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Junior West - spalsh it out
Robert Marshall - Bad Girl
Delroy Pinnock - I want to be
Mankind - Country Life
Leroy Roots - Shockin

Oil In My Lamp - Monty Morris
Ride Me Donkey - the Tennors
Fattie Bum Bum - Carl Malcolm
De Devil Dead - Dub Syndicate
Move A Babylon - Johnny Clarke

Too many to choose from, but like words of a story, times of my life. In no order.

Steel Pulse...Ku Klux Klan.

Dennis Brown...Oh Mother.

Jah Woosh...African People.

Bob Marley...Crazy Baldhead.

Al Campbell...Gone down the drain.

Thank You

Carlton and the Shoes - I'm in Chains

Bob Marley - She's Gone

Bunny Wailer - Fighting Against Conviction

Peter Tosh - Burial

Lee Perry - Throw Some Water In

Lets see... the first 5 that comes to mind:

Sylford Walker - Burn Babylon (the Joe Gibbs version followed by dub) - you HAVE to check this one
Prince Douglas' dub version of "Every Tounge Shall Tell" - well the entire album is wicked heavy Wackie's stuff.
Noel Ellis' self titled album
Wayne Jarrett & Silver Fox - Saturday Night Jamboree (Greensleeves 12")
Ranking Joe's Disco Skate LP on Copasetic - pure rub-a-dub goodness.

I love it when I hear a new tune that just sound PERFECT.. Hard to describe but the feeling is great. It depends on my mood and the setting. When it all comes together and I hear a good tune I have to crank the volume and rewind a few times.

5 crucial tune in my life

I start to love the deep roots some years ago with the 3 follow tunes

Enos McLeod - Jerico
Bim Sherman - World Go Round
Creole - Jah Creation

In the last years these 2 tunes blow my mind

Eunice Simpson - Fire Beard
Aksumites - Ark of the Covenant

There is so many other tunes i love and i even prefer to these...but this 5 have been very important to build my actual taste

1. Know Love-Twin Roots
2. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown-King Tubby/A. Pablo
3. Cool Rastaman Cool-Steve Boswell/Jah Berry
4. We Need Love-Johnny Osbourne
5. True True To My Heart-Keith Hudson


That's just this morning, ask me tomorrow & I'll give 5 more. Thanks & praises to all for the new musical possibilities.


Nigel

1. Bandulu/Hard Time by Cornell Campbell/Ranking Dread
Nice Time (Late Night Blues) by Don Carlos
2. Dread Lion by Lee "Scratch" & The Upsetters
3. Armagideon Time by Willie Williams
4. Too Long In Slavery by Culture
5. Dance Of The Vampires by Scientist

There are so many more but these are the first that came to mind this evening.

Sorry. I had to sneak in six. Those two have the same riddim at least.

Bright Soul - Bunny Wailer
Eden Out Deh - Black Uhuru
Bredda Gravalicious - Wailing Souls
Natural Mystic - Bob Marley & the Wailers
Misty In Roots Live at the Counter Eurovision

Sorry! I chose a whole album, BUT it was my first ever (of many) Reggae albums, so very special.
Natural Mystic may not be on every ones Wailers play list, but imagine, it's track 1 on the first album from Bob that I ever heard as a youth. And BAM! there was no going back! I wore out that first copy of Exodus!
The others are tracks I still play (among others) over and over.

There's some great lists on here, keep them coming!

one question aside: is there anyone actually reading all this?


anyway

Martin Campbell - Wicked Rule
Michael Ellis - Memories Of You
Dillinger - Trial&Crosses (Show Dem The Way)
Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston
Barrington Levy - Juggling Soldier

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edit #6: Bob Marley - take anything from the kaya/exodus/burnin LP