your most precious vynil

[Greg]

thats a tuff one, hmm probably king tubby's roots of dub
not because it is rare or an original copy but because it was the first reggae vinyl i ever bought. it remindes me of when reggae was new to me.

[Rootsman]

I had lots of reggae vinyl back in the day (both original and re-presses) but none were more precious than the original Blue Note jazz albums that I had in my collection.

Dave

[benjamin]

thanks for the contributions and their variety !

to ton1 :
which press do you have of Beware. Is it the Jah Live one or the Grove Music ? Both are great covers indeed

[kalcidis]

I don't have a single Babatunde Ellis album simply because I never bothered to listen to them. I continually find all of his albums for less than £5 or so in minty condition. Should pick them up some day.

Several albums have special meanings for me.
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Earl Sixteen - The Phoenix Of Peace LP (Seven Leaves)- It was a present from someone I loved very much and she had gone through so much work to trace it down for me. The finest birthday present I've ever gotten.

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Vivian Jackson - Ram-A-Dam LP (Lucky) - The album is a gift by a friend and great person. Not only great sentimental worth but also one of my absolute favourite albums ever.

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Rico - Man From Wareika LP (Island)
Rico - Warrika Dub LP (Ghetto Rockers)
The original version was the album that got me in to reggae for real having previously mainly listened to hiphop and jazz. One of the finest albums I've ever heard. A perfect composition from beginning to end. The dub album was a gift that I got from the same friend mentioned before and it was after searching for the dub-counterpart the longest time that it just turned up in my mailbox one day.

I'm pretty certain I've got more precious albums in the monetary sense but these are albums I could never part from.

[Litelet]

Lascelles Denton - Prince Pharaoh 7"

Hard to choose one... But dis one I bought when I was a rookie on ebay... One of the first record I bought, I had only taste but no culture of 70s reggae... And I realised later, that I had striked really hard... First cause its still in my top 100 roots chunes ever, deeeeeeeep and obscure, then I never saw another copy on the bay, and finally cause I bought it cheap and mint...

Guidance

Litelet

[benjamin]

that's a great input Kalcidis, thank you very much. I so much agree with your appreciations and I wish I could have the Phoenix of Peace too, that's a mystic and wonderfull cover and great music mixed by lee perry if my mind's good.

I also hesitated to add the Man from Wareika by Rico to my selection, I absolutly agree that it is one of the most accomplished reggae music ever recorded, and what a nice cover in the orthodox tradition. It sometimes throne in my room like a piece of art !

Bless

[Pug]

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This is a tough one, but I'll say that Rico's album Blow Your Horn is one of my favorite albums of all time. I picked this one up about 7 years ago at a quaint little record store (sadly now closed)that I loved, at a time when I had no knowledge of Jamaica music at all. I picked up this one with The Upsetters - Return of the Super Ape on a whim, based soley on the covers. When I got home and put Rico's album on the platter, I was blown away. Some early horn driven reggae with a unique sound that I've never heard replicated anywhere else before. Dandy appears on few tracks here like "The Lion Sleeps", and one of my all time favorite songs of all time "Quando Quando" also makes an appearance. A wonderful album in all respects, with many memories attached listening to it while exploring the cityscape (Another hobby of mine). I don't own the original pressing, but the one Trojan issued in the 90's. A great record by some amazing artists!

[jordandance]

Half Moon dubplate

[rasdragon]

EVERY SINGLE PIECE

[Earth&Stone]

Kalcidis buy definately the tony ellis live.But,I see unless the precious vinyls,you have and precious friends also!