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Third World - Third World

The Gladiators - Trenchtown Mix Up

Jakob Miller - Tenement Yard

look at that. this year is simply crazy !

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Inner Circle - Reggae Thing

legalize it by a million miles, nothing is even close!

I'd really have to say that Super Ape is perhaps the best and the deepest roots album of all time.

Personally, I've never quite seen it as a dub album, even though Barrow & co. seem to think otherwise (Rough Guide To Reggae). The majority of tracks includes vocals, despite they mighy be hauntingly mixed, and even the dub tunes carry a strongly spiritual ROOTS feeling.

So I & I don't care whe dem seh, I & I haffi see Super Ape as de fittest roots album fi true!

I agree with you youthman deh! Prolly the best roots album ever... But i prefer select a more vocal one for be my fav, as the live of Misty in Roots at the counter eurovision! (still proclaimed by many critics as the best roots live of all times!)

i can never pick 1, 2, 3...etc albums to be my favorite. Most albums writen in this post are also my top 76's. So here are some more personal top 76' additions from researching the archives...

Jah Lion - Columbia collie
Lizzard - Satta I
Stranger Cole - Forward In the Land of Sunshine
Cimarons - on the rock
Delroy Washington - i-sus
Zap Pow - Now, Revolution
Rico - Man from Wareika
Pablo moses - Revolutionary Dream

i would like to add in my opinion that "1976" is the peak of the golden era of roots. The center spiral. All roots after this time(until 85' or so), branched off of 76' and is the result of this break through year....

A very good year indeed.

I would like to point out the excellent debut set from from The Meditations "Message from the Meditations". Pure killer!

According to the roots-archives, this album was released in 1978. But as I recall it was released in 1976.

great year dude
Max Romeo's War Ina Babylon and Lee Perry's Super Ape are my favourites i think