Dancehall albums and classic tunes

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I only own a small amount of dancehall compared to my evergrowing 70s and 60s reggae collection. I know we've probably done this before but I'd really like to know about the essential dancehall releases to get. My only qualm with dancehall, particularly single-artist albums is that it gets a bit relentless and exhausting.
A lot of tracks start well but go on for four or five minutes without picking up pace or doing anything particularly interesting, to my ears. I often find myself wishing the producer would mix a few jungle breaks in by the end of a track or change tempo or something. Maybe I'm missing the whole point of the genre here though?
Anyway, this is going off topic, so I'll kick the list off with some single tunes that I like:

Alozade et al: Under Mi Sensi
Lady G: Man A Bad Man
Wayne Marshall: Whole World
Elephant Man: Tall Up Tall Up
Sizzla: What Does It Worth?
Morgan Heritage feat Bounty Killer: Guns in the Ghetto
Ward21: Petrol

I'm not really looking for compilations unless they're particularly grand, but decent single-artist albums would be ace as well as single tunes.

― dog latin, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 11:19 (twenty-two years ago)

dog latin--I'll try and make up a nice list by tonight...I understand your frustration with the "start well, keep on keepin' on" problem with dancehall. Almost every tune seems to have this issue because the bare fact is that they're supposed to be mixed together. There is about a million times more emphasis on the intro and the first minute or so of a dancheall tune because that's the part that people usually hear--and demand it get licked back and played again.

― cybele (cybele), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 12:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i'll slap you a top 10 together, too...

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

well aren't there any good dj / live mixes of dancehall in that case?

― dog latin, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 14:09 (twenty-two years ago)

cybele I'm still waiting for that CD!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 16 September 2003 15:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Shit. I know. I know. I know. I have it sitting here next to my computer.

doglatin: buy some soundsystem tapes. I recommend Stone Love--they're not a clashing sound. Soundclash tapes can be a little frantic and annoying.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Cy-blog! Cy-blog! Cy-blog! Cy-blog!

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Oui, je peux t'entendre...mais je suis pas sur que j'ai enough stuff to say. Thanks for the support! :)

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 01:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Cyblog: In English and French!

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

more female bloggers! more ragga bloggas! more bilingual bloggers! your doing this is urgent + key!

― M Matos (M Matos), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)

je suis d'accord cybele!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 02:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay Cybele and her general thoughtfulness, I sez. :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 03:46 (twenty-two years ago)

aww, shucks.

― cybele (cybele), Wednesday, 17 September 2003 13:12 (twenty-two years ago)

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