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rockosmodurnlif

macrumors 65816
Original poster
Apr 21, 2007
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New York, NY
So I've been trying to get into reggae/dancehall and people are always recommending songs to me but I am an album person. I like to listen to them all the way through. So can anyone recommend me 5 great reggae/dancehall albums?

No Bob Marley as I already have all the albums I like from him. I do like that sort of roots reggae though I also like Sean Paul-ish dancehall. Compilation albums or riddim or dub recommendations are also welcome. Thanks in advance.
 

GoCubsGo

macrumors Nehalem
Feb 19, 2005
35,741
153
Does that rule out Ziggy Marley? I only know a couple, O.A.R. and The Wailing Souls, which was a band that was formed by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.
 

Fa7mac

macrumors regular
Aug 27, 2009
128
0
Macau
Cidade Negra - Perfil (2008)
Lucky Dube - Captured
Alpha Blond - Cocody Rock
Ub40 - The Best Of UB40
 

Disc Golfer

macrumors 6502a
Dec 17, 2009
582
3
Black Uhuru - Sinsemilla
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Independant Intavenshan
Peter Tosh - Legalize It
Dub Revolutionaries - Sly & Robbie Meet the Mad Professor
Mad Professor - Method to the Madness
 

gødspeed

macrumors regular
Jun 11, 2009
228
1
Oregon
Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come (OST)
Desmond Dekker - Intensified
Israel Vibration - Stamina
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
Damian Marley - Welcome To Jamrock

edit -- all awesome, but ordered by relative awesomeness.
 

unid

macrumors regular
Feb 24, 2009
195
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Traffic_island_bay
I&i

Culture - Two Sevens clash
Gladiators - Trench Town Mix Up
The Upsetters - Return of Django
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Eek a mouse - Wa Do Dem
 

Rikos87

macrumors newbie
Oct 7, 2008
25
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Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown

Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile

Sly and Robbie - Mambo Taxi

Can't give five but these are amazing.
 

Hayduke60

macrumors regular
Mar 2, 2009
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Easy Star All Stars- Dub side of the Moon.
Leroy Shakespeare and the Ship of Vibes- Jubilation
Peter Tosh- Bush Doctor
Peter Tosh- Equal Rites
UB40- Labour of Love
 

pablorkcz

macrumors newbie
May 13, 2010
1
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Does that rule out Ziggy Marley? I only know a couple, O.A.R. and The Wailing Souls, which was a band that was formed by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh.

The Wailing Souls were NOT a band formed by Bob Marley and Peter Tosh. The only band they, along with Bunny Wailer, formed was The Wailers. The Wailers had their own label for a while in Jamaica called Wail'n Soul'm however.
 

wvuwhat

macrumors 65816
Sep 26, 2007
1,157
37
Can't believe SOJA hasn't been said yet, check em' out. More mellow reggae...
 

skunk

macrumors G4
Jun 29, 2002
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Republic of Ukistan
Without a doubt the best reggae record ever made:

Funky Kingston - Toots and the Maytals. Pure gold from beginning to end, complete with the best versions by far of Louie Louie and Redemption Song.
 

Peace

Cancelled
Apr 1, 2005
19,546
4,556
Space The Only Frontier

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