Favorite Dub Album?

[sean]

Some great Mad professor sounds out there, check White house race/rasta chase on one of his albums, all aboout the sickness of the war games carried out by the us president and his bootlicking ally, tony blur

[Dozzer]

Would like to add a few of my favourites:

Burning Spear - Spear Burning - not classic but has some good dubs
Augustus Pablo - Original Rockers
Glen Brown & King Tubby - Termination Dub (pressure sounds realease) - Amazing album which i managed to get on vinyl 2xLP!
Groundation - Dub Wars - Moderb dub, but good album
King Tubby - Dub Gone Crazy - Superb
King Tubby - Dub Fever - One of my all time favourites - UNBELIEVABLE!
Scientist - Heavyweight Dub Champion (possibly my favourite)
Scientist - Dub Landing Vol. 1
Scientist - Rids the World of the Evil Curse of Vampires
Yabby You - Dub it to the Top (Amazing Tracks)
Yabby You - Jesus Dread - not all dub - but has some great versions
Lee 'Scratch' Perry & the Upsetters - Super Ape

That is a lot of stuff worth getting - bearing in mind I am into the the darker 'minor' dub and dislike most 'major' dub.

[sean]

Dozzer, your selections are great!

[Lost Shoe]

Since this is my first post here I want to say Hello to all you Dub fans, wherever you are. It's great having found this forum.

Then I want to apologize for my English is far from perfect. I hope it will serve us well enough, but please forgive crazy faults. Just laugh about and tell me so I can learn better.

Over the last days I read this whole thread from the very beginning. Many great dub albums were mentioned, and I got inspired to listen to one or another I did not listen for a long time before.

I began to collect Reggae around 1975, but stopped around 1983, more or less losing a interest. While still addicted to music and collecting other records, I bought not much Reggae anymore. But now, since half a year, it came back strong. Especially DUB!

Ok, now on topic:
Since I'm a huge Lee Perry fan from the 70ies on, my choice for the crown jewel is 14 Dub Blackboard Jungle. No doubt about. Besides other beloved Perry (and Wackies!!) records I have to mention:

- Ethnic Fight Band / Out Of One Man Comes Many Dubs
- King Tubby's Prophesies Of Dub
- Jah Lloyd / Herbs Of Dub
- Rico / Warrika Dub
- Riley All Stars (King Tubby)/ Concrete Jungle Dub

Ok, don't want to stretch over my first posting and stop now. But there are so many more ............

[Lost Shoe]

Told you my English is not too good, as is my understanding of special Reggae Jargon.
So can anybody explain to me, what is the difference between "minor" and "major" dub?
Thanks.

[sean]

I dunno the difference,lost shoe!!An` I been listening to dub for 29 years now!!Great posts by the way>

[Lost Shoe]

Thanks, Sean.
Then there cannot be any important difference, I guess.
And what counts is what comes out of the speakers anyway.

Besides, just listened to Jah Lloyd/Dread Lion Dub and Creation Rebel/Dub from Creation. Nice albums both.
I have 3 Jah Lloyd records, and all 3 are very strong.

[Dave K]

Told you my English is not too good, as is my understanding of special Reggae Jargon.
So can anybody explain to me, what is the difference between "minor" and "major" dub?
Thanks.

The post refers to "major" and "minor" musical keys, it's jargon about music in general, not just reggae.

We are culturalized to hear "seriousness" and "sadness" when we hear songs played in minor keys, and "happiness" and "optimism" in major keys. I once had a music theory professor who explained that Western culture has developed these associations over the past 500 years or so. If you listen to masses written about Christ's crucifixion, most of them are composed in a "minor" key. He believes that this is where the association first started in Western Culture. Of course his is just one opinion.

Bob Marley's "Sun Is Shining", for example, is in a minor key. Which is an interesting example, as the lyrics are very upful, but the minor key melody suggests otherwise. "No Woman No Cry", for example, is in a major key.

Other cultures do not make this association. For example, in parts of Asia, people hear music in a pentatonic scale (which is basically playing *only* the black notes on a piano), which is basically a 5-note scale versus our heptatonic (7 note) scale.

So the post simply differentiates between dub music that is in a minor key, versus dub music that is in a major key.

[Lost Shoe]

Hi Dave K,
of course I do know the major and minor key ("dur"/"moll"), but I could not imagine that this was meant here. Somebody had posted in this thread, that he's prefering the one over the other. Don't remember which one serves him best, but me I could never tell that one sounds better than the other.
In case of music my ears would not believe my logical point of view anyhow

[Dave K]

Hi Dave K,
of course I do know the major and minor key ("dur"/"moll"), but I could not imagine that this was meant here. Somebody had posted in this thread, that he's prefering the one over the other. Don't remember which one serves him best, but me I could never tell that one sounds better than the other.
In case of music my ears would not believe my logical point of view anyhow

Hi

When I saw this quote

**That is a lot of stuff worth getting - bearing in mind I am into the the darker 'minor' dub and dislike most 'major' dub.**


I assumed he meant major / minor keys, as "darker" is a mood people generally associate with "minor key". Maybe Dozzer can clarify his meaning...he said it, so he should know the context....

Personally I don't have a preference for either, good music comes in all forms, and all keys!