Help me choose some dub/rock steady reggae.

FlashHarry

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Mon Jul-21-03 09:19 PM
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Help me choose some dub/rock steady reggae.

When I was a kid in Britain in the 70s, I remember hearing reggae coming out of the speakers all the time. I'd like to get some of that stuff, but I don't know what to buy. I don't want the typical Marley/Tosh/Cliff stuff. I'm more interested in the Junior Mervin stuff and others like that. Basically, the stuff that inspired The Clash and The Police.

Any suggestions?

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Melsky

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Mon Jul-21-03 09:30 PM
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1. King Tubby

is one of my favorites.

Check out this site http://www.trojan-records.com/ they have a lot of compilations.

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FlashHarry

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Mon Jul-21-03 09:35 PM
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2. I've actually heard of him...

I like the real bass-heavy stuff. I guess that would be 'dub,' yes? I'm not sure I know my roots from dub from dancehall from rock steady. All I know is, I like eighties two-tone bands and bands like the Clash, and I'd like to hear the original artists that inspired them.

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bicentennial_baby

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Mon Jul-21-03 09:54 PM
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3. Lee Scratch Perry!

The original! This man put out some freaky Reggae!

http://www.upsetter.net/scratch/thunder.html

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cog_diss

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Mon Jul-21-03 09:59 PM
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4. second Tubby

King Tubby's "Controls" by Tubby and the Aggrovators, plus some of the Scientist stuff. They got re-released on the same labels.

Ask me about 80s stuff - I was only born in '73.

Laters.

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FlashHarry

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Mon Jul-21-03 10:02 PM
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5. I was born in '69.

I got on this jag after watching the Clash documentary Westway to the World. After listening to High Life stuff in Nigeria as a small boy, I loved the reggae in London in 1977. I was turned off it for a long time after hearing frat boys play Bob Marley's "Legend" album one too many times in college.

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cog_diss

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Mon Jul-21-03 10:20 PM
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6. was going to say Legend for a joke

I had a theory that Marley must be crap because you could be at a party full punks, goths, rastas and b-boys and that was the one thing no one would object to.

These days I'm not so polemical. His lyrics do stick in your head.

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devilgrrl

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Mon Jul-21-03 11:40 PM
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7. Check out Israel Vibration

They'll blow your socks off!

http://www.israelvibration.net/

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oustemnow

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Tue Jul-22-03 12:03 AM
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8. Lynton Qwesi Johnson

Edited on Tue Jul-22-03 12:06 AM by oustemnow

was pretty good, as I recall.

on edit: and by "Lynton Qwesi Johnson," I mean "Linton Kwesi Johnson," of course.

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Tom Kitten

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Tue Jul-22-03 01:52 AM
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10. I Second Linton Kwesi Johnson

Edited on Tue Jul-22-03 01:55 AM by countfloyd

"Forces of Victory" definitely...

(edit-corrected "definately")

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DagmarK

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Tue Jul-22-03 01:26 AM
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9. Mikal Rose; (or is it Michael?); BURNING SPEAR!; and....

there is a FANTASTIC multi-CD anthology of Bob Marley -- it's incredible -- stuff from his earliest days to his final days. Incredible.

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devilgrrl

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Tue Jul-22-03 07:22 PM
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11. Michael Rose - Black Uhuru

Yes, it's Michael Rose, formally of Black Uhuru another band that kicks ass.

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htuttle

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Tue Jul-22-03 08:39 PM
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13. Second on Black Uhuru

For dub-b-b-b-b... Black Uhuru and Linton Kwesi Johnson. And sometimes, a little Bill Laswell can be weird.

For 'rock steady/ska', stuff like The Specials, and a kind of hard to find band called "The Selector" was probably the best British reggae/ska band I ever heard.

Older sound (roots to rocker): Augustus Pablo sounds about the same today as he did 20 years ago. Toots and the Maytals is also a good older band that's still out there. Toots gets a little ska-like at times.

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phishhead

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Tue Jul-22-03 07:34 PM
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12. 10 Ft. Ganja Plant.

n/t

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