10 Most Favoritest Dub Albums/Comps

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(Notice that I didn't say '10 Best')
In no particular order:
10.Scientist vs. Space Invaders
9.King Tubby King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
8.Bertram Brown--Freedom Sounds in Dub
7.Glen Brown--Termination Dub
6.Scientist--Dub in the Roots Tradition
5.Lee Perry--Super Ape
4.Keith Hudson--Pick a Dub
3.King Tubby/Harry Mudie--Dub Conference vol 1-3 (impossible to pick just one of them)
2.Dub Gone Crazy
1.African Dub Almighty, vol 3&4

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

What no Yabby U "King Tubby's Prophesy of Dub"?!?!?!?

― Dadaismus, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Thanks. Dub is on my agenda, but there are a few genres ahead of it for now. (It's a lot to take on financially.)

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry Dadaismus, I haven't heard that one but it's definitely on my list. (Got 'Dub it to the Top' recently and that barely misses the list)

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

"Dub Gone Crazy" is very nice.

― o. nate (onate), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

If I had lots of money I would buy little BUT dub and reggae.

― Dadaismus, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Dadaismus, you shamed me into placing an order for 'Prophesy of Dub'. Picked up Tubby's '100% of Dub' as well, looks like there's only a track or two that overlaps w/what I already have.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:38 (twenty-two years ago)

No shame Oops - I like the Yabby U album a lot because it has unusual arrangements and instruments. Also Augustus Pablo's "Ital Dub" which is a very smooth, easy listening kind of dub album, and I mean that as a compliment. Plus there's one the Prince Far-I Cry Tuff Dub Encounter volumes that is especially good, can't remember which tho.

― Dadaismus, Thursday, 17 April 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Some overlap with Oops:

Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown
King Tubby & Friends - Freedom Sounds in Dub
Keith Hudson - Pick A Dub
Jah Warrior - Dub from the Heart
Mad Professor - Trix in the Mix
Alpha and Omega - Dub Plate Session 2
Creation Rebel - Historic Moments 1 or 2
King Tubby - Controls (1st dub album I bought)
Jah Shaka - can't remember which one
Roots Manuva - Dub Come Save Me (if only for the mighty Witness dub)

Back to lurking...

― Rich Williams (superultramega), Thursday, 17 April 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

i only have one which i love a lot: "present arms in dub" by ub40.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

pretty much all early scientist stuff is great

― Ben Silver (Ben Silver), Thursday, 17 April 2003 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

10 Jah Shaka - "Meets Mad Professor at Ariwa"
9 Agustus Pablo - "Original Rockers"
8 African Head Charge - "My Life in a Hole in the Ground"
7 Creation Rebel - "Starship Africa"
6 Singers & Players - "Staggering Heights"
5 VA On-U Sound - "The Dread Operator"
4 VA On-U Sound - "A Party of Dubbers and Toasters"
3 VA On-U Sound - "In Dub Daze"
2 Mad Professor - "Captures Pato Banton"
1 Mad Professor - "Dub Me Crazy!!"

(honorable mention goes to the Wackies label whom I love, but wouldn't consider straight dub. more song oriented. Love Joys, Horace Andy, Wayne Jarrett, Junior Delahaye, & the Meditations)

― JasonD (JasonD), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Totally Ben. I refrained from listing every single one.

― oops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I know I always mention Prince Far I in all reggae threads because I love him and he's criminally underlooked, but the Cry Tuff Dub Encounter albums he did are absolutely brilliant. Chapter 3 is my favorite dub album.

― scott m (mcd), Thursday, 17 April 2003 18:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm down with most of the usual suspects here (Perry, Pablo, Tubby, Scientist), but don't forget Garvey's Ghost, the dub of Burning Spear's Marcus Garvey album. I can't recall offhand who twisted the knobs on that one, but it's always been one of my faves; there's some stuff on there that'll take your head off. C

― Lee G (Lee G), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I enjoy that album, but it's way too tame for a dub album. I think Mr. Rodney himself may have mixed it.
Supposedly there's a Jamaican-only dub version of Marcus Garvey that is more adventuresome. Anybody know where to get it?

― hoops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Actually, I think I'm wrong. I'm thinking of the original version of Marcus Garvey, not any dub. Mango smoothed out all the ruff edges on it to make it more palatable to Western ears. This is the version that I'm (and I assume almost everyone else) familiar with and it is incredible regardless.

― hoops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Call me Mr. Misinformation: WINSTON RODNEY DID NOT MIX GARVEY'S GHOST.

― hoops (Oops), Thursday, 17 April 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I only have one, and I love it: Double Seven by The Upsetters. Great, especially the songs with U-Roy.

― Orange, Friday, 18 April 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Cybele to thread, obv.

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 18 April 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

1. keith hudson - torch of freedom: the allmusic thing describes it as 'intensly militant' and a bunch of other stuff. i'm not sure if it's a mistake or if i just don't get it. because all of the songs are really lovely and sound kind of caribbean in a stereotypical tourist ad sort of way. it's breezy and not dark and it's nice.

2. scientist - rids the world of the evil curse of the vampires: the jah fm station in gta 3 was the first time i ever heard dub, i think. that seems a little silly. but it's true. so, this was the first one i ever heard. you can buy the new greensleeves lps for not that much money at aquariusrecords dot com.

3. lee 'scratch' perry - roast fish collie weed and corn bread: no one's said it yet so maybe it doesn't count. it's a bit silly and it has really good songs on it.

4. i have a record with a bunch of unknown guys on the sleng teng riddim. it's got a woman's legs and buttocks on the cover and it's yellow and has computery lettery. at the end of both sides and stuck in the middle of both sides are neat remixed versions of the riddim. the unknown guys are great and the remixed versions are super.

5. the mad professor + yellowman one: dubs of yellowman singles that i've never heard of. it sounds like his pato banton production, kind of. it's hard to like so you have to listen to it over and over again.

6. mikey dread - beyond world war three and dread at the controls: i'm not sure which one.

7. some king tubby thing someone's probably mentioned

10.

put in a couple more scientist records, the pac-man one, maybe. and lee perry and prince jammy dub the old fashioned way. and the scientist vs. prince jammy big showdown one.

― d k (d k), Friday, 18 April 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I was just wondering where cybele has been. HELLO?...

― oops (Oops), Friday, 18 April 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

The King Tubby emphasis is good for me. What about those Wackies reissues? The "Nature's Dub" record fell into my top of the charts on first listen.

― wrmdsk, Friday, 18 April 2003 22:00 (twenty-two years ago)

The last two tracks on Beyond World War III are phenomenal. Some day I will start collecting dub, I guess.

― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 18 April 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

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