJ and do crazy stunts shoving pins into his face. Claret eveywhere when it went wrong!

Rob

Wet Dream - Max Romeo (Savoy Rooms - ex WitchDoctor) 1968
Support band played stuff by Cream - interesting mix!

I was there (I was 15). I seem to remember seeing the Skatalites down there around that time as well.

Don't remember the gigs but Steve Maxted used to be the DJ and do crazy stunts shoving pins into his face. Claret eveywhere when it went wrong!

I remember Steve Maxted. That's a name from the past.

Baldybonce

Wet Dream - Max Romeo (Savoy Rooms - ex WitchDoctor) 1968
Support band played stuff by Cream - interesting mix!

I was there (I was 15). I seem to remember seeing the Skatalites down there around that time as well.

Don't remember the gigs but Steve Maxted used to be the DJ and do crazy stunts shoving pins into his face. Claret eveywhere when it went wrong!

I remember Steve Maxted. That's a name from the past.

he used to do the Pickwick when it was The Broom.

Stig

Althea & Donna - Uptown Top Rankin (Only record to make the UK charts thats had two different spellings for the artist and two different spellings for the title of the label)
Bob Marley - Iron Lion Zion
Pluto Shervington - Your Honour (Hilarious)
Smiley Culture - Police Officer
Herb Black - Suzette (More soca than Reggae, but I can't imagine there'll ever be a top 5 soca thread)

Salad

any favourite songs since mid 80s?

Rob

All Black Uhuru -

1983 - Guess who's coming to dinner
1983 - Anthem (won a grammy for best reggae album in 1984)

Henry Irving

Dotun Adebayo, the Charlton supporting DJ once did a top 100 reggae tracks for BBC Radio London but I've never seen the final list.

anyone?

sasquatch

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oOtz6mE7sM

Rob

Brilliant sasquatch. Liked that :-)

sasquatch

Bob Marley's youngest son Damian is very talented as well!

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7uoICEaFgs

Bob Marley's eldest son Ziggy Marley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-eXYJnV3V4