reggae for the punk rockers

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Hey - can anyone recommend some good reggae from the late 70s? Yknow, the sort of stuff The Clash would dig.

as a reference, i'm looking for stuff like:

MPLA - Tapper Zukie
Two Sevens Clash - Culture
I Was Appointed - Junior Murvin
Bam Bam - Sister Nancy

annnnnnnd as a bonus, i'm looking for some early dancehall like Under Me Sleng Teng by Wayne Smith.

thanks!

paul

― pppp, Monday, 28 November 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

Dr Alimanado - Born for a purpose.

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

Check out Wild Dub on Soul Jazz - The Ruts, The Clash et al dubbed up.

Also - Punky Reggae Party, a compilation on Trojan.

― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:49 (twenty years ago)

There are a couple of Don Letts' curated Trojan compilations, but the best option is the fantastic compilation Rebel Music (get the two CD version if you can, the 1CD one is great too, but lacks a couple of essential tracks) which came out around 77-79, I think, and features a slew of essential tracks.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

haha don letts is a busy man. he also did a disc for heavenly called 'live at the roxy jan-april 1977' which is just a selection of cuts that he used to play there, not actually recorded live.

― Theorry Henry (Enrique), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:54 (twenty years ago)

Prince Far I - many albums
Dennis Bovell - More Cuts and Dubs

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 28 November 2005 16:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/z/zzscratchysoundsskadu_101b.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 28 November 2005 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Dillinger - Cokane in the Brain

"Knife, a fork, a bottle and a cork - that's the way we spell New York"

― Renard, Monday, 28 November 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

haha don letts is a busy man. he also did a disc for heavenly called 'live at the roxy jan-april 1977' which is just a selection of cuts that he used to play there, not actually recorded live.

I was about to recommend this. It's ace.

How come punks, who allegedly hated hippies with such a passion, hooked onto reggae and rasta culture?

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:12 (twenty years ago)

Because rastas at the time were not hippies?

I mean, Kingston in the 70s was hardly Haight Street, let's put it that way.

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Because 1) punks didn't really hate (all) hippies and 2) hippies /= rastas by any stretch of the imagination.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:15 (twenty years ago)

Perhaps Frank Kogan can clear up this mystery for us and enlighten us on some other topics along the way.

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Big Youth - Natty Cultural Dread album & probably others

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Because 1) punks didn't really hate (all) hippies and 2) hippies /= rastas by any stretch of the imagination.

okok, i appreciate my question pre-supposes a fairly binary universe, but it's not hard to draw parallels between hippies and rastas, even if only in facile drug-of-choice terms.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Monday, 28 November 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

Haha, only if we could group musical acts by drug of choice only, this world might be a better place... (or at least more dangerous in a Warriors kinda way... but with more drugs, of course.)

― dali madison's nut (donut), Monday, 28 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

yes to Big Youth. "Chanting Dread Inna Fine Style" is good ... it's late '80s not late '70s, but I think it collects older tracks.

Lee Perry obviously, "Dub Revolution" and whatnot.

Tenor Saw "Ring the Alarm"

― Renard, Monday, 28 November 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

Well I'm not sure if it's exactly what you're looking for, but I like Keith Hudson's "The Hudson Affair" double CD. Sometimes when there's vocalists (Big Youth, U Roy) it's almost like they're very well crafted pop songs worthy of being singles. Which they may have been originally for all I know.

― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:24 (twenty years ago)

"okok, i appreciate my question pre-supposes a fairly binary universe, but it's not hard to draw parallels between hippies and rastas, even if only in facile drug-of-choice terms."

Yes, but punks weren't attracted to reggae for drug-of-choice reasons.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:26 (twenty years ago)

Alex in NYC that really is a hilarious LP cover. I dig.

― Vinegar and Artichoke Hearts (Bimble...), Monday, 28 November 2005 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Punks may have 'hated' hippies, but it was hippies that had all the amps and rehearsal rooms at the time. Still do. The hippy hate didn't last long.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:32 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but punks weren't attracted to reggae for drug-of-choice reasons.

haha no, punks NEVER smoked weed, ever ever ever.

there are about eight different compilations out w/this basic theme and most of them have the same dozen songs on them

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:41 (twenty years ago)

I had that Don Letts one, but the CD has gone walkies. Sadness. Still got the box though.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 09:46 (twenty years ago)

"haha no, punks NEVER smoked weed, ever ever ever."

Haha wait I never said that.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

No, that was Matos-Webster Dictionary.

Your short-term memory is OK.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:34 (twenty years ago)

How come punks, who allegedly hated hippies with such a passion, hooked onto reggae and rasta culture?

They might have liked the music that hardly means they were into "rasta culture"... tho rastas = rebels/outsiders of course

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Some punkers got very very into rasta culture, of course, Ari Up perhaps foremost among them.

Keep an eye out for "Pistol Boy" by Militant Barry (prod.: K. Hudson). It's about Sid Vicious and the question of his guilt or otherwise for the murder of Nancy. It's also very good.

― Tim (Tim), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

I love it that Bo Diddley is in the background on that album cover.

My question is, what ever happened to that Trojan compilation of songs the Clash covered? I ordered it five times in the past year. Did it get released in the UK? More here (scroll down):

http://blogs.citypages.com/pscholtes/2004/10/26/

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 29 November 2005 18:04 (twenty years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Discover the story of Don Letts, first generation Black British, filmmaker, musician and raconteur, in @WilliamEBadgley's acclaimed documentary.

REBEL DREAD is now available to stream on IFI@Home: https://t.co/y3NM9fyRty @RebelDread pic.twitter.com/LWwams65ci
— Irish Film Institute (@IFI_Dub) June 12, 2022

"Rebel Dread" doc about Don Letts is showing June 18 @ 6 pm @
@AFISilver in Maryland as part of DC Caribbean Film Fest

― curmudgeon, Monday, 13 June 2022 19:20 (three years ago)

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