Recommend me some especially intense reggae in the vain of "This is Reggae Music" by Zap Pow and "Steppin Razor" by Peter Tosh

Besides anything by Bob Marley, obv. I've been digging these two songs so hard lately.

I just got a comp called "Am I Black Enough For You?" a comp of reggae black power jams, it's on earmark records, good stuff

Sorry, meant to do this in ILM. Mods?

that sounds like a good suggestion. more pls

what about a bit of dub? king tubby, the scientist are off the hook

yeah, I listen to a decent amount of dub, but I was looking for something with more of a sense of urgency. There's something about the "yeeeeaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!" in the Zap Pow song that gives me chills, and I want to replicate that feeling over and over again.

similarly "soooooouuuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNND!"

Black Uhuru: Youth of Eglington

toots and the maytals always get me ready for a night out, as well as wake my lazy ass up in the mornin.

yeah, but toots is a little more cheerful than what I'm talking about

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412XD8VXW6L._SS400_.jpg

Maybe some Culture?

Don't know much Zap Pow, but "River" by them is one my favorite Lee Perry productions.

Wailing Souls - Firehouse Rock

Twinkie Bros - Countrymen

Prince Alla - Only Love Can Conquer

if you're okay with deejays, any Prince Far I is gonna be "especially intense".

Dennis Brown - Promised Land comp

Tenor Saw - "Ring the Alarm"

basically everything produced by Junjo Lawes or Sly n Robbie in the late 70s/early 80s.

or everything Roots Radics played on

Not exactly sure what you mean by "intense reggae", it seems to mean, well, just reggae. I would describe "Love Jah Jah Children" and "Wolf in Sheep's Clothing" by Big Youth as pretty intense however!

Burning Spear, Culture, Yabby U, the rootsier end of Gregory Isaacs (i.e. stuff like "Black A Kill Black" and ) and Dennis Brown (the Niney productions like "Here I Come"), any number of things by Dr. Alimantado, I-Roy, Big Youth. The two CD Rebel Music comp on Trojan is a good starter for the earlier part of this era.

Not exactly sure what you mean by "intense reggae", it seems to mean, well, just reggae.

urgent, dramatic, not overly mellow, etc.

the rootsier end of Gregory Isaacs (i.e. stuff like "Black A Kill Black"

^great song, and actually on that comp i mentioned upthread, here's the full tracklist:

1. Is It Because I'm Black - Ken Boothe (J.A. mix)

2. Black a Kill Black - Gregory Isaacs

3. Am I Black Enough For You - The Chosen Few

4. Message From a Blackman - Derrick Harriott

5. Black on Black (Be a Man) - The Heptones

6. Equal Rights - Dennis Brown

7. Africa Is For Black Man - Linval Thompson

8. Black and Proud - I Roy

9. Arise Blackman - Peter Tosh

10. Blackman Time - I Roy

11. Black Man's Word - Alton Ellis

12. Macabee Version - Max Romeo

13. Botheration - Justin Hinds/The Dominoes

14. Fire Burning - Bob Andy

15. In Dis Ya Time - Ronnie Davis

also there's a ton of great burning spear but this greatest hits is super tight and awesome:

http://www.jamaicatravelandculture.com/pictures/burning_spear/harder_than_the_best.jpg

Just get everything at least up until Hail H.I.M. Dude was unstoppably great.

^yes

Seconding the Burning Spear rec. In general, I think you can just skip right past most of the harmony groups - I don't hear that "Steppin Razor" urgency in their work. Just trolling through my Blood & Fire / Pressure Sounds roots reissues, these seem like good candidates to slsk down to see if you'd like their other work. They won't have the polish of the Chris Blackwell produced stuff.

Cornell Campbell - "Bandulu/Hard Time"
Dr. Alimentado - "I Shall Fear No Evil"
Willi Williams - "I Man"

Cornell Campbell - "Bandulu/Hard Time"

Love this track

<3 Cornell Campbell

A lot of U-Roy fits right in here.

U-Roy never strikes me as being all that intense, he's more playful than that

It's not him as a singer so much as a lot of the tracks themselves that have that stepped up intensity, but I will offer in my defence

for example

some Linton Kwesi Johnson seems like it would fit the bill, esp. live stuff and his first LP.

Yes. "Five Nights of Bleeding."

And "Blood and Fire" (by Niney) itself, maybe.