Best Jamaican Music - reggea, ragga, dancehall

[GWF]

Give me a run of you're finist rasclat Jamaican music... (the artists don't have to be Jamaican ofcourse)

Bob Marley (ofcourse)
T.O.K.
Bounty Killer
Buju Banton
Postmen
Peter Tosh
Beenie Man
Sean Paul

[canikickit]

Lee Perry (the real King of Reggae)
King Tubby (responsible for dance music and remixing and fucking practically every technical innovation imaginable)
Augustus Pablo
Keith Hudson
The Congos
Max Romeo
The Wailers (All three of them.
Peter
Bunny
Bob
The fucking Wailers before the commercialisation)
Burning Spear
Jacob Miller
Dennis Brown
Johnny Clarke
Junior Murvin
The Abyssinians
The Meditations
The Upsetters

[Rob]

-The Wailers
-(Post-Bunny and Peter) Bob et al
-The Skatalites
-Desmond Dekker
-Laurel Aitken

[canikickit]

The Skatalites are one of the very best man.
I knew I was forgetting somone. Actually probably more than one.
There used to be this great site that had a load of concerts from Toronto available to download. I got just under two hours of the Skatalites. Unfortunately that site is gone now for some reason.
You should get your hands on their version of Swing Easy. Man, I love that song. Augustus Pablo did a great version of it as well, "Skanking Easy".

[Rob]

yeah dude, definitely. RIP Roland Alphonso.

[canikickit]

Here's a Tribute page to Roland Alphonso (http://elvispelvis.com/rolandoalphonso.htm). I didn't know he was dead. And Tommy McCook too. It's pretty sad.

I knew Bob had been given the Jamaican Order of Distinction but I didn't know Coxsone Dodd, Tommy McCook and Don Drummond were awarded it as well, along with Alphonso.

Well, Bob actually got the Order of Merit, but its all good. Maybe they're the same thing.

I think its about time Lee Perry got one. He should get one for the "Heart of the Congos" alone.

Did you know there is actually a communist tie in with the Skatalites name?
Not really, but when they were thinking of the name the Space Race was at its peak and there was a lot of mention of Satelites in the news. Hence one of them suggested the Ska-talites and, viola! Apparently they laughed it off at the time, but the name stuck, and I think its a deadly name.

(Edited by canikickit at 2:46 am on Sep. 27, 2002)

[GWF]

Shit, I also forgot the skatalites, and beef and sublime (more ska) the skatalites were the inventors of ska, I've heard?

[canikickit]

Ernest Ranglin was the inventor of Ska, together with Coxsone Dodd and some other guy whose name escapes me at the moment.
Sublime? Ska? I've only heard a couple of their songs, but they wern't ska.

There are a few different types of "Ska". Only one of them is real. They should come up with an original name for music.

[lohman2k]

GENTLEMAN!!!!
German reggae artist!
really good!!!!!