What is your favourite ever Reggae track? (and you can only pick one - so think really hard)

I think my answer has to be Johnny Clarke - None Shall Escape The Judgement. It's just so danceable and has so many different hooks and feelings to it. The flying cymbals, the bass line, the singing is all spot on.

Too hard. I might be able to do three, just about.

under mi sleng teng

Bad Brains - "The Meek Shall Inherit The Earth"

haha, selah collins' "pick a sound"

I'll answer for everyone in my journalism class: "Waiting For the World to Change" by John Mayer.

Milton Henry-"Sweet Taste of Melody". Maybe.

"Is This Love?" by Bob Marley & The Wailers

"Memory", I mean.

what is catty? - u roy

Oh, and for now, I'll say "Israelites"

But I don't know.

"Silly Games" by Janet Kay

Pressure Drop--Toots

runners up: Yabby You - Run Come Rally, Johnny Osbourne - We Need Love

heptones - make up your mind

runner up:
gladiators - hello carol

Oh come on people it all sounds the same so why even bother?

"funky kingston"
(an obvious choice, but so good)

haha Alex owns.

nonetheless: Tenor Saw & Buju "Ring the Alarm Quick"

i wins

"Uptown Top Ranking," Althea and Donna

Bam-Bam, Sister Nancy.

"Roast Fish and Cornbread", Lee Scratch Perry. Though for the last few months, Turbulence "Notorious" has been gaining.

Alright fuck this one pick bullshit:

Best ska track: Prince Buster "Madness"
Best rocksteady track: John Holt "Ali Baba" (although virtually a million Studio One and Treasure Isle tracks deserve mention)
Best reggae track: Cables "What Kind Of World" (ditto plus a million other sides by Perry, Niney, Hudson, Brown, Yabby You, Pablo)
Best roots track: Watty Burnett "Open The Gate" (ditto ditto ditto)
Best lovers track: Janet Kaye "Silly Games" (pretty much indisputable king here)
Best non-digital dancehall track: Barrington Levy "Here I Come"
Best digital dancehall track: Pincers "Bandolero"
Best Burning Spear track: "Creation Rebel"
Best Studio One riddim: Death In The Arena
Best single produced at the Black Ark but not produced by Perry: Pablo Moses "I Man A Grasshopper"
Best bassist ever: Leroy Sibbles
Best rocksteady/reggae producer who barely gets any credit at all: Sonia Pottinger
Best non-Studio One/Treasure Isle compilation that everyone should own: Rebel Music (the original one, although the single disc version is very nice)
Best deejay from the 70s: Dr. Alimantado
Best deejay from 2000 on: Sizzla by a million miles

I reserved the right to change any one of these picks at any time for any reason at all from now until forever.

'silly games' by janet kay as it's the song that made me fall in love with reggae

leroy smart - pride & ambition

This is a ridiculous question but my answer is prolly Lee Perry's "Dreadlocks in Moonlight".

"Drsw Your Brakes," Scotty.

Or maybe Big Youth's "Screaming Target."

New Star - Tapper Zukie

keith & tex - tonight

"what is your favourite ever hip-hop track (pick only one)"
"what is your favourite ever indie rock track (pick only one)"
"what is your favourite ever classical piece (pick only one)"
"what is your favourite ever r&b track (pick only one)"
"what is your favourite ever dance track (pick only one)"

dumb qn

"Uptown Top Ranking," Althea and Donna

-- xhuxk, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 01:18 (12 hours ago)

i've done a 180 on this song. where i once found their amateurish vocals charming, now they annoy me.

"Black and White" by Greyhound. Boy I looooooove this song!

Lex those are all OK questions! I have got about 25 things to hunt for on slsk out of this thread already so it's the most useful ILM thing in weeks in that sense.

Mine is probably "Under Mi Sleng Teng" tho.

I've been listening to Lorna Bennett's Breakfast in Bed a lot recently. Gorgeous voice.

Wings - C Moon

Is it OK if I voted for Colourbox's "Baby I love you so" for the reason that it combines the best bits of the "rockers" dub with the original vocal track?

If not, "Bafflin Smore Signals" possibly.

Scotty and Lorna's "Breakfast in Bed" already receiving a vote. Cool.

The Marvels - "Rock Steady"

Oh no, Max Romeo's 'One Step Foward' just came up on itunes and I might have to change my vote.

Ha. I was just coming back to this one to post and thinking about "Bafflin Smoke Signals" but I was thinking it's one of my faves-to-amaze, but not an actual fave.

this morning's choice would have to be: Curly Locks, Black Star Liner, or this cover of "I Never Knew What I Missed 'Til I Kissed You" on Studio One, but I can't remember who it's by. Rediculously cool rhythm and authentic C&W vocal twang.

Reggae is a music genre developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s.

The term reggae is sometimes used in a broad sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, although the word specifically indicates a particular music style that originated after the development of ska and rocksteady. Reggae is based on a rhythm style characterized by regular chops on the off-beat, known as the skank. The tempo is generally slower than that found in ska and rocksteady. Reggae is often associated with the Rastafari movement, which influenced many prominent reggae musicians in the 1970s and 1980s. Reggae song lyrics deal with many subjects, including faith, love, relationships, poverty, injustice and other broad social issues.

Desmond Dekker, "007"

i'll say U-Roy's 'Tom Drunk' for now (cos picking 'Uptown To Ranking' would be boring).

max romeo - chase the devil

I'd vote for The Israelites' "Come Together" as one of them, but is that a bit Geir?

It's alright , Geir hates 'Come Together' by the Beatles.

ah OK then.

"Silly Games" by Janet Kay

Silly Thread, more like

The Congos, "Children Crying"

i could've gone with any number of horace andy tunes, fever for one.

Waap You Waa - The Upsetters

Right this second I give another vote to "Curly Locks."

"Ku Klux Klan" by Steel Pulse

Alex, I figured you for more of a Bad Brains man.

I can't say of all time, but at the mo it's probably "Ulterior Motive" by Luciano or "Skylarking" by Horace Andy.

"I'm Still In Love With You" by Alton Ellis is up there as well...

"City Too Hot" - Upsetters (though it might not be reggae)

Alex, I figured you for more of a Bad Brains man.

I love Bad Brains, but honestly, I never really bought their reggae stuff. Bored me to tears, to be honest. I love their fast and heavy stuff, but when they get all I luv I jah on me, I go right to sleep.

I don't have a fave reggae track, but I gotta say the various artists compilation Mojo magazine put together and slapped on the front of their Bob Marley issue recently is really amazing. In fact, when I went to see UB40 recently (who I realized I don't particularly like), they put this very Mojo compilation on the PA before the bands came on. I was delighted.

Here's the tracklisting:

Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston
Lone Ranger - The Answer
Sugar Minott - Steal Away Girl
Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Black Uhuru - What Is Life?
Stephen Marley - Mind Control
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus (live)
Yabby You:Trinity Meets The Dillinger - Jesus Dread
U-Roy And The Congos - Fisherman Style
Freddie McKay - I'm a Free Man
The Heptones - Message From A Black Man
James Eastwood - Darkest Night
Prince Far I - Black Man Land
Keith Hudson & The Soul Syndicate - Nuh Skin Up Dub
Lee Perry & The Upsetters - Curly Dub

Aside from these, there are a few tracks on my Keith Hudson CD that are just INFECTIOUS, like "Old Fashion Way" and "Satan Side".

Dreamland - The Upsetters

til i'm laid to rest by buju is a big favorite of mine, but it's an impossible question as noted many times above

It's only an impossible question if yr not ignorant. Since, I am ignorant, it's super easy.

can't pick a song, but Two Sevens clash - Culture is the best reggae album, period

You'd think I'd go with Theo Beckford's "Easy Snappin'", but I have to say Tenor Saw's "Ring The Alarm".

The Congos "The Wrong Thing"

Can't choose just one. I'll limit myself to three: Horace Andy's Spying Glass, The Congos' Open Up The Gate, and Jimmy Cliff's Many Rivers To Cross. So many other deserving tracks to list. . .

Two Sevens clash - Culture is the best reggae album, period

Someone mentioned this one to me recently and I was in the process of following up on it. Thanks for the reminder. I wasn't crazy about the one song Peel used to play, though.

Cheers for reminding me about Culture and Max Romeo. Just went on a DL fest and found Two Sevens (30th Anniversary Edition [where DOES the time go?]), and a bunch of rips of Max Romeo singles.

This AM's faves: Jolly Brothers "Concious Man", Dr Alimantado "Best Dressed Chicken in Town"

Some love for the great Mikey Smith and "Mi Cyann Believe It." Must have been a dangerous dude; he was stoned to death on Marcus Garvey's birthday! Another late, great pick: Hugh Mundell's "Africa Must Be Free."

next grozart tell us how you got into reggae

Why do you ask? I got into Reggae when my man Coxsone Dodd set up his soundsystem back in the early sixties and invited me along to spin some tunes he had lying around.

Actually I think I was just interested in hearing some after going to a few houseparties and it being on, so I bought "Super Ape" and "The Prime Of Horace Andy", which both remain some of my favourite Reggae CDs I own.

Susan Cadogan "Nice n Easy"

<i>"Ku Klux Klan" by Steel Pulse</i>

Sorry, but it's "Handsworth Revolution", mon.

<i>BABYLON IS FALLING
BABYLON IS FALLING

It was foolish to build It on the sand
Handsworth shall stand, firm - like Jah rock
- fighting back
We once beggars are now choosers
No intention to be losers
Striving forward with ambition
And if it takes ammunition
We rebel in Handsworth revolution

Dread town, dread town, dread town,
Dread town, dread town, dread town,</i>

It's like reggae punk.

Doh. I'm glad it has the formatting help right below where I just typed that.

i and i overstand ilx bomboclaat formatting n ting

has anyone bought this yet

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Uptown Top Ranking

Mad Professor Captures Pato Banton

remember that track bob marley admitted he was gay on at the sausilito concert in the early 70's? it had an ill jamaicamaschinen electro solo, i think the song was called "the sun is shining" or some shit, where he says he's a rainbow, lol

dk masturbated to a buju banton album on ogrish, that's my second fav raggae moment

stir it up

today...courtney melody - bad boy

If I'm allowed to change from two months ago,

Peter Tosh - Steppin Razor

Dillinger - "Cocaine in My Brain"

"Book of Rules," Heptone

"each is given a bag of tools, shapeless mask, and the book of rules."

this is impossible for me, but if i had to pick one reggae/etc. track to listen to for the rest of my life, it would have to be Pressure Drop. that's one of the only songs that has appeared multiple times in my DREAMS, for god's sake.

"each is given a bag of tools, shapeless mask, and the book of rules."
exactly the same as on one of those rolling threads.

This song "Steal Away Girl" by Sugar Minott, though. I mean if that isn't the ultimate 50's crooner teenpop deliciousness, I don't know what is.

'The Long Way' by Junior Byles

bam bam, sometimes.

bam bam - sister nancy.

Gladiators: Eli, Eli

Can't remember who it's by but "In the burning sun jo-ho". Off "Studio Kinda Cloudy", a Keith Hudson production comp.

"I'll never get burnt" - The Ethiopians

Can't remember who it's by but "In the burning sun jo-ho". Off "Studio Kinda Cloudy", a Keith Hudson production comp.

Sounds like The Interns (aka Viceroys) Yah Ho

I've taken all punctuation out between artist and title cause now I wish everyone else on this thread would do the same to facilitate ease of slsking. I'm trying to get every song (that doesn't suck) on the thread, then I'll put it together in a torrent if anyone is interested.

The best so far:

Best unfamiliar hook - The Upsetters Jungle Lion
Best unfamiliar weird catchy noises - Selah Collins Pick A Sound

I have another favorite: Capleton - "Who I Am"...

Hey what's the dub on the Arkology comp that has the Dub Ox on it?

jimmy riley - woman's gotta have it

"Can't remember who it's by but "In the burning sun jo-ho". Off "Studio Kinda Cloudy", a Keith Hudson production comp."

It's Bunny Gale "In The Burning Sun" (a cover/version "Ya Ho").